Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined

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Posted by Zonk on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @04:35PM from the nice-to-give-my-console-a-hobby dept.

ThinSkin writes "Stanford has recently released an update to their Folding@home GPU-accelerated client, which includes notable upgrades such as support for more current Radeon graphics cards and even a visualizer to see what's going on. ExtremeTech takes a good look at the new Folding@home GPU2 client and interviews Director Dr. Vijay Pande about the project. To the uninitiated, Folding@home is a distributed computing project in which hundreds of thousands of PCs and PS3s devote a portion of their computing power to crunch chunks of biological data. The goal is 'to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases.'"

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Global Warming! (Score:5, Funny)

by dreamchaser ( 49529 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @04:39PM (#23095408) Homepage Journal

Just think of all the global warming caused by all those CPU's and GPU's cranking away day and night! And all that electricity used! The horror! They are making Al Gore cry!

(I am joking, for those of you who are humor impaired)

I do the laundry once a week (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @04:41PM (#23095414)

I've been doing Folding @ Home for most of my adult life. I fold shirts, pants, underwear, etc. etc.

Re:Global Warming! (Score:5, Funny)

by JeanBaptiste ( 537955 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @04:44PM (#23095456)

you should start a StopGlobalWarming@Home project, where spare CPU cycles go towards global warming research.

Re:Global Warming! (Score:5, Funny)

by dreamchaser ( 49529 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @04:47PM (#23095492) Homepage Journal

Your ideas are relevant to my interests. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Crude statement (Score:2, Funny)

by relikx ( 1266746 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @04:52PM (#23095550)

So let me get this straight, you keep your computer running for long periods of time. The goal is "to understand protein...misfolding"

Sounds like Pornography@home to me...

Re:Global Warming! (Score:5, Funny)

by Dr Caleb ( 121505 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @04:54PM (#23095584) Homepage Journal

" . . read up on "Sleep Mode"."

Perhaps later. Too tired now. *yawn*.

Re:Global Warming! (Score:2, Funny)

by lobiusmoop ( 305328 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @05:01PM (#23095660) Homepage

That's the price we way for trying to see God's face. We're building a modern-day Tower of Babel with our tech in our quest for the singularity.

Re:Global Warming! (Score:3, Funny)

by ArcherB ( 796902 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @05:04PM (#23095682) Journal

This is built into most OSes already, read up on "Sleep Mode".
That's great, but Folding@Home doesn't work too well when the machine is asleep.

Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? (Score:5, Funny)

by dvice_null ( 981029 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @05:06PM (#23095704)

Yes

Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? (Score:5, Funny)

by dvice_null ( 981029 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @05:07PM (#23095712)

No

Re:Global Warming! (Score:3, Funny)

by Hucko ( 998827 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @06:24PM (#23096590)

slow update though....

Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? (Score:2, Funny)

by cpricejones ( 950353 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @07:40PM (#23097702)

I cant wait!

Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? (Score:2, Funny)

by cpricejones ( 950353 ) writes: on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @07:41PM (#23097720)

Aw shucks

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Global Warming! (Score:5, Funny)

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Crude statement (Score:2, Funny)

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Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? (Score:5, Funny)

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