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by dekhn
1607 days ago
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supercomputers are specialized products with fast networking to enable real-time updates between nodes. The total node count is limited by the cost of the interconnect to get near-peak performance. You typically run one very large simulation for a long period of simulation time. folding@home doesn't have the luxury of fast networks, jut lots of CPU/GPU. They run many smaller simulations for shorter times, then collect the results and do stats on them. I looked at the various approaches and sided with folding@home. At one point I had 1 million fast CPU cores running gromacs. |
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