Folding@Home Releases GPU Client

SB_SamuraiSam writes, "Today the Folding@Home Group at Stanford University released a client (download here) that allows participants to fold on their ATI 19xx series R580-core graphics cards. AnandTech reports, 'With help from ATI, the Folding@Home team has created a version of their client that can utilize ATI's X19xx GPUs with very impressive results. While we do not have the client in our hands quite yet, as it will not be released until Monday, the Folding@Home team is saying that the GPU-accelerated client is 20 to 40 times faster than their clients just using the CPU.'"

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Gomputers get ruined and Pande gets all the glory

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Pande stole the idea from Seti
2) Why should our computers get ruined for him to get the Nobel Prize or something?
3) Let him apply for grants from NIH or NSF and use the money to build chusters for his computations like everybody else.
4) Stealing computer cycles from you and me, this is not nice. We paid hard cash for our computers, we bought them for ourselves, not for some other scientists.
5) Charity is for poor people, not for scientists.
6) I will NEVER EVER run folding on my computers (maybe SETI, they came up with the idea and deserve credit and some help).