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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... Stop calling me 'she'
Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 2032 Location: Judea, AD33, at a stoning with me mum.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: Using GPU's for DC |
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It looks like ATI have announced a framework to enable DC type projects to utilise the power of their GPU (Graphics Card Processors).
These are traditionally faster than that of the PC's CPU that the card installed in, and so leads to a significant performance boost.
http://ir.ati.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=105421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=910519&highlight=
looks very interesting, even microsoft are gettining in on the act promising DirectX API's for apps to use. I hope that Open Source projects can easily use these without breaking any licensing issues. I know that Simon Zadra (Chicken of agnor) had to buy the intel compilers to get access to the SSE extensions in AMD and intel CPU's.
Let's hope ATI does the honorable thing and doesn't try to make a profit out of licensing this.......
_________________ Oh, it's blessed are the meek!, Well I'm glad they'll get something as they have a hell of a time!
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Atomic Booty Prince
Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 589 Location: New Orleans
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, where is Mr. Snrub anyway? I haven't seen him skulking around the castle in quite some time. |
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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you know years ago while trying to overclock a computer that was a dog, I found that a faster video card made seti classic run faster. Overclocking the card made even more of a difference. I don't know if that is true anymore as I no longer bother with computers that take 2 days per unit. _________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
and a Really Hoopy Frood who always knows where his Towel is...
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Mildew KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 2617 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:56 am Post subject: |
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The classic seti client was using quite a lot of CPU to make the pretty pictures...
The fastest way to shrub, then and now, is to run a command-line client if available. The best screen saver is the old screen power-off anyway
(Ok, sure, I have to admit that if I'd never seen my co-workers flashy screen savers I'd never found out about distributed computing at all, but that's a different story) _________________
An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? |
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KWSN - Sir Brian C....... Stop calling me 'she'
Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 2032 Location: Judea, AD33, at a stoning with me mum.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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After digging into this further, it only runs on x1900 & x1950 GPU based cards....the ones that cost over £250 or $400 !!!!
the reason is the number of pixel pipelines - 48, the card has.....
_________________ Oh, it's blessed are the meek!, Well I'm glad they'll get something as they have a hell of a time!
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody remember THIS thread?
_________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
and a Really Hoopy Frood who always knows where his Towel is...
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Gemjunkie Prince
Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Posts: 3519 Location: Earth, lately
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:50 am Post subject: |
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not my fault... It's not working at all anymore.... Gotta be at the server side
_________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
and a Really Hoopy Frood who always knows where his Towel is...
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Gemjunkie Prince
Joined: 03 Jul 2010 Posts: 3519 Location: Earth, lately
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like they reassigned ID numbers, everyone has to grab the new one from their stats page.
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(older, before split CPID)
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