most people working with FPGAs will have a reasonably capable PC under their desk. You can make that CPU power available for COVID-19 research when it sits idle through Rosetta@home.
The project has apparently been around for many years doing protein research. A summary is here.
I found that on Windows, installation is pretty straightforward:
It can be configured in many ways e.g. set it to use CPU power only if the machine has been idle for a minute. I leave it running at 100 % in the background and don't notice any obvious slowdown.
From the few hours I've spent on the topic I got the impression that my old (but water-cooled and diligently overclocked) desktop still outclasses the other hardware I've tried: The newer laptop has good burst performance but goes into thermal throttling after a few seconds. ARM-based Android devices were far off, they probably have better power efficiency but lack the memory bandwidth (e.g. I see ~10 GB for 12 threads plus 2GB storage).
So take this as a motivational speech that your FPGA design rig could be a valuable contributor. About one day of uptime got me on position 392.924 of the Rosetta@home worldwide ranking and I hope this post will motivate many of you to beat this ?
Question
xc6lx45
Hi,
most people working with FPGAs will have a reasonably capable PC under their desk. You can make that CPU power available for COVID-19 research when it sits idle through Rosetta@home.
The project has apparently been around for many years doing protein research. A summary is here.
I found that on Windows, installation is pretty straightforward:
From the few hours I've spent on the topic I got the impression that my old (but water-cooled and diligently overclocked) desktop still outclasses the other hardware I've tried: The newer laptop has good burst performance but goes into thermal throttling after a few seconds. ARM-based Android devices were far off, they probably have better power efficiency but lack the memory bandwidth (e.g. I see ~10 GB for 12 threads plus 2GB storage).
So take this as a motivational speech that your FPGA design rig could be a valuable contributor. About one day of uptime got me on position 392.924 of the Rosetta@home worldwide ranking and I hope this post will motivate many of you to beat this ?
Cheers
Markus
Link to comment
Share on other sites
0 answers to this question
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.