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51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points / day
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13th August 2008, 17:17
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points / day A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU's and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD http://www.x64bit.net/site/board/ind...topic=6003&hl=
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13th August 2008, 18:50
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 | and yes! it is a waste of energy which will probably not avail to very much...
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13th August 2008, 19:05
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| hello doc  welcome back? this setup is a waste, that's for sure
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13th August 2008, 19:50
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| It's all old GPUs anyway, good use for them. A single P6N or K9A2 board plus four 9800GX2 cards would net 40,000PPD though... Might be an insane electric bill, but certainly isn't a waste of energy. I guess you've never taken a look at the results F@H publishes regularly from all the work that gets done. |
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14th August 2008, 05:21
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| work? I think the results hardly justify the extreme international powerdrain  I've never been gone, I was just backgrounding
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| So would it make a difference to you if the power drain was localized to several major datacenters housing mainframes and a supercomputer or two? The work needs to get done somehow. I think the results speak for itself: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers |
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