I do have one quick question - one of my hosts has a P4 3.0Ghz HT CPU but an nVidia GTX260 graphics card. Running WCG I can only use the CPU but I would probably get better performance using the GPU as well. Are there any good clients that can use both? Probably most newbie question of the month but last time I did all this (2005) GPU number crunching didn't exist!
warfire wrote:I do have one quick question - one of my hosts has a P4 3.0Ghz HT CPU but an nVidia GTX260 graphics card. Running WCG I can only use the CPU but I would probably get better performance using the GPU as well. Are there any good clients that can use both? Probably most newbie question of the month but last time I did all this (2005) GPU number crunching didn't exist!
WCG won't run on your GPU (I think) but there are several projects that support NVidia GPU crunching. GPUGrid, Seti and MilkyWay are maybe the most stable but there are others around (GPUGrid probably pays best BTW).
All should run quite happily alongside your WCG but you may have to let boinc learn it now has a GPU. During this learning stage boinc may suspend or not request work for certain projects for no apparent reason but once it sorts itself out it'll run fine.
I don't know what boinc version you run but you'll need at least v6.x to support GPU crunching