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Everyone come and join up on MMORPG.com's Folding@Home

Download here: folding.stanford.edu/download.html

When you download, type in your name and use the Team number: 80427

This is MMORPG.com's Team Number, Make sure you use this number!

Please do this! We can all help!

 What this does is it takes all your excess CPU power (NOTE: It does not slow down your computer AT ALL, it takes what ever isnt being used, trust me, does not slow down at all). With this extra CPU power it does equations for Standford University and helps solves diseases such as Cancer, or does research on important things like nanotubes.

Originally posted by xpyrofuryx

Everyone come and join up on MMORPG.com's Folding@Home

 

Download here: folding.stanford.edu/download.html

 

When you download, type in your name and use the Team number: 80427

This is MMORPG.com's official Team Number

 

Please do this! We can all help!

 What this does is it takes all your excess CPU power (NOTE: It does not slow down your computer AT ALL, it takes what ever isnt being used, trust me, does not slow down at all). With this extra CPU power it does equations for Standford University and helps solves diseases such as Cancer, or does research on important things like nanotubes.

 

I request this as a sticky

Question: what is the difference between the graphical client and the GPU client? Am I right in assuming one uses cpu based cycles and one uses gpu based?

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by xpyrofuryx

I request this as a sticky

Question: what is the difference between the graphical client and the GPU client? Am I right in assuming one uses cpu based cycles and one uses gpu based?

With todays GPU technology like the nVidia 8800 series and the x2900XT cards, the power they output and can handle is great. So what the GPU based one does the same thing but uses the GPU instead of the CPU, much like nVidia is doing with the Tesla. The Tesla is just a 8800 card that has software that turns CPU tasks onto the 8800 GPU and processes them. Each 8800 Tesla output 500GFlops each. And the graphical client is simply a program that uses the CPU that you see the protein being folded. And the text Console type is simply one that you cant see it, but it does the same thing.

Edit: But the version of the GPU are only in Beta right now, and only support ATI Radeon x1600, x1800, x1900, and Firestream series cards.

Alrighty, wanted to make sure I had the basics down.

Program now running.

Originally posted by xpyrofuryx

Originally posted by Zorvan

Originally posted by xpyrofuryx

I request this as a sticky

Question: what is the difference between the graphical client and the GPU client? Am I right in assuming one uses cpu based cycles and one uses gpu based?

With todays GPU technology like the nVidia 8800 series and the x2900XT cards, the power they output and can handle is great. So what the GPU based one does the same thing but uses the GPU instead of the CPU, much like nVidia is doing with the Tesla. The Tesla is just a 8800 card that has software that turns CPU tasks onto the 8800 GPU and processes them. Each 8800 Tesla output 500GFlops each. And the graphical client is simply a program that uses the CPU that you see the protein being folded. And the text Console type is simply one that you cant see it, but it does the same thing.

Edit: But the version of the GPU are only in Beta right now, and only support ATI Radeon x1600, x1800, x1900, and Firestream series cards.

Also I will add that.. even though it seems that GPU are cranking out tonnes of data. The GPU client also feeds the GPUs much simpler calculations (or rather less complex) than the CPU clients.. So while GPUs are extremely fast... They are limited in their contributions

Who votes to sticky this?

I vote to sticky. It's for a good cause, and has no downside as far as I can see from running it.

Alright! its stickied! So come on everyone join in!

done.  I'll take your word for it that it won't slow my computer down, it's already slow enough as is.