Posts by Peter

1) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Personal Milestones (Message 56207) Posted 3 Oct 2008 by Peter Post: I started running Rosetta on a Skulltrail in April and rapidly climbed to Top Computer in RAC. Mission Accomplished in proving that Skulltrail can do an awful lot of multitasking. Then I kinda shut down for a couple of months, or at least let the box sleep when it wasn't busy (you gotta have a Skulltrail under your desk blowing heat to know what I'm talking about, and this is a home office and personal electric bill). In August, the Rosetta@Home folks released the production version of their GPU-based client. I asked myself, "How efficient are Rosetta and Folding running together?" So I started up Rosetta again and added Folding on an nVidia 8800 GTX to the mix. The climb back to contention started... The answer is VERY EFFICIENT. As of today, I am back to #4 on Rosetta RAC for an individual computer, and Folding rank is 20,000 out of 1.1 million. Both are still climbing, but today's the day I stopped by the Cafe Rosetta. My hats off to the many professionals who make these programs available. They are very solid. Next test bed is a G45-based quadcore Q9550 (4 x 2.8 GHz) -- Peter Skulltrail Intel Q5400DS 8 x 3.2 GHz (and sometimes overclocked) 8 GB memory, 3 x SATA HDD, nVidia 8800 GTX Windows Vista Ultimate