I have just joined the grid while thinking in the past days that there should be more into distributed computing than seti and f@h, so I have found Faah.

I been supporting folding@home since 2004 and decided to dedicate part of my computing recoursed to faah cause.

At home I do have 2 8800GT nvidia cards and I find it impressive what is going inside that small piece of hardware.
The price is meaningless compared to a whole q6600 system and the processing power surpass it.

Evidently dedicated research and programming made it possible, and yes, even with sli disabled.

Just remember that all we have today is not much diferent from what have been done in the beginning with the basic pc x96 ever created.

Its been a add on development, but you still have the same architecture, I think.

It is of human nature to use what already is there is already to solve problems instead of creating new stuff from root.

I first heard of parallel computing many years ago and the chance of using GPU... and they did it.
I am glad they did not quit.
Maybe one day will be used to all distributed computing worldwide... I don't see reasons why.

PS3GRID (gpugrid) now offers a version that allows using Nvidia cards under BOINC under Windows. It's still in beta test, though, and requires versions of BOINC that look unlikely to be ready to handle many of the existing BOINC projects elsewhere.

http://www.gpugrid.net/