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The GPU Advances: ATI's Stream Processing & Folding@Home

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Eric LaFrance
 Post subject: The GPU Advances: ATI's Stream Processing & Folding@Home
 Post Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:03 pm 
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http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2849&p=1

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Both ATI and NVIDIA have been looking to put the expanded capabilities of their GPUs to good use, with varying success. So far, the only types of programs that have effectively tapped this power other than applications and games requiring 3D rendering have also been video related, such as video decoders, encoders, and video effect processors. In short, the GPU has been underutilized, as there are many tasks that are floating-point hungry while not visual in nature, and these programs have not used the GPU to any large degree so far.
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"With this kind of speedup, the Folding@Home research group is looking to finally be able to run simulations involving longer folding periods and more complex proteins that they couldn't run before, allowing them to research new proteins that were previously inaccessible. This implementation also allows them to finally do some research on their own, without requiring the entire world's help, by building a cluster of (relatively) cheap video cards to do research, something they've never been able to do before."
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