Folding@Home will be using the GPU core.

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28 Sep 2006 19:22:42 UTC
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    http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjE1MjcsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=

    "The new Folding@Home console beta client will be released on October 2nd and the GUI GPU client with real time visualization soon afterwards."

    "This advance utilizes the new, high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers"

    http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html

    Now that Folding@Home has support for the video GPU, when is BOINC going to support GPU's?

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    Folding@Home will be using the GPU core.

    28 Sep 2006 23:52:02 UTC
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      http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjE1MjcsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=

      "The new Folding@Home console beta client will be released on October 2nd and the GUI GPU client with real time visualization soon afterwards."

      "This advance utilizes the new, high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers"

      http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html

      Now that Folding@Home has support for the video GPU, when is BOINC going to support GPU's?

      This has already been discussed over at SETI. You may be interested in This thread.

      [edit] fix url

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      RE: RE: http://www.hardoc

      29 Sep 2006 2:47:18 UTC
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        http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MjE1MjcsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=

        "The new Folding@Home console beta client will be released on October 2nd and the GUI GPU client with real time visualization soon afterwards."

        "This advance utilizes the new, high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers"

        http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html

        Now that Folding@Home has support for the video GPU, when is BOINC going to support GPU's?

        This has already been discussed over at SETI. You may be interested in This thread.

        [edit] fix url

        Ya, but now they're not just talking about it, they're doing it.

        Of course we'll have to see if in reality it will benefit, and by how much.

        Hopefully, if there are benefits, the writers of BOINC will think about using the GPU too.

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        RE: Hopefully, if there

        29 Sep 2006 12:33:27 UTC
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          Hopefully, if there are benefits, the writers of BOINC will think about using the GPU too.

          BOINC has nothing to do with crunching. The projects application does the crunching of WUs. So you need to ask the project developers.

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          RE: RE: Hopefully, if

          29 Sep 2006 13:25:37 UTC
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            Hopefully, if there are benefits, the writers of BOINC will think about using the GPU too.

            BOINC has nothing to do with crunching. The projects application does the crunching of WUs. So you need to ask the project developers.

            My mistake, sorry.

            Then hopefully, if it is successful, other DC projects will think about using the GPU too.

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            RE: RE: Hopefully, if

            29 Sep 2006 18:39:39 UTC
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              Hopefully, if there are benefits, the writers of BOINC will think about using the GPU too.

              BOINC has nothing to do with crunching. The projects application does the crunching of WUs. So you need to ask the project developers.

              if so they may see too us who is using ATI competitor NVidia.

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              I just wonder why noone has

              29 Sep 2006 20:21:27 UTC
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                I just wonder why noone has started producing specialized crunching processors
                would be fun to see the SETI@HOME-PU, E@H-PU and the list of all those DCPUs could go on and on :)

                by DCPU here i mean Distributed Computing Processing Unit

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                RE: I just wonder why noone

                30 Sep 2006 2:08:49 UTC
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                  I just wonder why noone has started producing specialized crunching processors
                  would be fun to see the SETI@HOME-PU, E@H-PU and the list of all those DCPUs could go on and on :)

                  by DCPU here i mean Distributed Computing Processing Unit

                  That would be pretty neat.

                  Here something that I just read about that is built into Vista. It's called ReadyBoost, which allows a USB flash disk, to be used as swap space, as opposed to the hard disk. This runs at 480Mbps as opposed to the 100, 133, 150, etc. of your hard disk. If set up properly, I'd like to see if there is any improvements cruching DC clients.

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                  RE: . Here something that

                  30 Sep 2006 2:53:28 UTC
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                    Here something that I just read about that is built into Vista. It's called ReadyBoost, which allows a USB flash disk, to be used as swap space, as opposed to the hard disk. This runs at 480Mbps as opposed to the 100, 133, 150, etc. of your hard disk. If set up properly, I'd like to see if there is any improvements cruching DC clients.


                    But most applications are CPU bound. I don't think they need much swap space.
                    Tullio

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                    http://www.theinquirer.net/de

                    1 Oct 2006 18:12:07 UTC
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                      http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34783

                      Here's more info.

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                      RE: RE: I just wonder why

                      1 Oct 2006 19:57:38 UTC
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                        I just wonder why noone has started producing specialized crunching processors
                        would be fun to see the SETI@HOME-PU, E@H-PU and the list of all those DCPUs could go on and on :)

                        by DCPU here i mean Distributed Computing Processing Unit

                        That would be pretty neat.

                        Here something that I just read about that is built into Vista. It's called ReadyBoost, which allows a USB flash disk, to be used as swap space, as opposed to the hard disk. This runs at 480Mbps as opposed to the 100, 133, 150, etc. of your hard disk. If set up properly, I'd like to see if there is any improvements cruching DC clients.

                        Heyho :)
                        at first, USB 2.0 is only 480 MBIT/s and not MBYTE/s, so you only have max. 60 MByte/s over USB 2.0.
                        E-IDE and SATA/II have 100,133,150,300 MBYTE/s, so this interfaces are much faster than USB 2.0.
                        Furthermore ist also important how fast the data storage really is.
                        Normal HDDs make about 50-60 MByte/s, that fastest USB Sticks make max. 20 Mbyte/s.
                        So it wouldn't be a good idee to swap to USB 2.0

                        greets

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