Re: Cuda client

Right now I am very disillusioned with Distributed.net ,and I do think 
my assessment is fair.  I've been doing this project either with RC5 or 
OGR for 13 years and this is the first time I've actually seen a road 
block that I feel will never be  broken any time soon(with the GTX 600 
and newer cards). I'm not a coder and never will be,and I would be very 
shocked if there ever was a newer client to support the never cards.So 
Nvidia client development dead in the water and AMD full steam(no pun) 
ahead?

Bert
On 1/31/2013 8:32 PM, Mike Reed wrote:
>
> Bert,
>
> This is unfair. We have always been manufacturer agnostic. It just so 
> happens that AMD Stream chips are quicker than nVidia CUDA chips at 
> the moment.
>
> Your assertion is a bit like saying we supported Intel for RC5 because 
> Sun UltraSparc processors were slower than Intel ones. It wasn't 
> deliberate on our part.
>
> If you (or anyone else) can imagine an optimisation for nVidia's newer 
> chips, we are all ears.
>
> Kind regards,
> Mike
>
> On Jan 31, 2013 7:17 PM, "bert" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     NO,it only MEANS that you have changed YOUR leanings to AMD than
>     NVIDIA   and don't want to write newer clients to reflect the changes
>     NVIDIA made. So in effect a BRICK WALL is coming up concerning NVIDIA
>     cards. I implore the distributed.net <http://distributed.net>
>     staff to post this on their
>     website. This is entirely stupid. The 3.1 clients are old and no,they
>     don't work well with the 600 or newer cards,if they did I would have
>     seen a major boost right off the bat.
>
>     Bert
>
>     Bert
>     On 1/31/2013 2:05 PM, Joseph Kaye wrote:
>     > On 1/31/2013 12:49 PM, bert wrote:
>     >> So apparently anyone who buys a 600 or 700 series Nvidia
>     card(when the
>     >> 700 comes out or any later cards) is screwed and it would be no
>     use to
>     >> run the distributed.net <http://distributed.net> client even
>     when Cuda has moved far away from
>     >> 3.1 which is old? Distributed.net NEEDS to put this information
>     on their
>     >> front page that they no longer can put out a client that can
>     support the
>     >> newer cards.  What a damn waste and to think after 13 years the
>     brick
>     >> wall is beginning to appear....
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Bert
>     > I think that's just a little extreme.
>     >
>     > The cards do still work, so you're not "screwed", they're just not
>     > faster than the older cards when it comes to DNETC.  I do not
>     believe
>     > the version of CUDA has anything to do with it.
>     >
>     > If you have v5 of CUDA installed on your system, it will run
>     apps made
>     > for CUDA 3.x just fine.
>     >
>     > If anyone is to blame, it would be NVidia, as they made the
>     change to
>     > their GPU.  On the other hand, when Mike Reed and myself both
>     told you
>     > earlier that the AMD based cards were far faster, you didn't
>     listen...
>     >
>     >
>     > --Joseph
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