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yeah, it's ends up being pretty crazy with modern GPUs (also still crazy that we have multiple teraflops of single precision math capacity in such a small add-in card)

Presumably though they're boosting the points so much because most of the value for them is in being able to trace through a simulation quickly- each of these WU's is just a handful of nanoseconds of simulated time, and the insights come from having a much longer thread of simulation.
Their software is actually really neat and novel, it automatically figures out some details about subsets of the folding solution from all the individual simulations and builds new work to test out those assumptions and connect the individual pieces that have been discovered in parallel, that's how they can simulate much longer folding proteins without actually simulating it end-to-end.
(data point: one of my GPUs would take 88 years to simulate a millisecond of time in the WU it's currently running. Molecular dynamics is complicated.)

I'm Chip. I've been folding with you guys for a month or so. I think I've got about 160WU's.. it's a start.

I'm an old guy of 36 and am the webmaster for Clan Beowulf. I've been working hard learning PHP (we run PHPNuke). I just made my first PHP scripts to post and archive Pics of the Day (POD). I'll be making it into my first PHPNuke module this week.

I like to hit the gym when I'm not doing geek stuff. That's how I got my nick Chip. I'll spare you the full story.

I learned of you guys through Gargoyle and Buddy Jesus Oklahoma University guys.

We have our own BattleField 1942 Desert Combat mod server on a T3 in Oklahoma. It's called The Witch's Castle. We have the whole OZ theme going on with our server names. 164.58.157.20

Oh ya, and that avatar is my face I put on my Quake3 character. Tut's on how to do that sort of thing are in our Content section of our website.

Nobody asked me, but I'm going to tell you anyway
I currently have 2 mostly dedicated systems doing CPU with 2x GTX970 GPUs each; The 970 gets just over 250k PPD pretty consistently
(In all the excitement there might be some more hardware on the way....)

That's just my home PC. The GPUs are doing the heavy lifting - a pair of R9 Fury 4GBs each doing somewhere between 300-600k/day if they're stable. CPU's a 4790K doing about 10k/day.