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 1/2/2009 12:19 PM
 
Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)

I ran across this web site while looking for info on the gtx280.  I think everyone should get into this that does folding at home and win free stuff and even those of us that don't, here is the url

 

http://portal.xlr8gaming.net/

 


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 1/2/2009 1:24 PM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)

Is folding@home a boinc project?  I didn't think it was.  If it is, i'll consider it.

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 1/3/2009 6:43 AM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)
 Modified By paul  on 1/3/2009 7:50:23 AM
Jack Shaftoe wrote

Is folding@home a boinc project?  I didn't think it was.  If it is, i'll consider it.


Not that I know of. I don't know why it wasn't ported, it's the second largest DC project around. They do have a rather dedicated following, though. You can't tell me the project wouldn't benefit from the massive amounts of computing power available from BOINC users.

Being involved with a site that had such a following soured me from that project, though. The leaders there would go through any lengths to protect the little clique of FAH users there. So much so that they had a massive split internally several years before our massive split from the site. I don't really want to drag this up again, I only comment about it for my personal reasons why that is the one project I avoid, and to a lesser extent, other folding projects. While certainly a good bet for the type of very real advances in medicine, and the one type that stands above most to real gains in it's field, the fanatical leadership I've been exposed to says no way. I suspect many of our members have long memories also.

trader_1, we have been using CUDA based cards for a while now, I just bought my second 260. We have been thrashing GPUGrid and SETI work for a while, quite a few of us in the team IRC channel. Unfortunately, as Kinguni mentioned several times, none of us post the knowlege here in the forums. We'll have to rectify that. There are mentions of other projects developing CUDA apps, Lattice comes to mind, also.
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 1/3/2009 6:49 PM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)
 Modified By trader1_1  on 1/3/2009 7:54:46 PM

Well I've been away for awhile but now i'm back.  my new laptop system has the cuda drivers installed and i'm crunching away.  I am getting ready to build a new i7 system and doing some video card research i ran across that site.  BTW anyone using the TESLA yet??? if so let me know don't know if i can swing $2000+ just for the add on but it sounds like it will rip through WU with ease and be one heck of a RAC booster.


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 1/3/2009 7:00 PM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)
Just an FYI.  CUda is sorta able to run seti so no need to run F@H heck oyu could even do ps3grid



Truth is after all a moving target Hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit - Getty Lee
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 1/4/2009 7:32 AM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)
I just barely glanced at the Tesla myself. Seemed a bit costly, so I didn't research it much. Bang for the buck is the GTX260, with the newer stepping 55nm gpu core with 216 shaders. We've got a couple people with dual GTX260's in systems, some very impressive numbers
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 1/4/2009 7:26 PM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)
 Modified By Jack Shaftoe  on 1/4/2009 8:31:00 PM

paul wrote
Not that I know of. I don't know why it wasn't ported, it's the second largest DC project around.

A shame.

paul wrote
I just barely glanced at the Tesla myself. Seemed a bit costly, so I didn't research it much. Bang for the buck is the GTX260, with the newer stepping 55nm gpu core with 216 shaders. We've got a couple people with dual GTX260's in systems, some very impressive numbers

Tesla S1070 - not sure if this is what you get for 2 grand.  If it is, seems like GTX 260 is a better way to go.  Also - BOINC is better prepared for it...  Who knows if this thing would work.

 

# of Tesla GPUs 4
# of Streaming Processor Cores 960 (240 per processor)
Frequency of processor cores 1.296 to 1.44 GHz
Single Precision floating point performance (peak) 3.73 to 4.14 TFlops
Double Precision floating point performance (peak) 311 to 345 GFlops
Floating Point Precision IEEE 754 single & double
Total Dedicated Memory 16GB 
Memory Interface 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth 408GB/sec
Max Power Consumption 800 W
System Interface PCIe x16 or x8

 

 

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 1/4/2009 11:36 PM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)
Jack Shaftoe wrote

 

# of Tesla GPUs 4
# of Streaming Processor Cores 960 (240 per processor)
Frequency of processor cores 1.296 to 1.44 GHz
Single Precision floating point performance (peak) 3.73 to 4.14 TFlops
Double Precision floating point performance (peak) 311 to 345 GFlops
Floating Point Precision IEEE 754 single & double
Total Dedicated Memory 16GB 
Memory Interface 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth 408GB/sec
Max Power Consumption 800 W
System Interface PCIe x16 or x8

 

 

 

 

Just look at those computation stats... drool drool... :) did you look at the full systems that have 4 of those in them.  i think with that i could rack up 100k rac a day on that


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 1/5/2009 8:00 AM
 
Re: Free Stuff and Folding  (United States)
trader1_1 wrote

Just look at those computation stats... drool drool... :) did you look at the full systems that have 4 of those in them.  i think with that i could rack up 100k rac a day on that

That is one with 4 in it.  To compare, my GTX 260 has:

# of GPUs 1
# of Streaming Processor Cores 216 
Frequency of processor cores 1.512 GHz
Single Precision floating point performance (peak) ~ 750 GFlops
Total Dedicated Memory 896MB
Memory Interface 448-bit

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