BOINC GPU app

[Henri Heinonen]

Hi!

Please, could you make a Folding@home GPU application for BOINC (Windows/Linux) environment? It is already 2008.

Thank you!

[7im]

Welcome to the forum, Henri Heinonen.

F@h does not currently support that distributed computing architecture, CPU, GPU, or otherwise.

I think you might need to post that request in their forum, as that DC architecture doesn't support GPU processing yet.

Thanks.

[bruce]

Welcome to the foldingforum, Henri.

Please, could you make a Folding@home GPU application for BOINC (Windows/Linux) environment? It is already 2008.

The GPU code is still in beta and the new version that is expected soon will have several important new features that have not been beta tested yet. If FAH-GPU is ever made into a BOINC application, it won't be soon.

A few years ago there was a serious effort to adapt the FAH uniprocessor client to the BOINC environment. This project did not succeed but it did discover quite a few differences in philosophy that were difficult to reconcile. At this point, I don't see any reason why a new project is needed that would force a reconciliation of those differences. Both FAH and BOINC seem quite capable of running without assistance from each other.

FAH scheduling is much more demanding than the BOINC infrastructure is designed to support. In fact, the newest FAH clients increase the scheduling demands by using the full resources of a Quad CPU, a GPU, or a PS3 to return work more quickly rather than allowing the allocation of a fraction of those resources. That simply means that you need to choose which you want to support.

[7im]

Henri sent me this PM. However, what Bruce noted above still stands.

Subject: BOINC GPU app

Welcome to the forum, Henri Heinonen.

F@h does not currently support that distributed computing architecture, CPU, GPU, or otherwise.

I think you might need to post that request in their forum, as that DC architecture doesn't support GPU processing yet.

Thanks.

Thanks, 7im!

According to the boinc_alpha email-list: "There is already GPU support, and has been since about the 5.6.x client.
It is up to the projects to use it though."

Sincerely yours, Henri Heinonen.