Folding on a 486

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Re: Folding on a 486

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SSE is highly recommended, but has never been required for GROMACS. It detects the absence/presence of SSE and/or 3Dnow+ and runs unoptimized code if the optimizations are not supported.

Since virtually everybody has SSE today, there have been a couple of newer cores released which do not have the FPU code. Now it depends on the assignment you get . . . so I won't dispute your statement about SSE being required.
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Re: Folding on a 486

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What is a 486? ;>)

Good one....
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Re: Folding on a 486

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Nope. The PPD would be zero because you need about 400-500 MHz and a coprocessor to meet the deadline.
I thing instead a coprocessor you can use a program emulator of it but deadline still is a barrier.
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Re: Folding on a 486

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Do you think it would fold : http://www.tri-m.com/newsletter/2007/ju ... _large.jpg ? :mrgreen:
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Re: Folding on a 486

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Officer: Did you know you were doing 100 there, young man?
Young man: Yes Officer. You see, my bike is running F@H on its Core Duo processor and was getting hot. So, I had to go faster to cool it down. Now, you wouldn't give me a ticket for trying to find cures for diseases would you?
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Re: Folding on a 486

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HEY HEY dont go joking about the Intel 486 66mz DX2 cuse I had one back in 1990
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Re: Folding on a 486

Post by ELF2000 »

Haha, funny. :lol:

I had a 486 DX 40mhz back in the day.
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Re: Folding on a 486

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Hey what about the 386's? :lol: I remember when the 286 was a quantum leap vs the 8086. The first desktop/networked computers I worked with were Datapoint based on the 8008 in the mid 70's. The first mini--HP 2000 and mainframe--IBM 360 in the early 70's. Now I'm feeling my age. :shock:

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Re: Folding on a 486

Post by COOLDUDEGAMER »

:P I got the joke in less than a second! HA!

Maybe I should try this on me olde 486 Overdrive Socket 2 50 MHz! :lol:

Maybe if we hooked a Titanic amount of these old cpus together... :idea:
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Re: Folding on a 486

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HAHAHAHAHA
For folding, not for ppd.
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