Folding@Home GPU Client Has Surpassed the PS3 Client

[TheHeeyyy]

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It's really impressive how quick the GPU client adoption has been. It also has the highest active folding percentage (40% of those who've used-it are folding actively, compared to 7% of people who've downloaded the PS3 client). Not-only has the GPU client not fully matured yet it also doesn't appear GPU client adoption has slowed-down much, so performance and contribution of the GPU client should continue to grow. Great job everyone.

[Evil Penguin]

Ha!!
Well it looks like the GPU is the folding machine of the future. Sorry PS3/CPU move out of the way.

[toTOW]

Who knows ... Intel's Larrabee might change everything again

[7im]

When Google starts offering unlimited computing power like they do now with webmail space, THAT will change everything. Of course you'll have to click on a banner add every 10 minutes to keep that running, but hey, it's "free"

On a more serious note, congrats to the GPU folders and Pande Group. Just remember what I've said about the performance pendulum...

[s12a]

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It's really impressive how quick the GPU client adoption has been. It also has the highest active folding percentage (40% of those who've used-it are folding actively, compared to 7% of people who've downloaded the PS3 client). Not-only has the GPU client not fully matured yet it also doesn't appear GPU client adoption has slowed-down much, so performance and contribution of the GPU client should continue to grow. Great job everyone.

Progress chart:

[Evil Penguin]

Who knows ... Intel's Larrabee might change everything again

I get the feeling I'm going to be disappointed.

[toTOW]

Wait & See

[Leoslocks]

I am waiting for the X2's to get here to add another card to the garden. More good things to come in a slow season. Not much money to spend (or coming in) during the back to school season.

[bowman]

Soon the 177.79 driver is going to be WHQL'd for all CUDA capable cards, and Nvidia will have an official workaround for multiple CUDA devices in Vista (due to their PhysX) which will also help..

So to say, current GPU client adoption has barely scratched the niche community. The client is now out of beta (although not 'finished', but stable) and soon the drivers will be as well, maybe they could start actually marketing it a bit like ATI does?

[Ahavi]

Wait & See

The 4870X2 already is already more powerful. Wait to see what they have on the GPU front in 2 years.

[bowman]

Wait & See

The 4870X2 already is already more powerful. Wait to see what they have on the GPU front in 2 years.

'More powerful', what do you mean? 32-bit floating point performance in an arbitrary benchmark, no support for industry standard parallel programming languages?

It's an entirely different concept, it's going to have some major clout behind it to see adoption and it's going to usher in true multicore x86. Unless the GPU manufacturers adopt ISAs and make their designs truly programmable as well they won't stand a chance. Noone is going to want a GPU that can only accelerate graphics and vendor-locked CUDA/CAL/CTM/whatever apps, they're going to want the one with wide support and an industry standard ISA that can accelerate just about anything.

[Evil Penguin]

Yeah they still have a couple of things to straight out... I guess all they need now is some time to realize it.