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wow, that's really powerful stuff, I wonder if it will ever become available for Macs

Last edited by kamizuno (2007-03-27 12:29 am)

I'm a bit surprised to not see even one comment on this. GPU2 will be available via Boot Camp if not otherwise, using the ATi API opens the door to clients on other OSes, and it runs on anything from last Summer's 2400XT on up. Also

Dr. Vijay Pande was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about this new client and the Folding@home project. Dr. Pande is a Chemistry professor at Stanford and a Structural Biology professor at Stanford Medical School, and is the Director of the Folding@home project.

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ET: Finally, with all the flavors of clients out there, if you personally could only run one of them yourself, knowing all the differences in performance and the types of calculations going on, which would you run?

Dr. Pande: That's a tough question, like asking which of your children you love best. With that said, a few months ago I'd say SMP (and that's what my laptop runs). In a few months, I bet it will be GPU2 (we're in a weird middle phase right now). Although, at home I run the PS3 client so my kids can see what proteins are and FAH can get some powerful processing power.

Link, page 3.

You now kan haz a decently-priced hot-rock at this kind of thing that also excels at things like Core Image. $219 USD.

CORE IMAGE SAVIOR:
Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition

A collective howl went up in the Mac Pro User community when the optional GeForce 8800 GT performed Core Image intensive tasks slower than the stock Radeon HD 2600 XT. "I paid $300 to go slower?" The release of Mac OS X 10.5.3 did improve the GeForce 8800's performance but only to bring it up even to the Core Image performance of the Radeon 2600.

But on June 12th, ATI announced their Core Image "savior": The Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition. It is compatible with ALL models of Mac Pro and costs only $219. In this initial report, we demonstrate the Core Image performance compared to the alternatives on both the "Harpertown" and "Clovertown" versions of the Mac Pro.

http://www.barefeats.com/harper16.html

I haven't heard any, but there is a CUDA dev kit for OSX. That's promising.

Nefarious wrote:

Onanum is definitely cranking.    At the moment, Onanum is within a hair of besting Artemis.   Given that Otsep is on a steep decline, this could mean that Onanum would be the daily champ ? ! ? ! ?

Onanum's current numbers appear to be 10,500 per day : http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ … p;u=274569

Otsep is on the decline? the new guy at his old job must be killing off the clients, too bad

Last edited by kamizuno (2008-10-19 8:23 pm)

There seems to be a shortage of work units as my machines are sitting idle for a several hours at a time, this started about a week ago.  Anyone else running the Windoze GPU client seeing this?

NV Folding Q&A@Bjorn3D. A lot of it is pure PR, but there are a few good bits of info, including this odd factoid:

Bjorn3D: It is somewhat of an odd curiosity, but Folders have long noticed that with Windows XP Folding@home requires 100% of a CPU core dedicated for driver overhead. When folding under Vista only a small fraction of a single CPU core is needed for the same driver overhead, yet both operating systems offer comparable folding performance. Can you shed any light on this?

Nvidia: Even though we made a huge splash and have been very impactful to performance, NVIDIA and our GPUs are still very new to Folding@home and we have a lot to learn. We’re constantly optimizing across both platforms, but we can’t say specifically yet how this issue will be addressed.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1416

This also merits a look, about the ATi side and Stream.