Folding Forum

well, that all goes to the difference between consumer and professional cards. Both AMD, and Nvidia make professional cards that have the exact(except in many cases not crippled)GPU that goes into consumer cards. Often the difference between these $4000 professional grade cards and the $500-$1000 c...

There are many other projects out there. As Bruce pointed out, many of them are distributed computing projects, which use the idle processing power of your CPU (and/or GPU) to tackle large problems of interest. I would not recommend running two of these at the same time, although I will note that i...

Much has changed since I did my testing. SMP, GPUs, etc. SMP optimizations are clearly better in linux at this time. That wasn't always the case though. The performance pendulum swings back and forth, and the operating system has one of the least impacts on folding performance as compared to so man...

Windows bloat is a Linux fanboy myth. In the past, when Windows and Linux used the exact same fahcores, their performance was exactly the same on the same projects. Since then, the Linux fahcores have slightly better SMP optimizations, so they run faster, NOT because Windows is bloated. The kernel ...

Even for me as private user with a fixed IP address I get quite a number of "trials" into my system. Good to have a logging firewall. When I'm board I check with whois; and yes: lots of China, Romania and US (!) ...not only universities; just every IP address. There's a difference between...

From what I'm reading online, it seems like Bumblebee does allow CUDA and OpenCL by passing the --no-xorg option to optirun.

Computing can be fast, but majority of time is being wasted by sending bits between various chips within the system and outside of it. More improvements are needed for interconnections. Maybe it will prove fruitful: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/intel-labs-optical-interconnect-in-...

I tried compiling LuxMark (it looks like only the source code is available) but it gave an error about OpenCL not being installed. I had thought I had it but maybe not. When I tried to install CUDA (is that's what required to get OpenCL to work?) it gave an error. The install log says: Using more to...

I don't think there's an intermediate visualization step. I know OpenGL is helpful. I was just trying to show that, to the application, it's entirely transparent. After all Bumblebee does is start up the GPU, put it on display :8, and starts the application while making the GPU available. An applica...

Linux tends to run things faster in general, one reason being it has less load from bloatware, a faster kernel, etc. I don't know if this would effect the GPU though.

Old news? The article is from the 16th, one day ago... Or do you mean China's attacks in general?

:?: "We are scientists. Citizens. Gamers. Thinkers. Mothers. Brothers. Friends. Family." No fathers? :?: John It's political correctness, you can't fight it... No, it's not PC! And it's already changed twice since this was first posted, so you're way off base. Ah, you're right. I didn't s...

JCM3500 wrote: "We are scientists. Citizens. Gamers. Thinkers. Mothers. Brothers. Friends. Family."

No fathers?

John

It's political correctness, you can't fight it...

EDIT: nvm didn't re-read the page.

Bumblebee is a program which allows me to use a discrete GPU on only certain applications. Because Nvidia optimus does not work well on laptops running Linux, I'm either stuck with my low-power, weak, integrated Intel GPU, or stuck with my over-powered, battery-devouring discrete Nvidia GPU. But wit...

I have already installed nvidia-current. Also it is not being used as my default driver, the Intel graphics driver is (which is why I have to use Bumblebee's optirun).

I can install the proprietary drivers but cannot use them by default, only through Bumblebee.