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Former Member
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Dear Project,
I was involved in a older project that started out using CPU computing then was Open GL or GPU. About 100 computers many using DUAL GRAPHICS CARDS that cost $300 each finished the project in about 6 months. I don't know what it took for this conversion to take place but can this project evolve similarly? I completed over a 1/3 of a million wu. Total samples were said to be 300 million if I rember correctly, this was on a cancer project. I got this email today about the rain project and was hoping it was GPU based. I have wrote in the past that I would return when there was another GPU project on World Community Grid. What is the position of the team about GPU usage? Thanks for your time and courtesy, Bruce |
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Seoulpowergrid
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Many people ask about GPU availability and it really comes down to the program's coding and if it works with a GPU or not. Your request does not fall on deaf ears, the unfortunate thing is WCG has only had one project that support GPU.
----------------------------------------I am using my CPUs for WCG and my GPUs for SETI but a quick search should reveal some other non-WCG projects that support GPU crunching.  |
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Seoulpowergrid
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And I just saw this in a different thread (link)
----------------------------------------The footnote says there will be GPU WU but none now. There will not be any GPU work for this project. The footnotes referenced on the system requirements page are for 32/64 bit versions and the recommendation to use the setting to leave application in memory when suspended. Thanks, armstrdj |
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JcJet
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I think this is the main reason for such projects to use grid(aka distributed) computing. And it's often not a matter of code, but a method itself. It might be surprising for someone, but some neural network systems requires investing in CPU instead of GPU.
----------------------------------------If the power of GPU computing can be used, then most of the experiments can be finished just fine with one or two good gamer GPUs in the lab or home, maybe it'll take some weeks, so there's no need to bring it to BOINC. If it's not the 'infinite' project of analysing 'everything' like SETI, EINSTEIN, or some math waste of electricity. [Edit 2 times, last edit by JcJet at Oct 31, 2019 7:28:46 AM] |
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Aurum
Master Cruncher The Great Basin Joined: Dec 24, 2017 Post Count: 2391 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It's a matter of single precision versus double precision and whether the work can parallelized for GPUs.
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Jack007
Master Cruncher CANADA Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Post Count: 1604 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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there aren't enough CPU work units as it is, why bother with GPU
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