beej1863
March 24th, 2009, 9:20 pm
Any teams for Folding at Home for the board here? Or any other conservative group?
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Dem
March 24th, 2009, 10:34 pm
I haven't done any of these grid computing things since my last PC rebuild about two years ago. I guess I should start again, for the good of Science!
I used to do the SETI one, and one for a physics experiment. Can't remember the name of it.
beej1863
March 28th, 2009, 3:25 pm
The distributed computing networks are now designing their number crunching software to use video cards, because a video card is like a "640 Core" cpu. I think the 3d mapping program for the milkyWay ran out of information for people to crunch and are frequently late getting new units available because the video cards took a one hour unit to one minute - remember, a modern video card is like having hundreds (depending on model) of parallel processors. However, some mathematical routines are extremely complicated and are faster on a CPU than a video card, but it seems most mathematical routines are faster on a GPU. Some people build entire computers with 4-7 video cards on the motherboard just for folding at home. I just built a new computer and in a month or so I might buy a really cheap fanless video card to use just for Folding at Home.
Anyway - the folding at home place is nice- canwatch your 3d protein on screen too. I haven't got my video card involved yet. Right now, just running a client for each of my cpu's 2 cores. My cores are at 100%, fan is just up a few rpm, and no overheating at all. (e5200 Dual Core [core 2 duo])
They keep track of teams, teams even have their own min-member site. A "Team Hannity" might be nice. Or even a "Hannity.com Forum" team for everyone that uses th forum. Instead of internet arguments, at least work for science while using the forum.