GPU Work ???

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STE\/E Send message Joined: 9 Oct 09 Posts: 30 Credit: 26,809,482 RAC: 0	Message 661 - Posted: 21 Dec 2010, 9:54:41 UTC Last modified: 21 Dec 2010, 9:56:34 UTC Has the Project considered the feasibility of having any GPU Work in the Future. Even if the application used a mix of CPU & GPU it would speed things up and attract a lot of GPU users through out the BOINC Community ... Thanks ID: 661 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Greg Project administrator Send message Joined: 26 Jun 08 Posts: 645 Credit: 473,009,118 RAC: 261,026	Message 664 - Posted: 21 Dec 2010, 21:54:34 UTC - in response to Message 661. There is hope for using ECM on GPUs rather than MPQS during the sieving, but there's still a lot of research to go before that becomes viable. Also, if we do a really large GNFS, then the GPU portion of the polynomial selection could be distributed. For the short term, though, NFS@Home will be CPU only. ID: 664 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

STE\/E Send message Joined: 9 Oct 09 Posts: 30 Credit: 26,809,482 RAC: 0	Message 667 - Posted: 21 Dec 2010, 22:09:18 UTC Okay & Thanks for the Reply ... ID: 667 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote