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Message 852275 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 17:16:31 UTC - in response to Message 852258.  

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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Message 852296 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 17:37:12 UTC - in response to Message 852177.  

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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Message 852311 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 17:55:26 UTC - in response to Message 852296.  

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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Message 852330 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:30:10 UTC - in response to Message 852329.  
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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......
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Message 852339 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:41:17 UTC

knock knock.

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Message 852340 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:41:44 UTC - in response to Message 852330.  

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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Message 852342 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:42:36 UTC - in response to Message 852339.  

knock knock.

Oi Kittyman!

Got my Browning at the ready.......LOL.
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Message 852343 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:42:58 UTC - in response to Message 852339.  

Send out the attack cats!!!
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Message 852344 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:44:13 UTC - in response to Message 852342.  

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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Message 852348 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:45:28 UTC - in response to Message 852330.  

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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Message 852350 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:47:28 UTC - in response to Message 852348.  

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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Message 852355 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 18:52:13 UTC - in response to Message 852350.  

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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Message 852370 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 19:14:00 UTC - in response to Message 852275.  

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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Message 852374 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 19:17:39 UTC - in response to Message 852350.  

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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Message 852377 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 19:19:43 UTC - in response to Message 852374.  

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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Message 852379 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 19:22:34 UTC - in response to Message 852378.  


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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Message 852381 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 19:23:37 UTC

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.

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Message 852404 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 20:10:59 UTC - in response to Message 852389.  

I'll just take that as being I hit the nail on the head.
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Message 852405 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 20:16:38 UTC - in response to Message 852404.  

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

Ya typhooned it.......
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Message 852438 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009, 21:00:30 UTC - in response to Message 852427.  

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


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