Folding@Home GPU FOLDING GETS A POWERUP WITH NVIDIA CUDA SUPPORT!

RONNIE

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TOGETHER WE ARE EVEN MORE POWERFUL: GPU FOLDING GETS A POWERUP WITH NVIDIA CUDA SUPPORT!
September 28, 2020
by John Chodera

CUDA support comes to Folding@home to give NVIDIA GPUs big boosts in speed, and you don’t have to do anything to activate it!
GPU Folders make up a huge fraction of the number-crunching power power of Folding@home, enabling us to help projects like the COVID Moonshot open science drug discovery project evaluate thousands of molecules per week in their quest to produce a new low-cost patent-free therapy for COVID-19.

To read more: https://foldingathome.org/2020/09/28/foldingathome-gets-cuda-support/
 

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I'm sure there will be some bugs to work out but this is great news. A well optimized CUDA app should be much more productive on Nvidia hardware than the OpenCL app. (y)
 
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