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Folding@home GPU2 Beta Released, Examined

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Global Warming! by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

    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)

    1. Re:Global Warming! by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    2. Re:Global Warming! by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    3. Re:Global Warming! by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 4, Funny

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

      Perhaps later. Too tired now. *yawn*.

      --
      "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
    4. Re:Global Warming! by lobiusmoop · · Score: 1, Funny

      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.

      --
      "I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
    5. Re:Global Warming! by ArcherB · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.

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      There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
    6. Re:Global Warming! by Hucko · · Score: 2, Funny

      slow update though....

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      Semi-automatic amateur armchair Australian philosopher; conjecture ready at any moment...
  2. I do the laundry once a week by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Crude statement by relikx · · Score: 2, Funny

    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...

  4. Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? by dvice_null · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes

  5. Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? by dvice_null · · Score: 4, Funny

    No

  6. Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? by cpricejones · · Score: 2, Funny

    I cant wait!

  7. Re:Support for NVIDIA GPUs coming? by cpricejones · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aw shucks