- Mar 17, 2011
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Hey guys,
This may be a trivial question so I apologize in advance.
What are most/all/some distributed compute tasks aligned with in terms of performance metrics / number/bit formats? (INT4, INT8, FP32, etc...)
Reading through some of the SETI forums I see a lot of INT8 designations in the formats, but if I were to guess I'd say there's a good mix of a lot of the formats being used depending on the task and projects at large.
Anyways, the reason I ask is if there's a list of tasks (or projects) where we know what format is being utilized more. That way when people are curious about what projects to jump onto maybe they can more effectively contribute to the right tasks. It'd also be nice to know when buying our fancy calculators for a specific project or task.
I have little idea of what I'm talking about and I tried doing some searching, but didn't come up with answers that satiated my question. So here I am. Of course, I may have missed it in the exabytes. /shrug
This may be a trivial question so I apologize in advance.
What are most/all/some distributed compute tasks aligned with in terms of performance metrics / number/bit formats? (INT4, INT8, FP32, etc...)
Reading through some of the SETI forums I see a lot of INT8 designations in the formats, but if I were to guess I'd say there's a good mix of a lot of the formats being used depending on the task and projects at large.
Anyways, the reason I ask is if there's a list of tasks (or projects) where we know what format is being utilized more. That way when people are curious about what projects to jump onto maybe they can more effectively contribute to the right tasks. It'd also be nice to know when buying our fancy calculators for a specific project or task.
I have little idea of what I'm talking about and I tried doing some searching, but didn't come up with answers that satiated my question. So here I am. Of course, I may have missed it in the exabytes. /shrug