Folding @Home GeForce Client Soon to be released

sardine

Incase anyone misssed this

wahoo!!!!!

http://www.guru3d.com/news/folding-h...o-be-released/

aircool · 05-24-2008, 19:25 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

Yeah saw this yesterday, would love to know how soon it'll be though.

tHe_HyBrId · 05-24-2008, 23:24 | posts: 967 | Location: United Kingdom

I'd love to know too and I think I speak for sardine as well as aircoo; when I say.. happy face

I hope it works with SLi, and well at that.

HyBrId

aircool · 05-25-2008, 16:27 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

Some more info:

It seems that there is currently closed beta testing currently and that in a few weeks open/public beta's should be available.

Source

Supposed supported nvidia GPU's (which appear to be those supporting CUDA).

Some more information:

Legit Reviews

Peezee · 05-25-2008, 22:48 | posts: 2,617 | Location: Denmark

Our GPUs are probably way more powerful than CPUs, so I guess it may allow people to do alot more folding.
Bad thing will probably be that you won't be able to set priority the same way, and will notice a huge FPS drop... My guess.

greaterthenjake · 06-03-2008, 04:03 | posts: 110

Wondering how this will effect running two clients on quads, and performance of dual core CPU's with the smp client. Once its out if it supports SLI my 8800 gts's will be folding as a pair as well coupled with the quad i should get some decent ppd.

bLinkZor · 06-07-2008, 06:00 | posts: 1,311 | Location: Las Vegas, NV

Wait, I'm confused... isn't Folding @ Home on the PS3??

aircool · 06-07-2008, 11:03 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

Yes and GPU and CPU.

Mannerheim · 06-13-2008, 13:26 | posts: 4,480 | Location: Finland / Helsinki

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Originally Posted by greaterthenjake

Wondering how this will effect running two clients on quads, and performance of dual core CPU's with the smp client. Once its out if it supports SLI my 8800 gts's will be folding as a pair as well coupled with the quad i should get some decent ppd.

ATleast ATI GPU folding this uses 1 CPU core + 70-100% GPU.
So u woud have only 1 core free with 2 cpu + gpu running.

aircool · 06-13-2008, 13:28 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

On a reasonably powerful dual core I reckon you could do SMP and GPU2 combined if you up the process priority one above the SMP core priorities with much of a slow down.

Used to do this with the older GPU1 client on my machine.

Broke 600k today

aircool · 06-13-2008, 16:29 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

Appy polly loggies for double post but Toms Hardware has release an interesting article.

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Santa Clara (CA) - During Nvidia Editor’s Day, we learned that Nvidia and the Folding@Home research group led by Vijay Pande are making final preparation to launch the first version of the Folding@Home client for Nvidia graphics processors.

The unveiling of the client is set for the next week as part of the launch of Nvidia’s GT200 GPU series. Owning such a card will have its benefits in Folding@Home and will outrun Radeon 3870 cards. The new GeForce cards are expected to hit more than 650 nanoseconds of protein simulation in a single day, while the Radeon HD 3870 is stuck at about 170 ns. The Playstation 3 is able to produce "only" 100 ns of simulation, while a quad-core CPU creates an output of just four nanoseconds. For those who are keeping count: The GeForce GPU will be about 163 times faster than a quad-core processor in this specific application.

Nvidia founded Team "Whoopass", which consists only of several computers that are running the Folding@Home GPU client. Even with just 4-5 test machines, the team quickly moved into the top 5% of all contributors by sheer processing power. Dr. Vijay told us that if only 1% of all CUDA-capable users would start using Folding@Home in their spare time, the Folding@Home machine would quickly be considered the fastest performing HPC computer in the whole world - hitting about 60-80 Peta FLOPS of processing power.

Folding@Home for Nvidia CUDA-capable graphics cards (GeForce 8 and above) should become available next week. The codename for this client is GPU2/NVIDIA. The GPU1 client was retired, while GPU2 client will continue to be updated for both Nvidia and ATI cards.

ATI was first with a client for the Folding@Home project, which was released back in September of 2006 for the X1900 series of cards. Back then, the cards topped out at 375 GFlops. The next GPU generation should provide more than double the horsepower.

Source

Sounds speedy

kirk121 · 06-13-2008, 19:54 | posts: 20 | Location: Denver, CO

The unveiling of the client is set for the next week as part of the launch of Nvidia’s GT200 GPU series.

I hope that it is true, I cant wait. I have been dreaming of a time where I can finally use my 8800GTS video cards to do some folding, if this is true next week will be a good day to Fold

Gaboou · 06-13-2008, 22:37 | posts: 201 | Location: Bonn

Woah! This made me feel all warm and fuzzy!

Finally gonna stop downclocking my SLIed 8800GTXes when not playing anything and put them to some useful cause! Although I am also worried about the raising temps and power consumption/PSU stressing (max Quad CPU and 2xGPUs simultaneously...) at the same time...

morbias · **Memory**: 6GB HyperX @1600 6-7-6-18

Will this definitely run on an sli setup?

Damn, this is going to kill my UPS lol

aircool · 06-14-2008, 15:03 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

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Originally Posted by morbias

Will this definitely run on an sli setup?

Damn, this is going to kill my UPS lol

Quote:

What about multi-gpu support?

We hope to have multi-gpu support in the future.

Source

Not yet then, I imagine it'll be supported after the first beta client (similar to the first ATI release) - dont quote me on it though.

morbias · **Memory**: 6GB HyperX @1600 6-7-6-18

Oh well, better than nothing

Though I'm not sure the electricity bill will agree

aircool · 06-17-2008, 20:18 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3186

Released, aparently.

Anarion · *Last edited by Anarion; 06-17-2008 at 21:02.*

Works like a charm!

BlackZero · 06-17-2008, 22:15 | posts: 8,078 | Location: United Kingdom

Nice, downloading now.

aircool · 06-17-2008, 22:27 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

So far so good here, if on vista 64bit you should look at the 177.35 drivers.

I get 3400PPD out of it (thats 2000iteration per second on WU #5001).

Will be testing out GPU2 and twin SMP clients now.

Wish me luck

greaterthenjake · 06-17-2008, 22:59 | posts: 110

In the viewer all i see is Core is not running now, where user name and team are? anyone else have this going on.

aircool · 06-17-2008, 23:02 | posts: 13,426 | Location: Devon, In A Little Town.

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Originally Posted by greaterthenjake

In the viewer all i see is Core is not running now, where user name and team are? anyone else have this going on.

Make sure you have the client setup and also make sure your using the right drivers to match it (I had the same problem with the wrong drivers).

Here are the drivers for vista 64bit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?z3jzo5m9mnj

greaterthenjake · 06-17-2008, 23:36 | posts: 110

Doing the same as you aircool the gpu client and my q6600 doing two. just a warning guys check your temps... this client is pushing my card lol i havent hit 73C on a card gaming ever. But fahmon is reporting 4223 ppd on project 5001.

mlmiller · 06-18-2008, 01:24 | posts: 62 | Location: Sacramento California

The new GPU must do SLI, because my single 8800gts320 is returning 2350ppd from project 5001.

greaterthenjake · 06-18-2008, 01:41 | posts: 110

My 8800gts is turning in 4456 on project 5002 and mlmiller what are the clocks on your card?