In my quest to pressgang shonky old cards into folding service, I've come across an nVidia QuadroFX 1400. I know it's a CAD card, but anyone have any idea if it might make a resonable folder? Can't seem to find much about it around other than it not being good for games.
Is it not worth just using fold-enabled graphics cards and running them with the GPU client on the system?
It's a ballache to setup GPU folding in Linux. If you go for Windows bigadv then you can add a client or two but more than a couple used to slow down folding just enough to cost bonus points.
Oh yeah, I didn't mean more than the single card. Just thinking to make the most of it As for the OS, I did setup my first Linux-based folding rig on Friday afternoon, but I used Origami (Linux-based folding program) to run that. I'm not sure if it's SMP (it seems to be running two different work units, so I think it's running 1 WU per core on a E5504). Can't say I like it tbh, but that's just me. Windows all the way
No he means if you're setting up a -bigadv rig, you simply whack the card in to boot the machine and allow the SMP client to fold. If you want to fold GPUs though mate, replace it. Personally, I'll be running my i7 rig on bigadvs with 1, perhaps 2 GPUs. Thing is, with bigadv units, you don't want to run too many GPUs on the processor as it will pull away from the processing power for the SMP client, which bigadv's need because they are so close to deadlines
Ah, gotcha. Thanks. I've not looked into the bigadv units too much due to a lack of higher-end spare hardware. Two spare Pentium Ds and two spare E6550s can't help either thanks to a general lack of dual socket s775 boards.
