While as much as everyone here wants to use their GPUs for various projects on the Grid, you must understand that the application was built for CPUs and would require time and effort to make it work with GPUs. Also, just because one project benefited from using GPUs, doesn't mean that every project will.

It would be great but I seem to remember something about how Autodock Vina isn't suitable for GPU computations, meaning it wouldn't yield any useful results Not to mention it would take a lot of manpower, time and money to develop a GPU app.

You could run Linux instead of Windows because Vina tasks can be a lot faster on Linux (up 60% if I am not mistakened).

I understand that it does not work for every project and if it does, it could take a few months with a developer or two. That cost isn't insignificant ($50K to 100K). But I am hopeful that if enough projects did GPU dev with OpenCL that the work could be used by others. That 3 months can shave years off a project.

If I am wrong please correct me. I would like to hear it from a project lead. I am not trying to be demanding but I am paying for 2 PCs and 3 Android devices to run WCG 24x7. This costs me money too. Three of my relatives have cancer. This is a race against time. Even more so with Ebola. People are dying within weeks.

mymbtheduke,

I would love to see a GPU app too, but if like I said the software simply isn't suitable for GPU's as I seem to remember the scientists say (a forum search should clear that up), then any effort to make an app that will not work as intended is useless.
Use 64-bit Linux on those PC's to run the VINA app and you will see a huge speedup versus Windows 64-bit.

I have 3 AMD APU's which have GPU's integrated. The A8-6500 has a HD8570D with 432.1 gigaflops (according to AMD), the A10-5700 has a HD7660D with 614 gigaflops and the A8-4500M has a HD7640G with 253.95 gigaflops (not sure at what core speed that is). Weak when compared to other GPUs though I would really like to have them crunching too at WCG.

I can understand the demand/wish for a gpu version. But my understanding is, that the vina application wasn't developed by oet scientists or even fah scientists. The vina application is also used outside of wcg.
As long as the developers of the vina application don't provide/develop a gpu version of it, we won't see oet or fah as a gpu project.