Any difference between Ubuntu Edgy 64-bit and 32-bit?

[NaOH]

??? Looking to switch if the software is there. I'm looking to try out that new Folding@Home SMP version.

 

[greylica]

Actually folding@Home acts the same way in 32 and 64 bit systems in terms of helping. The standards are 32 bit calculations. The hardware and the software of Linux 64 Bit Systems act like an 32 bit anyway.
What will really help is when you Buy an Nvidia 8800 with Phisics enabled processors, they will do the same thing as your processor, but with lower overheads causing better performances even with lower clocks.
Common desktop processors are not equal Cell SPEs or phisics processors, they have to work with kernel overheads all of the time to secure redundancy of the system components and the threads you get to them.
In the case of common processors, the FPU at higher clocks speeds help more, Pentium 4 benefits the process.
Helping folding@home can be done in two ways:
Higher clock speed processors or
Lower overhead/latency to calculate/More cores

 

[Nothinman]

The hardware and the software of Linux 64 Bit Systems act like an 32 bit anyway.

That statement doesn't make any sense, if you install a 64-bit system it acts like and presents itself as a 64-bit system.

 

[Tarrant64]

What will really help is when you Buy an Nvidia 8800 with Phisics enabled processors, they will do the same thing as your processor, but with lower overheads causing better performances even with lower clocks.

I probably missed something, but why would you run out and buy an Nvidia 8800 for folding at home?

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
I probably missed something, but why would you run out and buy an Nvidia 8800 for folding at home?

A closer look at Folding@home on the GPU

NVidia 8800 Capable of Folding

I didn't know about it, either.

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger

Originally posted by: Tarrant64
I probably missed something, but why would you run out and buy an Nvidia 8800 for folding at home?

A closer look at Folding@home on the GPU

NVidia 8800 Capable of Folding

I didn't know about it, either.

That's actually pretty cool.