Folding@home on a NVIDIA 8500GT GPU

[retrosynthetic]

how you get it to move?

[klausendk]

@retrosynthetic I paused the calculation opened the display and started the calculation again. Now It may not be possible to pause the calculation any more on some cards.

[bestSVMS]

you have your overclocked? to what. and mine gets 45ns per day. I think mine is doin on the low side but i have the normal cpu client running too.

[bestSVMS]

how long have you been folding? any failures?

[rick62008]

Any card that can fold is always a good use for the card. Way faster than the cpu, and not to forget, you will be always helping!

[uut0]

gl counting all those atoms lol

[uut0]

do they also say which molecule you are looking at?

[asdfxyz1]

I dont understand this folding at home. Why would any one want to run this? Just for benchmark purposes?

[CrazyJimKU]

its for research purposes... it can help cure diseases like Cancer or Huntington's disease.

[razor005]

@asdfxyz1 no it helps stanford university learn why diseases happen and how to prevent them

[invisible0tom]

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[FrankkkoJ]

Nice speed, I got the same card, but getting around 50 speed :S

[94XJ]

his CPU is helping a lot in the viewer, but the viewer slows folding down a lot

the client version is less buggy and runs faster. Also, a lot of speed depends on what work unit your GPU is munching.

To get the most out of your GPU, overclock the shaders, unlink the core/shaders and just clock the shaders a bit.

Use a program like FAHMON to monitor your actual point per day output.

[aarondistorted]

that is awesome. i run ati hd 2400 that i bought for dirt cheap and the best it can do is about 27 iter's a second. still takes 4 days to do a unit. just about the same time that that unit is due. i need to get a nvidia card.

[Lahmy88]

cool man.. hey checkout my video on Folding@Home - 1st Supercomputer to Petaflop - 1Tye1ayu_Qk

[cero10]

yeh i saw it, very nice vid

[4RT1LL3RY]

Nice. I am folding with my HD4850 and E6550 at around 700 its/sec. You animation is much smoother then mine though, mine seems to just have the atoms pop into position. What are the rest of your specs?

[klausendk]

Hi.

I have added some of the rest of the specs of the system in the video description.

Happy folding.

[feffe85]

@4RT1LL3RY Cool, im on a gtx260 + e8500 and folds on the gpu at about 1700 - 1900 its/sec... on the cpu its slow as hell tho :)