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thats pretty groovy!!! but errr... after reading some of those posts that followed all those pictures, i still couldn't find what the point of having all those GPUS was for? whats he doing thats needing all that stuff? drivers will only support quad sli anyway....
"thats pretty groovy!!! but errr... after reading some of those posts that followed all those pictures, i still couldn't find what the point of having all those GPUS was for? whats he doing thats needing all that stuff? drivers will only support quad sli anyway...."
Penis size = number of GPUs squared
Hes doing that folding at home thing, similar to what ps3s can do, but on a much larger scale.
Folding@home (sometimes abbreviated as FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing (DC) project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD). It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness,[1] and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects.[2] The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."[3]
Yeah I was going to say I thought I had seen this folding@home thing on my PS3`s startup screen, It`s cool how they are using this technology to fight cancer.
after seeing all this though, it doesn't really explain why he needs 50 GPUs.... in order to make all these technical calculations and stuff, i would have thought it would be CPU's you would need along with memory, not display adapters (GPUs)...
"after seeing all this though, it doesn't really explain why he needs 50 GPUs.... in order to make all these technical calculations and stuff, i would have thought it would be CPU's you would need along with memory, not display adapters (GPUs)... "
The GPU is actually more powerful at folding than a CPU. I think this guy originally had a quad-core farm.
the wouldn't supprise me... GPUs are so powerfull these days, wouldn't supprise me at all if they surpass CPUs at all... just didn't think in a situation like this GPU would be better
read somewhere, that, the 8800 series cards have already surpassed the power of the cel cpu in the PS3...
Well, the main reason why you would want GPU:s is that the simulation of protein folding is essentially a 3D-simulation. Thats what those cards are made for.
Haha I actually was thinking what a awesome commercial, trying to make lives longer and help out the sick. Then it just comes out of nowhere "But hey, lets use it for games!"
Crazy. I do Folding @ Home, but I'm curious - is there any evidence or proof that what we do with it means or does anything? I've only ever read accounts on forums like on GB.
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