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Thread: Research Log: Updates from the Harvard Team |
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Former Member
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Hey, my TRS-80 contributed about .021 milliseconds to that :D
It may not sound like much, but when you look at technology just five or ten years ago compared to the processing power today. It would have probably taken us 35000 years for the same work. Aaron |
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Hi Ascholten,
The 8087 / 80287 used to crunch at about 44 Kflops. I quickly grew disgusted with Intel's glacial speed before the Pentium. But now everybody runs at supercomputer speeds with enormous arrays.  Lawrence |
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Thing is, it seems we are kind of near the limits of speed on CPU's due to heat removal, so are now working on 'more at a time' aka multi cores.
----------------------------------------It still will take the same amount of time for me to crunch a unit, but I can do 200 at a time soon... I hope... The GPU's are really taking advantage of this now, I wish CEP had a CUDA / GPU app I could run, it'd scream then. Aaron [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 31, 2011 9:47:13 PM] |
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yes the thing about multi cpu's is the same as GPU's there is only so much they can pack into a chip yes GPU's are a nice option out there but they have the same problem... with GPU"S you do get the advantage of some dedicated ram but thats it
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The Harvard CEP team wishes you all a Happy New Year and a healthy, successful, and prosperous 2012! And don't forget to keep crunching
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Our friend Richard has written a blog post on CEP which you may find interesting. Check it out here:
http://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2011/12/2...ere-just-getting-serious/ |
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These forum posts and a couple of others in that thread are interesting additions to the earlier mentioned Science Springs blog post. You should check them out as well:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,32325#357492 http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,32325#357667 |
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Just out of curiosity. When you guys finally DO find a suitable organic compound for solar. What is IBM's / World Community Grids 'cut' of it? Who own's the intellectual property rights of it for when it is marketed / licensed out etc?
Aaron |
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From the about page:
----------------------------------------"World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community." (emphasis mine)   |
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Hello Ascholten,
The knowledge is in the public domain. Your cut of the information is the same as mine.   Lawrence |
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