Nvidia Jetson nano super
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 2:47 am
Can folding at home run on the new Nvidia Jetson nano super?
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Is that on the cards at any point?Joe_H wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 3:48 am You could probably run F@h using the ARM version on Linux and do CPU folding. However they have not created an ARM version of the GPU folding cores, so no GPU folding. I don't know how the processing power of the ARM CPU in a Jetson Nano stacks up compared to other ARM processors. It would need to be at least as fast as a Raspberry Pi 4 to be useful.
I haven't heard anything about them being looked at so far. Part would depend on whether they become common in usage. The other part is whether the GPU section would be useful for F@h. My brief look into that is it looks like a cut down Ampere chip from that used in the RTX 3050, but optimized for tensor operations such as used in AI. It still has the vector section which is used by F@h CUDA processing. Against that is the additional programming and testing time to create and support an ARM based GPU folding core. But if these became common enough and powerful enough, then the effort might be considered worthwhile.
That's fair, although I was talking about arm-powered devices in general, not just the jetson. We are seeing more and more SBCs with PCIe, such as m.2 slots, and more arm-powered systems in general. Not that I think we will see them "take over" any time soon, but, they are becoming much more common.Joe_H wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:28 pmI haven't heard anything about them being looked at so far. Part would depend on whether they become common in usage. The other part is whether the GPU section would be useful for F@h. My brief look into that is it looks like a cut down Ampere chip from that used in the RTX 3050, but optimized for tensor operations such as used in AI. It still has the vector section which is used by F@h CUDA processing. Against that is the additional programming and testing time to create and support an ARM based GPU folding core. But if these became common enough and powerful enough, then the effort might be considered worthwhile.