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GPU 3 update

Saw it yes. I guess the high hopes many people had for the OpenCL-based GPU client have been dashed yet again. It's just not mature enough yet to giver the performance CUDA gives, apparently. TBH, I think that there'll remain a CUDA client for the foreseeable future just because it's so efficient compared to other solutions.
 
Elledan said:
Saw it yes. I guess the high hopes many people had for the OpenCL-based GPU client have been dashed yet again. It's just not mature enough yet to giver the performance CUDA gives, apparently. TBH, I think that there'll remain a CUDA client for the foreseeable future just because it's so efficient compared to other solutions.
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its not that its so efficient.. its just that it takes a lot less work to use the cuda client then to design an openCL client from the ground up while the cuda client still works perfectly fine.. so the opencl client just tends to sit at the bottom of the list of things to get done.. though the openCL client onces the issues are ironed out should end the cuda client..
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
its not that its so efficient.. its just that it takes a lot less work to use the cuda client then to design an openCL client from the ground up while the cuda client still works perfectly fine.. so the opencl client just tends to sit at the bottom of the list of things to get done.. though the openCL client onces the issues are ironed out should end the cuda client..
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Maybe so, but from what I have heard around the internet it seems that OpenCL implementations in drivers are still iffy, especially for nVidia, and of course OpenCL is trying to barge into a field which CUDA has dominated virtually unopposed for the last years.

Now, I do realize that Stanford & F@H doesn't have infinite resources to work on things like this, and if I knew more about OpenCL I might be able to assist the OpenCL client project. I still don't think, however, that the OpenCL client will so easily end the reign of CUDA with F@H. In other fields I don't see a huge uptake of OpenCL either.
 
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