Re: CUDA for Windows

"Dead J. Dona" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.distributed-net.rc5
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>
>
> I thought that the CUDA client was supposed to be eyeball scorching
> fast.  I have an AMD Phenom II box that runs Windows XP Pro and the Dnet
> client.  Around 50,000 in RC5-72 is the usual throughput,
>

you mean 50k blocks per day?


>
> It has an NVidia GTX 8400 chipset for video and so I thought I'd install
> the new client and the CUDA 2.0 drivers and tools to see some of that
> performance that people passing me seem to be using...
>
> After benchmarking to make sure I was using the fastest client, I got
> numbers in the 19,500 range and ran Core 3 as the (slightly) fastest.  It
> churns along at about 20,000 when the box is doing nothing else.


GPU client can crunch blocks that 16 times larger than CPU blocks. Check
this.

>
>
> All that to say, if I run the CUDA client, I only get 20K and when I run
> the regular Windows client on the Phenom II, I am getting 50K.  Big
> disappointment.
>

Please run dnetc.exe -bench for cpu and gpu cliens and post results here.


>
> Can't seem to run both (though I wonder why),


dnetc.exe -multiok


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