gpugrid – An Autonomous Agent / exploring the noosphere Sun, 15 Oct 2017 02:55:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 Thoughts About a Project and GPUs /2014/04/thoughts-about-a-project-and-gpus/ /2014/04/thoughts-about-a-project-and-gpus/#disqus_thread Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:13:00 +0000 https://anautonomousagent.com/?p=79

I want to do something which combines GPU programming, finance, and/or conservation — something which will help the relationship between humans and the environment. There are a few ideas in my head. One is about displaying data with 3D graphics to give traders more than just a ticker price. The price of a security is a minimal form of information. What is a good method to display the daily progression of trade volume? Most information about short sells, margin levels, and ownership levels are hidden; revealed only on a monthly or quarterly basis. This infrequent update hinders the development and understanding of crash prevention. Combining all of this information into a visual display based on an Ising model (example) and N-Body particle simulation should be informative. Of course I am simply speculating and putting thoughts into words. The two books I am currently browsing through are: OpenCL in Action by Matthew Scarpino and CUDA Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to GPU Programming by Nicholas Wilt.

CUDA Samples:

]]> /2014/04/thoughts-about-a-project-and-gpus/feed/ 0 BOINC /2012/12/boinc/ /2012/12/boinc/#disqus_thread Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:46:00 +0000 https://anautonomousagent.com/?p=419 When I had a Windows 95 PC back in the late 1990’s I would run the SETI@HOME program. As most people know this is a way to help search for ET. I can not remember exactly but I believe it took at least a day of continuous processing on my IBM Pentium MMX 166 MHz processor to complete one work unit.
About a year ago I rediscovered my childhood urge to find ET and decided to run SETI once more. I discovered that SETI now runs through a program call BOINC. More information on BOINC here.

BOINC, as I understand it, has enormous potential; especially with CUDA. I bought the CUDA enabled GTX 580 to create a monster gaming rig (See post on my gaming computer). When I run SETI, the GTX 580 completes the task in about 7 minutes. Just incredible. My Core 2 Duo laptop took 7 hours.

On BOINC I am apart of the following applications: SETI, GPU Grid, PrimeGrid, MilkyWay@Home, Einstein@HOME, and others.

 

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