Let's sing few octaves higher alltogether and maybe new and shiny GPU HCC app appear, for example, this Christmas..? :D

added this topic to watch, please post news, if any

Hello vitalidze,
For a long time, I posted that I had not heard anything from HCC. I considered this a bad sign. But the long silence has recently broken. They are continuing to write a GPU version of the program. only using OpenCL now instead of CUDA. My guess is that they are determined to have a fast GPU version for their own use and want to run it on the WCG to produce massive data files that will catch all the bugs and help validate the program. But this is their first BIG GPU program, so I think they have kept quiet to keep the munchkins from constantly asking "Are we there yet?".

There is literally no way to forecast how long it will take to complete and test enough and debug enough for us to dare run it on WCG. GPU programming has to be a completely different algorithm to take advantage of GPU instructions while avoiding methods that run at top speed on CPUs but crawl on GPUs.

So I recommend patience. I hope 2011, but if they make it by early 2012, that will let them run enough to determine all the bugs. (Actually tracking down and correcting all the bugs might even continue after HCC completes its run on WCG. Who knows?)

I've tried that reply for my projects, it never works.

Somewhere there is a target date, but I guess they will let us know.

I don't think so vitalidze. If scientists know what performance is available then they will taylor the project to make best use of it. If you give them 1'000 more crunching capability, no problem to make the project need it.
Fundamentally there is no limit. Certain problems will need more power ad infinitum. The trick is to define the problem and the question asked so that it can be computed and analyzed in an acceptable period of time in regard of the available crunching power.

If you take meteorological weather analysis. The most powerful supercomputers do that. And if you see mesh size for simulations we talk many kilometers. This is in inhabited regions. On the oceans it is much worse. Just bring it down to meters in 3 dimensions across all the planet and say the first 30 km of atmosphere and even a quantum supercomputer will not be enough by far. The other element is also the complexity and number of interaction that you will take into account to be computed. The mesh maybe gigantic but at each point you also can compute much more variables. This is why these problems which are similar in terms of complexity and interaction to molecular simulations will always ask for more, more, more, more.......
But they have us here who will give them more, more....

Btw vitalidze I have to stop here I have to add another 12 core cpu.