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Thread: What is stopping Nutritious Rice for the World form doing CUDA/GPU enabled builds ? |
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Former Member
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There's a thousand reasons why it is not (see the thousand threads at WCG for discussion). First reason is, the science application might be wholly unsuitable for porting, needing allot more precision than GPU's can offer. Then there is the time and resource factor. Another major reason is that WCG as of yet thinks that BOINC is not mainstream ready for GPU crunching... you'll for sure know when GPU crunching is running. It impairs substantially and if it does, not exactly out of the box and WCG does not want anyone to unwittingly walk into this and be disappointed, to walk away from crunching completely. sorry PS: Would you please delete your other double posted message in this forum. Added: As for your Suggestions and Feedback thread, same answer. WCG targets the Help Cure Cancer project as the first to get ported, as and when the science software conversion is done and based on a client that does provide unobtrusive crunching. I ran the F@H Gpu client for 2-3 months (1 million points worth). I switched to GpuGrid back in 9-08 (10 months) and have helped them struggle through their growing pains. I still run GpuGrid. How would I get notified of a WCG GPU Alpha or Beta project? BTW, I've been running WCG on CPUs since 5-08....still am.... [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 28, 2009 4:41:41 PM] |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3715 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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How would I get notified of a WCG GPU Alpha or Beta project? WCG Alpha tests are run inside the WCG techs community. For the Beta tests you can be notified of any new post within 24 hours maximum by activating a "forum watch" on the Beta Tests Announcements forum. Cheers. Jean. |
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mike047
Senior Cruncher Joined: Aug 22, 2006 Post Count: 262 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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out of curiosity ... what is your suspicion? That they think that CUDA is more important than the science we are working on Or they might be interested in participating using their resources[that may contain GPU assets]. "CUDA" is not the evil many espouse it to be, It is and will be a viable means to help further science. It is in use presently at two projects and being tested at many more. All projects are not suited to its use. Your's and others hubristic attitudes are not being constructive to the individuals concerned not to projects that might use cuda in the future. Are YOU interested in science or ensuring that you make ILL of cuda at every opportunity. I promote science and ANY means to accomplish it.
mike
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noderaser
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 297 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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CUDA can and does increase the contributions to science, but most often the people inquiring about it have the "gimme gimme NOW" attitude and expect that releasing a GPU application is as easy as porting to another OS. Hopefully, upcoming developments like OpenCL will help this, but those with CUDA (or other GPGPU) enabled hardware should be patient.
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