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Impressive GPU Numbers From Folding@Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-fast dept.

ludd1t3 writes, "The Folding@Home project has put forth some impressive performance numbers with the GPU client that's designed to work with the ATI X1900. According to the client statistics, there are 448 registered GPUs that produce 29 TFLOPS. Those 448 GPUs outperform the combined 25,050 CPUs registered by the Linux and Mac OS clients. Ouch! Are ASICs really that much better than general-purpose circuits? If so, does that mean that IBM was right all along with their AS/400, iSeries product which makes heavy use of ASICs?"

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  1. Are ASICs really that much better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are ASICs really that much better than general-purpose circuits?

    Generally ASICs are much better than general-purpose circuits except in general cases.

  2. Re:So obvious... by Iron+Condor · · Score: 5, Funny

    ASCII silly question, get a silly ANSI.

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  3. Distributed amongst home users by Skevin · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, will someone please create a really pretty 3D screensaver representing the folding calculation process? I'd love to see a represention with hi-res lighting and texturing, full transforms, and user-scalable views at 400 million triangles/sec.. Thanks.

    Solomon

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    1. Re:Distributed amongst home users by holysin · · Score: 3, Funny

      There is this lovely feature called a power button. There's also this really handy feature on most tvs since the mid-late 90s called multiple inputs.

  4. Re:So obvious... by Jesus_666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    UTF are you talking about? I'm quite sure the mods are not latin-1 post like this go unmoderated.

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