Posts by JLConawayII

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Crunching with GPU? (Message 67946) Posted 3 Oct 2010 by JLConawayII Post: Imagine a huge huge huge classroom full of 5th graders. Now, Imagine another classroom with two math engineers. The huge classroom is the GPU, and the two math engineers are CPUs (a dual core one). Which one do you think is up to the task of solving a College level Calculus III problem? The CPU is. =] Sure, if you have a task in which you have to solve 3 trillion math problems (relatively easy ones) and manage it to distribute each problem to each student, they'll finish it way faster than the two math professor. Best analogy I've come up so far as to why GPUs can't crunch Rosetta yet. Then why do other molecular dynamics projects run on GPU?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Discussion of the new credit systen (2) (Message 67794) Posted 23 Sep 2010 by JLConawayII Post: I've only been on this project a couple days. I started it to complement my GPUgrid and my new folding@home ventures. I'll say right now I don't participate in these projects for credits, I process scientific data that I feel can benefit the future of mankind. However, I believe credits can be a useful tool for measuring your overall contribution. Unfortunately I find the credits from Rosetta@home to be extremely low comparatively, even lower than the less "useful" PrimeGrid application I had been running. It makes me feel like my machine is contributing less now, even though this new work is potentially very beneficial. IMO it would be nice to see a more consistent credit system between all the projects.