Posts by Evil Penguin

1) Message boards : Server and website : Upload Problems (Message 37595) Posted 16 Aug 2014 by Evil Penguin Post: Same issue here.
2) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : AMD GPU Status for 2013? (Message 28255) Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Evil Penguin Post: Your HD7970 will do fine at POEM, and Einstein, Albert or Folding would be good backup projects. I haven't really looked at Folding for a long time. The last time I was there I think a high end GPU could only match the performance of a high end CPU, which seemed a bit of a waste to me. I wasn't aware that MW was running so smoothly, but since POEM and Donate it's been largely relegated to a backup project. Not Sky! Now that both the GPU and CPU clients can handle the same type of work, GPU WUs are using a "unified GPU/SMP benchmarking scheme". http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=22808 A GTX 570 was getting over 150k PPD. Crazy high bump in points.
3) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : AMD GPU Status for 2013? (Message 28237) Posted 27 Jan 2013 by Evil Penguin Post: On the bright side... The Folding@home guys at Stanford have been making progress for AMD cards. They have a new lead GPU developer. Latest FAHBench results show that AMD cards are quite capable at processing explicit and implicit WUs (older gen cards and fahcores could only work on implicit WUs). I just want to be able to contribute my GPUs to projects that focus on disease research and not so heavy on the CPU usage. Sadly at the moment POEM@home, GPUGRID and even F@h aren't options for me. :(
4) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : AMD GPU Status for 2013? (Message 28093) Posted 20 Jan 2013 by Evil Penguin Post: Hi guys/girls, It's been a long while since we've had any news regarding AMD GPU crunching. Surely since the HD 7000 series release a year ago there have been improvements to AMD's OpenCL runtime?
5) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : OpenCL 1.2 and the Radeon HD 7xx0 Series... (Message 26553) Posted 7 Aug 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: Any updates?
6) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Anyone tried a GTX670 on GPUgrid? (Message 26294) Posted 11 Jul 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: I think most of you ignored the fact that Anand's compute benchmark consisted of mostly if not all SP benchmarks. It does seem like Kepler is a step backwards in terms of GPGPU.
7) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : OpenCL 1.2 and the Radeon HD 7xx0 Series... (Message 25678) Posted 12 Jun 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: Whenever the show stopping bugs and performance issues are resolved. It's probably going to take a long while for the Linux SDK to catch up and since the devs use Linux mainly... Let's just say I don't expect to see AMD cards as supported until a long time from now.
8) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : OpenCL 1.2 and the Radeon HD 7xx0 Series... (Message 25317) Posted 28 May 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: I wonder if SDK v2.7 would play nicely with this project.
9) Message boards : News : Tests on GTX680 will start early next week [testing has started] (Message 24574) Posted 24 Apr 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: Better than the ATi version, probably.
10) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID and ATI (Message 24409) Posted 12 Apr 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: How's the progress coming along? I'm guessing the HD 7770 is being tested in-house. Thanks.
11) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : OpenCL 1.2 and the Radeon HD 7xx0 Series... (Message 24183) Posted 30 Mar 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: Have there been any attempts to get GPUGRID working on the newer API? From the looks of it OCL 1.2 brings a bunch of features and performance improvement over 1.1 and AMD recently released feature compatible version of its drivers for OCL 1.2. The OpenCL 1.2 beta includes the following OpenCL™ 1.2 functionality: Host access flags for memory objects enable more efficient buffer handling and provide added protection. For example, a buffer that is created as “write only” cannot be read from the host. Pattern based GPU buffer and image initialization can help eliminate need for certain buffer/image transfers Memory objects migration supports transfer of buffers prior to need New generalized image creation API Enhanced image/buffer map operations OpenCL 1.2 CPU device partition including partition of a CPU after addition to a context Generalized 1D and 2D images, image arrays, and image<-> buffer interop Libraries support including the separation of compile and link phases and the ability to compile with external symbols Kernel reflection, the ability to query a kernel’s arguments Support for printf as a built in function Source: http://blogs.amd.com/developer/2012/03/23/welcome-to-opencl%E2%84%A2-1-2-check-out-these-beta-drivers-that-contain-a-complete-opencl%E2%84%A2-1-2-solution/
12) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : gtx680 (Message 24153) Posted 26 Mar 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: We have a small one, good enough for testing. The code works on Windows with some bugs. We are assessing the performance. gdf That's pretty good news. I'm glad that AMD managed to put out three different cores that are GCN based. The cheaper cards still have most if not all of the compute capabilities of the HD 7970. Hopefully there will be a testing app soon and I'll be one of the first in line. ;)
13) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : gtx680 (Message 24093) Posted 23 Mar 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: I wonder how this tweaked architecture will perform with these BOINC projects. So far compute doesn't seem like Kepler's strong point. Also, a little off topic... But is then any progress being made on the AMD side of things? I haven't heard a single peep about it for over a month. If the developers still don't have a 7970, fine. Please at least confirm as much... Thanks.
14) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : AMD HD7970 announced (Message 24014) Posted 17 Mar 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: Any progress on the AMD side of things?
15) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID and ATI (Message 23399) Posted 11 Feb 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: It's to sponsor their project, not personal gain.
16) Message boards : News : AMD GPUs are now usable at Donate@Home, a different project from GPUGrid. (Message 23341) Posted 9 Feb 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: For moment there I thought you meant AMD GPU support for GPUGRID. :(
17) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : New ATI/Nvidia OpenCL project. Please try it (Message 23334) Posted 8 Feb 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: we have found an interesting side project for gpugrid. It's an experiment for us as well which could potentially increase funding. Let's see. I'm missing something. How could this proyect raise funding? Every BitCoin is worth a certain amount of real money. The more BCs they get, the more they can claim for real money.
18) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID and ATI (Message 23333) Posted 8 Feb 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: If I understand correctly this is just a testing phase to get the project started. I don't think they will actually get BitCoins until the bugs are ironed out (I could be wrong).
19) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : New ATI/Nvidia OpenCL project. Please try it (Message 23329) Posted 8 Feb 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: My 7970 won't pickup any WUs for some reason...
20) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID and ATI (Message 23327) Posted 8 Feb 2012 by Evil Penguin Post: I'll give it a try. There are still bugs in the other projects that refrain me from running them 24/7 so it can't hurt.

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