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Happy Fourth/Fold of July |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Friday, 04 July 2008 01:01 |
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Happy 4th of July to everyone. I've already had my parade for the day, and tonight we will have some fireworks, but I'm also calling this Fold of July. Why fold of July? Because you should be folding! Join our Folding at Home team, and help cure several diseases, and cancer. With the new GPU2 clients with Nvidia and AMD support the folding power of your computer just increased dramatically. 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.)
We are currently approaching 100,000 points a day, and back in December we did just over 400,000 points total so that is a huge increase. I want to see us bust the top 100 by the end of July, and make serious strides towards the top 50 by the end of the year. We can do it, we just need more help, and to harness the power of your CPU and GPU! Stay tuned for a big article from me on Folding performance that will help you. Thanks to the new folders on the team. We have nearly 20 new folders, and if you have any questions please post on the forum or e-mail us and we will help you get up and running.
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