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Message 5450 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 16:20:33 UTC

Hi,

I cannot find out if the above is supported?

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Message 5452 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 16:32:16 UTC

As far as I know it's only Win and Linux for now. Sorry!

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Message 5467 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 19:36:54 UTC

I saw a note that Nvida is going to be supporting GPU computing on OS-X ... but the project still has to make the application to run under the OS ...

GPU Grid may or may not decide to do so ...

Not sure how the Mac versions of the cards stack up with what is generally available for windows so our options may be limited for the near future ...

I have an 8800 something in the Mac Pro I have and it looks like there is like only one Quadro card ... again, I am not sure how well they would do for GPU Grid ...


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Message 5480 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 21:19:53 UTC - in response to Message 5467.

CUDA 2.0 is implemented on OS X. The 8800 GT in the macs works with CUDA.

The GPUGrid client is not open source?

I would like to contribute, if I could, but not being an expert, a porting task could a start.

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Message 5482 - Posted: 10 Jan 2009 | 22:17:52 UTC - in response to Message 5480.

The GPUGrid client is not open source?


It's still under heavy development, so it wouldn't make sense to publish the code. Not sure if this is planned later on, though.

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Message 5487 - Posted: 11 Jan 2009 | 6:31:49 UTC - in response to Message 5480.

Dennis,

I was able to use my MBP video card to use by loading windows in bootcamp and installing the new nvidia drivers.

Just my .02$

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