Folding@home [V8]....the origami continues.

[Slapnut]

Yea , I've got them all back up and running now. Also scored a UPS for 3 of them - so shouldn't have any more hiccups( I hope )

[powerarmour]

Here's an interesting statistic :-

Despite only making up 12% of all F@H clients, the PS3 makes up 78% of the projects TFLOPS

[syntronyx]

[Turns off heater]
[Turns on F@H]

[j3pflynn]

[impar]

Greetings!

[url=http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13588]Next Folding@Home client to bring new user interface

Stanford University has a few surprises up its sleeve for the next version of its distributed protein folding software, according to a post on the blog of Folding@Home Director and Stanford Professor Vijay Pande. The new software is being demonstrated at the SC07 high-performance computing conference in Reno, Nevada, and it includes a brand new graphical user interface for the GPU and non-GPU versions of the upcoming client.[/url]

[powerarmour]

Looks like the PS3 version (not that that's a bad thing..!).

Still, it's nicer to stick to CLI for a tiny bit more speed if possible.

[syntronyx]

That looks really nice, but I really like the "outofmywayness" the console version provides.

...that it/sec display is pretty cool.

[j3pflynn]

Interesting. From Anandtech's 38xx review:

One of the cool side effects of PowerPlay is that clock speeds are no longer determined by application state. On previous hardware, 3d clock speeds were only enabled when a fullscreen 3D application started. This means that GPU computing software (like folding@home) was only run at 2D clock speeds. Since these programs will no doubt fill the command queue, they will get full performance from the GPU now. This also means that games run in a window will perform better which should be good news to MMO players everywhere.

[syntronyx]

Crap, SMP client stalled out while I wasn't looking... oh well.

[powerarmour]

Crap, SMP client stalled out while I wasn't looking... oh well.

Yeah 'MPI is not working' is my most common Windows SMP fault, but luckily the v6 Linux client seems pretty robust for me so far.