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[STS]LoB Send message Joined: 2 Oct 08 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 2699 - Posted: 2 Oct 2008 \| 22:09:24 UTC
	Does PS3Grid work on Ageia PhysX PPUs? I installed the new BOINC Version, it says "CUDA devices found" on startup, but I keep on getting client errors / compute errors right after computation has started: http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?userid=7574 Am I doing something wrong? Will it never work at all? ____________
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 2701 - Posted: 2 Oct 2008 \| 22:14:45 UTC
	I'd be surprised if it's ever supported in any way. MrS ____________ Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
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[STS]LoB Send message Joined: 2 Oct 08 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 2717 - Posted: 3 Oct 2008 \| 8:42:48 UTC - in response to Message 2701. Last modified: 3 Oct 2008 \| 8:46:22 UTC
	I'd be surprised if it's ever supported in any way. MrS Well, it's a CUDA device and BOINC said it found the CUDA device (I don't have NVidia graphics cards), so I thought I should give it a try. I thought CUDA is a generalized API which should take care of the specific hardware, so that everything developed on CUDA should work on every CUDA device... BTW, here's the error the workunits produce: <core_client_version>6.3.10</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1) </message> <stderr_txt> # Using CUDA device 0 Cuda error in file 'deviceQuery.cu' in line 59 : feature is not yet implemented. </stderr_txt> ]]> http://www.ps3grid.net/result.php?resultid=72566 ____________
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koschi Send message Joined: 14 Aug 08 Posts: 124 Credit: 792,979,198 RAC: 799 Level Scientific publications	Message 2720 - Posted: 3 Oct 2008 \| 9:22:12 UTC
	The G80 (compute capability 1.0) based cards are also Cuda devices and recognized as such, but not supported by the projects Cuda 2.0 app. If your cards would support Cuda computing capabilities of 1.1 you might have been able to join the party ;-)
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[STS]LoB Send message Joined: 2 Oct 08 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 2725 - Posted: 3 Oct 2008 \| 10:23:57 UTC - in response to Message 2720.
	The G80 (compute capability 1.0) based cards are also Cuda devices and recognized as such, but not supported by the projects Cuda 2.0 app. If your cards would support Cuda computing capabilities of 1.1 you might have been able to join the party ;-) Thanks for the answer. This means there's no chance whatsoever to get it running with a future driver update or something like that, because it's basically insufficient hardware?
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koschi Send message Joined: 14 Aug 08 Posts: 124 Credit: 792,979,198 RAC: 799 Level Scientific publications	Message 2726 - Posted: 3 Oct 2008 \| 10:28:40 UTC
	Looks like :-/
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 2732 - Posted: 3 Oct 2008 \| 12:25:25 UTC
	The Ageia Physx is so totally different hardware that even if CUDA managed to make the code compatible I'd imagine it would run horribly slow / inefficient. MrS ____________ Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
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