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GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/29/folding_at_home_to_use_gpus/ Wondering how beneficial using graphics cards will be? And if at some point in the future the WCG could benefit from any lessons learned in this area? Looks like the two major manufactures ATI and Nvidia may cater to the GPGPU market if there is enough interest and potential. "He mentioned that Nvidia wants to change this situation and considers the GPGPU market as "exciting" and something that "the company has been looking at for years." He stated that he had no personal knowledge of the development of a Folding@Home client for the Nvidia platform, but stressed that the company has a "long-standing relationship with Stanford." I'll remain very skeptical until if and when real results are returned that have significant value, benefit and wide support to prove worth the investment. Still an interesting possible if the power of GPGPU isn't over-rated. |
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How much does a project like fight aids@home and WCG projects depend on floating point calcuations?
"In short, today's GPUs have in many ways become extremely powerful floating-point processors that have been used for 3D rendering but little else." "It's here where ATI is looking for new ideas on what to run on their GPUs as part of their new stream computing initiative. The academic world is full of such ideas, chomping at the bit to run their experiments on more than a handful of customized hardware designs. One such application, and part of the star of today's announcement, is Folding@Home, a Stanford research project designed to simulate protein folding in order to unlock the secrets of diseases caused by flawed protein folding." |
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