Personal computing discussed
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GrimDanfango wrote:I think it has something to do with discovering signs of extra-terrestrial life while sorting through your laundry.
...which happens more often than I'm comfortable admitting.
Prestige Worldwide wrote:I think FlipFold is great and a huge time-saver.
Flying Fox wrote:Power and heat are the main issues, but I also blame the points inflation brought on by the BigWU and the retirement of those. Those who custom-built setup's to fold BigWUs have been told rather bluntly that they are forced to go back to SMP folding where the points value are orders of magnitude smaller. So from a system perspective the points output for the entire cluster should have been down, and then we had some departures due to that and the continuous emphasis on GPU and the apparent neglect of SMP folders.
Kougar wrote:Flying Fox wrote:Power and heat are the main issues, but I also blame the points inflation brought on by the BigWU and the retirement of those. Those who custom-built setup's to fold BigWUs have been told rather bluntly that they are forced to go back to SMP folding where the points value are orders of magnitude smaller. So from a system perspective the points output for the entire cluster should have been down, and then we had some departures due to that and the continuous emphasis on GPU and the apparent neglect of SMP folders.
Not sure I'd agree with all of that, what sort of neglect? SMP has been trudging along as it always has with decent usability improvements under the v7 client.
Kougar wrote:The entire BigADV fiasco could've been better handled certainly, but that was a separate issue from the SMP client. It also makes sense they would focus on GPUs as that's where the performance is at, a 780 can already hit 200K PPD and that reflects more on the amount of actual work being done instead of tacked on bonus points just for having a 4P box going. If the current rate of PPD growth in GPUs remains constant, then the PPD for a single GPU could hit 1 million within three generations.... which certainly would've begun ending the BigADV craze in of itself fairly quickly if it keeps scaling like that. Can't wait to see what an optimized client will be capable of on a Titan II...
Khali wrote:Ok, its now time for some one to come along and give me grief for saying anything bad about FAH and mentioning Boinc.
Meadows wrote:Khali wrote:Ok, its now time for some one to come along and give me grief for saying anything bad about FAH and mentioning Boinc.
Don't worry, all forms of "distributed computing" are nonsense.
Khali wrote:The Bio/Medical projects just might find a cure or treatment for a disease you might have or come down with in the future.
Meadows wrote:Don't worry, all forms of "distributed computing" are nonsense.
Savyg wrote:Coming into a subforum dedicated to DC just to crap on it seems like a poor choice.
Flying Fox wrote:Neglect in terms of writing proper SMP code (that can scale up with >4 cores) so better "science" can be done through CPUs. For folding, it is not entirely about the FLOPS, but the amount of "science" that is done. Points were supposed to be awarded that way. Given the current discrepancies of points generated per unit of GPU vs CPU, a lot of SMP-only folders are getting discouraged, especially the BigADV guys who are being forced back to "puny" SMP projects.
Meadows wrote:They should do what the coin mining people do and develop custom circuitry for this stuff that are a hundred times more efficient. Then all the Mother Theresas of the world could buy a couple and stick them wherever they please (wall socket or spare USB port) and "help humanity" without burning the goddamn house down.
just brew it! wrote:I tended to view it as a form of charity...