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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 17 Mar 2008 12:10:43
Message: <47dea613$1@news.povray.org>

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Hmm let's see what's available on the farm.
> 
> Ooo, I didn't know you were a farmer?

I meant "render farm"...

>> How big are your sources? :)
> 
> About 3 KB?

Send me them and I'll see what comes out of the Xeons.

> Actually, reminds me of something I saw this morning. Some guy saying 
> there's basically "no point" in adding more CPUs to the Folding@Home 
> project, because a single GPU is something like 50x faster while using 
> less electricity...

There's many processes done by Folding@Home that can only be done in 
CPUs. GPUs are the fastest but least flexible (= can run a limited 
subset of algorithms) for the Folding project.


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