Old hardware


Message boards : Cafe : Old hardware

Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.
AuthorMessage
Enric Surroca

Send message
Joined: 14 Dec 12
Posts: 43
Credit: 15,971,996
RAC: 0
Message 869 - Posted: 16 Feb 2013, 20:49:29 UTC
Hi everyone.
I open this thread to accomodate a question by Jan Vaclavik.

Can't tell You wich projects can use the GPU You say (HD4250).

What I can tell You is that with ATI GPU, projects require a double precision GPU.
In this link You'll find out which of the ATI's GPU have double precision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units

AFAIK, the projects best suited for ATI GPU are: Milkyway, Moo!wraper, Collatz and recently Poem (but with specific requirements and it's not, for me at least, easy to know how to do it).
ID: 869 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Enric Surroca

Send message
Joined: 14 Dec 12
Posts: 43
Credit: 15,971,996
RAC: 0
Message 882 - Posted: 18 Feb 2013, 11:55:41 UTC
Ups, I forgot.
Primegrid also allows ATI GPU's though this project is optimized for Nvidia GPU's.
Don't know if your HD4250 will be of use in primegrid
ID: 882 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Coleslaw
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 20 Jul 12
Posts: 16
Credit: 14,553,025
RAC: 879
Message 1055 - Posted: 10 Apr 2013, 19:37:09 UTC

Last modified: 10 Apr 2013, 19:57:13 UTC
Enric, I am not positive, but I don't think the 4250 was OpenCL compliant. I remember that AMD had it listed in one of their CCC driver updates for support, but don't believe it truly works. So, you may have to stick with projects that code AMD/ATI apps with CAL instead. Last I knew, the 4350 was the first attempt at OpcenCL and it was only BETA support. Some projects work but some don't. Most don't bother getting the older cards supported.

Your list should also include these for AMD apps: SETI, SETI BETA, Albert, Einstein, WCG (at least until HCC ends), and Donate.

And NOT all AMD/ATI capable projects require dual precision.

One further note, AMD/ATI works better so far on all GPU projects that use OpenCL as their programming choice. nVidia is way behind on their OpenCL support and drivers. This may change in the future.
ID: 1055 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile JHAPA
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 28 Apr 13
Posts: 7
Credit: 413,400
RAC: 0
Message 1263 - Posted: 14 May 2013, 21:50:21 UTC
A long time ago in far Galaxy...sorry in PrimeGrid was opinion tu use Ati HD2XXX and HD3XXX graphic cards, but many projects (PrimeGrid too) change this, because of low power of this GPUs and problems with new versions of apps based on ATI api...
JHAPA
ID: 1263 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Jan Vaclavik

Send message
Joined: 26 Jan 13
Posts: 31
Credit: 1,501,198
RAC: 270
Message 1275 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 9:08:06 UTC
I guess I am stuck with Collatz. Those small ancient GPUs are producing some two thirds of my RAC - way more than the four CPU cores. I was kind of hoping to put them to some better use.
On a somewhat related note, I doubt there are many projects that use the new Intel OpenCL GPUs either. Somewhat shocking considering Intel is the largest GPU manufacturer on the PC market.
ID: 1275 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile mikey
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 1 Jan 14
Posts: 300
Credit: 32,049,186
RAC: 14,774
Message 2366 - Posted: 4 Jan 2014, 15:57:59 UTC - in response to Message 1275.  

On a somewhat related note, I doubt there are many projects that use the new Intel OpenCL GPUs either. Somewhat shocking considering Intel is the largest GPU manufacturer on the PC market.


There are now several that use the Intel cpu/gpu cores, Collatz being one of them.
ID: 2366 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote
MarkJ
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 27 Jun 12
Posts: 129
Credit: 62,714,553
RAC: 0
Message 2504 - Posted: 6 Feb 2014, 17:07:37 UTC - in response to Message 2366.  
There are now several that use the Intel cpu/gpu cores, Collatz being one of them.

You can also add Seti, SEti-beta, Albert and Einstein to the Intel-GPU list.
BOINC blog
ID: 2504 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive     Reply Quote

Message boards : Cafe : Old hardware