High Schools, Community Colleges and Elementary Schools

Moderators: Site Moderators, FAHC Science Team

Post Reply
Chris3035
Posts: 1
Joined: Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:41 am

High Schools, Community Colleges and Elementary Schools

Post by Chris3035 »

How much computing power do our schools have?

What would be the effect of every computer in every Community College, every High School and every Elementary Schools downloaded the Folding@Home App?

We have 1,125 Community Colleges, 24,000 High Schools and 89,000 Elementary Schools in America

How much computing power does every X-Box and Playstation have?

106 Million PlayStation 4 Units have been sold and 47 Milliom Xbox One Units have been sold

If every one of them had Folding@Home installed, what effect would that have?

What about a Cellphone app? There are 3.5 Billion Smartphone users in the world.
PantherX
Site Moderator
Posts: 7020
Joined: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:33 am
Hardware configuration: V7.6.21 -> Multi-purpose 24/7
Windows 10 64-bit
CPU:2/3/4/6 -> Intel i7-6700K
GPU:1 -> Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti
§
Retired:
2x Nvidia GTX 1070
Nvidia GTX 675M
Nvidia GTX 660 Ti
Nvidia GTX 650 SC
Nvidia GTX 260 896 MB SOC
Nvidia 9600GT 1 GB OC
Nvidia 9500M GS
Nvidia 8800GTS 320 MB

Intel Core i7-860
Intel Core i7-3840QM
Intel i3-3240
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300
Intel Pentium E5500
Intel Pentium E5400
Location: Land Of The Long White Cloud
Contact:

Re: High Schools, Community Colleges and Elementary Schools

Post by PantherX »

Welcome to the F@H Forum Chris3035,

For schools, as long as there's permission (generally written) to use the hardware, it can be used.

Regarding the gaming consoles, there was a PS3 client but when Sony stopped supporting it, F@H could no longer use it. However, I do hope that Microsoft/Sony will partner up in the future for their next generation consoles.

Mobiles and other portable devices using ARM requires a significant amount of work. While I am not aware of any plans, things may change (or not) in the future.
ETA:
Now ↞ Very Soon ↔ Soon ↔ Soon-ish ↔ Not Soon ↠ End Of Time

Welcome To The F@H Support Forum Ӂ Troubleshooting Bad WUs Ӂ Troubleshooting Server Connectivity Issues
foldy
Posts: 2061
Joined: Sat Dec 01, 2012 3:43 pm
Hardware configuration: Folding@Home Client 7.6.13 (1 GPU slots)
Windows 7 64bit
Intel Core i5 2500k@4Ghz
Nvidia gtx 1080ti driver 441

Re: High Schools, Community Colleges and Elementary Schools

Post by foldy »

Currently FAH wants results returned fast. That is why fast GPUs are preferred.

There are similar projects like FAH which already run on smartphone.

I would like to see a FAHclient on Playstation/Xbox as on christmas the next gen will get released and then the older gen gets retired. These could run FAH 24/7 if Microsoft/Sony would support it.
Jonazz
Posts: 357
Joined: Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:08 pm

Re: High Schools, Community Colleges and Elementary Schools

Post by Jonazz »

foldy wrote:Currently FAH wants results returned fast. That is why fast GPUs are preferred.

There are similar projects like FAH which already run on smartphone.

I would like to see a FAHclient on Playstation/Xbox as on christmas the next gen will get released and then the older gen gets retired. These could run FAH 24/7 if Microsoft/Sony would support it.
af FAH client on gaming consoles will also introduce more people to the project. The PS3 client is what got me to fold in the first place. Maybe I would have never installed F@H without the PS3 client...
Post Reply