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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

If click on the link in the OP, you would see that a ATI 5770 was used in the test and it lacks double precision.
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

Here is a nice quick reference for Boinc Compatible GPUs.
The ones in bold are Double Precision GPUs. peace
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

This is great news. Hopefully we get good support for our gpus and single precision gpus would be supported. I have 5 gpus and if gpu app would be stable and make good use of my gpus i would dedicate all of them to this project.
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

See the previous comment on the development platform used, which was not double precision capable. A very long beta is to be expected as this will set the WCG base for anything gpu ported in the future.

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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

Any ideas if SLI/Crossfire configurations will be supported?
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

Will we have to select to opt in or will WCG send wu's if the GPU is detected to run?
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

Any ideas if SLI/Crossfire configurations will be supported?

I'm curious, what grid project support this now?
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

Any ideas if SLI/Crossfire configurations will be supported?


Why you need SLI / CF support? When the project does not support SLI / CF mode, you can calculate the two different work units at the same time without slowing down the calculation, even if the other graphics card are slower than the other.

Example: http://moowrap.net/forum_thread.php?id=138
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

Dual cards such as HD 5970 have Crossfire enabled internally and it cannot be turned off. This sometimes causes problems with OpenCL applications using 2 full CPU cores due to each GPU core using a full CPU core. It's kind of a "busy wait" thing.

The PrimeGrid ATI PPSieve OpenCL application suffers from this problem.

You can assign both GPU cores to a single CPU core with programs such as Process Lasso but it's a messy workaround. Or you can use an app_info.xml file with avg_ncpus value of 1 to leave 2 CPU cores free to support OpenCL GPU processing if you have 8 CPU "cores". Those with only 4 core computers with no hyperthreading and those with 2 dual GPUs do not have the same flexibility though.

If you don't do anything and the default avg_ncpus value is too low it causes your CPU to become overcommitted if you are also processing BOINC CPU tasks.

This is why you need Crossfire support, to be able to run an OpenCL task on each core of dual GPUs without eating up your CPU resources.
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Re: Help Conquer Cancer September 2011 Update

Great news! I'm looking forward to dedicating a GPU or two to the effort once you guys are ready.

But I was wondering, will there be disconnect between runtime (and therefore badges awarded) and points awarded for these GPU work units vs the equivalent CPU workunits? In other words, if it takes a CPU thread 6hrs to complete a task - but it only takes a GPU 6min to complete the "same" task - will the points awarded be the same? What about runtime?

It seems to me that if there's any discrepancies between CPU/GPU on runtime, it might throw the whole badging system out of whack (or am I missing something?)
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