Folding@Home with your PS3 and ATI cards
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Folding@Home with your PS3 and ATI cards
Some "Press" on this at
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2006A ... 038246.htm
From Stanford;
ATI info: http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html
PS3 info: http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html
I've been shopping for a new video card. In the past ATI cards have given me a lot of grief with their drivers. I have steered clear of them. With the AMD take over and folding possiblies, I may have to give them another shot.
Hmmm.... a dual core opty and an ATI card, I wonder if I will be folding 3 WUs at a time or just 2?
Has anyone here run any of the beta cores on either of these projects?
It looks like these video cards are going to do some serious folding. I laughed when I first heard someone ask about folding with a video card.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2006A ... 038246.htm
From Stanford;
ATI info: http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html
PS3 info: http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html
I've been shopping for a new video card. In the past ATI cards have given me a lot of grief with their drivers. I have steered clear of them. With the AMD take over and folding possiblies, I may have to give them another shot.
Hmmm.... a dual core opty and an ATI card, I wonder if I will be folding 3 WUs at a time or just 2?
Has anyone here run any of the beta cores on either of these projects?
It looks like these video cards are going to do some serious folding. I laughed when I first heard someone ask about folding with a video card.
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The first thing that hit me was that this is a great way to make absolutely certain your GPU cooling solution works. You can load up the GPU to 100% while NOT in a game, and thus you can be monitoring it with your favorite diagnostic tools in windows to make sure you're not overheating, or even fine tune your GPU fanspeed with a FanMate to tune your GPU temp to whatever your target temperature is, and maybe have CPUBurn going at the same time to simulate a worst-case scenario for gaming and power supply load. So.... even just from a benchmarking standpoint, it's kind of exciting to me but it's too bad nvidia wouldn't play nice and work with them to make it work on their GPU's too. There's a huge installed base of 6x and 7x nvidia cards out there for sure.pixel_pimp wrote:Running FAH on CPU and GPU - surely that's going to result in rather a toasty PC?
I usually use this program to tax my gpu when I want to measure heat.AZBrandon wrote:The first thing that hit me was that this is a great way to make absolutely certain your GPU cooling solution works. You can load up the GPU to 100% while NOT in a game, and thus you can be monitoring it with your favorite diagnostic tools in windows to make sure you're not overheating, or even fine tune your GPU fanspeed with a FanMate to tune your GPU temp to whatever your target temperature is, and maybe have CPUBurn going at the same time to simulate a worst-case scenario for gaming and power supply load. So.... even just from a benchmarking standpoint, it's kind of exciting to me but it's too bad nvidia wouldn't play nice and work with them to make it work on their GPU's too. There's a huge installed base of 6x and 7x nvidia cards out there for sure.pixel_pimp wrote:Running FAH on CPU and GPU - surely that's going to result in rather a toasty PC?
http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/
You can run it under windows in a window and still monitor the heat of your system (beats swapping out of WoW really really fast =).
Wow! Sure enough, that works great! That tops out my 7800GT at the highest peak temp I ever see in Battlefield 2, and holds it there at peak. That's a great tool, thanks!!bsdie wrote:I usually use this program to tax my gpu when I want to measure heat.
http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/
You can run it under windows in a window and still monitor the heat of your system (beats swapping out of WoW really really fast =).
Supports only X1900 cards ATM. Something tells me that SPCR is going to drop in the ranking...
I just read the Anandtech article and was thinking just the same. If they really can get 20 - 40x performance out of GPU as a CPU then it's all about how many high power video cards your team's got. Not something thats over-common on SPCR due the problems of cooling the things quietly, just doesn't fit in with out ethos.Something tells me that SPCR is going to drop in the ranking...
Still I will keep folding as best I can, currently around 1000-1500 points/day, maybe a few more machines at work need to fold, those core duo laptops running 2 at a time could be good....
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The information till now says nothing about the scoring system or the types of WU's used. Only that the raw computing power is 20x to 40x as big.
Maybe we'll see a new class of WU's on monday with a bigger number of amino acids.
They have to give people with these speed monsters some benefit, but if they use a factor of 40 in the scoring, then they are going to loose a lot of small time donators. It is the question if the speed monsters can compensate for it.
Maybe we'll see a new class of WU's on monday with a bigger number of amino acids.
They have to give people with these speed monsters some benefit, but if they use a factor of 40 in the scoring, then they are going to loose a lot of small time donators. It is the question if the speed monsters can compensate for it.
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in beta, 660 points per day for folding on ati x1900xt
There is a discussion of points in the Folding@Home ATI GPU FAQ http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html
The description of points is a bit confusing, but it seems that for their standard benchmark CPU they give 110 PPD, for folding on the ATI they give 440PPD, and during the beta they actually are awarding 660 PPD on an ATI X1900XT.
They seem to be keenly aware of how difficult it will be to make everyone happy with the new points scale, but they intend to figure out what is most fair.
The description of points is a bit confusing, but it seems that for their standard benchmark CPU they give 110 PPD, for folding on the ATI they give 440PPD, and during the beta they actually are awarding 660 PPD on an ATI X1900XT.
They seem to be keenly aware of how difficult it will be to make everyone happy with the new points scale, but they intend to figure out what is most fair.
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unregistered wrote:Uh OH! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121031
Taking bets the card listed here will sound like a jet at takeoff.Just like you need two clients running to use both cores, you'll need a third client running to use the graphics processor.
HIS fanless 1650Pro!
IIRC the GPU doesn't use as much power when it's Folding, maybe 80W or so. That is comparable to an overclocked C2D/X2, and it's many times more productive than CPU folding from what I have read.aristide1 wrote:I wonder how cost effect GPU folding will be. The 19xx video cards require a lot of power. Yuck.
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I was planning on building a 2nd pc (3800+ X2) just for folding, but I'll spend the money on a X1900 card instead.jaganath wrote:IIRC the GPU doesn't use as much power when it's Folding, maybe 80W or so. That is comparable to an overclocked C2D/X2, and it's many times more productive than CPU folding from what I have read.aristide1 wrote:I wonder how cost effect GPU folding will be. The 19xx video cards require a lot of power. Yuck.
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Egads people, I have an ATI 1950GT running and went to get the 7.2 drivers. I managed to get them installed from ATI's web site (Sapphire doesn't seem to offer any drivers). But when I display driver info I don't see "7.2" mentioned anywhere, but I did see 6.14.
But now Vista gets a BSOD upon shut down. The screen flashes by so quickly one could never hope to read it. AND because of that it immediately reboots.
Am I going to run a GPU fold WU on one of their beta versions? No.
Hopefully things will get better, but for now -->
But now Vista gets a BSOD upon shut down. The screen flashes by so quickly one could never hope to read it. AND because of that it immediately reboots.
Am I going to run a GPU fold WU on one of their beta versions? No.
Hopefully things will get better, but for now -->