NVIDIA GPU F@H Client Test Results

Crossfire · Jul 5, 2008

I'm sure their servers are really stressed due to all the GPU WUs being sent in/downloaded.

aircool · Jul 6, 2008

Crossfire said: ↑

I'm sure their servers are really stressed due to all the GPU WUs being sent in/downloaded.
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Or have just ran out of work, which is what seems to be happening now.

greaterthenjake · Jul 6, 2008

Apparently we produce work faster than they can keep up not a bad thing. I hope it means more rapid development of this client for GPU users.

vini · Jul 10, 2008

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I agree........get this.

The information being processed in these packages could be for anything at all. Surely just because your client shows you a spinning bunch of mollecules, that means you simply must be crunching cancer cures yeah?

Say some defence contractor need some serious crunching power for their own benefit. They could enlist stanford with a bung, and have them send out packets to all the folders in the world. BANG.....£3,000,000 worth of supercomputer use for free

All they have to do is dangle a dream of finding cancer cures and everyone with an ounce of sympathy joins in and devotes cpu cycles.

Kinda coincidental they use the worlds biggest killer which has touched virtually every household on earth (yes those with pc's) as a mask for what they're really getting people to crunch. I mean who hasn't got/had a relative with cancer?
Say you fold 12hrs a day, 300days a year......thats gonna add a fair amount to your electric bill over the 300days. Would you be so happy to donate the same amount of money to finding cancer cures? If everyday when you went to work/school there was a bunch of people standing at the entrance asking you for 50p/$1 would you gladly give them it.....everyday? Then after 6years of giving you still saw NO benefit from it and got cancer and died how would you feel about the stanford group on your deathbed?
I mean Marrie Curie didn't need 10,000,000 folders worldwide with massive amounts of computing power to help her in her discoveries did she? Now we've got all these super clever people at stanford and they provide nothing but distributed computing programs And if they didn't have that they'd be stuffed good and proper for finding cures since they work so slowly.
Makes no sense to me, but then I ain't at stanford

I mean....can anyone name a single disease which doctors (or anyone for that matter) have found a cure for in the last 30years? I ain't talking about a pill that helps to keep the symptoms of a disease at bay.....I mean a cure which actually completely erradicates any disease or virus?

Just a thought
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This is the whole thing with scientific research (I mean, research mainly done in academic labs)...you need to motivate people, to make them understand what we (I'm indeed doing research in biology) are doing, and that results are not directly affecting public health...What I can tell you is that we need more and more insights into molecular structures and folding is one way to do it. Also, what would you say about all money wasted in military research, etc... anyway, this forum is maybe not the place to discuss that. take care

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