According to the latest
F@H statistics, graphics cards processors are pretty much
outperforming traditional CPU’s.
The current factor is about 75 GFlops on GPU against an average of
1GFlops on a CPU. (this varies because of very old processors and
modern processors with about 14 GFlops).

Anyway at the moment we see 370 GPUs doing the same amount of work
as 29000 CPUs. This is really great for the F@H project, although the GPU
cores at the moment are only capable of doing basic calculations
with the gromacs application. Other applications have to be heavily
rewritten, and/or are not able to run every calculation on GPUs and
therefore have to use the main CPU for those parts of the
calculation.

And another game for the next birthday
party:
Let your guests calculate Pi by playing some rounds of
“darts”.

Do this by targeting the blue shaped square on the above figure.
And then simply count the darts you are throwing and that will be
inside the square, and additionally the darts that miss the board
and hit inside the marked blue area.

And after a few rounds, let’s say 1.000-100.000 should be enough
to see some good results.
Now use this formula:

A small hint for the frustrated, invite people that are able to aim
the upper left square, but are not so much pros that they will
always hit the board only.

And another game for the next birthday
party: