v7 Client Update

riotcity76 · #1 15-03-11, 02:35 AM

It's getting close!

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There has been a lot of work on v7 behind the scenes. Clearly it's taken longer than we'd like, but I wanted to give an update on where we are. Our lead developer, Joseph Coffland, has been working to add requested features and squash bugs reported by testers. There's been numerous examples of this, so too many for me to detail one by one, but I'm attaching the v7 client change log to give some rough idea of the type of code development tasks that have been going on.

Joe and I think we're close and if 7.1.18 looks good in internal testing, it will likely become the basis of the client released for a public release beta client.

Read the rest here.

kup · #2 15-03-11, 07:21 PM

Om nom nom nom!

SnW · #3 15-03-11, 08:43 PM

Thanks for the headsup matey

riotcity76 · #4 16-03-11, 03:04 AM

And more...

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We have been working to improve our support for AMD/ATI GPUs. AMD/ATI originally supported the Brook language for GPU programming, but has since moved to OpenCL, dropping support for Brook. This means that in order for FAH to support ATI GPUs, we have had to rewrite our ATI GPU core in OpenCL. This has been a huge undertaking, but is coming to fruition (check out http://simtk.org/home/openmm for details and a change log with progress updates). Due to ATI's decision to drop Brook in lieu of OpenCL, new FAH ATI GPU core development can only be done in OpenCL and thus can only run on GPUs which ATI supports with OpenCL.

We want to give ATI donors a heads up that ATI does not support all of its GPUs with OpenCL (the series 3xxx are not supported and the series 4xxx does not have sufficient OpenCL support for efficient FAH calculations). For the short term, we will support both the older (Brook coded) ATI core 11, and the newer (OpenCL coded) ATI core 16, but we cannot support the Brook-based core for much longer. We plan to support ATI core 11 until September 1, 2011 (hopefully longer, but we want to get this on donors' radars). Closing support for a given platform is never a popular decision, but in this case, we have no choice due to the lack of vendor support of that platform.

The good news is that ATI's support for OpenCL is very strong and we're excited about our new ATI openCL core (core 16), which is undergoing testing right now. ATI core 16 will be publicly released after the v7 client is released, as the core needs the new client.

http://folding.typepad.com/news/2011...-ati-gpus.html

kilobravo · #5 17-03-11, 12:52 PM

Maybe then,my giant saphire 5970 4gb,can be used and pull some decent ppd

hmmblah · #6 17-03-11, 01:10 PM

Can't wait to see performance numbers for the AMD cards using the OpenCL client. Cooler and requiring less power at the same PPD as nVidia cards would be pretty nice.

kilobravo · #7 17-03-11, 01:18 PM

Only drawback is ati\amd using to much on cpu,nearly 25%.

hmmblah · #8 17-03-11, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by kilobravo

Only drawback is ati\amd using to much on cpu,nearly 25%.

Will that change though with the new client and OpenCL?

kilobravo · #9 17-03-11, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by hmmblah

Will that change though with the new client and OpenCL?

I certainly will have to check it out as soon the new ati-client is released and report back, if its worth folding, both smp and new ati\amd gpu-client in one system.

Maybe the newer 6xxx cards do better with newer opencl support?

hmmblah · #10 17-03-11, 01:59 PM

Looking forward to seeing results.