51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points / day
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 13th 2008 11:33AM
posted August 13th 2008 11:33AM
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That is obscenely awesome.
i don't want to think about how much that must have cost.
those manys video cards make you excited ?
ahhh those geeks..
from the forum, 80k.
The cards by itself where ~7K
"those manys"?
...
Finally something that can run Cyrsis
I thought all the folding was done through the cpu not the gpu? I run seti@home and my cpu is always running 100%
they have a GPU specific client too thats a lot more powerful than the cpu client. best part ur cpu is mostly free to do your normal stuff while your graphics card keeps working out.
have they started work again on GPU clients?
the last version I remember was for ATi X1900s which are now like $100 but can double folding speeds of the PS3
but after they released they PS3 client they kinda ignored the more promising GPU scene
I'd like to see what the 3870X2 can put up compard to the X1900
Haven't you guys been keeping up with the news?
They released the new Nvidia drivers with PhysX and with that you can grab a hold of the new Folding@home with GPU support for Nvidia Vid 8000 and up cards.. Been running it since yesterday and its going pretty fast. Can complete a work unit in 2 hours on my 8800GTX.
Question is, did he overclock each computer and card? if he hasn't, then he should!
that would probably generate enough heat to burn the sun
It's from overclock.net. The pursuit of performance, of course he would ; ).
So, I'm not big into this sort of extreme computing... but once you have all of these cards, what exactly is the procedure to get them all working as one cohesive unit? Is there a special OS you need to run? And how would they all connect together to run under that OS?
I NEED KNOWLEDGE!
I don't think they are using them all as one system, I don't even think that is possible (maybe a cluster type setup that allows you to control the system with one head unit).
I think it is more like a folding farm with each card(s) in a system running its own OS.
Oh.
...
Not as cool as I hoped.
Yes it is possible. I've tried it but it wasn't easy. For this to work with a game, your network connection would have to be faster than gigabit ethernet.
I wish I knew what folding was....
Read up, bud.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@Home
what an useless way to spend money...
You mean "what A useless way to spend money"
Only use "an" if it's followed by a vowel, or occasionally the letter "H"
Yeah, because helping to better understand of the development of many diseases, including sickle-cell disease (drepanocytosis), Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, mad cow disease, cancer, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, osteogenesis imperfecta, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, and other aggregation-related diseases....is a complete waste of money...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
u is a vowel.
Yes, helping finding cure to diseases is useless.
...and sometimes "Y".
Its retards like you that keep us from advancing as a civilization.
@gordonius, while the general rule is to use 'an' preceding a word that starts with a vowel, that is not _always_ the case. An is actually incorrect in this form.
Who cares anyway?
Ignorance!!!! if you don't know what a project is all about, please atleast google it, before saying something like that
ENGLISH IS STUPID. why not use a for all words? i dont use the n word, it is keeping us from advancing as a civilization. oh nose.
I'd hope you don't use the N word.
@Kris
"An" is used before a "vowel sound". "Hour" starts with an "o" sound, so it is preceded by "an". "Useless" starts with a "y" sound, and even though "y" can be used as a vowel, the normal sound of a "y" is a consonant sound like "your" or "year". Therefore, "useless" is preceded by "a", just like "a year".
And no, there are no exceptions to this rule. A/An is not determined by letters, it is determined by sounds. It is easier to say "an octopus" than it is to say "a octopus", because when saying the latter, you are making two different back to back vowel sounds.
'an' and 'a' are used to propagate fluidity in a sentence structure. while most words that start with a vowel should have 'an' before it, some do not. you need to listen to the sound of the word.
for example, 'honorable' starts with an H but the H is silent (at least in america). thus, someone in the military would receive "an honorable dischage."
anyways, i'm not big about folding, but this is for a selfless cause. any other individual spending that amount of money on computer parts would probably be building the most elite gaming machine, as opposed to the most elite cancer-research assistant.
It's not so much a vowel that indicates the use of "an" so much as a vowel *sound*.
therefore, words like "usable" or "euphemism" are preceded by the article "a" while words like "honorable" use "an".
nice ! the gpu client is already ahead of the ps3 cell in terms of TFLOPS despite there being like four times more ps3s out there. the new nvidia client is decent too, started folding yesterday with it. it seems to crash on me sometimes though, incase i have it fold at 100% cpu usage, anyone else get that ? im keeping it at 80% and below till i figure this one out.
KABOOM
Yeah, but can it play Crysis on High Settings?
/beat dead horse
Doubt it
I LOL'ed. Keep up the good work, pal.
If that icon is of you, aren't you too old for Crysis jokes? Because I don't know a lot of 9 year olds with beards. Except for this one kid in 4th grade who had a beard. He could have been 10 though. True story.
Either way, Jesus Christ, man. Awful.
If you were going for the ex-Zune fanatic look in your avatar, you got it.
I showed this to a co-worker and he said, "How does it fold??"
rofl
That sounds a lot like my mom...
I know what your mom sounds like.
The correct useage would be, uh: "But does it fold?"
The cuda folding client has been available for like the last 2 months.
What's the power consumption for the whole rig?
1.21 Jigga watts.
100 bucks per hour!