310M NVIDIA and BOINC processing

[Liam Proven]

On 30 October 2011 13:53, Pop Horea-Vasile <pop.horea at lnxopensource.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a laptop msi cx623 -- CPU: i3-390M, VGA: NVIDIA Geforce 310M/1GB DDR3
> with Linux Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot -- 11.10.
> Software: Nouveau with Bumblebee
> Someone used 310M for computation under BOINC.
> As I know it can 40 GFLOPS in simple calculations.
> It' to much waist not to use the video processor.

I looked into this for my own PC.

As far as I can tell, there is no native GPU client for BOINC or any
of the other distributed-computing projects yet.

It is possible to run a Windows GPU client under WINE. I have not
tried; it sounds inelegant and very inefficient to me.

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