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ind
Cruncher Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Post Count: 24 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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After some digging, I've realized that there is currently no work available for GPUs through WCG.
I have an ATI Radeon 290 (OC) that I'd love to put to some good use besides the obvious. What projects are WCG members contributing their GPUs to, if any? I imagine I could have WCG crunching 100% on my CPU, while another project is solely crunching on my GPU. |
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Mamajuanauk
Master Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Dec 15, 2012 Post Count: 1900 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Poem or milkyway both work well in that senario
----------------------------------------I hear rumours that WCG may have a GPU project sometime in the not too distant future. I'm currently setting up my SR2 system with 3 may end up 4 GPU's to crunch if the project ever comes about. Until then I run Milkyway for testing, although I know there are loads of others, GPUGrid (I think it's called) rund projects on Nvidia cards only... I'm sure others will let you know.
Mamajuanauk is the Name! Crunching is the Game!
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4884 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Poem@home and Milkyway@home are the only two projects worthy of your ATI. The rest are either looking for aliens or mathematical games. Poem doesn't always have work available so I keep both of them selected. Of course, I only do this while awaiting a WCG GPU project to turn my GPUs loose on.
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am seldomly looking for aliens via Seti@Home (my DC'ing Alma Mater), playing mathematical games via Collatz Conjecture or watching skies and its spinning objects via Einsten@Home.
----------------------------------------I am doing my best to avoid contributing to Poem and Milkyway    Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006  |
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ind
Cruncher Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Post Count: 24 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I just discovered Folding@Home allows for GPU contributions. They have similar goals in the medical field (saving humans!). Planning to check that one out.
----------------------------------------EDIT: anyone with GPU experience on the FAH project please feel free to chime in. [Edit 1 times, last edit by ind at Nov 10, 2014 9:56:57 PM] |
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4884 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I just discovered Folding@Home allows for GPU contributions. They have similar goals in the medical field (saving humans!). Planning to check that one out. EDIT: anyone with GPU experience on the FAH project please feel free to chime in. Folding@Home is not a Boinc project so I have never run it. Good luck with it. As Branjo said, Einstein@Home is another Boinc project that uses ATI GPUs and does useful work.
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noderaser
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 297 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Although somewhat controversial amongst the BOINC community, Bitcoin Utopia raises money for various scientific endeavors, including Milkway@Home and BOINCstats.
----------------------------------------I also have various cards running Moo! Wrapper, Collatz, Einstein, PrimeGrid and BURP. Because the projects have different requirements for OpenCL version, compute capability, etc., I find WUprop is a handy tool to help figure out what projects will run on your card and OS. |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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noderaser, I thought BURP just had CPU work. http://burp.renderfarming.net/apps.php Do they actually have GPU work units now and just not updated their page?
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RaymondFO
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 30, 2004 Post Count: 561 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Here is the current list of GPU projects that can run a AMD card. Most of the below information comes from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing, however this may not be a complete list:
Collatz Conjecture (Windows, Windows 64bit, Linux 64bit) DistrRTgen (Windows, Linux 64bit) (No tasks currently available) Einstein (Linux, Windows on Intel; Mac OS X under active development) Milkyway@home (OpenCL support and Double precision GPU required, so a Radeon 48xx, 47xx, 58xx, 69xx, FirePro V87xx, FireStream 92xx) Your 290 AMD card will work here. Moo! (Driver v10.4 or later, ATI Runtime (not older AMD), Minimum device memory 250 MB - http://moowrap.net/forum_thread.php?id=16) PrimeGrid (Linux 32bit, Linux 64bit and Windows.) SETI@home (Windows and Linux only) POEM (Tasks not always readily available) Please refer to the individual WEB site for each project to determine their current system requirements, GPU tasks availability as the information above may be dated. Please remember that each person has their own ideas what is or is not worthwhile. Crunch what you want and where you want to contribute your computer resources towards. And yes, I left Bitcoin Utopia off intentionally. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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well I currently use SETI@home for GPU crunching...especially since they started the Astropulse app, which can find some Black holes or Pulsars in the data... ;)
----------------------------------------but that is me... what are your preferences? |
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