[EasySt]

"It's been a while since we have had a Folding@home thread, and figured that a discussion of supercomputers is a good place to restart."


And you picked a nice article to do so with, too! (Except, perhaps, for its little global warming plug... All those Man Caused Global Warming proponents aren't putting nearly the amount of computing power (or smarts) into their "science" that we're devoting to protein folding with Folding@Home. They need a decent distributed computing project and a goal that isn't driven by redistribution politics, before they can claim any knowledge.)
Thanks for the ping!

It's not a supercomputer, but I've bought all the parts for my new PC... an Intel i7 920 processor that I hope to overclock with a Cooler Master Hyper N520 CPU cooler on an EVGA X58 3X SLI motherboard. I have a pair of GTX285 1GB video boards (with room for a third...), 12 Gigs of 1600Mhz triple channel DDR3 Ram, a pair of WD Caviar Black 1 TB hard drives, a BluRay Rom, and a BluRay/DVD/CD burner. It's all going into an Antec P193 case with a Corsair 1000W power supply, and it will drive a 30" Dell 3008WFP Widescreen and two vertical 24" monitors, one on either side.

I'm still not decided on the OS, but I picked up Vista Ultimate 64 to play with first. I'm in the middle of moving, so don't expect my folding points to madly accelerate just yet... ;-)
Free Republic Folders

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I was able to use an i7 (2.66 gHz) for a month, and I ended up putting on 1 GPU and 7 console versions.

That baby could crunch some numbers! I think that I was averaging 7,000 ppd just from that one system.

I need to start another round of upgrades for my systems. With no i7 price drop coming this summer I might as well get started, with free upgrades to Windows 7.

[David Park]

EasySt, that’s a really nice system you’ve put together. I’ve found the i7 920 can easily hit 3.5-3.6GHz on stock voltage (with a few tweaks), but you have to watch your core temps.