I honestly belive that if R@H harnesses GPUs

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Chilean Send message Joined: 16 Oct 05 Posts: 711 Credit: 26,694,507 RAC: 0	Message 56267 - Posted: 7 Oct 2008, 5:07:38 UTC We would be WAY over the 150Tflop mark ID: 56267 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

robertmiles Send message Joined: 16 Jun 08 Posts: 1225 Credit: 13,856,762 RAC: 2,065	Message 56326 - Posted: 11 Oct 2008, 2:11:32 UTC Unfortunately, that would take significantly more effort for the Rosetta@home programmers to maintain the software for. There's already a new version of BOINC that allows use of the GPU, but very few BOINC projects likely to be ready to make use of this soon. ID: 56326 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Mike Tyka Send message Joined: 20 Oct 05 Posts: 96 Credit: 2,190 RAC: 0	Message 56338 - Posted: 11 Oct 2008, 19:02:13 UTC - in response to Message 56326. Unfortunately, that would take significantly more effort for the Rosetta@home programmers to maintain the software for. There's already a new version of BOINC that allows use of the GPU, but very few BOINC projects likely to be ready to make use of this soon. Projects like Folding@home change their code rarely and only change paramerters and input files. That means writing highly specialised code such as for a GPU makes a lot of sense for them. In contrast we modify the code constantly (as well as parameters and inputfiles) so writing highly specialized code is a bit of a headache for us, since keeping track of changes in multiple version of the same code (remember rosetta has to run on many plattforms already, never mind different CPU arhitectures) is just not viable for us right now. Maybe one day, when we can "freeze" a given section of the code and just want to crunch majorly we'll embark on porting the code. I know its sad and it seems like a waste of CPU but practically its tricky.. Mike http://beautifulproteins.blogspot.com/ http://www.miketyka.com/ ID: 56338 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

rochester new york Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 2842 Credit: 2,020,043 RAC: 0	Message 56448 - Posted: 23 Oct 2008, 3:48:06 UTC http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001391 ID: 56448 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Chilean Send message Joined: 16 Oct 05 Posts: 711 Credit: 26,694,507 RAC: 0	Message 56453 - Posted: 24 Oct 2008, 1:23:38 UTC - in response to Message 56448. http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001391 Well... My GPU can run Crysis on Gamer settings... So I would guess it could crunch proteins like a hungry mad dog. ID: 56453 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Rangers Send message Joined: 27 Oct 08 Posts: 39 Credit: 6,508,199 RAC: 606	Message 56507 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 8:29:15 UTC - in response to Message 56453. i was planning on getting 2 radeon 2gb graphics cards ... CHILI ID: 56507 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

The_Bad_Penguin Send message Joined: 5 Jun 06 Posts: 2751 Credit: 4,271,025 RAC: 0	Message 56519 - Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 22:13:42 UTC dang, that's sweet! i decided to go "cheap". got some mobo's with 4 pci-e x16's slots, and got 4 nVidia 9600gt's and 3 nVidia 9600gso's (i'll probably pick up a 4th one somewhere along the line) trying to bring this "farm" on-line sometime within the next few weeks imho, ati gpu's are currently "better" than nVidia, but dc projects (other than F@H) seem to be supporting nVidia (i.e., gpugrid) i have one ATI 4850, and i might get two more at some point, and i guess the only place to throw them is F@H. ID: 56519 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote