I'd argue that having 2 different priorities could hand over all the ASAP WU to those who want priority 1 & longer deadlines for all who want to be in priority 2. It shouldn't have to be a them or us, it should be them & us.

It would be nice too if Priority 1 got a 24 or 12 hour deadline. Just today I cancelled 2 WU's that had been running SUPER SLOW & still had 24-48 hours left to go. When Beta WU's don't run well, & take up all the space & time, other WU's might be delayed. So maybe a shorter deadline & smaller cache would ensure that at least BETA WU's would run out of time, & hopefully could automatically cancel when the deadline has passed, so that the PC could automatically pick up new WU's (if Daddy isn't home).

It's not segregation I'm talking about, because even on highways there is a fast & slow lane, even though a certain minimum speed is required as to not break the law, otherwise it's like Dennis Leary's song "@sshole", where he talks about driving really slow, on the ultra fast lane, while people behind him are going insane!

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FYI -- you two are responding to a thread from February 2009.

In the intervening year, deadlines HAVE been increased -- I think they used to be 3 days back then, IIRC.

The only other project that is even rumored to be working on GPU version is Einstein@Home and that is a rumor only ... no word from project people ...

PrimeGrid is also investigating the use of GPU's for their sieving tasks, though any actual application is likely months away...

I'm already running the Primegrid GPU application, the Collatz GPU application, and the Einstein GPU application to keep the GPU on one of my other computers busy. It won't handle the GPUGRID application or the Milkyway application, and I'm not sure if I want to run anything from the SETI project again.

The last I noticed, the Einstein GPU application ran at a speed not much different from their CPU application - maybe 30% faster on some computers, and 30% slower on others. Still an early version, though.

I've heard of a GPU application called rc5, not BOINC-compatible. Close enough to the Yoyo@home BOINC project that they might possibly be getting close to having a wrapper that will make it BOINC-compatible. May be associated with this site:

http://www.distributed.net/

http://www.distributed.net/download/prerelease.php

PrimeGrid has one CUDA application running. It's for their AP26 project, which is searching for an arithmetic progression of 26 primes. It's not quite as GPU intensive as some other projects, but it's not terrible either -- it runs a few times faster than the normal CPU version.