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 Apr 5 2009, 10:59 PM
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Anyone do any Folding @ Home? I've picked it up again and I'm not getting good results with a 3 year old laptop and a 3 year old desktop. Thinking about getting a Nvidia GeForce 9800GT and a new power supply for the sole purpose of folding.
-------------------- Beers that I have had, updated July 5th, 2009: 1,548
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May 17 2009, 07:22 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 20 |
This is ridiculous. The improvements in processing power for a video card to play computer games have found another purpose. GPU computing has huge potential. Nvidia has developed CUDA, and having great success applying their technology for data crunching. Anyways, here is my progress with my folding. There are projects that are being run on networked PS3's running custom code and having the computing power rivaling super computers.
 Gigabyte 9800GT can finish a 768 point work unit in about 4 hours. I'm also running the standard CPU client as well, and my AMD Athlon x64 3800+(Dual core 2.0ghz processor) can finish a 638 point work unit in 38 hours. That's just crazy. -------------------- Beers that I have had, updated July 5th, 2009: 1,548
My Beer List "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ" - Mahatma Gandhi |
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