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Dark Angel
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Nov 11, 2005 Post Count: 728 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There, it's started.
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Falconet
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incendar.com
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If they need billion WUs they need GPU...
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yoerik
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yep. That's why they're working on it. We'll just have to hope it comes sooner than it does later.
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Stiwi
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The GPU-Code seems to be OpenSource if someone wanted to help
https://github.com/ccsb-scripps/AutoDock-GPU |
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Jim1348
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If it happens I'd like to vote for nVidia OpenCL 1.2 They will get there faster with CUDA, which is what Quarantine@Home is using for their Autodock project. https://quarantine.infino.me/ It looks like Nvidia has done the hard work for them: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker |
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nanoprobe
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If it happens I'd like to vote for nVidia OpenCL 1.2 They will get there faster with CUDA, No you won't because you will have eliminated everyone who has an AMD card from participating and because Nvidia cripples their FP64 functions on everything except their very expensive high end commercial use cards.
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Jim1348
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No you won't because you will have eliminated everyone who has an AMD card from participating and because Nvidia cripples their FP64 functions on everything except their very expensive high end commercial use cards. I used my Nvidia cards on Quarantine and a GTX 1070 was over 20 times faster than the CPU version. There are plenty of Nvidia cards. They won't need AMD. They will run out of work fast. Thus far, the GPU version is Linux only. Most AMD cards have problems getting the drivers installed. I know, I have an RX 570, which is probably the easiest to do. Unless they get it to work on Windows, a further delay, there won't be many AMD crunchers anyway. [Edit 3 times, last edit by Jim1348 at Jun 9, 2020 10:38:58 AM] |
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nanoprobe
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No you won't because you will have eliminated everyone who has an AMD card from participating and because Nvidia cripples their FP64 functions on everything except their very expensive high end commercial use cards. I used my Nvidia cards on Quarantine and a GTX 1070 was over 20 times faster than the CPU version. There are plenty of Nvidia cards. They won't need AMD. They will run out of work fast. Thus far, the GPU version is Linux only. Most AMD cards have problems getting the drivers installed. I know, I have an RX 570, which is probably the easiest to do. Unless they get it to work on Windows, a further delay, there won't be many AMD crunchers anyway. I know gpus are much faster. I ran the only gpu project here. The weakest AMD card was faster than the best Nvidiia card because of the crippled FP64 functions on Nvidia and their OpenCl support was awful. Things have certainly changed since then but IMHO it would be a huge mistake to exclude AMD.
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Jim1348
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You are thinking of a past project, where I expect they had only an OpenCl version. On the projects I have run where the have had both CUDA and OpenCl, the Nvidia cards on CUDA always did the best.
The only GPU project I know of that extensively uses dual-precision is MilkyWay. Even there, it is the older AMD cards that do best. The newer AMD cards are much weaker in DP (though better than Nvidia). I am not sure that Autdock on the GPU uses DP much, if at all. As I said, I saw a 20x speedup. If you are expecting much more than that on AMD just because some of them have better DP specs, I think you are waiting for a lost cause. There is a reason that Autodock on the GPU was developed with CUDA. If they had wanted OpenCl, they would have done it. |
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