ATI GPU folding client to be released OCT 2nd!

[Gizmo]

Since 2000, Folding@Home (FAH) has lead to a major jump in the capabilities of molecular simulation. By joining together hundreds of thousands of PCs throughout the world, calculations which were previously considered impossible have now become routine. FAH has targeted the study of protein folding and protein folding disease, and numerous scientific advances have come from the project.

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Many thanks to Cadaveca for bringing this to our attention!

[cadaveca]

Guesss who's production is going to take a huge jump?

I got x1800xl, x1900crossfire, x1900XTX, and x1950XTX...and all will fold.

Currently short a mobo and some mem, but come next friday...

[dsio]

Just out of interest, how do you feel about running high end GPUs 24/7?

[cadaveca]

It's only money. Watercooled, every one of them, so not as bad as you might think. On air tho...


I'm actually interested to see how long they last. I have a sneaking suspicion that the load given to these cards may be akin to what a proper DX10 load would be, especially running Vista Ultimate, so it needs to be done, regardless, and I'm willing to spend a bit of cash to see what happens, and let others know.

I mean really...wanna test vidcard performance? THIS IS THE WAY.

[dsio]

Air is my major concern. I know that for one thing, GPU coolers are not designed to run constantly, and if you force the fan to operate constantly on a Geforce 6 6800, (I know its not an ATI, but this is talking about the cooler), the fan bearings will fail within a year, I'm on my second cooler now, and its starting to need regular oiling. The NVsilencers, identical to the ATIsilencers also have bearings that wear quickly.

80+++ degrees celcius for extended periods could have an interesting application though. Nice little burn in for a new card.

[Pitch]

Will be interesting how fast they fold.

[keithwalton]

Yup indeedy, i shall be bringing my x1900xt into the fold then it was only ever intendid as an interim until the R600 was avaliable. Also im moving house again at the weekend, the new place has unlimited electricity rates, so i'll be bringing the laptops back online i might even build a cheap box for doing nat like stuff. (Would initially be a celly but i'll move my c2d in there when i get my c2q).

I think i've done a good job at holding off cadaveca for so long you've been right on my tail for the last 4 months or so!

[cadaveca]

lol...yes, you have, however part of that time(8000+ points) one of my rigs was folding under another alias. I'll be passing you mid-end october.

[keithwalton]

It all depends on how much of a boost the ati gpu folding makes. you have alot more gpu's but i'll be bringing 3 more cpu's online (1.4 banias, 1.13 p3m, 2.66 celly) and at least one if not two x300's if they're supported

[cadaveca]

R520++ only, I'm afraid. The R580 is the fastest currently, and i'll have 3, plus 1 R520. I'm up @ 1000ppd ATM, and climbing.

I'll also be adding a few more cores

I guess the race is on!

[Gizmo]

Eeek

I'm only pulling a little over that right now myself. Hmmm.......

[cadaveca]

lol. sry giz, but i think i'm gonna pass you in ppd too!

[Gizmo]

Hmm........
I've got my four big guns still running on WCG at the moment. Since I seem to be about the only one running it, I may have to 'retask' them.

[cadaveca]

Sounds like a plan to me!

[tiamat63]

Well, I got my X1800XT, then I have an X1800GTO my brother uses....

Hoping to snag one of those X1650's with that nice MIR just to see what results it will bring.

Very interesting approach to folding, I was just wondering how long it would have taken too see a GPU used in such calculation, I guess I got my answer.

Dave: got any benchies for us with that X1950??

[cadaveca]

Not yet. I'm just starting to accumulate parts for that rig, but things dying keep putting it off.

[Favu]

I doubt I am the only one hoping for an Nvidia folding solution?

Also @ dsio's mentioning load and temps - could it be done that as with f@h for the CPU you can set a load percentage, and thus keep temps at more reasonable levels?

[tiamat63]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

but things dying keep putting it off.

Hot swap another dongle while running the rig? lol

[cadaveca]

Haven't done THAT yet...becasue my systems are watercooled, it's a bit of a pain to change something.

[tiamat63]

Exactly, which is why I think I'll go air for my next rig.

I've changed cases twice with my setup, and its a pain in the ass.
Between drilling holes and routing tubing, then mounting the pump, radiator, res (I use one now) its alot of work to just switch out something like a GPU or motherboard.