I've been running FAH for a few months now, and am doing fairly well, but I would like to contribute more and have heard that the GPU client is faster than the CPU client.
However, I'm running OS X, for which there is no GPU client.
Is there a GPU client being worked on? If so, is there any estimate for how long that'll take?
If not, could you start working on one? That'd be awesome.
Thanks!
(note: sorry if this is a dupe--I tried to search this forum for "gpu" but phpbb said it was too common of a word so it didn't return any results.)
OS X GPU client?
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joshz
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OS X GPU client?
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codysluder
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Re: OS X GPU client?
Search this forum for "OpenMM" or "GPU3" and you'll find several discussions of the upcoming release of a client that uses OpenCL rather than the proprietary languages distributed by individual manufacturers of the gpus. There's no announced date for that version, but the Pande Group doesn't make predictions about when something will be ready for release.
Here is a recent status report from the FAH blog.
Here is a recent status report from the FAH blog.
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Re: OS X GPU client?
Ah, nice.
I hope they can get it out soon!
I hope they can get it out soon!
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return 4; //4 is the IEEE-vetted choice for random numbers, so is guaranteed to be random.
//(this joke was shamelessly stolen from Randall Munroe)
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Re: OS X GPU client?
Soon is a relative term, espscially when it comes to OS X. I would just be happy with someone figuring out how to get the windows gpu2 client running under wine in OS X.
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joshz
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Re: OS X GPU client?
Heh.
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#include <stdio.h>
int randomNum ()
{
return 4; //4 is the IEEE-vetted choice for random numbers, so is guaranteed to be random.
//(this joke was shamelessly stolen from Randall Munroe)
}