Using graphics cards for distributed computing?

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Using graphics cards for distributed computing?

Post by UBT - Timbo »

Hi all,

Nice item here about running distributed computing on graphics cards.

No sign of BOINC doing this just yet...but you never know..!

Check out the link for Nvidia Cuda

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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

does that mean we will get free pics of boobs to check out for credits  :?:  :shock:  :la:  :jerk:  :jerk:  :toothy5:
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Post by Ben »

The folding@home is one distributed computing project which can use graphics cards to crunch data. It is a shame that BOINC is currently harnessing this power as as the BBC news article says they are extreamly fast.

Folding@home also have the advantage of harnessing the PS3's power which would out do any modern day PC at the moment. Imagine if the PS3 joined forces with BOINC as well? Currently folding@home is now past the 1PETAFLOP mark with 800TFLOPS currently being produced by the PS3 itself.

I wonder if it can also make a cup of tea?


CPU
Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @ 3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
Total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
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