Folding@Home client for ATI cards

For those who use an up to date ATI card there is a new Folding@Home client and driver for you to use.

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Officially supports Radeon HD 2000 and 3000-series GPUs in Stanford’s new GPU folding client


Many hardcore folders have been waiting for the day when DirectX 10 GPUs became capable of folding, and both Stanford and AMD have now heard your cries. Those of you who regularly check out our Folding forum will know that Stanford released a BETA of the new GPU client this time last week, but ATI has now added official support with its latest Catalyst 8.4 driver.

Owners of Radeon HD 2400 GPUs and higher, or Radeon HD 3400 GPUs and higher, can download the folding client from here and the new driver from here. However, ATI notes that there are still some issues with the client. It doesn’t support CrossFire multi-GPU configurations yet, and ATI says that ‘crashes can occur when running the new beta GPU Folding@Home client concurrently with 3D applications or playing back video content.’

Tests of the client on Stanford’s forums also suggest that the new GPU client doesn’t use all of the GPU, and is CPU limited to a certain extent. A machine with a Radeon HD 2900XT and a Core 2 Q6600 at stock speed produced 1,310 points a day, but this increased to 2,100 points a day when the CPU was overclocked to 3.8GHz.

As well as official support for the new GPU folding client, Catalyst 8.4 also contains some other fixes. These include adding the ability to enable anti-aliasing via the Catalyst Control Center when playing games using the Unreal Engine 3, and you can now also max out the settings in Company of Heroes without your machine exiting to the Desktop. The driver also fixes issues in Crysis after setting the 3D settings to Optimal quality in the Catalyst Control Center.

Folding@home is a distributed computing project that simulates how proteins fold for the purposes of medical research. By getting thousands of people to donate their spare CPU cycles to the project, Stanford university hopes to help find cures for Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

The story is found here....
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/602430/ati-releases-new-foldinghome-driver.html
And the drivers and client can be found here......
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/04/gpu2-open-beta.html
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Happy folding

Anyone still folding? I use the SMP program as it folds a lot quicker useing 2 and 4 cores and you get a massive amount of points for each unit.

Dont know whether you want to start an ABA team up but we will not make that much of an impact, thats why I fold for Team 43461 - Overclock3D. Custom PC is also a biggy.

Yeah i do it as part of the custom pc team.

Was wondering why my points went down lol.

Coming soon, Folding @ Home for Nvidia cards too


http://www.guru3d.com/news.html

Now incoming, finally, FAH Client for Nvidia GPU's

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Santa Clara (CA) - During Nvidia Editor’s Day, we learned that Nvidia and the Folding@Home research group led by Vijay Pande are making final preparation to launch the first version of the Folding@Home client for Nvidia graphics processors.

The unveiling of the client is set for the next week as part of the launch of Nvidia’s GT200 GPU series. Owning such a card will have its benefits in Folding@Home and will outrun Radeon 3870 cards. The new GeForce cards are expected to hit more than 650 nanoseconds of protein simulation in a single day, while the Radeon HD 3870 is stuck at about 170 ns. The Playstation 3 is able to produce "only" 100 ns of simulation, while a quad-core CPU creates an output of just four nanoseconds. For those who are keeping count: The GeForce GPU will be about 163 times faster than a quad-core processor in this specific application.

Nvidia founded Team "Whoopass", which consists only of several computers that are running the Folding@Home GPU client. Even with just 4-5 test machines, the team quickly moved into the top 5% of all contributors by sheer processing power. Dr. Vijay told us that if only 1% of all CUDA-capable users would start using Folding@Home in their spare time, the Folding@Home machine would quickly be considered the fastest performing HPC computer in the whole world - hitting about 60-80 Peta FLOPS of processing power.

Folding@Home for Nvidia CUDA-capable graphics cards (GeForce 8 and above) should become available next week. The codename for this client is GPU2/NVIDIA. The GPU1 client was retired, while GPU2 client will continue to be updated for both Nvidia and ATI cards.

ATI was first with a client for the Folding@Home project, which was released back in September of 2006 for the X1900 series of cards. Back then, the cards topped out at 375 GFlops. The next GPU generation should provide more than double the horsepower.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Nvidia-Stanford-Folding-Home,news-28478.html

Its fairly new but I think folding has took a massive hit cos of the bills people are paying, and when was the last time the university of stanford wrote to you saying congratulations you helped cure cancer or even a small unkown disease?

Yes we all want to help and I will continue once it becomes affordable again. (and Tony puts my account back on the machines at Bovy LOL) who's yer daddy.

I think you are dead right, its certainly put me off leaving my machine turned on for no reason. And yeah, it would be nice just to get a blanket email saying cheers woudlnt it? PM me your details and ill stick you back on the work one m8

Now can be done on Nvidia cards, heres the link to the BETA.......

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=3188