BOINC can currently handle only 1 type of GPU per brand per host;
i.e. it can handle 1 type of NVIDIA GPU and 1 type of ATI GPU.

Removing this restriction if possible but would be a
medium-large development project.

-- David


On 14-Dec-2010 2:15 PM, Raistmer wrote:
> And what about anonymous platform?
> How can I define that one GPU requires one type of app and another GPU 
> requires
> another app type? Project can have no GPU apps at all in general, but there 
> can
> be third-party GPU apps...
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* David Anderson <mailto:[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 15, 2010 12:07 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [boinc_dev] Plan classes for AMD GPUs
>
> The plan class mechanism lets projects define their own plan classes,
> and they can use these to target app versions
> to specific GPU characteristics if they like.
> They don't need BOINC to define these plan classes for them.
> -- David
>
> On 11-Dec-2010 2:50 PM, Raistmer wrote:
>  >> From Lunatics beta thread:
>  > " Quote from: cenit on Today at 00:35:57 Put for example that I have a HD
>  > 4870 and a HD 5870 in the same host, with a unified app it would be easy to
>  > get full performances (with both app, I would have to use the non-HD5 for
>  > both!)
>  >
>  > Devices with different capabilities should have different plan classes 
> first
>  > of all. And if there are different plan classes I see no problem to use few
>  > different app each fine tuned for particular device.
>  >
>  > "
>  >
>  > Could we expect such different plan classes for OpenCL apps for ATi HD4xxx
>  > and HD5xxx that drastically differ in capabilities (no scratchpad local
>  > memory on HD4xxx at all) ? _______________________________________________
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