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11-02-2010, 05:40 PM
Metroid

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Originally Posted by Biker

XtremeSystems 18,136,080

WOOHOO!!!!

:party:
11-02-2010, 05:58 PM
Mydog

Great day for a great team:up::clap:
11-02-2010, 06:14 PM
Plan.B

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Originally Posted by Mydog

Great day for a great team:up::clap:

Indeed!! Congrats everybody!!
11-02-2010, 06:30 PM
Sparky

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More....!!!
11-02-2010, 07:07 PM
trn

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Originally Posted by SMTB1963

^^^1000th post?!?

:yepp:

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Originally Posted by OldChap

says the guy with 29,000+ :shakes: :rofl:

Cool milestone, I almost missed that :D, I've been here for about a year and crunching for less, you have to remember that Dave has been here on XS for about 29 years and most of his post are spam anyways:ROTF: :rofl:
11-02-2010, 10:52 PM
Jaco

^^ yup and his postcount was reset several times already :rofl:
11-03-2010, 05:23 AM
Havis

18mil is nice :clap:
Keep on crunchers :D I suspect close to 20mil tomorrow :up:
11-03-2010, 05:47 AM
croto5000

This. Is. Awesome.
11-03-2010, 06:14 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by trn

Cool milestone, I almost missed that :D, I've been here for about a year and crunching for less, you have to remember that Dave has been here on XS for about 29 years and most of his post are spam anyways:ROTF: :rofl:

Nah, just 5 years this month..Where has the timegone.
And what do you mean by spam?
I resemble that remark!:p:

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Originally Posted by Jaco

^^ yup and his postcount was reset several times already :rofl:

Just once at 3000+..;)
11-03-2010, 12:46 PM
lahn

Congratulations guys! I joined just a day prior to the week starting, have my old machine crunching this week too, so two running 24/7. Wish I could squeeze out more and seeing as there is clients for the PS3, why aren't there any for my Xbox360?! :P
11-03-2010, 01:14 PM
zalbard

Awesome! :D

http://www.neweurasia.net/wp-content...-high-five.jpg

And this is just the beginning! :D
11-03-2010, 01:19 PM
D_A

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Originally Posted by lahn

Congratulations guys! I joined just a day prior to the week starting, have my old machine crunching this week too, so two running 24/7. Wish I could squeeze out more and seeing as there is clients for the PS3, why aren't there any for my Xbox360?! :P

Thanks for joining! :up:

But there is no WCG client for the PS3, sorry. That client is specific to PS3Grid. No other project supports the architecture.
11-03-2010, 01:41 PM
artemm

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Originally Posted by D_A

Thanks for joining! :up:

But there is no WCG client for the PS3, sorry. That client is specific to PS3Grid. No other project supports the architecture.

The day they develop an efficient GPU client for WCG is the day XS will rise head and shoulders over 2CH and all other teams. Unfortunately, I don't think it's in the cards... not for a looooong time.
11-03-2010, 01:44 PM
shoota

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Originally Posted by artemm

The day they develop an efficient GPU client for WCG is the day XS will rise head and shoulders over 2CH and all other teams. Unfortunately, I don't think it's in the cards... not for a looooong time.

why not?
11-03-2010, 02:06 PM
artemm

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Originally Posted by shoota

why not?

Because developing something like that takes a lot of time.

They're only considering HCC using OpenCL. Maybe they'll have it done in a year, maybe 2... maybe never, nobody knows.
11-03-2010, 02:07 PM
D_A

GPU programming is very different than CPU programming. Add to that the issues of constantly changing language support (CUDA v OpenCl(?) ) and hardware and you have a very complicated development environment. The notion of programming and running arbitrary code on video cards is still quite new, so getting your head around the the massively parallel GPU is a real challenge.
11-03-2010, 02:15 PM
Sam_oslo

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Originally Posted by artemm

Because developing something like that takes a lot of time.

They're only considering HCC using OpenCL. Maybe they'll have it done in a year, maybe 2... maybe never, nobody knows.

It shouldn't take longer time than this one, I guess the problem is the lack of common standers and disagreement between AMD/ATi and nVidia. Besides, Intel doesn't want this thing at all, they don't like competition for CPUs. All this (and some other issues too) makes the future of GPGPU a bit shaky and unsecure.

Nobody wants to spend time on developing a application that can become obsolete in near future. Otherwise, GPGPU is the future of HPC and supercomputers, only if these guys could agree and move on.
11-03-2010, 02:36 PM
shoota

well other projects didn't let it stop them from using gpu's. it just seems like such a waste to let that much power go unused
11-03-2010, 02:48 PM
Bobsama

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Originally Posted by shoota

well other projects didn't let it stop them from using gpu's. it just seems like such a waste to let that much power go unused

I agree fully. Even if they can only get 10% of the GPU's potential, it'll be well-worth their time and energy. My HD3850 does a theoretical 427 GFLOPs; even 10% of that (42.7 GFLOPS) would be more performance than all 6 cores I have online right now.
11-03-2010, 02:51 PM
Sam_oslo

Yeah, They should start working on GPGPU, maybe they are doing so already. A high-end GPU can eat 10 high-end CPUs for lunch in these kind of tasks (parallel computing).

I don't know why these guys are waiting, exactly, but I know others having concerns about changing standards and such. CUDA and ATI Stream are "closed" and both been evolving/changing too. OpenCL is a common and open standard, but it is very young one, and it's still a bit shaky. On top of this, Intel have been trying to sabotage/delay all these, and will do the same in the future too, I guess.

Some people are insecure what kind of platform, SW, standards, etc they should choose, because this a very young field, and all standards are changing/evolving rapidly. And all major plays are fighting each other too.
11-03-2010, 02:53 PM
DimmuKlokSC2

Excellent job guys, my prediction is 20+ for the next update:D.
11-03-2010, 03:01 PM
Bobsama

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Originally Posted by Sam_oslo

Yeah, They should start working on GPGPU, maybe they are doing so already. A high-end GPU can eat 10 high-end CPUs for lunch in these kind of tasks (parallel computing).

I don't know why these guys are waiting, exactly, but I know others having concerns about changing standards and such. CUDA and ATI Stream are "closed" and both been evolving/changing too. OpenCL is a common and open standard, but it is very young one, and it's still a bit shaky. On top of this, Intel have been trying to sabotage/delay all these, and will do the same in the future too, I guess.

Some people are insecure what kind of platform, SW, standards, etc they should choose, because this a very young field, and all standards are changing/evolving rapidly. And all major plays are fighting each other too.

They should hire students and ask them to get something running for GPU clients. I don't think CUDA/Stream are going anywhere fast, but they have the potential to make the field a lot more lucrative by supporting it themselves.
11-03-2010, 03:06 PM
lkiller123

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Originally Posted by Bobsama

They should hire students and ask them to get something running for GPU clients. I don't think CUDA/Stream are going anywhere fast, but they have the potential to make the field a lot more lucrative by supporting it themselves.

I've realized that it will be very hard since each sub-project from WCG are on its own.

For example, C4CW is from Tsinghua University in China while HFCC is from Chiba University in Japan.
11-03-2010, 03:16 PM
slaveondope

I can feel it....
11-03-2010, 04:06 PM
shoota

all it should really take is one big player to pick a standard and then everyone would go for that. problem is, i don't wcg is a big enough player to pull that off..

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