Message boards : Number crunching : MilkywayGPU@home and CUDA
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just saw this on the milkyway site.... April 8, 2009 looks interesting... especially as it's the first project that's aiming for both Nvidia and ATi GPU clients.... | |
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But it will stay the only one because the people who have made the GPU application for the ATI cardswere neither MV nor ATI people. | |
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It will be *interesting* in the way that the ATIs are perfect for the job, whereas nVidia is much slower.. if the CUDA app will still use double precision, as the current client does. ATI is about a factor of 3 faster here (assuming both are programmed equalliy well). | |
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It will be interesting to say the least. If they stick to their modus operandi the source for the applications will be published and if history is a guide the community at large might be able to suggest and squeeze some additional performance out of the applications. | |
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As I understood Travis wrote the CUDA version and will publish this code and leave the ATI CAL implementation for Gipsel. | |
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Indeed Travis wrote MW makes the cuda application, Gipsel and friends hopefully make the Ati one. | |
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... and nvidia gonna rock here on Gpugrid. Well, it's easy to rock when ATI can't run this project ;) (or did you mean NV rock here compared to seti?) MrS ____________ Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 | |
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Yes Seti gives 1000 points after running for 220.000 seconds of work. | |
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Anyway why MW choose to go with CUDA was not mentioned. Because it's much easier. CUDA is basically C, whereas ATI CAL is more like assembler. MrS ____________ Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 | |
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Message boards : Number crunching : MilkywayGPU@home and CUDA