**All GPU applications still run on the CPU.** The science application itself runs on the CPU which translates the data of the tasks to kernels that the GPU understands.
The CPU is still needed to do those translations, to transfer the data to the GPU's memory and to transfer the outcome of those calculations back to disk. There are no applications yet that natively run on the GPU alone, since there is no OS yet that knows how to do that. The GPU also doesn't know how to take something off a disk and put it back there. Perhaps that that'll be something for the future, when there are systems with only GPUs (no CPU). But for now, no, not yet. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:29 AM, zombie67 <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that we have several non-CPU projects, it would be nice to be able to > distinguish those tasks in the status column of the tasks tab. Something > like "Running (0 CPUs)". > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > -- -- Jord. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
