CUDA client for SETI

[vaughan]

SETI now supports the NVIDIA CUDA application. Further information is available here.

[NeoGen]

We are witnessing the birth of a new era in Distributed Computing.

The point when we'll all start shifting towards GPUs instead of CPUs to crunch. The point when we'll start equipping our crunchers with multiple GPUs instead of CPUs.

I wonder if in two years from now, the evolution of the GPU will be so great that the CPU will only act as "feeder" for the GPU, as it happens today that people reserve a core to feed the GPU...
Maybe in the future if the GPU keeps gaining more and more computing power versus the CPU it will come to the point that all the cores in the CPU will be used to feed multiple GPUs in a box?

[Bender10]

You're on the right track.

The developement work right now on GPUgrid (which is bogging down most client progress), is to get the GPU to crunch efficiently with very little (if any) loading on the CPU.

[AMDave]

reminder - that is Seti BETA

they are still testing and tweaking things like time estimates and queue priorities

for more info on issues as they arise (and are knocked out) check out this thread:
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/cuda.php

all guinea-pigs welcome to see if their GPU goes fzzzzZZZZZT!

[NeoGen]

Something like this deserves to go to the site's news.

Where's an admin when we need one?

[AMDave]

There you go.
I copied vaughan's post into the News thread - with a wee edit to say "Beta"
Hope he doesn't mind us hijacking his post

[NeoGen]

I can imagine the top crunching machine's hardware in a year or two on most boinc projects...

1500w PSU
1x Octocore CPU (feeder)
4x (multicore) NVidia or ATI GPU with brutal processing capacity
12Gb RAM (to be able to crunch a bundle of workunits all in parallel)

...and a liquid nitrogen cooler kit

[vaughan]

There you go.
I copied vaughan's post into the News thread - with a wee edit to say "Beta"
Hope he doesn't mind us hijacking his post

No problem.

[liuqyn]

CUDA is live on main site now too. haven't tried it yet though, maybe when I get home.

[Nflight]

I can imagine the top crunching machine's hardware in a year or two on most boinc projects...

1500w PSU
1x Octocore CPU (feeder)
4x (multicore) NVidia or ATI GPU with brutal processing capacity
12Gb RAM (to be able to crunch a bundle of workunits all in parallel)

...and a liquid nitrogen cooler kit

Your Computer is right here and now NeoGen: http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=530


The technical specifications for this machine are the following:

Motherboard:
MSI K9A2 Platinum / AMD 790 FX 4xPCI-E 16x
CPU:
9950 AMD Phenom X4 2.60Ghz, RAM 4Gb.
GPUs:
4x NVIDIA GTX 280
Power supply:
Thermaltake Toughpower 1500W, with 4 PCI-E 8-pin and 4 PCI-E 6 pin power cables.
Box:
Antec Gamer Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gamer Case.

Or you could try on one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SkullTrail