NVIDIA the top contributor to Folding@Home

[Andreas G]

NVIDIA's CUDA venture and GPGPU applications seem to have fanned out well, and if there is anyone beside NVIDIA who is happy about the result it's Stanford University and the Folding@Home project. It didn't take long before NVIDIA took over the list of the most contributing player. According to statistics supplied by Stanford on August 19, NVIDIA supplies 42% of the total calculation power through its graphics processors. Quite impressive since the number of processors is actually just 5 percent of the total number of processors.

NVIDIA contributes with 1251 TFLOPS through a total of 11,370 active processors, while Windows-based computers  contribute with 208,268 active processors that can only do 198 TFLOPS. It might be worth mentioning that AMD/ATI contributes with 334 TFLOPS through only 3,032 active processors. If you do some quick math you will see that NVIDIA and ATI are head to head with an almost identical TFLOPS/processor ratio;

ATI :: 0.11014 TFLOPS per processor
NVIDIA :: 0.11002 TFLOPS per processor

If we look at the pure contributed power it's Sony and PlayStation 3 with its Cell processor that are closest to NVIDIA with 1080 TFLOPS.

[nvidiaamd]

Just to compensate for this I´ve started running F@H sometimes on my HD3870
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[Mean Machine]

I'd like to see Folding@Home on the PS3 using both the Cell CPU and the RSX.
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[Delph1]

True, Linux on PS3 is no fun.

//Andreas
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[Mean Machine]

It's become worse with the later firmware versions as well. Even less way to access the RSX.
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