sorry if my question will be for the most of you boring: I read various post and guides of the forum and pf the site, but it seems to me that all is a little bit confused.. there is no a unique place where all the info is placed.. I start to open link and link and tabs and tabs and after 30 minutes I got 10 tabs opened in my Firefox!! and I was not too much experienced about my problem!! Maybe is only an impression of mine, maybe I have to look around the forum.. and surely I'll do it, but just to start I prefer to explicitly ask for help..
First of all: this is my first question here at the folding@home forum but I signed up months ago, when I first finally start to use my PC not only for myself.. I started with the PC you could see in my signature, but then I stop to donor the project I choose for 2 reasons: I had not an internet connection at my new home and after few months (September 2011) I bought a new laptop, which is so configured:
- Intel Core i3 2310M (2.10GHz, 3MB L3 Cache)
RAM 4096MB( 4096 x 1 DDR3)
NVIDIA Geforce GT 520M (Optimus) 512 MB DDR3
Actually I installed into this Samsung laptop: Win7 (but I use it once per month, maybe.. but maybe not) and Linux Slackware 13.37_current 32bit..
My primary question is: which client I have to use? I would prefer no wine emulation, only for all the .exe processes that must be started every time wine launches a windows application; I also read that some of the last GPU client (beta, it seems) are available for Linux, too, or at least they seems to work on it.. Do I well understand?
Second problem.. My nVidia card (it's reported to have this Optimus technology that I absolutely don't know what it is) seems to be a CUDA one (I have a stick placed on the chassis that says this): but I don't know if CUDA could be compiled and ran into Slackware.. what can you say me about that?
Thank you very much for your patience, the main problem is that I'm absolutely a newbie about all those new technologies related to the GPU: this is my first nVidia graphic card and much of all my first video card of middle-high value I ever used into my long experience with PC.. so please understand me..
P.S.: is there an IRC channel somewhere related to folding@home?