I wish the Active Projects page show supported compute architectures CPU, GPU or both
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:40 pm
https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary
The reason why I wish this page would show the architecture compatibility of each project is, is to see if there are any projects in which CPU cores can be used efficiently i.e. no GPU support? Whereas I believe many projects support both processor architectures and so spare CPU cycles are computing way less efficiently (more units of electricity) than if a GPU was doing the same work. And there is probably a surplus of CPU compute available on the network that CPU-only projects already have plenty of power so the rest goes to 'busy work adjacent' in which a GPU could do instead.
Also, if there are projects that are CPU-only, is there a way to just allow those projects on the machine? There are allowable project categories such as Cancer but not specific project IDs, on the GUI at least.
It would be nice if supported architectures on the Active Projects page would be in the table and able to enable only specific project IDs on the machine. Has someone maintained a list?
BOINC projects including 'umbrella' type such as WCG it is typically easy to see which architectures are supported on each and each sub project, why not Folding?
The reason why I wish this page would show the architecture compatibility of each project is, is to see if there are any projects in which CPU cores can be used efficiently i.e. no GPU support? Whereas I believe many projects support both processor architectures and so spare CPU cycles are computing way less efficiently (more units of electricity) than if a GPU was doing the same work. And there is probably a surplus of CPU compute available on the network that CPU-only projects already have plenty of power so the rest goes to 'busy work adjacent' in which a GPU could do instead.
Also, if there are projects that are CPU-only, is there a way to just allow those projects on the machine? There are allowable project categories such as Cancer but not specific project IDs, on the GUI at least.
It would be nice if supported architectures on the Active Projects page would be in the table and able to enable only specific project IDs on the machine. Has someone maintained a list?
BOINC projects including 'umbrella' type such as WCG it is typically easy to see which architectures are supported on each and each sub project, why not Folding?