Finally crunching with our GPU's!

[v0dka]

Ati is in the process of making the power of the GPU compatible with scientific projects. It's called stream computing.

Read about it here. (http://ir.ati.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=910519&highlight=)

Something tells me this is definately most beneficial to us, xtremesystems. I can see Kentsfield and 1950xtx CF systems crucnhing WCG before the end of the year. :D

This moday a new F@H client will be released that workes 40 times faster than current only because of the stream computing on 1900 or 1950 based cards... :woot:

And thank God for the fusion Ati/AMD.

[[XC] leviathan18]

ok i want it to crunch for wcg not f@h .... but it its the only thing we can have well i guess im going to use my video cards for F@H and help the team there

[DAK1640]

Wat about nVidia cards?

[[XC]Atomicpineapple]

No news on nVidia cards that I've heard of. I cant wait for Monday 2nd. Time to set my X1900GT and X1900CFE to crunching!

[Fr3ak]

David Kirk was talking about folding on GPUs a few years ago when he came to our uni. Too bad there are still no real results with nvidia cards :/
Not that I dont like ATi, but the latest ATi card I have is a 9800Pro.
Do ATi cards have a better FPu than nvida cards? I am not that up-to-date about their design any more :(

[[XC] hipno650]

so when will we see boinc take advantage of this? because this greatly impacts what graphics cards i would buy.

[Martijn]

I don't care what project is going to run on my X1300... It is for the science, but it'll probably be F@H :)

[[XC] hipno650]

i think it's for 1900 or 1950 gpu's only not the 1600 or 1300 gpu's.

[Martijn]

i think it's for 1900 or 1950 gpu's only not the 1600 or 1300 gpu's.
It's for the R5** series as far as I know... It will definitely run slower, of course :)

[dab420]

Any x1900 or x1950 GPU only. However this does include the x1900GT, as well as the 256 variants. :)

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

no, all x1K series cards. The reasoning behind using current-generation ATI GPUs only right now is fairly logical: many many more programmable shaders. Also, nVidian cards have some disadvantages to x1K cards presently, such as registers that bog down with a lot of activity, x1K's superior branch prediction, and x1K's superior FP32.
next gen cards, however... well, its too soon to say, but i suspect that all of them (nvidian and DAAMIT cards) will be supported :cool:

[[XC] leviathan18]

so my x1300in my lappy will work? damn if this thing gets hot with the cpu working at 100% 24/7 imagine with the gpu lol

[Martijn]

so my x1300in my lappy will work? damn if this thing gets hot with the cpu working at 100% 24/7 imagine with the gpu lol
Yeah, it probably will :)



:explode2:

[v0dka]

Yes, it works on all X1... cards. I dont know about Nvidia's.

But what I really love about this is that it finally gives me a good reason to buy X1950xtx crossfire... lol ;)

[STEvil]

even if they only "limited" you to the 1900 series you can always fake the deviceID.

hint hint.

[[XC] Malkec]

Folding@Home on ATI GPU's: a major step forward

http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html

DOWNLOAD:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

Has anyone tryed it yet? :D

EDIT: :banana::banana::banana::banana:, can only folding@HOME be attached to it?

[[XC] hipno650]

if only it could run on my 7200 32mb all in wonder:p: :D i would like to see this for nvidia as well and for wcg

[nn_step]

Wat about nVidia cards?
Most nVidia cards are FP24 which makes then little to no use in scientific calculations