Thank you for the update.

Alexander

ATI 2.2 fixes most serious bugs and we will probably put out a test application for ATI. The performance is still poor for several reasons. ATI on one side and us on the other, will work to make it faster. Most likely, SDK 2.3 could be a better release performance wise, now that bugs are under controls.

gdf

ATI 2.2 fixes most serious bugs and we will probably put out a test application for ATI.
gdf

I've set my mainsys (with two ATI-cards) to accept GPUGRID wu's. If something more to do is required, I expect instructions somwhere.

Regards,

Alexander

ATI 2.2 fixes most serious bugs and we will probably put out a test application for ATI. The performance is still poor for several reasons. ATI on one side and us on the other, will work to make it faster. Most likely, SDK 2.3 could be a better release performance wise, now that bugs are under controls.

gdf

I have a 5870..do you still plan on doing a beta release the end of summer or is it sooner?

sdk 2.2 out...

I think the researchers are down to a skeleton team during the summer holidays; enough staff to keep the tasks flowing, but little or no development work gets done.

I think the researchers are down to a skeleton team during the summer holidays

Yep! Can't be wearing the white coats every day of the year...


MJH

Hey.

Any progress in the work?

Yes,
we just presented the first results at a conference in USA.
I'll post it soon.

As I said before, probably there will be a beta release in Autumn and a production application from SDK2.3.

Performance of a top ati card however is 3 times slower than a fermi at the moment but at least it runs. We hope that with 2.3 will get better.

gdf

Thanks for the info.

I'm glad, that finally will work on ati. Let us hope, the performance will be better in future. :)

Gosh, I came back to see if there was something new in here, but that wasn't the case :)
Well, somebody please wake me up from my cold slumber once a finalized app for ATI is out...perhaps by then, my short lived 5870 will come back from RMA :D

Performance of a top ati card however is 3 times slower than a fermi at the moment but at least it runs.

Yay! I'll take it, back to basics. First make something work, then fine tune the process.

At any rate my 5870 will accept beta work units, if/when some are issued. It's been crunching a long time now, and curious about GPUgrid.

M.

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+1

Alexander

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From skgiven:

I think Folding just does protein folding, so it is different to this project; GPUGrid is unique in that it looks at super-structures (complexes of large molecules, such as lipid bylayer spanning pore proteins). Folding is more akin to Foldit in its research.

For those interested in protein research: Poem@Home is starting testing of GPU versions of their program, for both Nvidia and ATI cards. Name is POEM++; current version is 0.01.

For those interested in protein research: Poem@Home is starting testing of GPU versions of their program, for both Nvidia and ATI cards. Name is POEM++; current version is 0.01.

Poem@Home currently only has POEM++ CPU clients out. Once they are convinced that these are stable they will start rolling out the GPU clients. Current estimate is that this will happen in a month or so.

Any progres?

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Yes, the level of stability is still not sufficient for the use in GPUGRID.
We waiting for the SDK2.3 and in the meanwhile optimizing the software.

gdf

Good News :)

Regards
Zy

An idea on how to produce a GPUGRID version for the AMD/ATI HD4nnn family, once you get suitable software support:

See if you can divide the tasks between upper level processors which can reach all of the graphics card's memory, and lower level processors which can't. Tell the lower level processors to do most of the calculations, but send their requests for access to memory they can't reach to the upper level processors.

Note - I'm NOT familiar enough with the AMD/ATI GPU architectures to tell if this is possible, or even what you've already tried.