Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Folding@Home

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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Folding@Home

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For Nvidia, Fermi is the cutoff, with OpenCL 1.2 support. GTX 470 in April 2010 may be the oldest supported card, I am unsure if it would finish on time, but it should. (Similar GFLOPs to a GT 1030)
For AMD, I think it needs GCN 2.0 support, none of the Terascale GPUs are getting work, I am unclear about GCN 1.0. March of 2013 may be the oldest, HD 7790 (Similar GFLOPs to a Radeon RX 560)
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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Folding@Home

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MeeLee wrote:....Probably the oldest one running on Nvidia Geforce drivers, or AMD Radeon drivers.
Yes. And at least for the PC clients (Windows or Linux) those are also the drivers supported by the newest GPUs. Everybody else is running on CPU drivers which are pretty much standardized, too -- so much so that they're not even called "drivers".

There also have been specialized CPU clients for the Sony cell-phone and the X-box, but neither one ever achieved sufficiently widespread use and the scientists who construct projects to be run by FAH have discontinued distributing projects for them.
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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Folding@Home

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Is the source available? I might try to see if I can get it to work on a raspberry pi 4.
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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Folding@Home

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Binder wrote:Is the source available? I might try to see if I can get it to work on a raspberry pi 4.
I would start with the SONY android source.
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/Folding-home
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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Folding@Home

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Even if it runs on raspberry pi it will not get work units from FAH as they only support official FAHclient.
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Re: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Folding@Home

Post by v00d00 »

If you wanted to do it for the sake of faffing, try ruinning it through qemu. You wont get it to run natively, but it should run fine via an emulator, but you will probably not have the power to complete projects in time. So doing it this way is really only to prove you can do it, not that it has any real world use.
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