Stanford University's Folding@home uses ATI stream computing to squeeze three years worth of disease research

[JonB]

While I am not a "folder" I saw this announcement

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/060929/0167986.html

JonB

 

[Ryan Smith]

Just a heads up, this is why I was here yesterday looking for information. The NDA is up, so I can talk a bit; we will be running a short article later tonight on this, and while they didn't give us the client, the Folding@Home group is claiming a 20-40x speed improvement(which they will be investing in allowing bigger WUs). I'm giving Team AT a pretty hard plug in the article(you guys deserve it), so there will likely be a lot of traffic to this forum once the article goes up. Be prepared.

I'll link to the article once it is up.

 

[Wiz]

Thanks Ryan,

While your here, could you get our "Welcome to the Distributed Computing Forum" thread pinned back up to the top? (or ask whoever does that kind of thing)

I've been pretty excited for years about getting to add GPU crunching to my little herd.
I have one system that should be able do it at the moment, hope it comes soon!

 

[Ryan Smith]

Originally posted by: Wiz
Thanks Ryan,

While your here, could you get our "Welcome to the Distributed Computing Forum" thread pinned back up to the top? (or ask whoever does that kind of thing)

I've been pretty excited for years about getting to add GPU crunching to my little herd.
I have one system that should be able do it at the moment, hope it comes soon!

You'll have to ask the Moderator, editors don't have any power over the forums.

 

[Wiz]

heheheh... that's how we all feel too

 

[Smoke]

Originally posted by: Wiz
Thanks Ryan,

While your here, could you get our "Welcome to the Distributed Computing Forum" thread pinned back up to the top? (or ask whoever does that kind of thing) .....

Name's not Ryan but I'll do the honors.

 

[Golgatha]

Here's the official PR.

http://ir.ati.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=910519&highlight

 

[amdxborg]

Awesome stuff thanx JonB!

And really great news Ryan, I'm looking forward to the arcticle!

 

[lyssword]

so when will I b able to use my vid card for folding?

 

[GLeeM]

Originally posted by: lyssword
so when will I b able to use my vid card for folding?

Here is a quote from here by Vijay Pande:

"We are making a press announcement this morning pacific time, but we will likely only release all the info (updated FAQ, HOWTO, beta code) on Monday Oct 2. Note that the Oct 2 launch is an open beta launch, which means that we are seeking more testers, with the knowledge that the code may not be perfect. We have been extensively testing in house and with a closed alpha release, so it should behave reasonably well."

emphasis (bold) added

I'm looking forward to the article also!

 

[CupCak3]

An ATI X1900XT is capable of processing 500 GFlops at peak. The group behind Folding@Home is also announcing a version that will be able to run on the new Sony PS3 cell processor. While not providing nearly the performance of the X1900 XT at only 220 GFlops, the additional numbers of PS3 users donating thier processor time to Folding@Home could be significant.

I no more wasting my money on upgrading CPUs

 

[narzy]

Originally posted by: Smoke

Originally posted by: Wiz
Thanks Ryan,

While your here, could you get our "Welcome to the Distributed Computing Forum" thread pinned back up to the top? (or ask whoever does that kind of thing) .....

Name's not Ryan but I'll do the honors.

wait? did smoke just come out the mod closet?

very interesting I've been watching that particular piece of news for the last month or so. It's not exactly a 'new' idea, we've discussed it on these forums years ago and the research in to it goes back further than that, this is really the first marketing push we've seen from it however and the amount of progress that can be made utilizing the GPU and DC is staggering. Lets hope that NVIDIA jumps on the bandwagon.

 

[JonB]

I don't really "need" a new video card but I do have a PCI-express slot that could take one. You suppose the CPU could still crunch DPAD while the GPU works on Folding? I'll wait until tomorrow and then check Newegg for temptation.

 

[Dulanic]

Originally posted by: JonB
I don't really "need" a new video card but I do have a PCI-express slot that could take one. You suppose the CPU could still crunch DPAD while the GPU works on Folding? I'll wait until tomorrow and then check Newegg for temptation.

That is my idea, Ill leave my C2D on Rosetta and run the GPU on F@H since I have a ATI X1900XT.

 

[Wiz]

Dulanic, please let us know how that goes. I'm guessing you are in the minority of those having the "right" video card.

Narzy, I think Smoke has a mod's email address - I don't think he _is_ one...

 

[CupCak3]

Originally posted by: Dulanic

Originally posted by: JonB
I don't really "need" a new video card but I do have a PCI-express slot that could take one. You suppose the CPU could still crunch DPAD while the GPU works on Folding? I'll wait until tomorrow and then check Newegg for temptation.

That is my idea, Ill leave my C2D on Rosetta and run the GPU on F@H since I have a ATI X1900XT.

I am having the same thought. I'd like to have my x1900xt run F@H while my x2 or c2d runs rosetta or the flava of the month for TAS