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This makes me curious – remember back in the oughts where SETI@Home and Folding@Home were popular? Were those adapted for GPUs and saw a huge acceleration in ca
by atonse 9y ago
This makes me curious – remember back in the oughts where SETI@Home and Folding@Home were popular? Were those adapted for GPUs and saw a huge acceleration in calculations?
- dekhn 9y agoMolecular dynamics has been using GPUs for much longer than Machine Learning. Yes, the accelerations are enormous.
- Analog24 9y agoLinear Algebra libraries have been using GPUs for longer than molecular dynamics. What's your point?
- dekhn 9y agoThat doesn't jibe with my memory - the first codes running on GPUs at the supercomputer centers that had privileged early access were running MD, without any GPU-accelerated LA libraries.
- bbgm 9y agoMy recollection (which is admittedly fuzzy) is in line with yours. MD was the first application of GPU-accelerated computing that I recall (partly cause NVidia seemed to push that). BLAS, LAPACK, etc got GPU-enabled later.
- neuromantik8086 9y agoBut the accelerations aren't as enormous as they are on Anton's ASICs. :)
- kawfey 9y agoIf distributed computing had a fraction of time on the millions of GPUs mining cryptocurrencies, I can't imagine how close we'd be to curing disease and finding ET.
- ekianjo 9y agoYou dont just cure disease by doing protein folding simulations. thats just a very tiny part of drug development.
- jonknee 9y agoI'd rather be a tiny way close to new cures than a more pointless hashing for blockchains.
- ekianjo 9y agoMany things are pointless if you start evaluating things by one's standards. Let the market decide what they should focus on. Otherwise, you can always rely on government funding for less-market-focused initiatives like fundamental research.
- nomel 9y ago> pointless hashing for blockchains Surely there's a point to the person performing the hashing since the action takes a significant amount of time, resources, and money.
- andrepd 9y agoAnd achieving world peace and developing nuclear fusion power. Knock off the hyperbole.
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- nicwilson 9y agoTime for a cryptocurrency for F@H?
- asfgionio 9y agoGridcoin is the biggest I'm aware of. Most people who mine it (that I've spoken to) think of it as a way of subsidizing their hardware and electricity, not as a get-rich-quick scheme. Since it lets you choose what project to work on, you can choose one that you approve of and that is well-suited to your hardware. I was considering buying some old servers to mine it. I'd have pretty much broken even back when it was $0.10/grc, but it would have taken me ages to make back my investment.
- twtw 9y agoYes. The vast majority of the folding@home compute comes from GPUs. http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/os http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/os