Posted on 02/27/2011 9:12:18 AM PST by texas booster
The latest GPU3 client is now on our high performance client download page. This new client improves GPU identification and has several other minor improvements.
For those who are unfamiliar with the other FAH clients: there are several types of high performance clients. SMP refers to multi-core CPUs. GPU3 refers to the latest generation Folding@home GPU client. Currently, GPU3 is only available for NVIDIA GPUs, but we are working on a GPU3 release for ATI. For NVIDIA GPUs, we recommend GPU3. For ATI, we suggest GPU2 until GPU3 has passed through its QA testing (going on now). Finally, the v7 Folding@home client (currently in alpha testing) has these functions (SMP and GPU) built in and will not require a special client.
The changes to this version of the client include the addition of a -forcegpu flag ='nvidia_g80_1.0' ; this flag will signal a compute capability of 1.0 (GPU species=10); if the flag ''nvidia_g80' is used the compute capability will be reported as 1.1 (GPU species=11). Also a pop-up dialog box now appears reporting an error, if the -forcegpu flag is unrecognized; the client then exits.
Please read on if you are interested, or if you wish to restart folding for the Free Republic Folders 36120!
Ping to the FReeper F@H ping list!
How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.
Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.
How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired user-name.
2.) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic!
3.) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.
How can my computer help? Even if they were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Stanford still wouldn't have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people's desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.
There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.
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Any successes so far with this thing?
This new GPU folder also works on my NVidia Quadro chipset n my laptop, adding another 2,000 ppd.
If you have never folded please ping me and I will help get you started.
We can now fol on CPU, GPU and PS3 stations, in Win XP/V/7, Linux, OS 10.x and Sony OS.
While keeping score is fun, finding a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and other diseases is why we do it.
Thanks for this, TB. When I got a new computer some time back, it wouldn’t support the folding software, so I had to let it lapse. This version appears to work, so I can rejoin FR’s efforts!
You wonder if they would get more participants if they wrote their news release in English.
BTTT
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science
No full out cure yet, but this effort is starting to make way for multiple new research lines, both at Stanford and elsewhere.
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers
Their codes are distributed to multiple other distributed computing efforts to improve the science behind the effort.
We used to be able to open a GUI window to watch the folding - is that still available?
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
Cool, I used this a while back, will try to get set back up.
I found it!
For new folders, please use you FReepname so we can keep track and help out when needed.
(Wifey says “NO! No difference.”)
Remember, team number is 36120!
Team 36120 and your FReepname.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=48083
Dummy Underground folding stats:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=48157
After (literally) years of boasting, neither team has even come close to Free Republic folding.
The early years were great fun, as they boasted of their folding prowess. Never could come close !!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=11324
Long live the Queen!
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