folding & 3870's?

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

are these cards supported?

[Wile E]

I doubt it. I can't even get it to run on my 2900.

[intel igent]

y would you want to use one of those for folding?

[AthlonX2]

maybe because it will fold 3 times faster than any cpu

[intel igent]

well i dont really know what folding is thats y i asked y he wanted that.

i guess folding is more GPU dependant?

[Wile E]

well i dont really know what folding is thats y i asked y he wanted that.

i guess folding is more GPU dependant?No, folding is Folding@Home. It's a distributed processing project for aiding in finding cures to various diseases. It's not that it's gpu dependant, it's just that there are gpu specific versions. It relies heavily on Floating point calculations, which some gpus excel in.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

[Ripper3]

The GPU versions are currently X1x00 series only (even though only the X1900/X1950 series actually runs it well, since the other don't have the same sort of architecture, or, not exactly)
They haven't updated them in ages, they've been in a perpetual Beta status, but wouldbe nice if they were to update them, especially as the 2900 has enough RAM to run Folding@Home completely from memory, along with basically anything else it would need to load. The 8800s would likely be pretty powerful at runnign it too, 128 shaders is nothing to be sniffed at

[Ben Clarke]

Should be soon, if they get a sample. Stanford are almost ready with a new client for the 2x00 series, so hopefully 3xx0 should be soon.

[Ripper3]

Hell, the 3xx0 series would probably be running with the same version of the GPU client as the 2x00 series, they're closely related. If they get samples from each series, they can easily make it compatible with both.

I just hope they do it soon, otherwise interest will wane me thinks, and the extra power from idle 2x00 and 3xx0 cards is plenty to compute nearly everything they need.

[panchoman]

Should be soon, if they get a sample. Stanford are almost ready with a new client for the 2x00 series, so hopefully 3xx0 should be soon.

ditto. stanford's releasing a client for the hd2x series, and the hd3x series will probably supported as well since they are very similiar cores.

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

so does this client also use some of teh cpu or only teh gpu?

[panchoman]

the gpu client uses mainly the gpu, but uses the cpu as well, for me, i've got 2 single core clients and a gpu client, the gpu client uses 100% of the gpu and 50% of the cpu and he 2 single core clients use 25% of the cpu each. the power of the gpu client is like 10x the power of the cpu client so yeah..

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

which one dispenses teh wu's faster?

[panchoman]

http://img.techpowerup.org/071118/Capture016.jpg

ppd= points per day

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

am i right in assuming a 3870 would run thru wu's faster?

[Ben Clarke]

GPU, it has the mst PPD and it has the power of GPU's core/mem behind it.

[panchoman]

_FBi;537270']am i right in assuming a 3870 would run thru wu's faster?

of course, will runs a 1950xtx (i've got a pro @ stock speed) and she gets about 900 something ppd.

and the 3870 would have a lot more of the shaders or whatever the hell the gpu client uses.