gpugrid recruit

[MikeB12]

Welcome to all the new guys!

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=125&nowrap=true#14101

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get some pie! http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=235268

[~stevo~]

Hey Mike.. It's MahtaReika from OCW. I'll give it a shot.

[PoppaGeek]

:welcome:

[Otis11]

:welcome: man! great to have ya!

[INFRNL]

:welcome: to the team

[stoneageman]

XtremeSystems Users Returning Work : 26/78 (33.33%)
Team 2ch Users Returning Work : 34/135 (25.19%)
L'Alliance Francophone Users Returning Work : 53/261 (20.31%)
Seti Germany Users Returning Work : 30/214 (14.02%)
Planet 3Dnow Users Returning Work : 10/107 (9.35%)

Great % figure :up: but 26 returnees out of a site membership of around 110,000 = 0.0245% :down: not so good.

[INFRNL]

Just think what we could really be doing if more contributed. I think most people stick to F@H or just do not fold.

[Otis11]

Just think what we could really be doing if more contributed. I think most people stick to F@H or just do not fold.

Yeah, somehow we need to get out the word and get more people to contribute... We're sitting here on a community with thousands of the most powerful computers available, many with multiple GPUs, we just need to get them to crunch.

We don't need to get them all addicted, just get them to crunch on what they have anyway and our team would multiply. The science we would be doing would be crazy!

The only question is how... :shrug:

[Snow Crash]

A possible lead in to the WCG crunchers is that they could use GPUGrid to gain experience for when HCC on WCG goes GPU.
Think about it, there are very different power requirements, you have to learn how to deal with way more heat than just CPU crunching produicers, and finally you have to get good at driver updates :-( If they want to hit the ground running when HCC GPU gets going they would benefit from gaining experience now.
I think it needs to be made clear that for now GPUGrid is Nvidia only and that you really need GTX2XX (the new stuff not old renamed parts) and that while they are working on ATI but that is still in alpha with no WUs right now. We could also list the other GPU projects and which ones support Nvidia/ATI?
Are you bench stable?, are you gaming stable?, If you can GPUGrid ... you ARE stable!

[vaio]

Just think what we could really be doing if more contributed. I think most people stick to F@H or just do not fold.

Meh, only 3 on my team :p:

[CaptMorgan]

I hear what you are saying Snow Crash- I myself need to do some more reading and understanding of GPUGRID myself and from there I would be able to explain & talk it up better. I joined because I was excited to work on another project with other XtremeSystems members-yet in turn maybe expressing that excitement to other members is all we need!

[Otis11]

Are you bench stable?, are you gaming stable?, If you can GPUGrid ... you ARE stable!

Sigged and crossing my fingers...

Also, I have seen people on here crunching with 8800's... Those are decent. 5-6K iirc...?

So wouldn't high 8 and 9 series also be able to handle it? So most gamers are likely to have something that will work...

[MRBIGSHOT]

would it be worthwhile to crunch on a 9600gt, or should i just set up f@h.

cpu is an older single core a64 if that matters. also is there a need to stop the client before playing a game or will it handle itself.

[Otis11]

IMO, if it can run CUDA, it's worth crunching on... Either GPUGrid or F@H. Doesn't matter to much as long as you do one!

With reference to the games, I know GPUGrid plays nice with everything I've ever thrown at it... But I can't comment on F@H.

[INFRNL]

F@H is more demanding but workable. I sometimes have minor performance issues while using F@H, never an issue with Gpugrid. but for the most part neither should be an issue

[IFMU]

Id be running it but the best card I have is a 2900XT. :shrug: