The NVidia Fermi chipset was pitched early on as a computational accelerator, offering high-speed double-precision performance beyond anything available on the market. While this initially infurated NVidia Graphics fans, most of the Fermi benchmark results posted so far have been very graphics heavy. Earlier this week, NVidia announced that they’ve released a beta Folding@Home client to use the GTX480, and as shown in the tweet above the results are astounding.
With the introduction of Fermi and the GeForce GTX 400 GPUs, we recognized we had the opportunity to raise the bar even higher, and began working closely with the Folding@home team to jointly craft an efficient client tuned to the Fermi architecture. Now that client is available in Beta, and it’s the first Folding@home GPU client to achieve more than 1 microsecond per day performance.
via The NVIDIA Blog – Folding@Home Releases Beta Client for NVIDIA GTX 400 GPUs.
