Folding@Home is getting tremendous TFlops from GPUs. Anybody know the current stage of the possibility to have BOINC take advantage of GPU's?

A guy got top page in www.digg.com for building a 51-video card rig for F@H. http://digg.com/hardware/Guy_builds_Massive_folding_farm_with_51_nVidia_Video_Cards

My ATI HD 3650 is dying to meet a Rosetta WU :-D



And as a side question... which is better... R@H or F@H?

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as for the side question i think that which is better is undermined ..but no question both are great projects

Folding@Home is getting tremendous TFlops from GPUs. Anybody know the current stage of the possibility to have BOINC take advantage of GPU's?

A guy got top page in www.digg.com for building a 51-video card rig for F@H. http://digg.com/hardware/Guy_builds_Massive_folding_farm_with_51_nVidia_Video_Cards

My ATI HD 3650 is dying to meet a Rosetta WU :-D



And as a side question... which is better... R@H or F@H?

most recent comment i've heard about gpus was here:
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=3926&nowrap=true#52927

And as a side question... which is better... R@H or F@H?

Rosetta@home seems more diverse than Folding@home. Rosetta@home is involved in protein structure prediction, protein docking, and protein design; Folding@home focuses solely on protein folding. Though I don't know a ton about Folding@home, I don't think they make their services publicly available to the scientific community, unlike Rosetta@home, which essentially tests new methods that get built into Robetta, the Baker lab's free online protein structure prediction service. With Robetta, scientists can get structural information about protein's they're working on.

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And as a side question... which is better... R@H or F@H?

I suppose that most of us here will prefer R@H :)

Personally, I think the science done by R@H has the potential to be more important and cure more people, as well as help with energy and environmental problems.

I also think that any contribution from CPUs have a higher marginal utility on R@H than F@H because it has less computational power.

But ultimately, it's up to you. If I had a video card that could crunch for F@H, I'd probably put the video there and the rest of my free CPU cores on R@H.

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I run F@H on my PS3 and R@H on all of my PCs.

The GPUs provide lots of horsepower and I hope R@H can find a way to use them. As of right now, it is not even a point of discussion by the project team.

Best of luck!

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Thx!

Paul