I mentioned before that I fold for Folding@Home, I installed it in a spare server that’s doing nothing and while doing that, I was browsing around their website. I just found out that your video card can start folding too!

With quad-cores coming out, dual-GPU through SLI (nVidia) or CrossFire (ATI/AMD), how moch gigaflops can we get nowadays?

Now in 2006, we are looking forward to another major advance in capabilities. This advance utilizes the new, high performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from ATI to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers. With this new technology (as well as the new Cell processor in Sony’s PlayStation 3), we will soon be able to attain performance on the 100 gigaflop scale per computer…

…Folding@home has developed a new streaming processor core to utilize another new generation of hardware: GPU’s with programmable floating-point capability. By writing highly optimized, hand tuned code to run on ATI X1900 class GPU’s, the science of Folding@home will see another 20x to 30x speed increase over its previous software (Gromacs) for certain applications. This great speed increase is achieved by running essentially the complete molecular dynamics calculation on the GPU

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