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Using spare time on your Nvidia card to help medical research
There are several medical research projects using spare time
available on computers that connect to these projects. Now, some of them are trying to be able to do the same with spare time on Nvidia cards. You might want to watch these sites to see which of them is able to use spare time on Nvidia cards first: http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://www.gpugrid.net/ http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ None of them look ready to invite the general public to partipate with the Nvidia cards part yet, but all of them are making some effort in this direction. Some of them can let the general public offer spare time on their CPUs now. Those of you with good backups and the appropriate computer knowledge may even want to participate in their beta testing. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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Using spare time on your Nvidia card to help medical research
"Robert Miles" wrote in message ... There are several medical research projects using spare time available on computers that connect to these projects. Now, some of them are trying to be able to do the same with spare time on Nvidia cards. You might want to watch these sites to see which of them is able to use spare time on Nvidia cards first: http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://www.gpugrid.net/ http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ None of them look ready to invite the general public to partipate with the Nvidia cards part yet, but all of them are making some effort in this direction. Some of them can let the general public offer spare time on their CPUs now. Those of you with good backups and the appropriate computer knowledge may even want to participate in their beta testing. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** the folding (stanford) project offer a GPU2 client which works exceptionally well, especially on cards with an overclocked shader, the client does not affect day to day use, and I can still play games assassin's creed and crysis) as the client only used free gpu cycles. Tony |
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Using spare time on your Nvidia card to help medical research
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:47:01 +0100, "tony h" wrote in
part: "Robert Miles" wrote in message ... There are several medical research projects using spare time available on computers that connect to these projects. Now, some of them are trying to be able to do the same with spare time on Nvidia cards. Please note that the concept behind the "at home" and similar stuff is that you have to leave your computer on and that you might as well do useful and of no cost to you. However, many new graphics cards reduce power use significantly when the card is not busy. For example, for the Nvidia GTX 280, power (reportedly) goes from just under 240W to about 35W or even 4W, depending on the card(s) are doing. A 200W reduction in power means about 5 hours/kwh, which in my neck of the woods would be more than US$50/year for each card on a system that is running an extra 5 hours/day. (Maybe you want to make a $50 donation and think the extra electrical load is worth it to society, but you should be aware that it is not like changing a NO-OP LOOP to something useful.) |
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