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AMD HD7970 announced
(Message 27493)
Posted 4157 days ago by  Christopher Herr
I gave up the hope for OpenCL-app since the start of donate@home. IMHO the question is: Is it wise to release an APP for AMD, when you can earn money from the performance of AMD at donate? That will canabalize donate, which is only a support project to fund GPUGrid. Yes, that is exactly what I have been thinking since Donate was rumored and since Kepler was glorified; now they found an excuse for all AMD owners, as poor as that is, that they gave the volunteers an AMD application to support this project, well, indirectly by running none science related bitcoining at yet another project spoiling the volunteers with credits instead of doing valuable science. The developers are simply too inexperienced with AMD OpenCL, so they blame it on everything else, that is the only thing I can conclude from that. I am not an OpenCL developer, but then again this is not my task, as I am donating my hardware, power and time to a project refusing to adapt to another programming platform than CUDA... This is all I have to say about that. Now the CUDA fanboys are free to call me names, insult me and bash me again, as that is what happens every time AMD owners complain rightfully... :)) |
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New beta application for kepler is out
(Message 25962)
Posted 4313 days ago by Christopher Herr
Try updating to 7.0.28; if I remember correctly 7.0.25 has some bug... |
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Graphics cards (GPUs) :
Asus MARS III
(Message 25548)
Posted 4334 days ago by Christopher Herr
Yeah, Carlesa25, a monster! Just by the looks of it I tend to say many cases would have problems to let that huge beauty fit in. Not speaking of the power requirements; three eight-pin power connectors?? Can anyone say 'Ouch'? :P Either two fully blown first generation Keplers on that PCB without underclocking or ASUS has overdone headroom for overclocking a little bit. :D And not speaking of the price, I guess it has not hit the market yet. If anyone is crazy enough, hummm sry I wanted to say, wants to spend a fortune on one of those beauties and is actually fortunate enough to get his hands on one since it is 'Limited Edition', give us a report of its performance, please! :) |
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Graphics cards (GPUs) :
New beta application for kepler is out
(Message 25136)
Posted 4355 days ago by Christopher Herr
Anyone of those having problems ever thought about upgrading BOINC to latest from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl, perhaps? BTW it is working good also on a GTX480 @825 core with ForceWare 296.10 under Win 7 Pro x64. :) |
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New beta application for kepler is out
(Message 25130)
Posted 4355 days ago by Christopher Herr
A first tentative version for windows is out. Seems to, I let exactly 20 of the beta tasks run with stock settings and they all validated: http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?hostid=120909&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=21 Tell me, if you can use the link, please! Win 7 Pro x64, i7 870 @2.93GHz, ASUS P7P55D-E, 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP and most important two Gigabyte NVidia GeForce GTX 680 OC 2GB and Forceware 301.24. BOINC 7.0.27 x64. Runtimes around 60 seconds, as you can see, load was around 80% when tasks were running. |
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Graphics cards (GPUs) :
GPUGRID and ATI
(Message 22818)
Posted 4500 days ago by Christopher Herr
Well, if this should or will indeed be the final verdict here, then this will be it for me! If that is all, you were able to conclude in around two years, then this is disappointing and poor! I have two fairly newish AMD Radeon HD 6990/ATI Radeon HD 5970 cards here, that of course do well on other projects, but will supposedly not here... A project that thinks its volunteers can afford high-priced high-end cards every year, is severely mistaken, has lost it and obviously is living in a dream world! Why not simply making the prerequisite of a working quantum computer, if you want to sort out only wealthy gals and guys? I do not intend to spend countless €s on new state-of-the-art GPU hardware every year just to be able to run your project! And btw regarding that there has allegedly not been enough time to take care of this matter earlier: was the new website REALLY that important for the project or the science? The old one did it for me personally quite well IMHO. Sorry, this becomes frustrating and unnerving! Every new post in here makes one think: "Oooh, now there is good news!" and the news just go from bad to worse! Have a nice Christmas though and I hope Santa is putting a thousand brand new, top model AMD Radeon HD 7990 under your Christmas trees even before release date, or however the enthusiast card will be named then! ;) Ban me, if you must, for I am beginning to not care anymore! |
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GPUGRID and ATI
(Message 22588)
Posted 4528 days ago by Christopher Herr
Either give your volunteers a definitive date when there will be an app, and I mean definitive, or a definitive statement 'There will never be an ATI/AMD OpenCL app for the following reasons'! But please not this "sitting between two chairs" any longer! No, SMTB1963, I am not joking, but I have not 'demanded' anything as well. I said 'please' as you see in the second phrase of your quoted text of mine. :) Yes, you are right, we are the volunteers, but we are also the volunteers! :) We support science and the scientists more or less personally with volunteering a lot of money for hardware and power. In some cases this munificence makes the science possible in the first place, and I think this is one of these cases. I do not see myself as a 'Megacruncher', if that is a part of my statement that should have been misunderstood. But I know a lot of guys in my team and elsewhere, that could be interested in unleashing a lot of power AMD-wise (and CUDA-wise) on this project. And it is my point of view that all volunteers deserve to be kept up to date on the progress of such undertakings on a regular basis by an official. With this kind of answer of GDF and others: We would like to get some alpha app for ati/amd out by the end of the year. However, we don't know if it will good enough to go in production. The update of the server has required a very large amount of work so far. I am satisfied, because it contains all the official information I waited for. First, there is an app in alpha development status, second, it could (and perhaps will) be buggy, third, the reasons that hindered the progress... Thank you to all officials and I look forward to help (alpha- or beta-)testing the app and will continue waiting with fingers crossed. Please continue keeping us up to date whenever you can find the time! Cheers and sorry again, if my chose of words in English was misunderstanding, as I am German and not a native speaker! |
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GPUGRID and ATI
(Message 22579)
Posted 4529 days ago by Christopher Herr
Right, TomaszPawel, 'this calls for immediate discussion', this seems to be all that is happening on the ATI/AMD front... 'Nothing new in the east, west, north and south'?! I am getting frustrated with waiting; right now I have an AMD Radeon HD 6990 and an ATI Radeon HD 5970, the former quite new, the latter sort of newish, but both ready to jump train, as soon as there might even be a beta app and work for it! So you so to say waste the power of four high-end GPUs... Either give your volunteers a definitive date when there will be an app, and I mean definitive, or a definitive statement 'There will never be an ATI/AMD OpenCL app for the following reasons'! But please not this "sitting between two chairs" any longer! |
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GPUGRID and ATI
(Message 20961)
Posted 4754 days ago by Christopher Herr
Hello everyone, I would like to ask everyone to keep their posts in English so everyone can read them, despite being not a native English speaker, thank you! I am no Englishman neither, but I give my best to do postings in English only... Greetings from Germany and I am waiting for a working ATI OpenCL app with fingers crossed, whenever I can spare them as well! Christopher |
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acemd2 611 cuda3.1 for Fermi
(Message 18377)
Posted 4991 days ago by Christopher Herr
Hello liveonc, Thanks a lot! Will try that the next time I tinker with a full Linux install. All the best, Christopher |
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