Apparently the insane amount of gigaflops that your modern-day graphics card can churn out is nothing short of a phenomenon, as Folding@home's forefather Vijay Pande has tailored a new piece of software to harness to raw processing power of GPUs.
Pande claimed that even the latest dual-core CPUs can't hold a candle to the floating point performance of ATi's X1900 / X1950 graphics cards. He estimated a Core 2 Duo chip could push about 25 gigaflops of folding power, while a high-end off-the-shelf ATi card could unleash a whopping 375 GFLOPS, which is about "20 to 40 times more speed" than the project has seen thus far.
The team has also optimized the algorithms in the GPU-centric software, which is expected to add "10 to 15 times" more speed on top of the GPU's already impressive performance figures. Currently, the beta version is limited to the X1900 lineup, but plans are to include the X1800 variety in the near future, and Pande even mentioned that a PlayStation 3-friendly version was in the works.
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GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x
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Nvyseal
, Sep 30 2006 12:09 AM
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#1
Posted 30 September 2006 - 12:09 AM
#2
Posted 30 September 2006 - 12:26 AM
good to be red
#3
Posted 30 September 2006 - 03:56 PM
m.oreilly, on Sep 29 2006, 07:26 PM, said:
good to be red
LOL, they didn't mention green because they didn't want to make the ATI people feel bad.
This is great!! I can't wait to see the gpu's get unleashed for folding@home!! Really a awesome idea! Next, they will be making folding@home for cell phones! lol
#4
Posted 30 September 2006 - 04:39 PM
How, it'll keep calling as long as you don't call??
#5
Posted 30 September 2006 - 06:36 PM
Sphere, on Sep 30 2006, 11:39 AM, said:
How, it'll keep calling as long as you don't call??
Well, phones have data communications now, and also micro processors. So, they can go out download a work project, process it and send it back. I don't know, sounds cool to me! Who doesn't have a phone these days.
#6
Posted 01 October 2006 - 04:35 PM
Lol. I like the title header DaveX
I read this weeks ago. Still won't buy one
I read this weeks ago. Still won't buy one
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