BOINC Now Available For GPU/CUDA

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 19, 2008 @04:49AM from the good-excuse-for-a-new-video-card dept.

GDI Lord writes "BOINC, open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing, has posted news that GPU computing has arrived! The GPUGRID.net project from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park uses CUDA-capable NVIDIA chips to create an infrastructure for biomolecular simulations. (Currently available for Linux64; other platforms to follow soon. To participate, follow the instructions on the web site.) I think this is great news, as GPUs have shown amazing potential for parallel computing."

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Re:Single platform only by Satis · 2008-07-19 06:36 · Score: 3, Informative

fyi, as the other reply states, CUDA isn't limited to a single manufacturer. nVidia has made it available for other graphics card manufacturers to support. Here's an article on Extremetech talking a bit about it, but at least according to the article ATI doesn't appear interested.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2324555,00.asp

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