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Message 661 - Posted: 21 Dec 2010, 9:54:41 UTC
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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
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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.
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Message 667 - Posted: 21 Dec 2010, 22:09:18 UTC

Okay & Thanks for the Reply ...
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