Folding@home on PS3
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This is what I bought form Maplin:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=38343
I went round my house and plugged it in to all sorts of things. The results were interesting, the most interesting was that when my flat TV was on standby it uses almost no power at all. But, HMG, is always telling us all to turn things off at the wall and not leave them on standby, what I concluded there was no point doing that, unless you have a CRT TV.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=38343
I went round my house and plugged it in to all sorts of things. The results were interesting, the most interesting was that when my flat TV was on standby it uses almost no power at all. But, HMG, is always telling us all to turn things off at the wall and not leave them on standby, what I concluded there was no point doing that, unless you have a CRT TV.
Joined the group with my PS3
Does anyone know if you can schedule the ps3 to auto power on at say, midnight and download and run a work unit and power off again? I know you can get it to power off when complete but its the powering on and starting i am not sure on. Would be good to get that running regularly off peak with no intervention from me - its a no brainer
Does anyone know if you can schedule the ps3 to auto power on at say, midnight and download and run a work unit and power off again? I know you can get it to power off when complete but its the powering on and starting i am not sure on. Would be good to get that running regularly off peak with no intervention from me - its a no brainer
Edited by J-Tuner on Friday 1st October 12:35
J-Tuner said:
Joined the group with my PS3
Does anyone know if you can schedule the ps3 to auto power on at say, midnight and download and run a work unit and power off again? I know you can get it to power off when complete but its the powering on and starting i am not sure on. Would be good to get that running regularly off peak with no intervention from me - its a no brainer
No sadly not.Does anyone know if you can schedule the ps3 to auto power on at say, midnight and download and run a work unit and power off again? I know you can get it to power off when complete but its the powering on and starting i am not sure on. Would be good to get that running regularly off peak with no intervention from me - its a no brainer
Edited by J-Tuner on Friday 1st October 12:35
Would my flatmates enormous tower mac-pro be good at this? I think it's quad core and is a beast.
He's away for 6 weeks and has left it on so he can access it from the states. Might as well use the beast for some good if it'll do it.
EFA
He's away for 6 weeks and has left it on so he can access it from the states. Might as well use the beast for some good if it'll do it.
EFA
Edited by chrisg_s2k on Sunday 2nd January 19:47
chrisg_s2k said:
Would my flatmates enormous tower mac-pro be good at this? I think it's quad core and is a beast.
He's away for 6 weeks and has left it on so he can access it from the states. Might as well use the beast for some good if it'll do it.
EFA
It will be good but by far the best processors for this are the GPUs found in graphics cards. I'm running a beta version of the software for nvidia cards and if you look at the PH leaderboard ( http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=... ) I've gone from bottom to 6th place in about 10 days with just 29 work units He's away for 6 weeks and has left it on so he can access it from the states. Might as well use the beast for some good if it'll do it.
EFA
Edited by chrisg_s2k on Sunday 2nd January 19:47
GPUs are perfect for crunching raw data, they use this technology in the folding@home software ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/what_is_cuda_new.html ).
Jinx said:
Anyone else struggle this last week to get it working? Had to use the -forcegpu atir700 to get it working again. Oh my runs at around 90-100 iterations if the graphical representation is on screen 200-220 when it isn't (and this is just a lowly ATI HD 5550)
Yep, downloaded the new one which is supposed to detect ATI hardware (but doesn't) and when I reinstalledThe older version it doesn't work any more. My video card is now bored
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