Folding Forum

I think it would be a HUGE persuasion point if you can get 2.5 PFLOPS for just $525,000, which is the equivalent of China's super computer, which cost 88 million (they also used a combination of gpus and cpus). The Chinese computer costs 20 million a year to operate. The estimated Power consumption...

It's hard to seperate the b.s. from the real thing at my level - technical enough to get completely lead astray. A good first step when you're not familiar with the field is to immediately ignore anything in arXiv. I personally think preprint archives are a great service for the scientific communit...

My interest in tracking down the viability of their claim was piqued (in a paper that is actually pretty short - only 16 pgs, of which the first six make their case) when their model seemingly correctly forecast folding times for a variety of proteins. I don't see anything in this manuscript that &...

Now, the most important question : do you know why those projects are doing so well on ATI ? I do not know, but I hope that, however, someone explain this to me. In addition, I am trying to tell you that there are people who themselves are trying to solve this problem by creating a wrapper. From th...

This is just turning into another ATI vs Nvidia thread. I've written several times about why ATI/AMD is inherently a different (harder-to-program) architecture than Nvidia, and why just using the peak FLOP counts to compare cards is unrealistic. Here are a couple things to consider: viewtopic.php?p=...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 9/abstract

Released MemtestCL - OpenCL-based memory tester (like MemtestG80) for ATI and Nvidia GPUs as well as CPUs. Full details in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=51&t=15691

We found the error in the server logs, and have manually recredited all WUs associated with that error. I checked - every WU that was mentioned in this thread was in the recredit file (along with many others). The root problem can be traced back to a failed disk drive on the server - because it was ...

I do have one more important question. Right now my i7 laptop is working on an a1 (whatever that is....?!) with roughly 20% of my CPU give or take 5-10% what is it doing? this processor can do trillions, if not thousands of trillions of operations per second. Why does it take so long to do what its...

From a non-scientific perspective, I'd think that there's one more question, but I guess you'd include it in the second one. If the answer to question 1 is this sequence produces this final structure, then how can there ever be anything called "mis-folding"? It seems obvious to me that if...

Hi Methal, After nearly 10 years of thousands to millions of computers folding you'd think we'd have folded everything to fold including the laundry. Your position is perfectly reasonable. Fortunately for those of us still working in the field, it's not true :). There are, in fact, two distinct ques...

It's back up.

I'm still looking at log files to see if we can recover credit for units that didn't go credited when the server was up (because of disk corruption). The fact that it's in reject is not a problem: it was left in accept-only for a week or two before it was taken down, so there would have been no WUs ...

That's not likely to happen. The servers that are at Stanford are on separate intra-Stanford networks for redundancy (occasionally one Stanford subnetwork will be temporarily unavailable), and these are sometimes on different IP blocks. The bigger complication is that we have collaborating labs (at,...

Sorry, not yet. We have a paper deadline coming up shortly and that's been taking up all of my time.

I know, having to actually write about the science is just terrible