Page 1 of 1
Using graphics cards for distributed computing?
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:39 pm
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
regards
Tim
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:37 pm
by UBT - mickyb69
does that mean we will get free pics of boobs to check out for credits :?: :shock: :la: :jerk: :jerk: :toothy5:
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:29 pm
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