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Wish list :
ATI Cards?
(Message 14824)
Posted 5192 days ago by  Aleksander Parkitny
Maybe talking to the guys from F@H would help? They produced app for ATI cards. So maybe they can guide You? |
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ATI Cards?
(Message 14176)
Posted 5211 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
The new ATI 5xxx series are openCL capable and there is increasing number of BOINC projects with CUDA support which means more competition for the GPU cycles. Just look at the Collatz or MilkyWay pojects. They are able to produce an ATI app and You can see how much work they're doing right now. Still the Folding@Home is also using the ATI cards.... |
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(Message 12312)
Posted 5341 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
Is anything moving in that topic? Do You guys even try to create ATI app?? |
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GPUGRID CAFE :
Request for donations
(Message 12310)
Posted 5341 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
Create app for ATI gpus then you will have more people cruning and more people that will be interested in donating money to your project. Really guys... if F@H is doing the same hob as You do and they ware able to create the app for ATI gpus. Why don't You give it a try?? The more people crunche for You. the faster the progres of the project, and the more people will donate. |
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ATI Cards?
(Message 11500)
Posted 5376 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
any sign of the petition to the ATI guys?? |
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(Message 11127)
Posted 5394 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
Gipsel helped them :D http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ and since you guys don't need double precission (like MW does) maybe You can benefit from ATI cards. Since there are alreday 5 projects using CUDA and only two using ATI. It will be more compettion for you on the CUDA power :D You really should consider creating ATI app... |
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(Message 10499)
Posted 5424 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
So maybe You should make a petition to ATI guys :D i would gladly sign it :D |
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(Message 10462)
Posted 5427 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
Rewriting the code should apply to all projects (since inefficient code couses us to waste the money on electricity bill instead of upgrading our machines). I just see that more projects are about to use CUDA (AQUA@home recently) and theire giving better deadlines for WU (my card is unable to meet the deadline for GPUGrid). So there will be a lot of competition between projects for the computing power. And the GPUGrid acts like it doesn't care. Right now the only project capable of using ATI cards is MilkyWay (F@H is not a boinc project) and You can see how much they gained. I just don't understand the choices of GPUGrid (and as i do not understand, it is hard for me to accept). It seems that GPUGrid is for the people with fast/new nvidia cards. So the owners of the slower nvidia cards and owners of ATI cards are not the target for GPUGrid... On the below graph you can see the RAC of the GPUGrid You cna see the point when SETI and AQUA launched their CUDA apps :D I really would like to perform some work for GPUGrid as i think this project is more important than searching for the ETI or simulating the quantum computer. But unfortunately the project is beyond my limits (i am now finishing the first WU for AQUA CUDA and it is mainly because my card is good enough to meet the deadline, which is a month or so, not a week like it does in GPUGrid). |
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(Message 10187)
Posted 5441 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
Any news Guys? Pepole with ATI cards are crunching MW Wu's like crazy and there is a lot of computing power still left. For CUDA there are several other projects so there will be more competition for CPU cycles (recently AQUA joined with GPU app) |
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(Message 9430)
Posted 5460 days ago by Aleksander Parkitny
Guys from F@H did it. Guys from MilkyWay managed to do it. They didn't wait for OpenCL they just took advantage of the fact that half of the people is using ATI gpu based cards, and theese cards are just running idle, just waiting for some work. Just look at the statistics fo MilkyWay computing power. And they are not able to provide the WUs for all those ATI cards. So there is plenty of room for other projects. Folding proteins on ATI is possible and the F@H proved it. So there is no excuse like: "The reason that no other project is using ATI card at the moment is that they are not ready. You can port only very simple applications or you have to let them do the port for you. Their hardware is moving towards better computation, but it still not there. It's not just peak performance, you need to be able to use those flops in a sensible way. For ATI, we need to wait for OpenCL and see how they perform then." The folding simulation is quite complexed one and as seen in F@H, ATI cards are capable of running such app without OpenCL. If F@H could do that, why can't You?? Maybe You should cooperate a little bit closer with guys from ATI? |
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