folding on GPU's?

Skree · 20 Sep 2007 at 05:19

Hmm.. looking through another thread, it seems one can fold on a GPU. Now i do remember back in the day there was talks about doing seti1 on a graphics card.. This would have been good.

Can this be done, and how good would current low-mid range cards be at it? Could i use, say, my Geforce4 ti4200 card to do this when it becomes a server GPU and therefore doesnt need it's power anymore? anyone got any ideas how good it'd be?

always had an interest in using graphics cards for extra processing power...

Cob · 20 Sep 2007 at 06:41

It can be done. But only on the ATi 19xx range. Plus you need a spare CPU core to run with it.

SiriusB · 20 Sep 2007 at 10:22

Are the new X2900s supported?

rich99million · 20 Sep 2007 at 11:43

SiriusB said:
Are the new X2900s supported?

No not currently - though it is top of the GPU development list

Also...

New team for GPU core work

With V Vishal leaving (now known as Dr. Vishal), we've brought on new people to work on GPU core work. In particular, we have two of our strongest programmers working in this area: Mark Friedrichs and Adam Beberg. Mark is working on the Chemistry side of the code (making sure the science works) and Adam is working more on the infrastructure side (making sure all the GPU craziness works -- GPU's are not like CPU's to code and involve a lot more complexity). In particular, the recent PS3 upgrades (Generalized Born implicit solvent or "GB") will be ported over to the GPU core and we'll soon be doing on the GPU's what's working so well on the PS3 (more on GB on the PS3 later).