1. i own multiple ati gpus and want to use them for crunching.

Yes, yes and yes.. ;)

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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov

I don't have ATI card but I think that it should be application for ATI's GPU.

But what You all should know, is that the "SETI Team" don't have resources (time, people, money,...) to make one. From information which I have, with CUDA application was same case, but Nvidia do big help with it. Majority of application code was written by Nvidia people. There is also huge difference in software side of CUDA compared to Stream, like availability of good working FFT library, SDK, examples,... Writing own FFT library is a huge thing, it's very complicated, needs optimizations, and sens of using given algorithm strongly depends on hardware. With CUDA Toolkit we see that FFT library is constantly evolving, so with Stream one it's need to have some developers which keep it live and to remove bugs. It of course maybe an open source project but "SETI Team" don't have time for that. And also who will better know ATI GPU than ATI's people.

So maybe you should consider writing some petition to "AMD/ATI" or some open source programmers, not to "SETI Team".

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I started using my ati 2600 on Collatz last week. it ran Collatz in around 75 minutes. my CPU ran Collatz in 3-4 hours. I blew the 2600 up in a couple days. I bought an ati 4770 and this monster is completing around 90 collatz a day. And my room is now toasty warm

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

VII option for me. I would buy a 5870 tomorrow if I knew it could blow away results from a 295. My current top-end is a 285, but for a 295 I need to upgrade my PSU.

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but I'm unaware of what level of ATI this would require. I do know their are some relatively cheap ATI's out there. I'm currently running an ATI 2600 which is very nice still but not good enough for MW

Don't feel bad SD, I have an ATi PC that has an Xpress 200 chip and It isn't qualified for Boinc either, So It's good for being only a Media Center(It's an HP m7470n Media Center PC with an AMD 4200+ cpu that I got for FREE), to crunch with I'd need a 4870 X2 or a GTX295 with Nvidias PhysX renabled of course, As It can be patched I've read.

There's a patch out to renable PhysX that Nvididuh disabled when there is an ATi card in the PC(IGP too).

http://www.ngohq.com/news/16560-patch-re-enables-physx-when-ati-card-is-present.html

http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/16223-nvidia-disables-physx-when-ati-card-is-present-28.html#post82812
Here's the thread where the patches are at.

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I. YES i would.

So count me in.
It pisses me off that there are projects that support both GPU camps or are CUDA exclusive. (seti@home as of now, GPUGRID,and maybe more I'm not aware of).
MW that used to be CAL exclusive now supports CUDA...why haven't the CUDA projects adapted to support CAL thus far?
Pls name any if I'm mistaken.

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Hi, it would be usefull if someone (Sutaru?)made a list off ATI cards, suitable for crunching.

IMHO, 10GFLOPS looks a minimum to me, since these are ideal values

F.i. a 8500 GT, can produce 5GFLOPS, while a 9800GTX can deliver about 85GFLOPS . Big differences, though.

But what a 2400EAH ATI card can deliver . .???

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But what a 2400EAH ATI card can deliver . .???

HD2400 is 1xxx gen. arch. based,(using pixel and vertex shader design) it would not work on any project like this.

cheers

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Hi, I thought so. Probably 1core of a QX9650, performs better and has about the same number of (3500MFLOPS).

Only the 4800/5000 series of card's would do enough, to make it worthwhile .

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I was told that by the admin at Collatz that the ATI 2600 pro is about the lowest you can go in ATI. Its about as slow as the minimal CUDA card. 256MB ram as with CUDA I believe the CUda cards are listed already.

found the list from the Collatz forums

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

I. YES - I have an ATI GPU
an ATI 3870 which is waiting
Gjaltb

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I. YES - I have an ATI GPU
an ATI 3870 which is waiting
Gjaltb

You may as well break it in on Collatz or Milkyway

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

VIII.

I. YES - I have an ATI GPU

I have half a dozend machines under my command and I am currently running Boinc only on 2, but I am thinking of extending it to all machines, but only if ATI grafic cards are supported by Seti@home as well.

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my vote:

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Kind regards

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I. YES - I have an ATI GPU

I will be letting it crunch SETI when/if it becomes available. Not 24/7 since it is also my gaming rig, but definitely while I am at work :D

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IX.

Won't use it for S@H. Only use my CPU at this time - not in any hurry these days.

My E8400 is rock-solid and never returns Error while computing WUs ...