Beating Cancer In Fun Ways – Graphics Card Server Farm
Runs Folding@Home
By Malcolm Owen | No CommentsLeave a Comment
Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 5:59 pm

As a member of “society” (you can loosely call it that), sometimes you feel the need to help others. Sadly, that usually comes at the price of doing something vaguely boring, disgusting or degrading in order to help (for example sponge baths, as in you washing someone with a sponge and water, not you getting bathed).

Folding@Home is one way of “helping”, but really it isn’t if you only run it on your home machine and maybe your PS3. You need to use multiple machines, or if you are adventurous, a server farm. That is one large step in the right direction, but you can always go one further…

Overclock.net forumgoer “nitteo” has decided to go down the road of graphical prowess. Using a large number of graphics cards, a few motherboards and one control station, nitteo is capable of over 260,000 points of work in 24 hours. That is a lot, when many people have trouble getting into just 4 figures.

Although it’s great for the fight against things like Cancer, the real question is: Will it run Rage?

[Via Bit-Tech]