Advance Folding Question

[ir_cow]

So I was looking at the GTX Titan folding and after reading a bit I found once you enable titans full compute power it downclocks to like 750mhz and has no ECC ram compared to the  Tesla k20. So if you simply manually overclock it back up you get roughly a Tesla k20 for a lot cheaper.

 

anyways aside from practical use like V-ray (realtime ray-tracing) or H.264 rendering (soon 265 for 4k ) does anyone know how it would perform in folding? Does Folding even take advange of mutli threads and FP64? I can't seem to find a answer if folding is still limited to FP32 or just happens to be Femi had a crippled FP64 (useless) core and Kelpter was FP32 only.

 

if anyone could point me to a good read (article) about the techinal side of folding or knows this answer that would be awesome.

 

edit: I did find a thread about someone who tested a Tesla 1060 (basically a GTX 280) and it was getting around what a GTX 580 was doing. This is because from what i gather on the at lest older Teslas they had a onboard chip to act as a buffer and also of course the core wasn't crippled.

Edited March 12, 2013 by hornybluecow

[SpeedCrazy]

I'm not 100% sure what your asking.

The tesla K20(several versions of) is supported according to the whitelist. Is that what you want to know? The Titan is also supported.

[ir_cow]

1) to see if Titan is supported yet 2) does folding support FP64 or is it stuck in 32 that mostly all cards outside Telsa are stuck with . if they only optimized for FP64 or a limited number of threads than Titan wouldn't be faster than say a 680.

 

I don't know so that's why I'm asking . Also if someone knows where I could find the technical documents explaining folding so I could find the answer that way.

[SpeedCrazy]

1) to see if Titan is supported yet 2) does folding support FP64 or is it stuck in 32 that mostly all cards outside Telsa are stuck with . if they only optimized for FP64 or a limited number of threads than Titan wouldn't be faster than say a 680.

 

I don't know so that's why I'm asking . Also if someone knows where I could find the technical documents explaining folding so I could find the answer that way.

You know, the easiest way to find out would be to head over to the folding forums and ask. The staff are around almost all the time to answer technical questions.