GPU2 vs GPU3

There has been quite a buzz lately over which is better. Well I guess on paper it would seem the GPU3 is better. However, if you own a video card older then a the GTX4xx series you will see a PPD drop. Yes on 8 and 9 series cards there is a small PPD drop overall on the WUs. It only gets worse when you run the GPU3 client a GTX2xx card. To sum things up if you own anything older then a GTX4xx stick to the GPU2 client until WUs get more mature. Main difference is the newer client feature larger WUs which take longer for older cards to complete. The new client was mainly introduced for the higher powered GTX4xx sereis from Nvidia. If you have lag issues while folding and using your computer the newer version is said to eliminate this problem.

What is F@H and Distributed Computing?

Basically, Folding is a distributed computing project created by Stanford University and currently run by there own Pande Group. The idea behind the project is to studying proteins folding and misfolding. Which ultimately can lead to bad things health wise if the protein misfold.

Distributed Computing in a nutshell is when two or more computers work together on a project(data) or parts or a project(data) while communicating over a network. It uses there servers on site as well as all the other computers folding and uses that power to process the information simultaneously as needed. This is where WUs come into play, this will be discussed in later FAQs. All of the personal/team info and stats can be found on several sites. Stanford does this for research and are actually spending money to keep it going, hence the reason we are helping them.

No profit is made only the hope for finding cures to disease and illnesses in which we currently have no cures.