In the end, the credits are meaningless. The only way to have any concrete gain from distributed computing is to run folding@home for the Evga team and you can get EVGA Bucks to contribute to the purchase of an EVGA card.

You imply that "not being meaningless" equals "concrete gain", something which you seem to define as "getting something of material value" (or something like that).

For me I'd say I get lots of concrete gain due to DC. It's a hobby, I can enjoy spending time on it whenever I want to (and other duties permit it). That's nothing to touch, but it's a very real "gain" for me.

... but in the end the point totals only exist to encourage people to participate. 10 points a day and 100,000 point per day are really the same thing.
The real bonus is that the computations are going to help medical science or astromomy or mathematics.

The credits also reflect the amount of contribution. Therefore they also exist to show people how good their systems are at what they're doing.

You're right that just by itself 10 or 100,000 credits don't mean anything, as it could be any arbitrary number / scaling factor. However, there's not just one of these numbers. The different amounts of credits enable comparisons between systems and projects (how valid these are is another question) and 10 credits do not equal 100,000 any more when your co-cruncher gets 1000.

MrS

Which has what to do with "ATI vs nVidia GPUs"?

MrS

Good Question

If we want to be so pure we must make other tread?

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Are there any new developments on the ATI GPU front for GPUGRID?
Are there apps based on OpenCL planned in the near future?
Thanks!

Are there any new developments on the ATI GPU front for GPUGRID?
Are there apps based on OpenCL planned in the near future?
Thanks!

GDF said there would be ... I don't know, ooops yes I do: which thread... but it is about here someplace...

Einstein hinted that they have OpenCL in the works too, but it is lagging behind the CUDA version they are working on ... I do not know that there will be a mad rush ... or that this will lead to Mac OpenCL apps at the same time ... but I can hope cause I have a mac that I could run GPUs in too ...

you nailed it gdf. on what i was going to post.

And SETI Bêta is also testing a MultiBeam app. rev177 & rev.234(?) and a
AstroPulse app. rev521, for ATI cards. The speedgain on AstroPulse is about
10 times less runtime.(CPU time strongly depends on % radar-blanking)
~10% CPU time with 0% radar blanking.

And the Longruns here, just finished 2 of them, also takes 10-12 hours, but
more credit is given compaired to SETI CUDA.

I think the GPUGrid app. makes better use of more advanced architecture of the
FERMI, or compute capabillity 2.0 oor 2.1.

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