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by John Naylor
Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:10 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.
Replies: 261
Views: 98887

Re: FAH-Addict: Folding@home's premier news site.

Yes indeed, my fellow administrators are incompetent. Can't modify totow's post but the actual title is fixed :P
by John Naylor
Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:58 pm
Forum: The Science of FAH -- questions/answers
Topic: F@H on Comenius project :)
Replies: 8
Views: 2651

Re: F@H on Comenius project :)

Thanks for your information :D That helped me much ;) One question left, tough :P Now about 350.000 CPUs are folding, right? So... With this information, when do you think the project will finish? How long does it take till we have enough information to cure the diseases like cancer, Alzheimer and ...
by John Naylor
Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:48 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: wrapper of F@H for BOINC?
Replies: 50
Views: 7827

Re: wrapper of F@H for BOINC?

orion wrote:Unless F@H ... open up their programming code for all to see :eugeek:
https://simtk.org/home/openmm
by John Naylor
Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:33 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Translation Of FAH in Persian
Replies: 1
Views: 450

Re: Translation Of FAH in Persian

Welcome to the forums!

If I remember correctly, send a PM to Pande Group member Vince Voelz (forum username "vvoelz"). He'll be able to help you out, or if not, he can tell you who can :)
by John Naylor
Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:36 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Suggestions for v7
Replies: 44
Views: 5648

Re: Suggestions for v7

8) Add a warning to the client that if SMP mode is launched it will give large results files (and ignore the small/normal/big setting). Would prevent things like this from happening when SMP is no longer considered beta and is recommended for use by the masses.
by John Naylor
Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:42 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: What about OpenCL?
Replies: 13
Views: 4485

Re: What about OpenCL?

I mean that the ATI/OpenCL FAH client won't be ready by xmas. I've no reason to doubt that ATI will have included OpenCL in their drivers by then.
by John Naylor
Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:09 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: What about OpenCL?
Replies: 13
Views: 4485

Re: What about OpenCL?

I think expecting a new client so soon is to be setting yourself up for disappointment.... nVidia already have OpenCL built in to their drivers and the OpenMM core isn't using that functionality yet so there is no reason to assume the ATI OpenCL client will arrive so soon either. Sorry :(
by John Naylor
Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:32 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: What about OpenCL?
Replies: 13
Views: 4485

Re: wrapper of F@H for BOINC?

Advance warning: I'm making a lot of guesses here. I also do not speak for the Pande Group. I don't think its a problem of poor implementation so much as the OpenCL specification itself is not yet fast enough to compete with the optimised platforms that are CUDA and CAL. OpenCL 1.1's specification h...
by John Naylor
Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:12 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: wrapper of F@H for BOINC?
Replies: 50
Views: 7827

Re: wrapper of F@H for BOINC?

Till this day I don't know what happens if you find a cure for aids or cancer? Are you going to market it to corporations or are you going to make them public? I don't know enough about the advantages/disadvantages of the latest versions of BOINC to comment on that, but any results that this projec...
by John Naylor
Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:05 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: FAH is the weirdest piece of software I ever installed
Replies: 23
Views: 3987

Re: FAH is the weirdest piece of software I ever installed

Whether DX10 and 11 with ComputeShader would suffer the same issues remains to be seen, but OpenCL supports more platforms (i.e. CPU too) which could lead to one core working for all processor types, regardless of whether they are a CPU or a GPU. We shall see Ok, so you're telling me that the clien...
by John Naylor
Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:57 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: FAH is the weirdest piece of software I ever installed
Replies: 23
Views: 3987

Re: FAH is the weirdest piece of software I ever installed

Phew, finally posted that draft I saved. As for John Naylor's comment, I couldn't post anything with quotes because the forum said that I have to be a member for a day to post anything with URLs... but as far as I know, quotes aren't URLs, so why wasn't I able to post ? The post you tried to quote ...
by John Naylor
Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:48 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: FAH is the weirdest piece of software I ever installed
Replies: 23
Views: 3987

Re: FAH is the weirdest piece of software I ever installed

HD5770: is supported, but the old client which is currently on the download page needs a flag to work with it. Launch the client with -forcegpu ati_r700 and it will run. A new client released a few weeks ago for early testing on this forum fixes this admittedly annoying bug. Viewer: is buggy. I'm su...