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Posted by Rob Eshman
Beautiful and talented Dana Goodyear has a portrait of favorite living food writer Jonathan Gold in this week's New Yorker. You know you've arrived when they write a profile of you in The Jewish Journal. I mean, The New Yorker.
Yes, I've made a subspecialty for 10 years now of telling the world what a remarkable service Gold does for food, for culture, for LA. Here's what I wrote in 1999:
You could map the area of the average restaurant reviewer's travels, and it would pretty much overlap with Visa's preferred zip codes. Los Angeles is a city segregated by lack of good public transportation, by massive freeway systems, by staggering home prices, by race. We don't live in one another's neighborhoods. We don't, usually, eat in one another's restaurants. Gold drives across these boundaries like Il Postino peddling his bicycle from village cottage to hilltop villa. His reviews draw us Angelenos near in a way that a thousand flowery mayoral speeches on tolerance and diversity cannot. Anyone who's heard Korean pop knows that music is not really the international language. A tour among the grasshopper vendors at a Bangkok market will convince you that food isn't either. So what is? Appetite. We are all hungry for something, The Farm Dogs memorably sing, and why not take them literally. I wouldn't eat the "particularly stinky fermented-shrimp sambal" at Sudi Mampir on a bet, but Gold seems to thrive on the stuff. And he describes the glee the Indonesian proprietors express when their loyal customers, longing for a taste of home, feel better after eating it.
We may not understand what our neighbors eat, but we understand their devotion to their grandmothers' recipes, to the familiar smells, to a finally perfect slice of something eaten a thousand times before, as something very human. Without Gold, a little of the stitching has gone out of the LA fabric. Score one for the Forces That Pull Us Asunder. In the building where I work, the easiest way for me to start a conversation with the Phillipino consular officials, the Korean bankers, the Latino journalists, the black lawyers, is to ask them about the food I know they are hungry for. Without Gold, how will I know?
Goodyear writes a marvelous description of Gold—the woman began her career as a poet, after all. Though I've never met Jonathan Gold, I've seen him, and she writes what I saw: heavy set, shlumpy (my word, not hers), bright red hair longish and thinning—my meory is that if the cartoon shop guy in the Simpsons and Mario Batali had a son….
The piece made me think of that specialized class of heavyweight Jewish gourmand writers/personalities. I mean, very heavyweight. Jeffrey Steingarten, Andrew Zimmern—the host of that show on The Travel Channel—and the grandaddy in a trough of his own, A. J. Liebling. Liebling, the son of Jewish immigrants, became the finest food and sport writer of his time, spending most of his career at The New Yorker. He died in 1963 at the age of 59, having lived a life of wonderful excess.
I admire these men, but I'm incapable of emulating them. For one, I'm too vain. And I love food too much to have to blame it for killing me. I don't have their talent for eating or for writing, but I look forward to every word they write and bite they take.
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October 30, 2009 | 4:00 pm
Posted by Rob Eshman
In the wake of the Great Deli Cover of 2009, I had a lunch meeting at Pico Kosher deli, which I had reviewed in a blog post yesterday.
I met Rabbi Daniel Korobkin there for lunch Thursday. The rabbi was waiting for me by the deli counter when I arrived, dressed in a dark suit and a bright blue-patterned tie, on his cell phone—which had an electric blue cover. He's a friendly man, with a kind and mild face and an engaging, wide ranging intellect: a degree in computer science from Johns Hopkins, rabbinical school, and now he's working toward his PhD at UCLA in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. For that he's been studying Arabic for three years, and he was able to read a sign across the street written in Farsi above a Persian rug store. Farsi, while not a Semitic language, is written in Arabic script.
"What's it say?" I ask.
"Persian Rugs," he translates.
Our conversation was wide ranging and off the record—just a chance for me to connect to the leader of a major school, Yavne, and congregation. I did swallow hard, though, when the rabbi told me he has 10 children, from 3 to 25. He himself is 45 years old.
We talked over chicken soup and matzo balls, a turkey pastrami sandwich (mine) and a PKD Special, pastrami, cole slaw and Russian dressing (his). PKD's pastrami is not cut as thickly or as deftly as Langer's, the top non-kosher pastrami in LA, or the world. But the sandwiches are high quality, the bread soft, and fresh, and the service swift.
It was the lunch rush, made somewhat busier by the fact that several people came by to say hello to the rabbi. That's PKD—as much a good, solid deli as it is a place to feel part of the large, boisterous family that is LA Jewry….
October 27, 2009 | 7:03 pm
Posted by Rob Eshman
Last week The Jewish Journal featured an excerpt from David Sax's new book, "Save the Deli." Sax did a worldwide tour of delis, at great expense to his love life and his waistline, and at the end of it named L.A. "The Best Deli City in America." For a Jewish paper in LA, that's a pretty good lead—Jews take their food and their delis seriously.
When I got the advance copy of Sax's book, I called the publisher and arranged for a reprint. They were stingy with the word count, because evidently this is a boom time for publishing, what with hundreds of thriving book review sections vying to give free publicity to every book out there, and the impossibility of going online and reading excerpts for free at amazon.com…. in any case, they held firm at 1500 words.
We chopped off the part of Sax's LA chapter that dealt with L.A.'s numerous family owned delis and retained a self-contained part that described Hollywood's connection to the delicatessen—a section we assumed would have wider appeal. Dan Kacvinski ordered a pastrami sandwich from Langer's, shot it like it was a supermodel, and we figured we had a winning cover package…until the letters came.
Instead of pleasing a hungry audience, we enraged our kosher readers. Not only did the excerpt fail to mention any kosher delis, we threw a full color photo of treif—non-kosher meat—right in their faces. Here was a kinder example of the outrage, this one from Rabbi Daniel Korobkin:
Reading your cover story on the great delis of Los Angeles only filled me
with sadness. Don't get me wrong: I like a good pastrami on rye as much as
the next guy. But this article reminded me of the blatant and unabashed
post-modern and post-religious Judaism that is glorified these days by your
periodical. There wasn't even an attempt to mask the fact that not a single
deli highlighted in your article is kosher. As a matter of fact, the word
"kosher" appears only once in the whole article – when referring to the old
New York delis that L.A. celebrities remember fondly when eating at their
chic treif delis of today.There were two ironies in this article: One, that unbeknownst to your
author, one of the great delis of L.A. is a kosher deli on Pico Boulevard –
"Pico Kosher Deli," in fact – a deli that I grew up with and which has only
gotten better with age.The other is that your author attests that for Hollywood types, the
delicatessen offers a "dose of reality" to budding actors who are regularly
confronted with a "state of fakery, where everyone wears their masks." Of
course, what he forgot to mention is that a non-kosher "kosher style" deli
is itself is a fakery of the old Kosher Delicatessen, the one that served
just as delectable pastrami, but from a cow that was ritually slaughtered
according to a thousands-year-old tradition, and which was then kashered
with the coarse kosher salt that the A-list would only recognize as the
stuff sprinkled on their pretzels in their sadly non-kosher counterfeits.Maybe in his next edition of his book on great delis, your author might
recommend to all those seeking some dose of authenticity: order a side of
Judaism with that pastrami sandwich.Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin
Hancock Park, Los Angeles
Several other letter writers mentioned Pico Kosher Deli as well. The fact is, Sax did neglect it. It's not in his the excerpt we picked; it's not at all in his book. I noticed he left it out, but didn't think to add anything to the cover beyond the excerpt we had decided to run. The cover story wasn't meant to be an exhaustive survey of L.A. delis—but that doesn't lessen the slight to those Jews who observe the laws of kashrut, and who love Pico Kosher Deli.
Had he gone there, what would Sax have made of PKD, as its fans call it?
I've eaten there many times, at least a dozen over the years. PKD is a Pico-Robertson institution, and the only true kosher deli in all of Los Angeles. Since most of its clientele keeps kosher and wouldn't eat anywhere else, there's no point in comparing it to other delis in L.A. Taken on its own terms, it is quite good, if not without flaws.
The place is small, plain and cozy. It is located in a heavily Jewish neighborhood, and the kids and yeshiva students, the kipa-clad professionals and moms-in-wigs who frequent the place keep it bustling and familiar. A deli counter runs along one side, full of the familiar meats and salads. Tables take up the next room, and often you'll need to wait amid the cacophany of phone orders, children's screams, and loud, friendly hellos for a table to clear.
In the world of Jewish dining establishments, I find that because a place feels at home, the proprietors feel free to treat you as family would—that is, they may ignore you and let you fend for yourself. There's never a warm greeting, a "great to see you"—because, hey, we see you all the time, and who are you anyway, the Pope? No—you're just family.
I like that attitude. Then again, I lived in Israel and got very used to it. But for furst timers, PKD's rough and tumble may not feel welcoming. Trust me, it is. Grab a seat before that mom with four kids leaps ahead of you in line, and don't b shy about flagging down a waiter or busboy for the menu. In a big Jewish family, delicacy and shyness gets you bupkis. Which means nothing.
Kosher Jews will not eat milk and meat together. They will not cook it or serve it or even think of it together. So there are kosher meat restaurants, and kosher dairy restaurants. PKD is a meat restaurant. You go there for the pastrami and corned beef and chicken soup. There will be no bagels and cream cheese, because there will be no cream cheese. No blintzes, either. Asking for sour cream with your borscht is like asking an Italian waiter for parmesan on your seafood pasta. You won't get it, and you'll just show your ignorance.
PKD's pastrami, served on very fresh rye bread, is a fine and generous sandwich. Kosher meats are soaked and salted—again, by Jewish law—so beef and lamb can be less juicy than non-kosher meat. But PKD's sandwiches, when warm, are classic examples of Jewish deli. The pastrami has a peppery bite that obviates the need for the deli mustard. Here's my take on the other PKD food I've tried:
Chicken Soup with Matzo Balls or Noodles: This is a very light gold broth, lightly fatty, tasting of carrot, onion and salt. It isn't the best of your life, and far from the worst. I've stopped by PKD many a time to by a quart for a sick friend (or wife), and it always does the trick. The matzo balls are some of the best in town, really.
Knishes: heated in the microwave, they are merely fine. Yonah Schimmel's in New York is the gold standard, substantial yet light—and these aen't close. But slather on some of that mustard, close your eyes, and you can believe you're in New York, if not on 132 E. Houston Street.
Turkey Sandwich: They have several varieties: turkey pastrami, smoked turkey, Mexican turkey—the last of which I haven't tried. Of these all go for the pastrami. It has the most flavor, and if you top it with some cole slaw, you'll almost feel you're getting your cholesterol quotient for the day.
Hot Dogs: These are not Hebrew National, which are not kosher enough for PKD's certification. They lack the garlic fatty spurt I remember in kosher dogs of yore, but maybe I'm mis-remembering. On a cool day, they are still a comforting bite.
Pickles: Yes, and they are fine. Homemade? I don't think so. But perfectly adequate.
The Israeli food here—bourekas, hummous, Israeli salad—is forgettable, easily outdone by Haifa across the street and Nagila down the block. People love the roast chicken, and the stuffed cabbage, both of which come in huge portions. But on plate after plate what you see are those sandwiches, and by any measure, kosher or not, they are worth ordering.
As for the aforementioned service, you'll acclimate. My advice in kosher restaurants is to engage the server, treat them like your sister or brother who was nice enough to get up from the table and bring you something from the fridge. Don't expect them to bend over backwards—they're family.
Visit Pico Kosher Deli by clicking here.
October 22, 2009 | 7:56 pm
Posted by Rob Eshman
Food crosses boundaries. We all have appetites, we all have a genetic compulsion to look at what's on someone else's plate, and most of us are willing to try anything once. One taste leads to another, and before you know it there is Peruvian sushi and lattes in Koreatown and boba in London. Food can be a fence between peoples—the laws of kashrut are a perfect example of that, keeping Jews away from others' dinner tables—but it can also be a bridge: look at the way delis and bagels have introduced people to Jewish culture. What food can't be is controlled. Cuisines are a living thing: changeable, malleable, constantly in flux. One year tomatoes are as much a part of Italian cuisine as poi, the next year—1492—to be exact, they will start to define Italian cuisine.
And so, food historians may one day look back on 2009 as a revolutionary year in American Jewish food. Why? A column we picked up from Mark Pearlman on JInsider provides a clue: Maneshewitz, the iconic Ashkenazic kosher food company, has been bought by Sephardic Jews. Alain Bankier and Paul Bensabat, along with a third financial partner, have taken over a holding company that includes Manischewitz, Rokeach, Goodman's, Cohen's, Ratner's brands among others. These are the brands that have come to define kosher food in America: Ashkenazic—that is, with origins in the foods and cuisines of Eastern Europe—stodgy, bland, spiceless. For generations their products—borscht and gefilte fish in a jar, matzos in a box, frozen blintzes and knishes—have populated the shelves of supermarket kosher sections and sat on our holiday tables.
But guess what? These guys are Sephardic, with roots in North Africa. They can see far beyond the gefilte fish. They have no less a love for their Jewish heritage, but a much different experience of what that means, as Bensabat told Pearlman:
"Being Jewish is something very special, regardless of how religious you are. I am not Orthodox, but I am extremely proud of being Jewish and I have extremely strong feelings about being part of the community. My dad inspired me about the importance of being Jewish from the very beginning of my existence. I grew up in Casablanca in Morocco, so being a Jew in America I certainly appreciate the freedom and pride of
being Jewish without fear of consequence. Being Jewish is not just respecting the religion but also having the privilege of being part of The Chosen People, of an amazing community with a special bond and pact with God. We are unique and one-of-a kind and should always be proud to be Jewish."
The new owners won't change the surefire old favorites, but I assume they will expand the offerings to reflect their own beloved Sephardic Jewish foods, as well as foods that reflect Jewish tastes that have grown more international—Persian and Middle Eastern, for instance—and more demanding—for organic, humane and natural ingredients.
So think about Jewish food in America 20 years from now, after a couple of North African Jews have successfully reinvented what mass market kosher means. Jars of Moroccan boules de poissons, made from sustainably caught fish and spiced with red pepper and tumeric, on our Passover table; hamin—Sephardic cholent—made from organic, humanely raised beef cooking in the microwave, and matzo… well, matzo is matzo.
To read about the new Manischewitz, click here.
October 20, 2009 | 6:45 pm
Posted by Rob Eshman
I've never been a sit-still meditator. I tried it once when I was 23 and living in San Francisco and trying things. One week I read Ram Dass and that weekend I decided, as generations of my ancestors did before me, to try Buddhism. I signed up for a meditation weekend at Tassajara in Green Gulch, just north of the city.
I hated everything about that weekend but the food. I had the Tassajara cook book, full of brown rice and sea weed and stir fries and tempeh—things that are time consuming to shop for and prepare—so I appreciated that the kitchen staff would be making those recipes for me. Buit in between meals I had to sit on the floor in a long airy conference room and meditate. Stay still. Cross my legs until they inevitably cramped or fell asleep.
A monk walked back and forth like a colonel in Stalag 17 and used a single strong finger to poke the place on my back that he wanted me to straighten. I spent every session trying to gauge by the sound of his barefoot steps how close he was to me and when the next finger poke would come. I decided that except for the food, I'm a lousy Buddhist.
And I still can't meditate, not like that anyway.
I'm envious that my wife incorporates meditation into her daily routine. She holes up in her study, sits on the floor, and just…sits on the floor. I peak in sometimes and watch her, which seems pretty romantic to me. She wears sunglasses and a hoodie. I call it Unabomber Meditation. It clearly works for her.
My own meditation is this: I watch the goat and chickens.
This past July I rescued a pygmy goat from the same Huntington Park butcher store cum pet shop I rescued our chickens from. It's a longer story, which I'll get to, but one thing I've found is that a goat can be…entrancing.
Evidently I'm not alone. There's a whole book, "The Year of the Goat," that chronicles the adventures of a couple who left their home and set out on a year-long journey to document goat-raising in America. It is not sappy or farm-y or simply nostalgic: Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz are photo-journalists who clearly see a link between the health of "goat culture" in America and the health of the family farm, the environment and the food supply. (Schatz himself is a Time magazine photog who also authored, "A Culture Rekindled: Jewish Traditions Return To Russia." In 1994 he traveled to Poland to document the creation of Warsaw's first Jewish day school in 45 years.). Even if you haven't fallen under the goat spell, you'll like this book.
Anyway, last evening I got home from work as the sun was setting, went to the backyard, and just stared at the goat. This morning I took my cup of hot yerba mate out and sippd it while I, yes, stared at the goat. She crunches dry brown ficus leaves and berries. Nibbles the weeds. Tastes the bamboo. And I just watch her, like Walt Whitman lost in his cows, "I think I could turn and live with Animals..."
When darkness fell, I returned the goat—her name is Goldie Horn- to her fenced in yard and walked back inside. I was calm. I was centered. I had meditated.
October 19, 2009 | 4:42 pm
Posted by Rob Eshman
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Last weekend I noticed that the pomegranates that I had been waiting all year to ripen were now overripe. Many had burst open, and birds and bugs were having their way with the bright red seeds. Two months ago I looked at the then-green fruit and thought, What's taking you so long? They listened, my attention turned elsewhere, and now I'd missed the peak.
I grabbed our ladder, went out to the tree and began picking. When it was over, I had filled a bright red 19 gallon bucket with some 30-40 pounds of fruit. Another 20 pounds was split, infested, bird-eaten—lost and left to rot on the tree.
The plan was to make a pomegranate cordial as I had last year. I had just read a story about the Slow Food movement, and realized that while we all support the movement, we support it in hopes that we will be able to buy the products of Slow Food makers in our local stores. In other words, we want to buy Slow Food as fast and conveniently as we buy everything else. Do we actually want to make Slow Food? That's a different story. That's the difference between praying ourselves, and having our rabbi or minister pray for us. It's the difference between doing penance and buying an indulgence.
But there's another category of Slow Food that is of a different order than the fastidiously made, laboriously produced meats and cheeses and vinegars you find in high end stores. That's the DIY Slow Food: made from produce or animals you raise yourself, then wrested into product by your own hands, on your own time. It's Slow Food money can't buy, and it delivers a hard, eternal truth about Slow Food. It takes time. It takes patience. It's really slow,
Rob's Pomegranate Cordial
Wash ripe pomegranates. Submerge in a large bowl or tub of water. Cut open and with your fingers pry out the seeds. They will fall to the bottom of the bucket while the pith will rise to the top.
Scoop off and discard pith, drain all the water, then re-rinse seeds, drain well..
Using your hands, squeeze the seeds to extract the juice. Strain through damp cheesecloth, squeezing well.
Make a simple syrup by boiling water and sugar 1:1. Let cool.
Fill a clean bottle half way with juice. Add 1/8-1/4 syrup and the rest vodka. Shake and taste. Add more juice, syrup or vodka to balance flavor. It should be sweet, tart and juicy with a slight alcohol kick.
Seal and refrigerate a few days to mellow the flavors. Serve in cordial glasses, well chilled, or mix with Prosecco, champagne or white wine.
By the time I had finished, it was dark and cold and I woke up the next day with a fever. I suffered for my craft.
Was it worth it? Served cold and straight up in small glasses, this cordial has a sweet, juicy tang, and delivers a warm and welcome buzz. My wife, who rarely drinks, threw down two glasses like a saloon cowboy. For all that effort, I made three bottles.
But it was worth it.
October 5, 2009 | 12:18 pm
Posted by Rob Eshman
In her sermon on Friday night, Naomi talked about Sukkot. She said the rabbis called the holiday, "The time of our happiness," and command us to be "only happy" during the seven days of the Festival.
"What does it mean to be 'only happy'?" she asked. "How can one command happiness?"
The answer, of course, is eating in the sukkah. It's pretty hard to be miserable when you're sitting in a play house dining and drinking with friends.
We've had two dinners in ours so far, Saturday and Sunday night, and the novelty hasn't worn off. Except for the fact that the weather in Venice plunged below 70 degrees and we had to fend off the bitter mid-60s chill, our sukkah meals proved that religion, like armies, march on their stomachs.
Saturday Night Sukkah Menu for 15
Prosecco and Pomegranate
Heirloom Tomato Salad with Burrata and Arugula
Wild Coho Salmon with Salsa Verde
Broccoli Sauteed with Garlic, Anchovy and Hot Pepper
Roasted New Potatoes
Pumpkin Chalah and Pumpkin Pie
Fresh Lemon Verbena Tea
Now, Sunday night was going to be a whole different menu, but I had a side of fish I hadn't cooked, more tomatoes, more burrata and more pie. So:
Sunday Night Sukkah Menu for 18
Prosecco and Pomegranate
Heirloom Tomato Salad with Avocado and Basil
Wild Coho Salmon with Fig Vin Cotto
Rapini Sauteed with Garlic and Melted Burrata
Olive Oil and Potato Puree
Fig and Apple Crostata made and brought by a friend
Fresh Lemon Verbena Tea
At the end of the meals Naomi offered everyone a chance to shake the lulav an etrog. The lulav is a set of three branches—myrtle, willow and palm—bound together ina kind of woven palm sheath. The etrog is a kind of citrus fruit, an oblong lemon-looking thing with a pronounced stem and blossom bud at either end. The idea is you stand holding the two items together, say a blessing, then shake the branches until they make a rain-like sound, side to side, up down and behind you. It looks like a Jewish rain dance—and it just might have its origins in that kind of ritual. No one really knows how it developed, and it's not as widely observed a ritual as, say, circumcision or eating lox or reading the Sunday New York Times. The kids liked doing it last night—I got a sense the adults were a bit self-conscious—or maybe I'm just speaking about this adult.
Naomi can do these things with meaning and abandon—ancient ancient acts that make me feel as if I might as well be shaking blowing a conch horn and howling at the moon. But I suppose that why we're a good balance—she handles the arcane mysteries of our faith, and I serve it up hot and steamy and real.
It makes for a complete experience, I suppose. It makes us all want to linger a little longer in the sukkah, and even start talking about clearing out the table and spending the night inside it.
"Go for it," a friend suggested. "What happens in the sukkah stays in the sukkah."
Rapini Sauteed with Garlic and Melted Burrata
I copied this dish from a menu item at Luna Park on La Brea and Wilshire. If you want to get your kids to love dark, bitter green vegetables, this is the way.
1 pound rapini
2 balls burrata
4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced thin
½ c. good olive oil
¼ t. red chili flakes
salt and pepperBring a large pot of water to a boil. Blanch the rapini until they are tender and still bight green, but softer than al dente. Remove and drain.
Heat the olive oil in a skillet. Add the garlic and cook over low heat until the slices are sweet and translucent. Add the red pepper flakes, then the rapini, and tos until well coated and heated through. Cut the burrata in quarters and place over the rapini. Let melt into the greens on their own, or place in a hot oven until just beginning to melt. Serve warm.
Tomorrow: "The Heresy of Pot Luck"
October 2, 2009 | 9:25 pm
Posted by Rob Eshman
Last year at this time we were sitting in our Sukkah with a few friends when one of them said, "Why isn't Sukkot everyone's holiday?"
I remember what we were eating (with commentary):
Venison Lasagne with Wild Mushrooms
(No cheese. Just layers of braised shredded venison and mushrooms and wine layered between thin sheets of pasta I made. I'd bought the venison from a kosher organic supplier in upstate New York. 10 pounds of meet came in freezer pack by Fed Ex. We could have gone to Luques for what that cost, but I have the terrible habit of blowing budgets when it comes to food. Like the poor who still donat to build cathedrals, I believe that what I give to the gods of food will somehow come back to me).
Cinderella Pumpkin Filled with Kale, Canellini, roasted garlic and Roasted Leeks
[beautiful and soupy.]
Roasted Chicken with Meyer Lemon, Garlic and Bay
[The lemon, garlic and bay from our garden].
Salad with Fennel and Pomegranates
[ditto the fennel and pomegranates—from the garden. It was a good year].
Great chunks of fine bittersweet chocolate, figs and fruit and nuts for dessert.
[As I get older, this is the dessert that makes me happiest. Straight chocolate. Seasonal fruit. Cashews and almonds. Hit the imported chocolate section at Gelsons and go for variety: it's a dessert and a conversation piece. ]
"Why isn't Sukkot for everyone?" GREAT question. It's the ideal holiday. You eat outside. You don't have to go to synagogue, or follow long liturgy. You eat and drink in ahut outside, like 11 year old boys playing secret clubhouse.
The first time my wife and I celebrated Sukkot together as a couple was also the first time I built my own sukkah. That was simply bad planning.
I believe that in the same way Victorian brides were taken aside and offered private instruction on conjugal relations prior to marriage, certain Jewish men should receive a few lessons on the varieties of concrete footing and the purpose of corner bracing.
I grew up in Encino in the Mad Men era—there were many two-car garages, but few sukkahs. Living in Israel, I began to enjoy the holiday for the first time. Jews are commanded to mark the Biblical wandering in the desert by building huts and spending quality time in them. A holiday that involved eating great food and wine outside with friends quickly became my favorite holiday. As for the hut itself, I assumed my Israeli friends did what we in Encino would have done—called a Latino contractor to raise the thing.
I tried to go simple and cheap for my first sukkah. I bought 2-inch PVC pipes and connectors, clipped some banana leaves from a house I drove by on Brooktree, and built what looked like a giant, hairy tinker toy. The weight of the leaves collapsed the whole contraption before I stepped foot in it.
I stepped up to two-by-fours and molded concrete footings, something I either remembered reading in an old copy of The Jewish Catalog, or saw on an episode of Gilligan's Island. Either way, it was sturdy and sat six and a half people and a pot of homemade green corn tamales comfortably—until someone accidentally backed his chair into a post, and the whole structure slowly, inexorably collapsed to the ground.
Eventually I found a Lebanese Muslim man who sold booths to vendors at the local farmers market. I asked how much something like that would cost for home use.
"For Sukkot?" he asked.
We've had that sukkah for a decade now, and I can put it up in less than an hour, provided I control the stopwatch and define what "an hour" means.
The sukkah is swathed in white muslin on four sides and, as per Jewish law, has a roof through which you can see the stars and feel the raindrops.
And that sukkah has become a symbol, a microcosm, of everything I believe Judaism can be: open, appealing, joyous, inclusive.
And an endless parade of great meals.
All Sukkot I'll post various Sukkot meals I've made, along with some recipes.
First, below is the Pumpkin Challah I created that first sukkot, and that I still make today.
Have a great holiday….
Meanwhile, what Burning man and Sukkot have in common: read here.
2 packages active dry yeast (2 tablespoons)
1 cup lukewarm water
3 eggs
1 tablespoon plus 1/3 cup sugar
1 c. canned or fresh pumpkin puree
1 pinch saffron (optional)
1/2 cup vegetable oil, plus more for greasing the bowl
1 tablespoon salt
8 to 8 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Sesame seeds for sprinkling (optional)
1. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast, saffron and 1 tablespoon sugar in 1 3/4 cups lukewarm water.
2. Whisk the oil, 2 eggs, 1 c. mashed pumpkin, saffron, sugar and salt into yeast/water.
3. Gradually add flour, stirring with spoon or mixer paddle. When dough holds together, it is ready for kneading.
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A Sad day in GM History...Pontiac Ends Car Legacy After 84 Years
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Pontiac ends car legacy. Owners of the GM Pontiac cars are sad after General Motors officially closes the brand for good. The car brand was around for 84 years and dealers were told today to take down the signs.
Pontiac had been in decline for years. It was undone by a combination of poor corporate strategy and changing driver tastes. On Oct. 31, GM's agreements with dealers expire.
Prior to GM's bankruptcy, Pontiac's sales had fallen. Their peak levels were in 1968 when the automaker released speedier models. Most of those cars were were prized for their powerful engines and scowling grills.
At Pontiac's pinnacle, models like the GTO, Trans Am and Catalina 2 2 were packed with horsepower and sported colors like "Tiger Gold." Burt Reynolds and Sally Field fled the law in a Firebird Trans Am which raced through the 1970s hit movie "Smokey and the Bandit." By the late 1980s, though, the cars were taking off their muscle shirts, putting on suits and trying to act like other cars.
The decision was bad. The brand had lost its edge. Bill Hoglund, a retired GM executive who led the brand during its "We Build Excitement" ad campaigns in the 1980s, blames the brand's demise on a reorganization under CEO Roger Smith in 1984.
"There was no passion for the product," Hoglund said in a statement. "The product had to fit what was going on in the corporate system." Although the moves were necessary to fend off competition from Japanese automakers with lower costs, they yielded the cars that looked and drove like other GM cars. By 2008, the last full year before GM announced the end of the Pontiac, sales were 267,000, less than a third of those sold in 1968.08 Z71 Avalanche Mods to date: K&N CAI,Hellwig Swaybars and End Links, Corsa Sport Exhaust, Superchips Programer,IPCW LOF & 3rd brake light and tails, AMI Gas door,Show Hooks and Door locks, Enkei Wheels, with Pirelli tires, StreetScene Bowties, Grant Steering wheel,Muth signal mirrors,SSBC Big Brake kit,Huskyliner Mug gards,Floor mats and Hood shield, McGard Lug nuts and locks, Bedrug, Cervini's Ram Air hood,35watt HID Fog lights, Sylvania bulbs all around ZXE's Highs and Lows, WhiteNight Back up lights,Sirius and HD Radio, SnugTop sitting on deck now Got a Softopper on now,Tempress Boat Hatches.... New Bilstein shocks are on... New Mods coming soon..... X
11-03-2010, 12:20 AM #2I wonder if after-market part makers will stop making parts as well...
11-03-2010, 12:37 AM #3It IS sad Enkei. Back when Olds went down they were the longest running manu. It makes me wonder who's next. IMHO I think the fall of sales in the late '80s' was more due to government epa regs & mandates rather then Pontiac wanting reorganization & restructuring. They reorganized because they had to. They didn't want all that govt. epa & deq crap piled on them.
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11-03-2010, 05:51 AM #4Gm did a poor job managing many of the sub brands and they killed off a good one with the Pontiac brand, they could have made it leaner and meaner and as a price comprimise between caddilac and Chevy for sports cars.
Oh well time will tell if GM made the correct more or not. Seeing as there are two GM cars that i want in my garage from the recent years (muscle car era i wont even start that list) i want a GTP 2DR, and Bonneville GTP! the 3.8L series III with a blower and some mods make for a comfortable cruise that still gets 27ish mpg at 80mph.... I guess Ford will have to give me that excitment now.
as to the aftermarket comment above, thanks to the Pontiac brand carrying 100% Gm parts they will be available as long as a GM 3.1L 3.4L or a 3.8L are on the road.Mike
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11-03-2010, 10:20 AM #5bad thing si that i liked some of the newer gto's. it was nice to see cars buzzing down the road with bigger thunder under teh hoods again
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11-03-2010, 10:27 AM #6In 2006 I got a 2005 6speed 6.0 GTO for 27k out the door. At that time you could not get 400hp for a better price. That was a sweet car and I will be missing Pontiac for sure.
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09-23-2012, 03:54 PM #7Just think- in only 10 years from now, you will be telling teenaged kids and grandkids: " I remember when they still made Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Mercury and Plymouth". Even 20 years ago, did you ever think those brands would someday be gone? I didn't.
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09-23-2012, 10:07 PM #9I had a 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix SE Coupe with the sports package and I have a few comments that echo what that writing states.
- I liked the "look" of the car.
- It had "No Power"
- when the transmission needed to be rebuilt its second time in 1 year, I gave up on the brand because I was not going to keep dumping money in transmission rebuilds. I would never buy a pontiac again.
09-23-2012, 10:28 PM #10Look at the bright side ... for every manufacturer we lose we seem to get a new one with new, fancy rides. Like Kia and its Soul.
On second thought, I'd like Pontiac back, please.
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A new link between Autism and protein folding
Just a short post: I thought this story would be of interest to the FAH community.
Misfolded neural proteins linked to autism disorders
We're keeping our eye on this system for possible future FAH projects.
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Posted 01 October 2010 - 09:01 PM
by VijayPande » Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:35 am
It's with great pleasure that I announce that today is Folding@home's official tenth anniversary. It's been an amazing 10 years, especially in terms of what we've collectively been able to do, and my team and I are grateful for all the contributions by millions of people that has made this possible. If you're curious to see what we've done so far, please check out our Results section or Diseases FAQ. In particular, we're very excited about recent work on protein folding, which could radically reshape how people think about folding (leading to recent awards).
Behind the scenes, we've been planning some 10 year celebration activities, including a new client, better client software feedback of what's going on, some new client surprises through new collaborations, new backend software, and enhanced science via new cores. We're also pushing to support more hardware, such as new support for OpenCL on ATI hardware (an ATI OpenMM/OpenCL core16 is in internal testing, although it requires the v7 client).
One key big picture goal for this year is our push to try to make FAH much easier, interesting, and fun to use by donors. With a new server backend soon to be in place, we should be ready to scale to much higher levels and we're excited about what we can do with the combination of a new client that's easier to run, much more stable backend, and new science in cores A3, A4, 15, and 16.
Finally, amongst some of the surprises are new initiatives that I hope will change how people think about distributed computing. That's clearly a lot to hope for, but that's our goal. Sorry for being so coy about this now, but I wanted to let people know there's a lot going on behind the scenes and we'll be talking about this more as we announce these initiatives throughout the year.
http://folding.typep... ... rsary.html
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Posted 13 October 2010 - 06:00 PM
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Recent talk of results from Folding@home
Donors are often curious to hear about recent results. While one can read our papers, listed on our web site, those are fairly technical and intended for a biological or biophysical audience. The talk I gave at GTC 2010 ("Folding@home: Petaflops on the cheap today, exaflops soon?") was intended for a computational audience, so it may be more approachable than the papers, especially for those more familiar with the computational side of FAH, rather than the biological. You can see it here.
I talk a bit about how FAH works and some recent results in protein folding (pushing past the millisecond timescale), protein misfolding disease (Alzheimer's) and viral infection. If you're curious about how FAH works or what we've done recently, this might be of interest to you.
Edited by Leganfuh, 14 October 2010 - 07:17 PM.
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Posted 14 October 2010 - 02:20 PM
Posted 09 November 2010 - 01:27 AM
A blog all about Folding@home, from its Director, Prof. Vijay Pande
© 2007 Vijay Pande
November 08, 2010
Update in FAH stats by Operating System
We have been tracking down a bug in our stats by operating system page and it looks like we have now found it. Basically, we were counting SMP clients as giving 1 CPU. This grossly undercounted the total number of CPUs, especially for Linux and OSX. Please note that we have only updated this particular page (stats by operating system) and are looking into updating other ones with the additional information of the number of CPUs per client.
For those who are curious, here's the latest as of 5 min ago:
Client statistics by OS
OS Type Native TFLOPS* x86 TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
Windows 303 303 291382 3508526
Mac OS X/PowerPC 4 4 4505 141460
Mac OS X/Intel 101 101 24526 134420
Linux 295 295 109289 539508
PLAYSTATION®3 800 1688 28360 1034788 Total 2728 4030 449343 5714054
Total number of non-Anonymous donators = 1478538 Last updated at Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:27:38 DB date 2010-11-08 16:38:48 Active CPUS are defined as those which have returned WUs within 50 days. Active GPUs are defined as those which have returned WUs within 10 days (due to the shorter deadlines on GPU WUs). Active PS3's are defined as those which have returned WUs within 15 days. *TFLOPS is the actual teraflops from the software cores, not the peak values from CPU/GPU/PS3 specs. Please see our main FAQ, FLOPS FAQ, PS3 FAQ,NVIDIA GPU FAQ, or ATI GPU FAQ for more details on specific platforms.
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Posted 23 November 2010 - 06:15 AM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
November 22, 2010
2 new results from FAH
Two new papers from FAH have just come out, both from the lab of FAH affiliate Eric Sorin. For more information, check out papers #76 and #77 on our results page.
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Posted 09 December 2010 - 01:07 AM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
December 08, 2010
server room maintenance: December 16, 2010
One of our main server rooms will be undergoing maintenance on December 16, 2010. This will mean some of the FAH servers will be off line on that day. It looks like most of the key FAH infrastructure will be up, but there will likely be WU shortages on that day since a large fraction of machines will be down.
We are working to optimize what we can by distributing jobs to servers in other server rooms, but we wanted to give donors a heads up in advance so they know this is coming.
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Posted 09 December 2010 - 01:51 AM
Posted 10 December 2010 - 11:57 PM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
December 10, 2010
During Stanford's Winter Closure (December 18 through January 2), IT Services plans to schedule a network backbone maintenance window every morning from 4:00 a.m.- 8:00 a.m. to implement improvements in the network, as we did last year. In most cases, the changes should not affect the connectivity of departmental or home networks. In cases where they might, any interruption in service should be under 5 minutes.
While Folding@home will be up for this period, there may be brief (~5 min) network interruptions for network traffic from/to off-campus during the daily maintenance windows of 4:00 to 8:00 am pacific time. The upshot is that the campus should get improved network performance after the upgrades.
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Posted 15 December 2010 - 10:17 PM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
December 15, 2010
reminder & update: server room maintenance: December 16, 2010
We've been working to try to minimize the effect of the server room maintenance coming up tomorrow. Since this is our main room, FAH will be stretched pretty thin during the outage and we expect there will be WU shortages. Also, clients will not be able to send WUs back to servers that will be unavailable during the outage.
However, some good news is that we have been able to get power to a few key machines so the stats and web page should be up as well as most of the key servers. If you have trouble getting or returning WUs tomorrow, please just wait it out until we get a chance to get everything back on line.
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 03:30 AM
Posted 16 December 2010 - 05:04 AM
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December 15, 2010
update 2: server room maintenance: December 16, 2010
It looks like we will have to take a few machines down early in anticipation of the server room outage tomorrow. Right now, it looks to be just vspg11 and vspg12 (and their related VM's). We're working to keep as much up as we can though during the outage
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 07:15 PM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
December 16, 2010
update 3: server room maintenance: now (December 16, 2010)
We've started dealing with all of the outage. It looks like we should have the basics online (stats, fah-web, main AS, most of the key servers), but most of the redundant systems will be down, so there could be outages even with all we've done to try to have the basics up. Hopefully this will be straightened out by the end of the day pacific time.
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Posted 17 December 2010 - 03:27 AM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
December 16, 2010
update 4: server room maintenance: December 16, 2010
Looks like the server room updates have been completed and our team is starting to bring the servers back up. It will likely take a few hours for some, since this is an opportunistic time for some routine server maintenance (since they machines had to go down anyway). Some of the down servers are already back up and serving, more on the way in the next few hours.
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Posted 17 December 2010 - 01:10 PM
Posted 20 December 2010 - 07:07 AM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
December 19, 2010Updates thread
For some time, we've been keeping an updates thread with information for every change that we do to the FAH backend (new WUs, servers on- and off-line, etc). However, many donors likely don't know about it, so here's a reminder:
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Posted 20 December 2010 - 04:43 PM
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Posted 27 January 2011 - 07:12 AM
A blog all about Folding@home, from its Director, Prof. Vijay Pande
Folding@home - Main
© 2007 Vijay Pande
January 26, 2011
New GPU3 (version 6.41) client released
The latest GPU3 client is now on our high performance client download page. This new client improves GPU identification and has several other minor improvements.
For those who are unfamiliar with the other FAH clients: there are several types of high performance clients. SMP refers to multi-core GPUs. GPU3 refers to the latest generation Folding@home GPU client. Currently, GPU3 is only available for NVIDIA GPUs, but we are working on a GPU3 release for ATI. For NVIDIA GPUs, we recommend GPU3. For ATI, we suggest GPU2 until GPU3 has passed through its QA testing (going on now). Finally, the v7 Folding@home client (currently in alpha testing) has these functions (SMP and GPU) built in and will not require a special client.
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Posted 28 January 2011 - 10:40 PM
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Posted 01 March 2011 - 04:43 AM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
February 20, 2011
Integration with Facebook
In preparation for our v7 client launch, we will be adding some facebook elements to our Folding@home web pages, including the http://folding.stanford.edu information page as well as stats pages. Today, we have turned on facebook links on the team stat pages, so you can easily recommend your team on facebook. While the integration will start small, we will be working to enhance it as time goes on.
Posted 01 March 2011 - 07:05 AM
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Posted 01 March 2011 - 08:08 PM
Posted 02 March 2011 - 04:56 PM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
March 01, 2011
Introduction of a new SMP core, changes to bigadv
We have recently launched a new core type for bigadv work units. We're forking A5 off from our A3 core to make a core that specializes in bigadv workunits. In particular, new A3 and A4 cores use more RAM per thread which makes large-memory calculations very memory inefficient in those cores. A5 does not have this issue and looks to be a good general fix for big RAM (eg bigadv) calculations.
However, to be able to use the new A5 core, one needs to use an updated client: 6.34 or later.
We are shutting down A3 bigadv in the next day, so please update your clients if you wish to continue running bigadv work units (to be clear, all issued A3 bigadv work units will be accepted until their deadlines. We are terminating new bigadv work unit assigns). Older clients will be redirected to standard A3 SMP work units; the switchover will allow us to push an update to the standard A3 core and release a large number of new A3 work units that have been in early testing.
The SMP clients version 6.34 binaries are now posted on the high-performance download page:
They can be dropped into a working FAH installation, but it's always safest to update between work units.
There are several small changes involved, but especially support for new SMP2 cores (A5) that will be released in the near future.
P.S. Do not forget the augments when reconfiguring your client.
Edited by Leganfuh, 02 March 2011 - 07:16 PM.
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Posted 12 March 2011 - 07:38 AM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
March 11, 2011
Testing Quick Return Bonus (QRB) with classic WUs
We have had for some time a Quick Return Bonus (QRB) for multi-core/SMP WU's. The nature of QRB is that donors get extra points for returning the WU early. The rationale here is to align what's best to accelerate the science (getting WUs back quicker so next generation WUs can be made and sent out to donors) with what the donors see (points). In the past, we've simply mentioned to donors that it's ideal for us to get WUs back faster, but the QRB formalizes this and is an attempt to align incentives.
We are testing it with the classic A4 core now. I stress the word testing since we are looking to see what are the implications of rolling this out more broadly (there can always been unforseen complications of anything as complex as FAH). However, the general idea of aligning incentives is pretty clear, so hopefully we will be able to tweak the QRB plan if problems arise.
For more details on which project, etc, please see this thread in the FoldingForum.
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Posted 13 March 2011 - 05:28 PM
Posted 15 March 2011 - 03:05 PM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
March 14, 2011
Progress to the v7 client release
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Posted 15 March 2011 - 10:17 PM
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Folding@home - Main
© 2007 Vijay Pande
March 15, 2011
FAH Support for ATI GPUs
We have been working to improve our support for AMD/ATI GPUs. AMD/ATI originally supported the Brook language for GPU programming, but has since moved to OpenCL, dropping support for Brook. This means that in order for FAH to support ATI GPUs, we have had to rewrite our ATI GPU core in OpenCL. This has been a huge undertaking, but is coming to fruition (check out http://simtk.org/home/openmm for details and a change log with progress updates). Due to ATI's decision to drop Brook in lieu of OpenCL, new FAH ATI GPU core development can only be done in OpenCL and thus can only run on GPUs which ATI supports with OpenCL.
We want to give ATI donors a heads up that ATI does not support all of its GPUs with OpenCL (the series 3xxx are not supported and the series 4xxx does not have sufficient OpenCL support for efficient FAH calculations). For the short term, we will support both the older (Brook coded) ATI core 11, and the newer (OpenCL coded) ATI core 16, but we cannot support the Brook-based core for much longer. We plan to support ATI core 11 until September 1, 2011 (hopefully longer, but we want to get this on donors' radars). Closing support for a given platform is never a popular decision, but in this case, we have no choice due to the lack of vendor support of that platform.
The good news is that ATI's support for OpenCL is very strong and we're excited about our new ATI openCL core (core 16), which is undergoing testing right now. ATI core 16 will be publicly released after the v7 client is released, as the core needs the new client
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Posted 18 March 2011 - 04:49 PM
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Folding@home - Main
© 2007 Vijay Pande
March 17, 2011
Some classic clients not being assigned
There is a problem with the assignment of WUs to some classic clients. We are working on it.
UPDATE: Looks like the worst is over, but we are keeping an eye on this issue. In particular, the port 80 AS (assign2.stanford.edu) seems to be still having issues.
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Posted 18 March 2011 - 09:51 PM
A blog all about Folding@home, from its Director, Prof. Vijay Pande
Folding@home - Main
© 2007 Vijay Pande
March 18, 2011
WS Down: VSP07*, VSP17, VSP22
There is one physical box down, which means that several WS virtual interfaces are down. Our sysadmins are working on it and have given us a 6 hour ETA for it coming back up.
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UPDATE 8pm pacific time Fri Mar 18: The server is still going through its RAID arrays (it has many of them and they are very large). Our admins think this will require several more hours, putting the ETA at Saturday assuming all goes well.
UPDATE 5:30am pacific time Sat Mar 19: The server came up an hour ago and looks to be running ok now
Edited by Leganfuh, 19 March 2011 - 06:03 PM.
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 09:00 PM
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© 2007 Vijay Pande
March 29, 2011
Planned server outage: tomorrow, Wed Mar 30 from 10am to noon pacific time
We have a planned outage tomorrow, Wednesday March 30 from 10am to noon pacific time. The stats update and fah-web.stanford.edu web pages will be down, but FAH will be running otherwise. Stats will still be accumulated by the Work Servers, just not related to the web page until those servers go up.
So, other than seeing stats updates, everything should look normal for FAH during the outage.
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Client version 7 now in open beta
I am happy to announce that after many months of development and testing the new version 7 Folding@home client software is now available for open-beta testing. The V7 client is a complete rewrite of the previous client for Windows, OS-X and Linux with the following goals:
- To make the installation and startup user-friendly for the novice.
- To integrate the user interface into a single Monitor/Control program that manages the functionality previously contained in separate clients.
- To create a forward-looking design that can be readily expanded to incorporate new Folding Cores without the need to issue new client releases.
- To greatly improve previously problematic aspects including support for SMP, GPU, and the 3D viewer.
Getting Started
Please consider reading one of the guides listed in the documentation section, but if you want to dive right in you can start by downloading and installing the new client.
Install and user guides can be found here:
There are also some additional quick start FAQ items here
The new client has too many features to list but here are some of the highlights:
- Improved Windows installer with support for Windows XP, Vista, 2008 and Windows 7.
- 64-bit OS-X install package. (32-bit in the works).
- Debian/Ubuntu and RedHat/Fedora/CentOS 32-bit and 64-bit Linux packages.
- Low priority background operation has very little impact on your computers usability. You should hardly notice Folding@home is running when using other applications.
- A more compatible and stable 3D protein viewer with several view modes, rotation, zoom, online help and interpolated protein animations.
- Separate but integrated console client (FAHClient), user interface (FAHControl) and 3D protein viewer (FAHViewer).
- Novice, Advanced & Expert user interface modes. (See drop down list in FAHControl.)
- Support for more than one Folding Slot (UNI, SMP or GPU).
- Ability to monitor, configure and control many remote folding clients from a single computer.
- Very low CPU overhead for FAHClient, FAHControl and FAHViewer. 3D viewer overhead can be minimized by disabling rotating and protein animation.
- Single client for normal (Uniprocessor), SMP (Multiple CPUs) and GPU (Graphics Processors) folding.
The V7 client has undergone months of testing but due to the complex nature of distributed computing, the many features provided by the Folding@home client and the difficulties of simultaneously supporting software on Windows, OS-X and Linux there are still some open bugs, feature requests and likely other as of yet undiscovered issues. The beta testing process will help us test new features and fix any remaining bugs before we make a full public release. That said the open-beta V7 client is very usable and has many advantages over the previous client releases.
In an effort to increase the transparency of our development process we have decided to open read-only access to our bug tracking system. We are currently using Trac, a Web based system which, among other things, manages a database of tickets. Each ticket represents either a bug or feature request of some component of the Folding@home client software. You can view the list of open tickets here:
v7 Client, Open Tickets Ordered by Milestone and Priority
Getting Help
Aside from the documentation the best place to get help is in a v7 client forum (http://foldingforum....wforum.php?f=67). If you do have a problem post a message. There are many knowledgeable people ready and willing to help you but keep in mind we greatly appreciate thorough reports delivered by patient people who can keep a cool head even when things go wrong.
Final Notes
We are very excited to see this software make its way around the world improving and expanding Folding@home and thereby increasing our understanding of how proteins fold and ultimately helping to find cures for some of our societies scariest diseases. We greatly appreciate your participation and understand that without your generous contributions of time and computing resources there would be no Folding@home.
So dive right in and let us know about your experience.
PS You can find more information at this forum thread
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Posted 29 March 2011 - 10:50 PM
Posted 30 March 2011 - 02:50 AM
ok it's not saving them. So much for the new client being easy to use. I'm following the instructions, and it's not doing what it's supposed to.
Edited by Blacksmith1, 30 March 2011 - 02:53 AM.
Posted 30 March 2011 - 03:50 AM
My buttox feels like its been man handled.
Posted 30 March 2011 - 08:12 PM
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Planned server outage: today until noon pacific time
We took down the servers a little early (they are down now, 9:25am pacific time). Hopefully the service will be fast and they'll be back up early.
The main loss of function to FAH is the fah-web.stanford.edu web site is down.
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Posted 30 March 2011 - 08:23 PM
It only supports 5k or newer on the ATI side and I have a 4850 so no go for me maybe Rob or Zac can post some #
I should be able to test it out soon. I always forget to leave my PC on at night to do some Folding. I'll try to remember to do it tonight.
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Posted 30 March 2011 - 08:54 PM
My buttox feels like its been man handled.
Posted 30 March 2011 - 09:06 PM
hopefully you can churn out some good #'s
We'll see. If they've retooled the way F@H interacts with AMD cards, we could see quite an improvement. From what I've read that's going to take considerable effort on the part of F@H due to the way AMD changed their API. (I think API is the right word.) From my limited experiences with F@H and my 6950, work unit-crunching was pretty darn slow.
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Exclusive music!!!! Dirty Melbourne Minimal, Exclusive Melbourne Minimal And Tech House!! This forum is for DJ's and producers to share tracks betwen each other and also to get melbournes underground scene
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Free forum : exclusive for Sabik members only. and all camfrog users.
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Free forum : banda namin ito. :D. SOULFUL ROCK | exclusive
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eXclusive NFMM
A clan in Need for Madness Multiplayer
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exclusive styles customs is a close group of friends with the same intrest and love of all cool things with motors. Bikes, trucks, cars, hot rod, rat rod, kustoms, sleds, rock a billy.
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Exclusive forums for members of The Hag's Den
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The Exclusive Forum For any and all Business related Advertising and Down-line Building Projects.
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Kobalttt's smp server 18.104.22.168:25565
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Welcome to Dark Disciples facebook page. Exclusive player builds and tip and tricks will periodically be posted here. Just as in game, keep it kind, courteous, and friendly. this is a guild built arou
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We are a PS3 exclusive Black Ops clan that ranges from competitive gameplay to casual gameplay.
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Thank you for checking out our forums! Please create an account if you a player on our server! Our IP: 188.8.131.52 Our Channel: http://www.youtube.com/aMinecraftCommunity
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Free forum : This is public for anyone to join and talk about all the exclusive Gunz Videos, Tutorials, Custom Crosshairs, New moves, New Style Ect. . .
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This is a site is exclusive for all members of the Heart-Throb team (1st-5th DL) under Amy McGrew. It is a place for all of us to share and support one another. Please keep your postings related to
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Free forum : Free games and apps for android devices plus exclusive android games and apps you can't find anywhere else.
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This is a exclusive forum intended for CSJ Grade 9, Section Peace, batch 2009 - 2010 Students only. "Mga DelaBanders! UNITE! We are of One Team, And One Family!"
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Private forum for people who have donated or purchased the Escaping Chaos collab. All members will have exclusive access to ", bid", on tagger services, hand crafted items, kits, tubes, and MORE!
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Free forum : We are Keith Garvey exclusive Tagger group, that we have, wwo offer for the siggy piggys. we have challenges for the taggers that you use garv only. we have an wwo offers from the tagger
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An exclusive and free club for all Malaysian cake decorators
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Free forum : A forum exclusive for the members of [M] Academy, the finest academy in the world!
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This site is exclusive for TRISKELIONS only! LONG LIVE TAU GAMMA PHI
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Free forum : Galactic Adventure Club
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Free forum : Ladies and gents welcome to our own exclusive forum for our guild. Post any suggestions or questions on here, or just vent about random things.
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Islamic Art - Exclusive Graphic Designs, Free Islamic Graphics, Poems and Short Stories by Muslim Sisters, Islamic Art for Children.
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Warriors Cats Forum is one of the most exclusive Warrior Cat roleplay and discussion boards on the web. We have a fantastic community, many interactive Warriors RPGs, features, events, competitions, books, and more!
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