AMDZone Folding Team Passes Apple Computer Inc!
AMDZone Folding Team Passes Apple Computer Inc! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Chris Tom   
Tuesday, 01 July 2008 18:40
Well we have passed the snobs at Apple Computer Inc as we have gone up a couple of spots to 141st place with our improved Folding at Home team! If you have questions get in the distributed computing forum. You will see me folding under the Tek Republik name. All you need is a computer, and you can fold under almost any OS. Don't get discouraged if you are racking up points like some of the guys on the list. Every point counts, and it all goes to a good cause. Curing cancer. If you have a newer Radeon or GeForce card, or dual or quad core CPU or Playstation 3 then you are well on your way to racking up a lot of points. Just pick up one of the high performance clients from the Folding at Home download page. If you have a Radeon, you will need at least the 2000 series for the GPU2 client. If you have a Radeon X1600 or higher you can fold, but you have to use the older GPU client. We are currently testing on the 4870 so those work as well.

* 2xxx/3xxx ATI Video Card, or newer
* ATI Driver v8.1+, v8.3 or newer recommended
* AGP GPU aperture size in the BIOS must be set to 128 MB or larger
* Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, with updates recommended
* Windows operating system, XP or newer
* Processor with SSE2 support to feed the GPU

For Nvidia cards here are the requirements. You need a CUDA capable card so pretty much anything as good as a GeForce 8400 and up. You can find that list here.

* a GeForce, Quadro, or Tesla card that supports CUDA (G80 or later for the most part)
* A CUDA capable driver, version 174.55 is recommended. Or 177.35 for GTX cards.
* 32-bit Windows operating system, XP or newer (better Vista support coming soon); 64-bit Windows operating systems appear to currently be incompatible (We're working on this too.)

So there you have it. Get your system up and going, and help the AMDZone team fold for a good cause. We have HKEPC in range to pass up, and our next target will be forums.AMD.com. They shouldn't be ahead of us. We have the oldest AMD forum on the planet!

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 July 2008 05:27 )