Folding@Home Releases GPU Client

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 2, 2006 @10:01AM from the call-or-fold dept.

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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Re:Folding@home versus Grid.org by P3NIS_CLEAVER · 2006-10-02 10:23 · Score: 5, Funny

I agree. We should stop all science not having a direct impact on cancer until cancer is cured.

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Re:Power usage? by merreborn · 2006-10-02 10:37 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't imagine running a gpu at 100% and cpu at 100% for hours on end.

Clearly, you're not one of the millions with an active WoW subscription.
Re:Power usage? by piquadratCH · 2006-10-02 10:49 · Score: 5, Informative

The german newsticker heise.de cites 80 watts for a X1900 card while folding.