let your gpu work!

[Philippart]

ATI Stream support

• Folding@Home - Biology/Medicine - HD2xxx and up - Windows
  Milkyway@Home - Astronomy - HD38xx and up - Windows
  Collatz Conjecture - Mathematics - HD2xxx and up - Windows
  RC5-72 - Cryptography - HD2xxx and up - Windows/Linux

Nvidia Cuda support

• Folding@Home - Biology/Medicine - Geforce 8 and up - Windows
  GPUGRID - Biology/Medicine - Geforce 8 and up some exceptions - Windows/Linux
  The Lattice Project - Biology - Geforce 8 and up - Windows
  Seti@Home - Astronomy - Geforce 8 and up - Windows
  Einstein@Home - Astronomy - Geforce 8 and up - Windows/Linux
  Milkyway@Home - Astronomy - GTX260 and up (with at least 190.xx drivers) - Windows
  Collatz Conjecture - Mathematics - Geforce 8 and up - Windows
  RC5-72 - Cryptography - Geforce 8 and up - Windows/Linux/Mac OS
  Aqua@Home - Computer science - Geforce 8 and up - Windows/Linux

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the list Tom!:beer:

I think I'll wait until the weather cools down before I fire up my GPUs though.

I may do a little testing though just to see which projects behave. I'm assuming most of these projects are windows OS only?

 

[biodoc]

Oops...double post!

 

[theAnimal]

For F@H, the ATI cards should be HD2xxx and up, the Nvidia should be 8 series and up.

 

[Philippart]

Originally posted by: theAnimal
For F@H, the ATI cards should be HD2xxx and up, the Nvidia should be 8 series and up.

with all cards I mean all Stream/Cuda cards ass the 2 titles say

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: theAnimal
For F@H, the ATI cards should be HD2xxx and up, the Nvidia should be 8 series and up.

Dang. I have a lot of GPU power, but can't put it to use.

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Philippart

Originally posted by: theAnimal
For F@H, the ATI cards should be HD2xxx and up, the Nvidia should be 8 series and up.

with all cards I mean all Stream/Cuda cards ass the 2 titles say

not to nitpick... but what you mean and what people are actually reading are too different things. to get more technical, at one time, you use to be able to fold with the ATI X19xx series cards, but with the release of gpu2, you have to have a direct X10 based card... ie HD2xxx.

i interpreted it the same way as theAnimal did even though I knew that for the ATI cards for folding, you need an HD2xxx or higher card. the HD2xxx cards aren't really worth it in my opinion for folding... all my ATI cards that i'm using for folding are 3xxx and above cards, I junked all my 2xxx and below series cards.

ps... I fold with both ATI and nVidia cards

 

[Philippart]

I will edit the OP with windows/linux info and more specific gpu support info

not to be nitpick... but the ati X19xx cards are no ATI Stream cards (they don't support it, folding ran their gpu1 client like a "game" not as a gpgpu software), but I know what you mean

 

[imaheadcase]

Distributed.net finally getting a GPU client going? That took them forever. lol

While I understand its a lot faster, the current beta client for GPU is just that, beta released a few weeks ago.

I'm getting 360 M/keys a second on my lowly nivdia GTX 260! vs i remember getting 30million on my quad core. WOW! Still looking at the stats page for RC5-74, it will still take 660 YEARS or 1 in 300k that they will find the key in 24hours. interesting stuff. I'm sure that number changes with more clients.

 

[Philippart]

I updated the OP with windows/linux info, better gpu support info and added einstein which runs cuda since yesterday!

Can a mod please sticky this?

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Philippart
I updated the OP with windows/linux info, better gpu support info and added einstein which runs cuda since yesterday!

Can a mod please sticky this?

cool... thanks for the update

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Philippart
I updated the OP with windows/linux info, better gpu support info and added einstein which runs cuda since yesterday!

Can a mod please sticky this?

Thx for updating the windows/linux info!!:beer:

 

[Jjoshua2]

cool! milkyway@home supports cuda now too. would it be possible for you to rank how ati compares to cuda implementations on projects that use both? ie all i know now is that nvidia cards should crunch folding and ati should crunch milkyway...

(maybe a speedup relative to cpu would be cool too but thats extra work). I can't get einstein to work, but milkway and callatz work fine. maybe there is no gpu work now?

 

[Philippart]

updated milkyway cuda support!

 

[Assimilator1]

<--- is jealous of all the projects Nvidia cards can run .

Originally posted by: Philippart
I will edit the OP with windows/linux info and more specific gpu support info

not to be nitpick... but the ati X19xx cards are no ATI Stream cards (they don't support it, folding ran their gpu1 client like a "game" not as a gpgpu software), but I know what you mean

Yea but some people don't know or remember what streaming or cuda is, so your card listing is useful .

Thanks for the list Tom :thumbsup:.

 

[biodoc]

Anyone tested GPU crunching at Einstein yet?

 

[Philippart]

yes, sadly it uses a whole cpu core too...

and it isn't a huge speedup on a mainstream card:
My 9600GT with the cuda client is only a tiny bit faster than my Phenom@2.4Ghz with the sse app.

I guess you should expect a bigger speedup on a gtx2xx card

 

[dajeepster]

How about adding something about which ones have optimized apps.
Milkyway and Collatze show huge gains on the ati cards with optimized apps.
my 4890 can get anywhere from 70k to 90k ppd gpu alone. and only uses 0.02 of the cpu

and seti shows decent gains with with nvidia cards.... my i920 alone will do about 8kppd, but when matched with a gtx260 and the modified apps, gets @16kppd.. that's an awesome gain.

 

[The Hive]

this would make a good sticky very informative

Thehive

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Philippart
yes, sadly it uses a whole cpu core too...

and it isn't a huge speedup on a mainstream card:
My 9600GT with the cuda client is only a tiny bit faster than my Phenom@2.4Ghz with the sse app.

I guess you should expect a bigger speedup on a gtx2xx card

Thanks for the info Tom...I guess I'll stick with other projects until they get a bit further along with development of the GPU app.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: biodoc
Anyone tested GPU crunching at Einstein yet?

I'm running it on two linux systems, it runs great

 

[Freewolf]

ttt

 

[Ken g6]

Hey, Tom, looks like you can add PrimeGrid to the list!

NVidia only:
PrimeGrid - Mathematics - Geforce 8 and up with 384MB - Windows/Linux64

 

[petrusbroder]

^^^ttt^^^

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Sweet. Didn't know there were standalone GPU apps. Running RC5-72 and Muon right now.