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Surge 2010-09-18 03:27

What can I do with my nvidia GPU?
 
Hi,

I'm running prime95 in hopes of finding a large prime number, here are my specs:

Intel SP9400 (2.4ghz, 6mb l2 cache, overclocked to 3.06ghz, mobile CPU).
Nvidia quadro FX 3700m (mobile GPU).
2gb ram (going to upgrade to 4gb in a week).

Is there anything that is like prime95 but for my GPU?
Something that will help me find a 100 million digit prime number faster?

Uncwilly 2010-09-18 06:16

You may want to read these threads

[url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=12576&highlight=nvidia[/url]

[url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=12827&highlight=nvidia[/url]

Surge 2010-09-18 12:17

Thanks, but I'm a noob with this stuff, I don't understand exactly what I should download and run.

I need something simple like prime95, will that ever have support for CUDA?

jasonp 2010-09-18 14:14

[QUOTE=Surge;230267]Thanks, but I'm a noob with this stuff, I don't understand exactly what I should download and run.

I need something simple like prime95, will that ever have support for CUDA?[/QUOTE]
Many many people have wanted Prime95 to support graphics cards, and I don't know George Woltman's plans, but I personally doubt we'll get graphics card support in any but the longer-term future.

Right now you won't be able to do anything to contribute to GIMPS with your GPU unless you're willing to do software-developer-type stuff and manually reserve your numbers to test.

lorgix 2010-09-29 11:36

[QUOTE=Surge;230237]Hi,

I'm running prime95 in hopes of finding a large prime number, here are my specs:

Intel SP9400 (2.4ghz, 6mb l2 cache, overclocked to 3.06ghz, mobile CPU).
Nvidia quadro FX 3700m (mobile GPU).
2gb ram (going to upgrade to 4gb in a week).

Is there anything that is like prime95 but for my GPU?
Something that will help me find a 100 million digit prime number faster?[/QUOTE]

I'm assuming you didn't get that GPU for the purpose of finding primes.
So let's remember that with your setup you can still contribute and potentially find a 10^11digit prime while using your hardware for gaming or fiddling with graphics or whatever it is that you got it for.


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