Folding Forum

The PG has posted exactly what is the status on QRB for GPU folding in the blog post of Dec. 6th : However, Quick Return Bonus for the GPU clients has not been introduced at this stage, but will be introduced once we work out an issue on our side. As for your question, as phrased it can be read exa...

I dared asked a question - right or wrong doesn't come into it.

As for trolling/flaming - whatever - dont care anymore as wont be posting again - its a waste of time with attitudes like this.

Whats happened to the gpu qrb ? This problem at Standfords end seems to be taking an awful long time to resolve and I cant realy see what the problem could be considering that 8057 was dishing out the bonus without problems. Is this backpedaling by Standford who have realized it wasnt the best idea ...

I am interested to see a comparison between the GTX 660ti and the GTX 670 (for folding) which really have very similar specs but not similar prices where I could buy one. My simple-minded observation: The main difference between the two is in the quantity of rasterization and memory control. The ex...

Nicely said NookieBandit, especially for a 1st post and 55m points is still a hefty contribution to the project no matter what current rigs can do. I'm olny going to add one thing to this, to prove that PG can sometimes get things nearly right. Last year they gave us 2 months notice of the changes ...

I have a feeling they wont be able to port everything over to gpu as has been said already there is not one gpu work unit available that can do the explicit simulation that a cpu can. This is not the greatest sign as GPUs realy have been slow at delivering in gpu compute due to being a pig to progra...

Once explicit/cut-off simulations hit GPU street we can have that conversation. Right now there are none. EDIT: plus, the only explicit project that was run on GPU has been withdrawn due to instability; that tells us GPUs will continue to run implicit simulations _exclusively_ for quiiiite some tim...

With the 2.25 client I doubt anyone will see 250k ppd from a gtx580 maybe 150k. My gtx670s produce about 125k each on an 8057. You have to wonder if fermi will see its optimizations return in future clients. I recon just kepler will get optimized as nvidia has a hand in this and they are hardly goi...

I recon just kepler will get optimized as nvidia has a hand in this and they are hardly going to have the old cards beating the new stuff. I recon gtx680 will equal gtx580 on ver 2.22 when optimized but we wont see anything amazing. Fermi out performs Kepler because kepler is intentionally crippled...

Grandpa_01 although I do not doubt the numbers you quote for your GTX 580s where you indicate 250kppd for each I have to say that these results are not at all representative of what most people would get, and are in fact quite extraordinary. I hope people reading this do not think that this is a 'n...

I spat my dummy out when I found out about the GPU/QRB and sold one of my bigadv rigs, I have started folding on gpus again but its not the same as bigadv, horrible sounding things buzzing away its just not the same. GPUs may be the future but they are not a threat to bigadv yet as you may get a few...

In other words it isnt going to be any use for folding, oh well every cloud has a silver lining and I can tick two of these off my Christmas list

Just done one of these a 7030 it was very slow and took the machine ages, it did seem like it was doing a lot of work though I though it wasnt working at first the tpf was that slow not the most pleasant experience.

Ok thanks, what does the message folding with standard loops on this execution mean then. Allways thought the assembly optimizations were things like sse.

The Semiaccurate article on the Phi is very interesting and indicates that it thinks gpgpu is a dead duck. It also indicates that the launch of the Phi is a killer blow to Nvidias gpgpu dominance. Who knows but a lot of people are always predicting nvidias demise, what I see is the gpu becoming like...