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Thread: GPU: New option "Allow research to run on my CPU?" Yes/ No |
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Dataman
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Oh great! Yet another pissing match in the WCG Forum. How novel.
---------------------------------------- I'd suck down a couple of more beers and add my own urine stream but I just don't care about GPU here anymore. You can argue as much as you want but the fact is what will be rolled out for WCG GPU has been designed (to use the term loosly), is mostly built and is what you will get. You can piss on each other's boots and scare away the n00b's but it is not going to change anything. The only thing I agree with from Kevin Reed's post above was something to the effect that WCG would let their cruncher's decide whether or not to crunch it. I made my decision and when something flops over the wall from development to production you can make yours.Now I am going to look at something much more intellegent ... like the Earthworm Grower's Channel or the Home Shopping Network or Cage Fighting.  PS: Perhaps you should switch to decaff for a few days, Seke.   |
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Haven't had coffee in days [and no beer in months]... Cold green tea in larger quantities is an excellent beverage for the present temps prevailing in large regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Stay save, stay cool ;)
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knreed
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b) Give me hcc1 only in gpu but give me faah only in cpu It is not true. E.g. look at PG settings:c) [let me know if I'm missing another capability here] However, this flexibility is not present in either the BOINC server code http://www.primegrid.com/prefs.php?subset=project For each "location": Use CPU: yes/no Use ATI GPU: yes/no Use NVIDIA GPU: yes/no For each subproject in each "location": CPU: yes/no CUDA: yes/no AMD (ATI): yes/no Can you post in PrimeGrid's forums and request that they submit their code to BOINC? The code to do this is not in Berkeley's repository. |
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Shame for IBM. In the area of GPUs "The Big Blue" may be called "The Small Weak Blue" - it's a shame! The undercurrents in the above assertions provoke emotions of the negative kind and does not encourage objectivity. With everyone put on the defensive (first by the above assertion, and then from reactions that return the favor to the sender), any and all prospects of intelligent discussions about the matter will not come about.; |
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I share the views in tomast [Jul 9, 2012 4:16:00 PM] post.
It strikes me as logical that any CPU-aware project be treated as a distinct and separate project from any other CPU-aware project. By extension, any GPU-aware project is necessarily a distinct and separate project from any other GPU-aware project, or for that matter, any other CPU-aware project. The difference in the means (CPU-vs-GPU) to an end (a project) is a sufficient criteria to warrant a GPU-aware effort as deserving of a separate status as a CPU-aware effort for the same (say, HCC) project. ; |
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[GPU Force] Robert 7NBI
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Can you post in PrimeGrid's forums and request that they submit their code to BOINC? The code to do this is not in Berkeley's repository. Please, write directly to Rytis SlatkeviÄius: admin@primegrid.com Also look at: http://moowrap.net/prefs.php?subset=project They are quite well evolved. However, always there will be individual changes, in each project are made - the world is not perfect.  |
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Can you post in PrimeGrid's forums and request that they submit their code to BOINC? The code to do this is not in Berkeley's repository. knreed, This reminded me of something you told me about probably some 2 years ago, when still on server v 601. Seem to remember from stats that WCG was/is a substantial code contributor to the mentioned repository. |
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knreed
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We have contributed a number of changes in the past, as have other projects (Einstein@Home is another big contributor for example). I don't know what PrimeGrid's policies are about contributing their customizations.
We are behind in our contributions but I'm hoping to go Berkeley sometime in the next couple of months and sit down with David and go through our code differences from BOINC and merge those that make sense to be in the main BOINC repository, eliminate the differences that are unnecessary and hopefully just leave a few that are specific only to us. There are also a few architecture level changes that we want to talk through (with a white board in the room) that will be good to discuss. |
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Richard Mitnick
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My colleague pointed me to this thread. He knows that I recently purchased a new computer for the express purpose of getting into GPU crunching, especially for GPUgrid, but also SETI@home, Einstein@home, and Milkyway@home.
----------------------------------------I first read several times the BOINC Wiki page on GPU, http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing. I selected my GPU cards based on the best combination of performance and price. I am quite satisfied with the results, which took me from 7,000,000 credits in March (gathered for work from 2007 on) to over 24,000,000 credits in 3-1/2 months. It is not the credits that count; it is the work accomplished that they represent. All of the above to say that I think that many people who are pushing for WCG to get into GPU crunching in a big way are just not aware of what it entails. It is huge. I asked my colleague, who knows way way more than I, why not just get help from existing GPU projects running on BOINC. Are the folks at HCC et al just re-inventing the wheel? He said that each project must write and compile its own code. So, if folks are eager to get into GPU work for whatever the reason, why not just attach to some of the existing projects that can be found at the BOINC web site or the Wiki page? |
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