Are there any plans on making a boinc client that can use the processing power of the ATi/AMD X1K cards ?

They did the same with folding@home. A X1950 XTX was about 20x faster then a Dual core E6600 cpu.

I have a X1900 XTX. And i would love to dedicate my X1900's idle windows time to Boinc.

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Are there any plans on making a boinc client that can use the processing power of the ATi/AMD X1K cards ?

They did the same with folding@home. A X1950 XTX was about 20x faster then a Dual core E6600 cpu.

I have a X1900 XTX. And i would love to dedicate my X1900's idle windows time to Boinc.

A quick forum search should bring up lots of talk about this.

ATI have asked BOINC if they would like help.
Boinc should already be able to cope with it.
It's the projects that need to talk to AMD(ATI) on how to do it.

AFAIK the ATI client only does part of what the CPU client at F@H can do (this may have changed).
There was also mention of PS3, XBOX, accelerators.

No more info than that is known.

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Team mauisun.org

[quote]AFAIK the ATI client only does part of what the CPU client at F@H can do (this may have changed).
There was also mention of PS3, XBOX, accelerators.

No more info than that is known.

I guess you don't know Geforce 8, support for integers, or should i say: full work compability.
Anyway it's not exactly G8 but DX10, so ATI cards will work too ;)

The GPU client can greatly (~30x) speed up a specific type of calculation (implicit solvent calculations), whereas the SMP client can lead to a 4x speed up over the complete range of calculations we need to run.

Folding@Home on multi-core/SMP boxes

[quote]AFAIK the ATI client only does part of what the CPU client at F@H can do (this may have changed).
There was also mention of PS3, XBOX, accelerators.

No more info than that is known.

I guess you don't know Geforce 8, support for integers, or should i say: full work compability.
Anyway it's not exactly G8 but DX10, so ATI cards will work too ;)

[quote]AFAIK the ATI client only does part of what the CPU client at F@H can do (this may have changed).
There was also mention of PS3, XBOX, accelerators.

No more info than that is known.

I guess you don't know Geforce 8, support for integers, or should i say: full work compability.
Anyway it's not exactly G8 but DX10, so ATI cards will work too ;)

I know, it's just neve been discussed.

AMD's ATI card will only work that way when they bring them out to the market to actually buy ;)
Though as long as it is restricted to using DirectX 10, you have to be running Win. Vista



[i]P.S. when I say no more is known, that is than what is written in the threads discussing this, since no one from the projects have reported back.

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Maybe slightly off-topic, but:

Memory chip breakthrough for electronic devices

"Scientists from IBM, Macronix and Qimonda said they developed a material that made "phase-change" memory 500 to 1,000 times faster than the commonly-used "flash" memory, while using half as much power."