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Hard no. Amazon EFA can barely come close to a dated HPC interconnect from the lower part of the top500 (when it comes to running code that does use the network, e.g. molecular dyn…

In fact, _better_ than Chrome for most websites (exceptions perhaps google's). I used to struggle with Chrome/Chromium hang and chew on CPU cores, crawl to a halt, crash, or just s…

Without HBM or more memory channels, the top SKUs will be rather hard to feed considering the (claimed) at least ~3-5x increase in instructions/s/socket while only increasing memor…

> But that has little bearing on either what’s possible in the future, There is certainly a chance that 10-100x more flops will appear on the fah network, but as I said I just don'…

Unfortunately typically there is no way to directly donate funds (especially not $10, even if there are 10000 people who'd do that on a monthly basis) to some research (group) of o…

> I do agree it's difficult to formulate how to ask for donations (money or cpu-time), you need to seem optimistic otherwise nobody would do it but research takes a huge amount of …

On a second thought, projects like the Exscalate4CoV [1] might have a chance to contribute even short-term as they do have the explciit goal to also focus on "Identify virtually an…

We're talking about Folding@Home not any (or all) distributed computing project(s). I've not seen recent stats on the size of the FAH network, so not sure how does it compare to la…

My colleagues run numerous projects that transfer knowledge between computational research, including molecular simulations, and wetlab research as a routine. Computational and wet…

> But Folding@Home is setup for home, Nothing prevents running the fah client on nodes of a compute cluster -- in fact my colleagues did that (while running a local F@H server), th…

I agree. In fact, donating in other ways, e.g. giving free programming, HPC etc. education to more researchers can have a higher impact on the long run.

> Does anyone else do it better? To that question, assuming by "anyone" here you are asking about other donate-your-cycles-distributed-computing-projects: I am not too familiar wit…

> When donating money or compute time, I want my donation to be used efficiently and not be wasted by high overheads. Fair point. I think this is something you should bring up with…

Sure, I'm aware that this is fundamental research (likely not on actual protein folding, but haven't looked at the details), which will probably not have short-term outcomes, not o…

Can you please elaborate? Are you referring to the F@H CPU "cores" being outdated and inefficient?

It would be nice if NVIDIA donated compute time on one of their large in-house machines the DGX SuperPOD [1] or the DGX SAturn V [2] (#20 and #67 on the last Top500, resp.) for COV…

[Disclaimer: How do I know this stuff? I'm a core developer of GROMACS, one of the major molecular dynamics simulation FOSS community codes. Molecular dynamic is the algorithm/meth…

Hahha, good one. Just that by the time that one dev implements everything, you'll be overtaken by the competition -- at least that's what everyone's fear is, and it's partly warran…

Well, those who were willing to pay the ~$150k for the DGX-1 (Volta-16Gb upgraded IIRC), won't necessarily find it too much -- and NVIDIA is after quick money before the markets st…

Wild guess / conspiracy theory: Intel, afraid of the damage to their image just made worse by diminished performance advantage compared to AMD )due to Meltdown), fearing long-term …

First indications of early KAISER fix testing in the wild..? (which might have also been a test to see how will customers react)

That's correct and it is a fair way to see it. However, Intel dragging two of its main competitors name into the limelight is a rather uncool move.