I just want to post my observations and findings. If they will help anyone else. . .

My goal was to see my GPU be put to use.

However it is my preference to apply my computing to the non-proprietary humanitarian projects of world community grid as opposed to the other BOINC projects out there.

Proprietary applications I personally feel do more damage to humanity than good.

But I don't think any such applications as I am interested in support the use of a the GPU under BOINC.

According to this page my video card has an ATI R600 core which can be utilized by BOINC:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing

(Visiontek HD1600 PRO AGP.)

I am monitoring GPU usage and overclocking my GPU using RivaTuner. BE CAREFUL doing this. Watch your tempurature before even starting.

But my GPU is almost at zero percent, even when the WCG screen saver runs.

So I went on a quest to chip in with my GPU in addition to the CPU.

I uninstalled WCG client and installed the more up to date plain BOINC client.

It detected my WCG project automatically. It also detected the task that had been running before I uninstalled WCG client. BOINC client resumed running it at the checkpoint at 40% on the next reboot.

I use SpeedFan to monitor my CPU temp which is also overclocked.

I have found that the part of BOINC that uses the GPU is called CUDA.

Supposedly this is for NVidea also. Maybe it works for ATI also? Not sure. . .

In any case it appears that there are no such humanitarian applications that use CUDA.

SETI and a few others use the GPU but those are math, space and other applications which I am not interested in.

I have found www.GPUGrid.net which someone in another post mentioned can run side by side with WCG.

This is biomedical however it seems very proprietary to me.

It only runs on NVidea GPU . . . officially.

However they are doing some beta testing on a client to run ATI Radeon 4850 or higher. You have to hack in a two special dll files because ATI will not allow them to distribute yet.

See:http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1458

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Anyway I think some encouragement is in order to get some of the WCG member applications to use CUDA under BOINC . . .

There is a lot of untapped GPU resources out there. Do these separate initiatives realize that GPU processing is already currently available under BOINC? They just need to write their apps to take advantage of it.