Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : New ATI/Nvidia OpenCL project. Please try it
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 GDFVolunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications     | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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By the way, ATI cards are welcome there much more than Nvidia cards which are much slower. | |
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ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications  | |
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Any hardware requirements? | |
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Evil Penguin   Send message Joined: 15 Jan 10 Posts: 42 Credit: 18,255,462 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
Any hardware requirements? I imagine is just has to be able to run OpenCL software. | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Yes, it needs to be able to run OpenCL1.0. | |
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Evil Penguin Send message Joined: 15 Jan 10 Posts: 42 Credit: 18,255,462 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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My 7970 won't pickup any WUs for some reason... | |
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Damaraland Send message Joined: 7 Nov 09 Posts: 152 Credit: 16,181,924 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications  | |
we have found an interesting side project for gpugrid. It's an experiment for us as well which could potentially increase funding. Let's see. I'm missing something. How could this proyect raise funding? | |
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Evil Penguin Send message Joined: 15 Jan 10 Posts: 42 Credit: 18,255,462 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
we have found an interesting side project for gpugrid. It's an experiment for us as well which could potentially increase funding. Let's see. Every BitCoin is worth a certain amount of real money. The more BCs they get, the more they can claim for real money. | |
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Stoneageman  Send message Joined: 25 May 09 Posts: 224 Credit: 34,057,374,498 RAC: 186 Level  Scientific publications  | |
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Think GDF is on to a real winner with this idea. Not quite enough points against GPUgrid tasks (30% less) to make it worth using Nvidia cards (although with less errors could be better for some users), but should get a lot of AMD cards here now from other projects. Great work guys. | |
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Damaraland Send message Joined: 7 Nov 09 Posts: 152 Credit: 16,181,924 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Simply I'm amazed! I dindn't know Bitcoins could be mined. | |
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wiyosaya Send message Joined: 22 Nov 09 Posts: 114 Credit: 589,114,683 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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I did a bit of research on bitcoin, and IMHO, the time to get in would have been when bitcoin was first launched. Each new bitcoin, as I understand it, is taking longer and longer to find because they are growing rarer and rarer. Also, the worth of a bitcoin does not go up even though each one takes longer and longer to find. So, IMHO, it was not worth it for me. | |
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TomaszPawel Send message Joined: 18 Aug 08 Posts: 121 Credit: 59,836,411 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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This is a black day for BOINC. | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Sure, but we are not making money. We cannot make science without people working at gpugrid and we are facing now a big transition in the group, but again you have the option. | |
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SMTB1963  Send message Joined: 27 Jun 10 Posts: 38 Credit: 524,420,921 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
This is a black day for BOINC. Not for BOINC, but definitely for GPUGRID. Shame in my opinion. Agreed. Frankly, I'm shocked that GPUGRID is promoting an association with bitcoin. While bitcoin could solve some problems facing humanity in theory, in practice mining bitcoins does nothing more than provide casinos (bitcoin exchanges) with gambling chips. IMO, there's enough of that going on with fiat...adding crypto-currencies into the mix makes things worse, not better. I urge those in charge of GPUGRID to to reconsider the wisdom of this decision. If you guys are having money problems, there are other ways to raise cash. (now, where's that "Donate" button again?) Good or bad, bitcoin is controversial - and I take a dim view of charities I support engaging in controversial activities. Also in my personal opinion bitcoin is a great idea on its own which should be supported. While I'm not an economist by profession, my undergraduate degree is in econ and I've followed the development of bitcoin very closely as a matter of curiosity. I'd be interested in hearing why you believe bitcoin (in its current state) is worth supporting. Despite having a STRONG negative opinion of bitcoin, I stand ready to have my mind changed if the right argument comes along. ;-) | |
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SMTB1963 Send message Joined: 27 Jun 10 Posts: 38 Credit: 524,420,921 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
This is a black day for BOINC. It just occurred to me that this project might be awarding BOINC credits for mining bitcoins...is this the case? If so, it is in fact a black day for BOINC. Very black indeed. | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Try to read the paper (it's posted at donate@home). The way bitcoin works deserve all respect, it's brilliant. I think that it's worth supporting because it might well end up that the idea taken from bitcoin, which for now I agree it's just an experiment, will end up in something major. Maintaining the network consumes flops, like any other activity. | |
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SMTB1963 Send message Joined: 27 Jun 10 Posts: 38 Credit: 524,420,921 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
Try to read the paper (it's posted at donate@home). The way bitcoin works deserve all respect, it's brilliant. If you're referring to Satoshi's paper, I read it long ago. I would agree that the concept is dazzlingly brilliant...even beautiful. However, my opinions about bitcoin are based on outcomes, not aesthetics. I won't bore readers of this thread with an essay on why I believe the bitcoin "experiment" has already failed (miserably), but I will point out that the objective laid out in the very first line of Satoshi's paper "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." has never been realized. There is no bitcoin economy to speak of outside the thinly traded, completely unregulated exchanges. __________________________________________ Since you're obviously moving forward with this project, I would hope that you will at least make it AMD only. Unless something's changed recently, nVidia GPUs make miserable bitcoin miners. Selling one of my nVidia cards and sending you the proceeds would be better than wasting electricity by using it to mine bitcoins. | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Yes, I meant that paper. | |
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BitCoin Pump? | |
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[FVG] bax Send message Joined: 18 Jun 08 Posts: 29 Credit: 17,772,874 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Try to guess how it should be if all BOINC projects will open a "side project" like donate@home... | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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I actually think that it could be very good, provided that this digital currency matures. | |
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hi Try to guess how it should be if all BOINC projects will open a "side project" like donate@home... yes, exactly you highly lower the respect to distributed computing in this way ____________ | |
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if you want to know the opinion of 2,584 members of team Ukraine (in top-40 on BOINC-wide and Folding and in almost every other project) | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Clearly, you are upset, but don't look at this then. | |
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Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : New ATI/Nvidia OpenCL project. Please try it
