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Thread: Well it's about time for GPU work for years of delay. |
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Sandman192
Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 20 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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WCG has promise for years of GPU work but never happen.
 But now I get a BOINC notice that there will be an OpenPandemics - COVID-19 Project which is even better.  |
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yoerik
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: Mar 24, 2020 Post Count: 413 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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GPU work isn't simple. They've finally gotten close to figuring out how to make it work. And that's great.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, I don't think WCG promised anyone any GPU work, but yes, a GPU application for this project is indeed coming. Hopefully next month.
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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WCG has promise for years of GPU work but never happen. Please show where WCG has promised GPU work (I have never seen it promised). It isn't WCG that decides if a project uses GPU or not, it's the scientists from the universities/labs that decide and implement that. Now, making chorus with the rest of the crunchers, it is good that the OPN1 project will use GPU and give it an excellent speed boost.CJSL Crunching in the fast lane... |
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Aurum
Master Cruncher The Great Basin Joined: Dec 24, 2017 Post Count: 2386 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Did they promise you a rose garden too???
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maeax
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 2, 2007 Post Count: 142 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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When you click in Help on the top and say GPU for search,
----------------------------------------you can see Help Conquer Cancer was a project of WCG with GPU-work.
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verlyol-belgium
Cruncher Belgium Joined: Jul 24, 2008 Post Count: 44 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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GPU work is a plus, but certainly not essential ... even on Folding@home there are 2x more CPUs active on projects .... Moreover, not all projects are compatible with a GPU .... Not to mention the many problems with drivers / OS, older GPUs ... This kind of problem does not exist with CPU only projects.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Help Conquer Cancer finished in 6 months with the OpenCL GPU application vs several more years with CPUs only. The OPN project appears to be huge and we are on track to finish the *first* of multiple targets by October 2021. If we want to finish this project in a reasonable time frame, GPUs are what we need.
----------------------------------------Here's a quote from the AutoDock GPU GitHub page: "Observed speedups of up to 4x (quad-core CPU) and 56x (GPU) over the original serial AutoDock 4.2 (Solis-Wets) on CPU. The Cuda version is currently even faster than the OpenCL version." What the end result will be, we shall see. But definitely orders of magnitude faster than CPUs alone. BETA testing will weed out at least a significant portion of bad drivers, old GPUs, other issues, etc. AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz [Edit 1 times, last edit by Mosqueteiro at Sep 20, 2020 3:12:43 PM] |
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Aurum
Master Cruncher The Great Basin Joined: Dec 24, 2017 Post Count: 2386 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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