Nvidia video card owners will be able to help fight Alzheimer's and cancer!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 02:37:32 Fri, May 23, 2008

If they feel like it...

Legit Reviews has written up an article that reports on a presentation given by Standford's Folding@home professor, Mr. Vijay Pande. During the presentation Mr. pande announced that Nvidia's graphics cards will soon be able to fold for the cause along side ATI's graphics cards and Sony's PlayStation 3s. Apparently there are 70 million Nvidia cards out there in people's machines. If the owners of all those cards decided to run Folding@home, the amount of computing power being used would increase from 1.9 petaFLOPS to 7,001.9 petaFLOPS.

The launch date of the Nvidia Folding@home client has not been announced yet.

For more information on GPU and PS3 folding please check out the Folding@home Wiki page.

5 Comments

Friday, May 23, 2008 10:44:22 PM

Duesco
Member

I'm actually folding as we speak under the auspices of Team EVGA.

And it's a good test for my processor's cooling to see if I need an upgrade or not. Lot of work those cores are doing.

Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:30:09 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

It's just insane how much better a GPU is for mathematical calculations , than a CPU . The future of supercomputers rests within GPUs , I suppose .

Sunday, May 25, 2008 2:09:06 AM

Sunny
Senior Member

This will be good. I have lots of buds who wish there Nvidia cards could do some folding. This will be good news for them.

Sunday, May 25, 2008 8:55:27 AM

Do you guys think an 8800 GTS 512 SLi setup could do some good?

Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:41:14 PM

@jess
an 8800GTS 512 setup... will do exactly as well as two 8800GTS's.. my bet is you'll have to run them out of SLI mode.. with two instances of the program
... would be more efficient (and simpler) that way at least :-

hehe.. hopefully OCAU has more 8800 users than [H]... odds not so good but would be nice to get a jump on them :P... or at least actually be able to get on their threats list O_O

can't wait!

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