Folding Forum

I think your average person can run BOINC, soon F@H should be very easy to run. (it's easy now, but I mean VERY easy). I think the current level is nothing to sneeze at. I think if you got really clear in your mind why you fold and why others should care then you can have some success in convincing ...

Hey Meatball, Yeah, I have an older computer with AGP and ran a x1950pro in it. That was worth it while it lasted. I'm considering adding a 3xxx AGP card to it. You may want to wait until the ATI GPU2 client is less CPU intensive so you can get full use out of the card. If they could make it much le...

It's really up to contributors to get more people interested in F@H, but I would wait until it is more user friendly. Instead of looking down on the number, that's 840 teraflops that we didn't have before, and it's just a number, AND you can do something about it. You can get other people fired up a...

Yeah GPU client is still in beta, so it's probably best to iron out the kinks before marketing/recruiting masses of more casual / "hey this is fun" users who would outright quit if there were too many bugs.

pre-multi GPU for nVidia

OS Type Current TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
Windows 200 210173 2076885
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8412 117017
Mac OS X/Intel 27 8656 53096
Linux 74 43333 315227
GPU 886 8058 16498
PLAYSTATION®3 1318 46751 551186
Total 2512 325383 3129909

Yeah I'm wondering the same thing... PS3s have declined by about 3000 machines. Maybe some folks are looking at PPD/watt and turning off their PS3s. Otherwise it is folks playing Metal Gear Solid 4, or kids moving back home from college (for the summer) and not have re-hooked up their PS3 (and/or no...

You guys are Money
Ain't nothin' but a G thang baby

OS Type Current TFLOPS* Active CPUs Total CPUs
Windows 199 209428 2068974
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8399 116794
Mac OS X/Intel 26 8408 52416
Linux 73 43071 313361
GPU 834 7585 14828
PLAYSTATION®3 1358 48151 546993
Total 2497 325042 3113366

Oh baby!

Windows 199 209039 2067403
Mac OS X/PowerPC 7 8400 116745
Mac OS X/Intel 26 8360 52276
Linux 73 43011 312922
GPU 804 7311 14531
PLAYSTATION®3 1369 48529 546280
Total 2478 324650 3110157

Cool, yeah, as far as where the money would go... not sure if it is easy for them to answer, just wondering how their needs are changing and whether or not something has become financially critical for them. Kinda wondering how many petaflops they think their infrastructure can handle until they wou...

For folks that either don't have the will or the space for building another folding machine, is there a way for them to sponsor folding machines that the F@H team at Stanford could maintain? Would Vijay (if Stanford could swing the floor space & electricity bill) be interested in such a program?...

how many days/weeks did PS3 initially grow until it started to level off? wondering when folks think it will start to level off? My guess is we see a short-term peak on Sunday and then another higher short-term peak the next two Sundays. I hope we see a decent surge over the weekend as people build ...

brent, I wouldn't order just yet because the GPU code will be optimized over the next 3 months (probably the most dramatic changes in next 3 months) and that could change the cost/performance equation from one GPU to another... I'm anxious like you are and I am going to be patient and wait.

now GPU -> 442 teraflops, 4021 GPUs. IF that's all nVidia GPUs, then they are averaging 150 gigaflops per GPU. (442-143)/(4021-2068) How can this happen? My guess is that some nVidia GPUs were operating less than 24 hours when F@H updated and the new update captured performance of some of the new GP...

Before GPU2, we had around 500 "active" GPUs. I'm glad to see that number at 3353 and growing... Let the twin powers of AMD and nVidia combine!

OK, so I was about to RMA the motherboard and I did the test of outside the case. No dice... ...So I'm building another computer and I was gonna borrow the CPU from my original GPU cruncher to get the computer going while I waited for the CPU to arrive... So I decide, "What the heck, while this...