Hi,
are there any news about using the gpu ( grafic card ) to crunch?

thx

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> Hi,
> are there any news about using the gpu ( grafic card ) to crunch?
>
This has been discussed in the past and has not been given too much effort towards making it happen. Too many different cards so any client would have to be soooo generic as to be of much speed. Also something about the way the graphics crunch and the way Seti, and the other projects, are crunched. I think it has to do with the mathamatical numbers generated. The graphics cards are less strict in their processing than the projects need to be, or something like that.

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> This has been discussed in the past and has not been given too much effort
> towards making it happen. Too many different cards so any client would have to
> be soooo generic as to be of much speed. Also something about the way the
> graphics crunch and the way Seti, and the other projects, are crunched. I
> think it has to do with the mathamatical numbers generated. The graphics cards
> are less strict in their processing than the projects need to be, or something
> like that.
>
>

The newest cards can handle the math accurately enough for seti. Certain processes are faster on GPUs, but short of the app running entirely on the graphics card, the penalty for AGP access is more than can be saved by sending it over there. At least that's the best explaination I've heard.

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