seti credibility is already going downhill as a result of the mismanaged cuda force-feeding and the deafening silence from the admins on why it was screwed up so badly. Why dont they just come clean and explain exactly what happened in the dark corner of the parking garage where the whole deal went down with a single handshake and the passing of an envelope.

Now you are getting close..........

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Maybe they already cashed the check and had to launch...? Just a thought...

We should never ascribe to malice what is equally explained by fatigue.

The entire staff is something on the order of six people. They do everything from design, through implementation, and on to operations.

If we want more communication from the project, I don't see that happening without staffing someone to do PR -- and if they're going to staff someone, I'd rather see someone who could do actual work, not someone whose job is to paint happy faces on everything.

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Maybe they already cashed the check and had to launch...? Just a thought...

We should never ascribe to malice what is equally explained by fatigue.

The entire staff is something on the order of six people. They do everything from design, through implementation, and on to operations.

If we want more communication from the project, I don't see that happening without staffing someone to do PR -- and if they're going to staff someone, I'd rather see someone who could do actual work, not someone whose job is to paint happy faces on everything.

Ain't many happy faces 'round here lately.........I think the Cuda bit their noses off.......

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

You mean nvidia wouldn't provide someone part time to do pr work for them? They should have made that clear before they tucked the envelope into their trench coats and walked away grinning....

Oh......nvidia got what they wanted.....and left Seti holding the bag......

Ooooooops....I think a hitman from nvidia is knocking at my door......

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

knock knock.

Oi Kittyman!

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You mean nvidia wouldn't provide someone part time to do pr work for them? They should have made that clear before they tucked the envelope into their trench coats and walked away grinning....

Oh......nvidia got what they wanted.....and left Seti holding the bag......

Ooooooops....I think a hitman from nvidia is knocking at my door......

Bargain with him and get some info on new cards that are coming in the next 6-12 months!

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record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

knock knock.

Oi Kittyman!

Got my Browning at the ready.......LOL.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Send out the attack cats!!!

knock knock.

Oi Kittyman!

Got my Browning at the ready.......LOL.

Yeah You better have the BAR well maintained and ready for Bear. ;)

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The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST

You mean nvidia wouldn't provide someone part time to do pr work for them? They should have made that clear before they tucked the envelope into their trench coats and walked away grinning....

Oh......nvidia got what they wanted.....and left Seti holding the bag......

Actually, Nvidia stands to lose big-time if CUDA fails.

I haven't looked at the code, but it appears that the only real change is to call the CUDA FFT library instead of the FFTW library, the rest of the client is unchanged.

That's the same kind of change that the optimizers did to replace FFTW with the (faster, licensed) Intel math library.

If it produces slightly different numbers that's understandable -- we aren't talking about something that emulates the 8087 FPU, and FFTs do so many math operations that any tiny error is likely to accumulate. That happens even between different generations of Intel and AMD chips.

However, if the CUDA FFT code is a "black box" and it's the black box that crashes, that means the Nvidia capability is worthless.

More to the point, it means their expensive, fancy "Tesla" supercomputer can't do math.

ATI is looking fairly clever right now.

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You mean nvidia wouldn't provide someone part time to do pr work for them? They should have made that clear before they tucked the envelope into their trench coats and walked away grinning....

Oh......nvidia got what they wanted.....and left Seti holding the bag......

Actually, Nvidia stands to lose big-time if CUDA fails.

I haven't looked at the code, but it appears that the only real change is to call the CUDA FFT library instead of the FFTW library, the rest of the client is unchanged.

That's the same kind of change that the optimizers did to replace FFTW with the (faster, licensed) Intel math library.

If it produces slightly different numbers that's understandable -- we aren't talking about something that emulates the 8087 FPU, and FFTs do so many math operations that any tiny error is likely to accumulate. That happens even between different generations of Intel and AMD chips.

However, if the CUDA FFT code is a "black box" and it's the black box that crashes, that means the Nvidia capability is worthless.

More to the point, it means their expensive, fancy "Tesla" supercomputer can't do math.

ATI is looking fairly clever right now.

nvidia is already smiling.......they no doubt have sold a bunch of high powered vid cards in the wake of this fiasco.......and that is just what they wanted out of it.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

You mean nvidia wouldn't provide someone part time to do pr work for them? They should have made that clear before they tucked the envelope into their trench coats and walked away grinning....

Oh......nvidia got what they wanted.....and left Seti holding the bag......

Actually, Nvidia stands to lose big-time if CUDA fails.

I haven't looked at the code, but it appears that the only real change is to call the CUDA FFT library instead of the FFTW library, the rest of the client is unchanged.

That's the same kind of change that the optimizers did to replace FFTW with the (faster, licensed) Intel math library.

If it produces slightly different numbers that's understandable -- we aren't talking about something that emulates the 8087 FPU, and FFTs do so many math operations that any tiny error is likely to accumulate. That happens even between different generations of Intel and AMD chips.

However, if the CUDA FFT code is a "black box" and it's the black box that crashes, that means the Nvidia capability is worthless.

More to the point, it means their expensive, fancy "Tesla" supercomputer can't do math.

ATI is looking fairly clever right now.

nvidia is already smiling.......they no doubt have sold a bunch of high powered vid cards in the wake of this fiasco.......and that is just what they wanted out of it.

And now they've brought their GTX 295 card which is essentially two GTX 260 cards stuck together and die shrunk to 55nm from 65nm all while using less power too from what I've read online. While ATi's 4870 X2 card uses more power like It's going out of style and puts out more heat to boot. :o

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Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST

seti credibility is already going downhill as a result of the mismanaged cuda force-feeding and the deafening silence from the admins on why it was screwed up so badly. Why dont they just come clean and explain exactly what happened in the dark corner of the parking garage where the whole deal went down with a single handshake and the passing of an envelope.

Now you are getting close..........

What if the contents of the envelope help to get a fat pipe up the hill???
Wouldn't that be a good thing??
Or keep the project online for another year??
Also a good thing!

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Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....

You mean nvidia wouldn't provide someone part time to do pr work for them? They should have made that clear before they tucked the envelope into their trench coats and walked away grinning....

Oh......nvidia got what they wanted.....and left Seti holding the bag......

Actually, Nvidia stands to lose big-time if CUDA fails.

I haven't looked at the code, but it appears that the only real change is to call the CUDA FFT library instead of the FFTW library, the rest of the client is unchanged.

That's the same kind of change that the optimizers did to replace FFTW with the (faster, licensed) Intel math library.

If it produces slightly different numbers that's understandable -- we aren't talking about something that emulates the 8087 FPU, and FFTs do so many math operations that any tiny error is likely to accumulate. That happens even between different generations of Intel and AMD chips.

However, if the CUDA FFT code is a "black box" and it's the black box that crashes, that means the Nvidia capability is worthless.

More to the point, it means their expensive, fancy "Tesla" supercomputer can't do math.

ATI is looking fairly clever right now.

nvidia is already smiling.......they no doubt have sold a bunch of high powered vid cards in the wake of this fiasco.......and that is just what they wanted out of it.

I don't think it's that simple.

If they move a bunch of cards now, and it doesn't work, they've mortgaged their future against today's failure.

That doesn't build brand loyalty or repeat customers.

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You mean nvidia wouldn't provide someone part time to do pr work for them? They should have made that clear before they tucked the envelope into their trench coats and walked away grinning....

Oh......nvidia got what they wanted.....and left Seti holding the bag......

Actually, Nvidia stands to lose big-time if CUDA fails.

I haven't looked at the code, but it appears that the only real change is to call the CUDA FFT library instead of the FFTW library, the rest of the client is unchanged.

That's the same kind of change that the optimizers did to replace FFTW with the (faster, licensed) Intel math library.

If it produces slightly different numbers that's understandable -- we aren't talking about something that emulates the 8087 FPU, and FFTs do so many math operations that any tiny error is likely to accumulate. That happens even between different generations of Intel and AMD chips.

However, if the CUDA FFT code is a "black box" and it's the black box that crashes, that means the Nvidia capability is worthless.

More to the point, it means their expensive, fancy "Tesla" supercomputer can't do math.

ATI is looking fairly clever right now.

nvidia is already smiling.......they no doubt have sold a bunch of high powered vid cards in the wake of this fiasco.......and that is just what they wanted out of it.

I don't think it's that simple.

If they move a bunch of cards now, and it doesn't work, they've mortgaged their future against today's failure.

That doesn't build brand loyalty or repeat customers.

And this does not surprise you?

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

What if the contents of the envelope help to get a fat pipe up the hill???
Wouldn't that be a good thing??
Or keep the project online for another year??
Also a good thing!

You're assuming that the envelope was directed at SAH and that's where your missing DA in that equation. DA is the puppet master who pulls the strings attached to his lab rat (SAH) ;)

Why else would NV post a pic of DA on their press release ?

Oh........now you are getting sooooooooooooo close....

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Whilst I am no SETI@Home CUDA supporter, I wonder exactly how many cards extra high end cards Nvidia have sold. In the grand scheme of things I wouldn't have thought that many, and as several people have already said if CUDA turns out not to work. it will lok pretty bad for Nvidia and I for one will be looking to ATI.

Bernie.

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I'll just take that as being I hit the nail on the head.

I'll just take that as being I hit the nail on the head.

Ya typhooned it.......

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Better ways indeed, especially if this whole CUDA thing blows up in Nvidia's face.

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