At this point the total compute power of Folding@Home is 2.43 ExaFLOPs. The fastest monolithic super computer is 148 PetaFLOPs or 0.148 ExaFLOPs. The next fastest supercomputer planned for 2021, an all AMD Heterogeneous computing design is supposed to be 1.5 ExaFLOPs. The amount of power Folding@Home has right now is godlike, its the first sort of supercomputer to ever break the Exascale barrier. Being grid based, its not counted on the top 500 and it is limited to small work that needs to be done many times. Folding@Home is still very useful but it can't for example simulate something that requires petabytes of memory because no single computer could work on it. The molecular dynamics that Folding@Home simulates is perfect for grid based computing. A single computer can simulate a protein, and then you can repeat these simulations on many computers and different proteins of the virus to get an understanding of how the protein folds most often and how the virus works. They can find points in these simulations where a drug could bind and disrupt a function of the virus.
Thank you and all the other people who contribute to find cures for the worst diseases out there one day people will not have to go through these diseases because of people like you 👍
Put my main system on F@H last month: 16 core Threadripper and an RX580 GPU. Added an RTX2070 GPU. Curiously, my office isn't cold anymore :-) The competition aspect is was really just to slightly gamify F@H slightly to that natural desire to compete to the network performance.
Got two rigs currently dedicated to FaH, with two more on their way to contributing as well! It's actually kinda fun (for me, at least) to check in every so often and see what kind of WU my systems are working on, and keep an eye on their power draw (which is surprisingly low per system, actually).
that's great, wish I had spare parts good enough to get WU other than my gaming rig but that's what you get when you only upgrade when its really needed.
Nothing wrong with that. I build computers for people and switch out parts all the time, so I’ve got a fair few spare parts around. May as well put them to use!
if you have 50 bucks and a pcie slot open on a spare mobo id grab a p 106-90 mining card from ebay for 50 bucks. its essentially a 1060 3gb but they only run 50 bucks
I have two machines running now, a Threadripper 2950 with a 2080Ti and a Intel X299 based 10 core i9 with a 2080ti. Soon will be a Threadripper 3970 with a 2080ti as well.
I am folding on 48 physical cpu cores and 8 Gpus... the heat is insane . lol My two titan black cards put out a blast furnace of heat on their own. 4 x 1650ti and 2 x 1660 super. My dual cpu 2011 socket system with two 1650 ti is also a heater. It looks that by today my rigs are all busy and there is no downtime. Servers are handing out folding jobs 24/7. #foldingteamlinus #soniclab
Especially when it’s cold it’s not a big problem to do that because computers just convert electrical to thermal energy in the end. So you have an electric heater that helps with research what could be better than that. Well a pc on its own would not be enough to heat the whole house but because the heat is generated the costs for the normal heating costs will be lower.
I am running 2 computers, one r5 3600 with 1660 super and and old HP 8200 sff i5 2400 with a low profile GT 1030 and have been getting work units for both sporadically.
In some cases, it is not worth powering on ancient GPU, because the amount of energy it eats is lower than the scientific progress. I suggest using only last 2-3 gen GPUs
I've been running it on my main computer for now, and undervolting the components may help a little on the eletricity bills, noise and heat generated by it :)
I may do that. I am actually rebuilding the whole system at the moment with a different motherboard since I need the dual socket 2011 motherboard to use for video rendering. When I get it back up and running I will fire up MSI afterburner and tune things down a little bit.
I've been upping volts for CPU stability lol temps have gone mad when cpu and GPU running this is with custom water cooling. One core got to 96 Celsius!
At this point the total compute power of Folding@Home is 2.43 ExaFLOPs. The fastest monolithic super computer is 148 PetaFLOPs or 0.148 ExaFLOPs. The next fastest supercomputer planned for 2021, an all AMD Heterogeneous computing design is supposed to be 1.5 ExaFLOPs. The amount of power Folding@Home has right now is godlike, its the first sort of supercomputer to ever break the Exascale barrier. Being grid based, its not counted on the top 500 and it is limited to small work that needs to be done many times. Folding@Home is still very useful but it can't for example simulate something that requires petabytes of memory because no single computer could work on it. The molecular dynamics that Folding@Home simulates is perfect for grid based computing. A single computer can simulate a protein, and then you can repeat these simulations on many computers and different proteins of the virus to get an understanding of how the protein folds most often and how the virus works. They can find points in these simulations where a drug could bind and disrupt a function of the virus.
Thank you and all the other people who contribute to find cures for the worst diseases out there one day people will not have to go through these diseases because of people like you 👍
Put my main system on F@H last month: 16 core Threadripper and an RX580 GPU. Added an RTX2070 GPU. Curiously, my office isn't cold anymore :-)
The competition aspect is was really just to slightly gamify F@H slightly to that natural desire to compete to the network performance.
Got two rigs currently dedicated to FaH, with two more on their way to contributing as well!
It's actually kinda fun (for me, at least) to check in every so often and see what kind of WU my systems are working on, and keep an eye on their power draw (which is surprisingly low per system, actually).
that's great, wish I had spare parts good enough to get WU other than my gaming rig but that's what you get when you only upgrade when its really needed.
Nothing wrong with that. I build computers for people and switch out parts all the time, so I’ve got a fair few spare parts around. May as well put them to use!
@@ilovemonkeyos right, I just wiped out my inventory before Covid hit the US.
if you have 50 bucks and a pcie slot open on a spare mobo id grab a p 106-90 mining card from ebay for 50 bucks. its essentially a 1060 3gb but they only run 50 bucks
BOINC is really needing your help!!
I have two machines running now, a Threadripper 2950 with a 2080Ti and a Intel X299 based 10 core i9 with a 2080ti. Soon will be a Threadripper 3970 with a 2080ti as well.
I am folding on 48 physical cpu cores and 8 Gpus... the heat is insane . lol My two titan black cards put out a blast furnace of heat on their own. 4 x 1650ti and 2 x 1660 super. My dual cpu 2011 socket system with two 1650 ti is also a heater. It looks that by today my rigs are all busy and there is no downtime. Servers are handing out folding jobs 24/7. #foldingteamlinus #soniclab
Especially when it’s cold it’s not a big problem to do that because computers just convert electrical to thermal energy in the end. So you have an electric heater that helps with research what could be better than that. Well a pc on its own would not be enough to heat the whole house but because the heat is generated the costs for the normal heating costs will be lower.
I am running 2 computers, one r5 3600 with 1660 super and and old HP 8200 sff i5 2400 with a low profile GT 1030 and have been getting work units for both sporadically.
In some cases, it is not worth powering on ancient GPU, because the amount of energy it eats is lower than the scientific progress. I suggest using only last 2-3 gen GPUs
How can I find a team near me? (Corvallis, OR)?
I've been running it on my main computer for now, and undervolting the components may help a little on the eletricity bills, noise and heat generated by it :)
I may do that. I am actually rebuilding the whole system at the moment with a different motherboard since I need the dual socket 2011 motherboard to use for video rendering. When I get it back up and running I will fire up MSI afterburner and tune things down a little bit.
I've been upping volts for CPU stability lol temps have gone mad when cpu and GPU running this is with custom water cooling. One core got to 96 Celsius!
great!
I got two computers as well one with AMD 1600x/GTX1060 and another with AMD3600/RTX2070
ASU, 28283.