What's Everybody Doing with their Double Precision These Days?
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What's Everybody Doing with their Double Precision These Days?
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 bhorlorSend message Joined: 13 Apr 20 Posts: 9 Credit: 156,807,864 RAC: 43,701    
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Now that the GPU support here is done, what projects are people doing with their AMD GPUs? It looks like MW@H was the only BOINC project that took advantage of the double precision, and WCG and Einstein rarely send any WUs. |
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Einstein has lots of BRP7 WUs, perhaps you just need to enable them in your preferences. 
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Send message Joined: 16 Mar 10 Posts: 210 Credit: 106,153,727 RAC: 23,982 
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Regarding Einstein work -- if you were only subscribed to the Gamma Ray Search you may not realize that that project has officially finished, so no more work! If that's the case, try the MeerKAT pulsar search instead (BRP7) -- it's not 64-bit but it is science work :-) [Edit - I see Link posted about that while I was composing this -- ah well...] As for WCG -- OPNG work tends to be a bit on/off (and they sometimes seem to restrict work availability over weekends to try fo avoid possible upload/download issues when there's no-one there to look into it. Also, they had some bad OPNG batches which caused a fairly long time-out through August and into September :-( It's worth exploring the forums for Einstein and WCG to keep an eye on what's going on :-) Cheers - Al. |
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bhorlor Send message Joined: 13 Apr 20 Posts: 9 Credit: 156,807,864 RAC: 43,701
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Good call. I had not selected that application. As soon as I did I started downloading GPU WUs. I wish it was easier to tell which ones are intended for CPUs and which are for GPUs (only 2 are explicit), but at least this got me what I wanted. Thanks! |
mikey Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3323 Credit: 520,704,094 RAC: 34,049  
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Good call. I had not selected that application. As soon as I did I started downloading GPU WUs. I wish it was easier to tell which ones are intended for CPUs and which are for GPUs (only 2 are explicit), but at least this got me what I wanted. That and some kinds of tasks are no longer available but still listed |
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Send message Joined: 19 Jul 10 Posts: 600 Credit: 18,987,106 RAC: 5,969
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I wish it was easier to tell which ones are intended for CPUs and which are for GPUsYou can see that better on the applications page. There you see OS, type of CPU (like x86, x86_64, ARM, whatever) and which GPUs are supported by which app.
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mikey Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3323 Credit: 520,704,094 RAC: 34,049
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I wish it was easier to tell which ones are intended for CPUs and which are for GPUsYou can see that better on the applications page. Yes that is easier!! |
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Send message Joined: 15 Nov 21 Posts: 4 Credit: 5,070,221 RAC: 450  
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I've been cranking out NumberFields and Asteroids GPU WU. The reason I'm doing NumberFields is that they are no longer being funded and will have to shutdown the project if there are any hardware failures. So I'd love to see the project completed by that time. When it comes to Asteroids I love crunching space based projects. I started BOINC with SkynetProject and I will continue to focus on space based projects |
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mikey Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3323 Credit: 520,704,094 RAC: 34,049
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I've been cranking out NumberFields and Asteroids GPU WU. The reason I'm doing NumberFields is that they are no longer being funded and will have to shutdown the project if there are any hardware failures. So I'd love to see the project completed by that time. If you have an AMD gpu Universe can use them, they don't use Nvidia gpu's though. Einstein can use both Nvidia and AMD gpu's |
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Send message Joined: 21 Jul 23 Posts: 1 Credit: 546,885 RAC: 1,407 
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Universe@Home doesn't actually have any GPU tasks. They have a preference to use AMD GPU's, but no GPU applications. They have a recent forum post that says that they tried developing a GPU application some time ago, but failed. |
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mikey Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3323 Credit: 520,704,094 RAC: 34,049
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Universe@Home doesn't actually have any GPU tasks. They have a preference to use AMD GPU's, but no GPU applications. They have a recent forum post that says that they tried developing a GPU application some time ago, but failed. Ahhh it figures sorry about the bad info!! |
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