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Jason G:

--- Quote from: hellsheep on 07 Jul 2010, 09:06:33 pm ---I'm going to assume for any performance increase with the fermi's we require nVIDIA to release some new CUDA files of some sort? Maybe work on newer drivers too?

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Not quite the full picture, but tool & SDK refinement would probably help as things go on. 

 There are extra facilities in the newer Cuda libraries already that are designed to cram more concurrent processing onto the cards, and the hardware is being underutilised.  We're not using everything  yet, and only some portions use sufficient threads in the traditional cuda kernel sense.  Only difficulties so far seem to be that the existing cuda apps are full of design flaws that need to be fixed first, which requires a deeper understanding of the multibeam algorithms than I had ever needed previously. That takes a long time (for me anyway), along with that the drivers/tools and techniques for programming in parallel are fundamentally more difficult, as there is less prior work to draw upon, and much less experience on platforms like this.

It won't require newer cuda libraries to extract more performance, but will take time.  Step by step refinement in all areas, particularly reliability first, will see things stabilise in the right direction, and we can turn to making use of the resources for speed as all the components mature.

Jason

hellsheep:
Ah thanks for that Jason.

Good to know that little bit of information.

Take all the time in the world you need. :) I know a lot of people here and over at SETI are working hard and trying to do their best. Long time or short time, it doesn't matter. The point is eventually it'll be working as we desire. :)

Josef W. Segur:

--- Quote from: hellsheep on 08 Jul 2010, 04:19:15 am ---...
The point is eventually it'll be working as we desire. :)
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LOL, infinite speed is a target which will never be reached  ;D

Gecko_R7:

--- Quote from: Josef W. Segur on 08 Jul 2010, 01:41:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: hellsheep on 08 Jul 2010, 04:19:15 am ---...
The point is eventually it'll be working as we desire. :)
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LOL, infinite speed is a target which will never be reached  ;D

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I'll settle just for a quantum-entanglement optimized application.  :P
Anyone know how to write for qbit processing?

hellsheep:

--- Quote from: Gecko on 08 Jul 2010, 02:33:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Josef W. Segur on 08 Jul 2010, 01:41:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: hellsheep on 08 Jul 2010, 04:19:15 am ---...
The point is eventually it'll be working as we desire. :)
--- End quote ---

LOL, infinite speed is a target which will never be reached  ;D

--- End quote ---

I'll settle just for a quantum-entanglement optimized application.  :P
Anyone know how to write for qbit processing?

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Give me a moment i'll just call up my Vulcan friend. :P

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