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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: / 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: / Reply Quote

Coleslaw Send message Joined: 20 Jul 12 Posts: 16 Credit: 14,804,218 RAC: 730	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: / Reply Quote

JHAPA 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: / Reply Quote

Jan Vaclavik Send message Joined: 26 Jan 13 Posts: 31 Credit: 1,550,233 RAC: 258	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: / Reply Quote

mikey Send message Joined: 1 Jan 14 Posts: 302 Credit: 32,671,868 RAC: 0	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: / Reply Quote

MarkJ Send message Joined: 27 Jun 12 Posts: 129 Credit: 62,725,780 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: / Reply Quote

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