Folding Forum

OK, just got through reading this article:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the- ... 100-tested

What struck me most was the transcoding performance of the dedicated paths in the new Sandy Bridge CPU.






Now, I know this is not CUDA or ATI's implementation for GPU transcoding, so things might not work right, but I just wanted the powers that be here to realize that there is potentially some really amazing performance in these new chips, if FAH GPU can be modified to work using the new Quick Sync hardware in Sandy Bridge.

Might not be possible, but if speeds like this pan out, we could be talking some pretty amazing results.

IIRC, that is because of the implementation of AVX which gives the astounding performance during video en/de/transcoding. Furthermore, GROMACS will eventually support AVX (viewtopic.php?f=38&t=15257)

Yep, Gromacs.org will have to add this support first, then Stanford can give it a go.

Technically, transcoding and Quick Sync are rather specific processes used in video processing, and because they're used a lot, it makes sense to design specialized hardware to speed up those exact processes. Gromacs doesn't do video processing so that specialized hardware will not be used by Gromacs.

AVX is also specialized hardware but is less specific and can be used for a variety of different things, including speeding up those portions of video processing that are not done by pure hardware . . . and speeding up things like Gromacs.

//hopes for implementation in the V7 client//

brentpresley wrote://hopes for implementation in the V7 client//

All the folding work is done by the cores, not the client so what you want is it to be implemented in some new cores.

. . . and a new client will continue to use the existing cores, at least until they're replaced by a new one (hopefully starting with the ATI core, which is most in need of being rewritten).

An AVX-based core isn't likely to appear soon. It will take a while before there are as many AVX-based computers as there are computers that can run SMP or GPU or Classic software.

From what I'm seeing of a review site actually Folding a WU as a Benchmark test. The I7-2600k is going to be a nice cpu to get. Even just the regular I7-2600 should be a winner too for A3 smp's.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1501/19/

4.9 GHz !!!