Shock & Awe

[lucid]

Well, I was idley dreaming this morning with my calulator and a figure I've seen in which a G5 processor can fold a single percentage of a protein in about 5 minutes. Check these figures out.

Virginia Tech:
1100 Dual G5's

Single G5 Stats
~2.8 WUs/day
~19.6 WUs/week

2.8 WUs x 2200 processors = 6,160 WUs/day
19.6 WUs x 2200 processors = 43,120 WUs/week

Figuring on an average of 30 points per WU, that works out to 1,293,600 points PER WEEK! :eek:

If only it were so... :D

-Joel

[EDIT: Fixed erronious calculation. I used the #'s for what a dual G5 would be outputting overall per day/week and then used it as if it were a single G5. Still impressive though.]

[maineroad]

Good work lucid. That is really amazing.

Imagine what the new farm of Xserves with 970fx's will do to those figures.

[Mr. Anderson]

Damn, if only we could have them fold for us one day a month, it would make a huge difference :D

That's just nuts!

D

[virividox]

if they let u use their machine one day in a month by the years end ud be withint he top 10 hehe if only it were so

[MacFan25]

That would be great, but unfortunately I don't think they're going to let us use them.

BTW, I just started folding today - on an iMac 800 and a 1Ghz PIII. They may not be the fastest, but I'm glad to be a part of the team. :)

[twiztidn8v]

Welcome to the team MacFan! Any contribution is welcome to both our team and folding in general!

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by MacFan25
That would be great, but unfortunately I don't think they're going to let us use them.

BTW, I just started folding today - on an iMac 800 and a 1Ghz PIII. They may not be the fastest, but I'm glad to be a part of the team. :)

Ah, everything helps.

Welcome to the team.


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