How legit is uptodown folding@home? [Not legit]

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Re: How legit is uptodown folding@home? [Not legit]

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Peter_Hucker wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:57 am Some things don't run on GPUs (including some of the folding projects, or could they all go on GPU?), so I guess Amperes have their uses.
Most things don't run on AMpere CPUs at all!
Folding doesn't work on it, boinc perhaps some projects might.
But there's just not enough supply out there for scientists to write software for these cpus.
Plus, they're expensive.
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Re: How legit is uptodown folding@home? [Not legit]

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Peter_Hucker wrote: Sun Jun 19, 2022 12:08 am I cannot locate those on Ebay :-)
What's the price?
You can still rent one ... some hosting companies started to add it the to their offer like this one : https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx
MeeLee wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:53 am Most things don't run on AMpere CPUs at all!
Folding doesn't work on it, boinc perhaps some projects might.
Why FAH wouldn't run on such CPUs ?
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Re: How legit is uptodown folding@home? [Not legit]

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toTOW wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:27 pmWhy FAH wouldn't run on such CPUs ?
Different instruction set I would imagine. AMD and Intel desktop and server CPUs have a common instruction set.
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Re: How legit is uptodown folding@home? [Not legit]

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There is an ARM version of the CPU folding core for use on systems using Linux. Whether it would run on an Ampere ARM based CPU has not been determined.
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