There's been an interesting little experiment conducted under this title in the Einstein@Home Cruncher's Corner: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=10517
Today's conclusion says: "So I think that we can now say yes it is possible to crunch GPU work in a virtualized world using "pass through"." Before we all start jumping up and down, there are a number of caveats. 1) Today's demonstration was using a Windows guest virtual machine on a Xen desktop and XenServer hypervisor (if I've read the thread correctly) 2) So far, he's only got an ATI card running. 3) And also so far, we have no numbers for efficiency - he's collecting those now. As yet, I don't think there's any suggestion that BOINC's preferred virtual environment - VBox - has achieved VGA passthrough in what we might call the 'consumer' direction (Linux guest on Windows host), but I thought even this limited advance might be of interest to a wider distributed computing community. http://www.xenserver.org/ declares itself to be open source. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
