Folding@home Passes 1.5 ExaFLOPS in compute performance

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Karl

2020-03-30 10:03

and almost 430 thousand GPUs, almost all Nvidia.

I would say this is really poor wording lol

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jbscotchman

2020-03-30 10:04

That's really amazing. But unfortunately it did nothing to stop idiots from hoarding toilet paper.

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Jespi

2020-03-30 10:37

326 458 points so far, using Ryzen 7 and RTX 2080, when i realized CPUs aren´t that good i switched it off and compute only with GPU. What i lack is some kind of comparsion. Like 100 000 points = GFLOPS or 100 000 = 0,0001 seconds of XYZ supercomputer working.

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anticupidon

2020-03-30 11:01

Also getting far more points from my RX 580 as from the 3700X. Will see, for the moment both stay lined up for WUs.

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sverek

2020-03-30 11:43

jbscotchman:

That's really amazing. But unfortunately it did nothing to stop idiots from hoarding toilet paper.

Give me cloud computing that fix idiots! 😀 I'll start crunching numbers with myself...

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Luc

2020-03-30 11:56

Is there someone that can't find which research is his GPU involved in? Let me explain: The CPU is researching proteins, the Nvidia GPU is researching protease, but the AMD GPU is researching project 11756, wich isn't in the research directory... Any clue?

Jespi:

326 458 points so far, using Ryzen 7 and RTX 2080, when i realized CPUs aren´t that good i switched it off and compute only with GPU. What i lack is some kind of comparsion. Like 100 000 points = GFLOPS or 100 000 = 0,0001 seconds of XYZ supercomputer working.

If I Understood correctly, the working units are assigned to CPU or GPU depending on the computing needs, so if you disable your CPU you're only supporting a part of the investigation, only the GPU based. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

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samir72

2020-03-30 13:02

Well... if they still haven't find a cure, then all that computing power is useless.

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Luc

2020-03-30 13:28

samir72:

Well... if they still haven't find a cure, then all that computing power is useless.

Then the cure isn't for you... :P Jokes aside, spending watts on supporting specific investigations, all related to this problem, could look poor, but science improves on every step, so don't be afraid of spending a few watts on something you can't use yourself, because it really helps.

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scoter man1

2020-03-30 14:39

I just want to see examples of what f@h has helped to find in the past. I'd even consider helping if someone can show me a few examples.

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samir72

2020-03-30 15:00

scoter man1:

I just want to see examples of what f@h has helped to find in the past. I'd even consider helping if someone can show me a few examples.

I couldn't have say it any better.

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B-linq

2020-03-30 15:13

Don't forget about Boinc and rosetta@home - CPU only edit: As far as my limited knowledge go: Its not as simple as - lets do some folding; find "the structure"; ???; profit. Folding is only a "small" partition in finding cure process.

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slyphnier

2020-03-30 15:37

scoter man1:

I just want to see examples of what f@h has helped to find in the past. I'd even consider helping if someone can show me a few examples.

https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/ now for average person those papers might means like nothing but to those researcher, well since the beginning they been looking for answer, and so simulation from f@h should help or backing what they been guessing afterall in research its not always the result but the "intention" to find answer is what matter

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HybOj

2020-03-30 16:01

But can it run COVID?

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jbscotchman

2020-03-30 16:23

HybOj:

But can it run COVID?

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ChaosHusky

2020-03-30 16:30

I'm glad i've been contributing to this, my old PC is currently running it as much as i can and my main PC when it's just sat being an overzealous, spaceship-like YouTube/Netflix player.. Maybe i should join Guru3D? I've managed over 708k points so far.. Whatever that means! Just like everyone else though getting WUs takes a while sometimes. Definitely seems to prefer the 1080Ti over the 970 though lol

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icedman

2020-03-30 17:58

I think it just assigns work units at random, my gtx 1080 and vega 11 sit idle half the time.

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gx-x

2020-03-30 20:38

that's not helping in making vaccine, but whatever, F@H people always think what they do matters.

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Luc

2020-03-30 22:57

I can read that F@H can help to understand the atomic behavior between proteins, drugs, virus, etc., to find what to use or not. Working units are requested by researches that need them for an specific investigation, so yes, their information is usefull and practical, but only an small part of the corresponding investigation. We must understand that not every scientist have a super computer at his disposal, but may have the potencial to improve a solution or to get the research further. That's why the U.S. labs are full of foreigner scientists. It isn't mandatory to help those investigators, but they need it anyway, so why not to directly help them in a time of need? Pharmaceutical labs are rich and have too much to loose using these tools, so don't expect them using F@H. As an enthusiast I feel better sharing computational power than trolling around the web, because I can do both 😛

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Aura89

2020-03-31 00:09

samir72:

Well... if they still haven't find a cure, then all that computing power is useless.

What, do you think this is some sort of magic trick? Having a lot of processing power doesn't magically make the solution appear, it quickens the potential. Not sure how this isn't understood.

Cplifj:

Bah, i'm no longer wasting my money on something only others will profit from. Why do people think they have to do this ? It's like paying taxes. It only serves the rich and powerful who'll use this effort to make expensive medications that you may buy afterwards.

...Wut? https://cdn.writermag.com/2019/03/question-marks.jpg

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scoter man1

2020-03-31 00:22

slyphnier:

https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/ now for average person those papers might means like nothing but to those researcher, well since the beginning they been looking for answer, and so simulation from f@h should help or backing what they been guessing afterall in research its not always the result but the "intention" to find answer is what matter

I guess that's fair. I'm not sure what I was expecting to read since I don't know the med field very well. Of course it wouldn't be like "F@H discovered the miracle cure for covid19!", I just don't really see f@h mentioned much outside the techy community.