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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Still nothing....this is crazy to me!
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Still nothing....this is crazy to me! Yes it is but it is the scientists at the indivifual projects that make the decision whether a).GPU processing is suitable for their project; and b). whether to invest the necessary resources to develop GPU WUs. WCG can only process work forwarded by the scientists. |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Jason Hanson, please understand that not all apps can be ported to GPU in the first place. Next, the scientists don't all know GPU coding languages nor do they always have time to just pick one up and experiment with them. Since their code isn't open to the public, there is no help from the volunteers either. The one and only sub project here to get GPU work took several years before release. So, be patient or attach a second project that does support the GPU of your choice.
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Former Member
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Sounds like we need some nice folks to possibly create a snazzy website to link up programmers with these brilliant scientists to work with one another!
Wish I could do this! Coleslaw - thanks for the insight it is greatly appreciated! I guess it give me more time to save up for AMD Radeo R9 295X2 Graphics card. I am doing Folding@home so its still helps with the cancer research I just wish they worked like WCG were it say you have contributed 10 years of processing power. That hold more weight for me then you have 2 million points. |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Jason Hanson, I agree and that is one of the many reasons I hadn't dabbled into FAH like my team (as of right now still #1 at FAH) did. They have mostly recently left FAH due to politics. Many of which have come here and some of which are still bouncing around. It is hard to find a new home when you are used to something. GPUGrid fits FAH's research pretty well. Unfortunately they don't use AMD GPU's. They do use CPU's now including ARM processors. Kinda weird they kept the GPUGrid name...
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mymbtheduke
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Can someone point me to the post that described the math differences in using a CPU vs GPU? The lack of projects frustrates me. If Mapping Cancer was on GPU, they would be done by now.
Cancer is killing people everyday. These people don't have time to wait for our slow CPUs to finish. I did 28K WUs for HCC in 6 months. I am only up to 5K for MCM in 6 months. OpenCL can't be that difficult. Am I missing something? |
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Former Member
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OpenCL can't be that difficult. Am I missing something? Yes, someone to do it......unless you want to? |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Am I missing something? Yes, mymbtheduke.Sadly enough, our computers are not finding cures, they are only providing useful data for researchers and, at best, indicating ways to explore. And at the current pace of our "slow" CPUs it seems that they are already doing it faster than what human beings can do next. I am sincerely confident that if researchers were slowed by our part of the process they would invest more in IT application development in order to get faster what they would be waiting for. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by JmBoullier at Jun 17, 2014 4:22:05 PM] |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Can someone point me to the post that described the math differences in using a CPU vs GPU? The lack of projects frustrates me. If Mapping Cancer was on GPU, they would be done by now. Cancer is killing people everyday. These people don't have time to wait for our slow CPUs to finish. I did 28K WUs for HCC in 6 months. I am only up to 5K for MCM in 6 months. OpenCL can't be that difficult. Am I missing something? depending on your GPU, u can help some other project in the meantime...for example, on my work PC I have HD2500 Intel GPU...so I do SETI@home research there! but only on GPU... here is a list of GPU projects: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing other Quad cores do a WCG... ;) ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by KLiK at Jun 17, 2014 8:25:59 PM] |
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mymbtheduke
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Thanks. I didn't know about the Seti GPU. I have a laptop with the 2500 in it so will try it.
I have been crunching for GPU. Have 38million credits. I just want to help other cancer initiatives. |
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