Well, this forum has certainly waned over time! I used to be in the top 10 for Rosetta@Home back a few years ago before work and the number of computers I had changed. Recently I built a Core i7 with an ATI 5870 and I thought I'd see what Team Anandtech was up to these days. How is everyone?!
I see Rosetta isn't used much anymore. I thought I'd look into F@H, but I've run into a few snags, and maybe someone could give me a few pointers. First, I see that GPU3 isn't out yet and is necessary to get any real boost from the 5870 video card, oh well. Secondly, I see that the bigadv WUs only work on Linux and I run Windows 7 as my primary OS. Third, I use VMWare Workstation 7 and I cannot get it to support more than 4 CPUs, no matter what I try. Lastly, VMWare Player 3 cannot co-exist with Workstation 7 it would seem as it uninstalls Workstation every time I attempt installing Player. I can't go without Workstation for work stuff though. Argh!
In a nutshell, it appears F@H is not yet ready to take advantage of my hardware until GPU3 and a Windows client that supports bigadv. Rosetta won't take advantage of 64-bit or the 5870 either. Got any suggestions to make F@H work with Workstation 7 or a project that would be advantageous to run on my machine?
I see Rosetta isn't used much anymore. I thought I'd look into F@H, but I've run into a few snags, and maybe someone could give me a few pointers. First, I see that GPU3 isn't out yet and is necessary to get any real boost from the 5870 video card, oh well. Secondly, I see that the bigadv WUs only work on Linux and I run Windows 7 as my primary OS. Third, I use VMWare Workstation 7 and I cannot get it to support more than 4 CPUs, no matter what I try. Lastly, VMWare Player 3 cannot co-exist with Workstation 7 it would seem as it uninstalls Workstation every time I attempt installing Player. I can't go without Workstation for work stuff though. Argh!
In a nutshell, it appears F@H is not yet ready to take advantage of my hardware until GPU3 and a Windows client that supports bigadv. Rosetta won't take advantage of 64-bit or the 5870 either. Got any suggestions to make F@H work with Workstation 7 or a project that would be advantageous to run on my machine?