Or more precisely, how AMD/ATi video card owners can save TR's folding team from shameful inconsequentiality:
On April 13, Ronald Hanaki's Shortbread linked a decent article on Hardware Canucks about the new (open beta) GPU folding client that allows 5000 and 6000 series AMD cards to produce nearly twice as many points as they have been doing, though there are particular configuration steps one must take in order to get the (so far apparently) one new WU that produces the improved results. Once Stanford begins releasing more Work Units, one can expect AMD-heavy sites to increase their output significantly. It would be a good thing if TR was among them, especially since GPU folding clients can be run when users are at their desktops and doing normal 2D mode tasks, and still finish WU's quickly, useful for the effort and our team. Though they can be run while users are doing heavy graphics things too, it usually slows things down for both folding and the program being run. And apparently AMD's video decoder can't be run while folding, according to the piece.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/42471-f-h-core-16-taking-amd-gpu-folding-next-level.html
For those who want to test it without reading the short article, the beta's here: https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/FAHClient/wiki/BetaRelease
