Folding Forum

I just wanted to thank the whole F@H team. It proved that one can talk to pandegroup and they are listening to their community. Even though it was a only a small change, I hope it can motivate people to put their GPUs and their smaller CPUs back to work and help process science. Meanwhile I will put...

I am happy to see that the discussion developed that far and wasn't smashed to the ground. @patonb Concerning your first paragraph: The reason why there is normally not such a reward is because your are leaving the sweetspot and that's basically everywhere in life that way. If you want the last ten ...

I base my theory on the fact that basically every new supercomputer gets more and more GPUs but reducing the number of CPUs and in addition that every higher piece of software gets GPU optimised.

yeah but that is a fact based on technology advancement and not based on the point system. 1 Year ago before bigadv was introduced, a nehalem did about ~16kppd. I think it was the 285 GTX which was the top card in those days, it did about 10k ppd. Then out of a sudden bigadv was released. Nehalem di...

@grandpa I don't measure science by calculated atoms. That would be too easy I guess. @John_Weatherman Seriously that has nothing to do with the topic. servers won't get replaced by ipads. @Dinkydau Yeah, basically everything I said is valid for the normal SMP client, too. @John_Weatherman They can ...

I mean seriously, the point system was ridiculous before, but with these big betas it's getting even more absurd. If i am right a SR-2 rig is doing 250k PPD on this bigbetas. That means that it is doing ~13x as much science as a 580GTX does. If I follow software development correctly, actually a 580...