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Would it be possible, or even worthwhile, to have a category under the CPU or GPU charts denoting their performance under popular volunteer and grid based computing projects? I know Toms has a Folding at Home team which that project is similar to some of the BOINC projects.(http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php).
Having charts to give you an idea of of where certain hardware stands in this respect is crucial. For example I participate in RSA Labs' 72bit RC5 Encryption Challenge. AMD's GPU offerings completely dominate the field, but in F@H and others, it is the complete opposite.
(http://n1cgi.distributed.net/speed/query.php?cputype=all&arch=4&contest=rc572&multi=3)

There are also GPUs other than the standard gaming graphics cards on the market that can help in research computing such as AMD FireStream GPU Compute Accelerators. I have yet to really see any benchmarks on those cards, which might be useful in these projects.
Thanks for your time.

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This is a good point, and would make Toms somewhat unique by doing so
Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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