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Seeking The Best Performance per Watt for Folding at Home
We got so excited in participating in the
Folding@Home project that we built as many high performance systems we could
running both the SMP and GPU clients. We were very happy with the results until
we received our first electricity bill: our energy consumption more than
doubled – and we haven't even had our systems running 24/7 for 30 days! Since
we still wanted to contribute as much as we can to Folding@Home, we decided to
go in a quest to find out if there is a way to score lots of points at
Folding@Home and, at the same time, not going bankrupt. We got all video cards
we had available here in our lab to see which one provided the best
performance/consumption ratio. Check it out. @ Hardware Secrets @