Distributed Computing w/ GPUs for Climate Research

[Kick]

What alternatives exist today (early 2022, wow!) for distributed computing projects utilizing GPUs? Are there any specifically for climate research?

 

When I tried to find the answer to this it was not immediately clear. It seems the most common project to which we volunteer our idle GPU power is folding@home; if not that then a lot of folks mine on one blockchain or another. Berkley lists some of their "known good" projects but it is not immediately clear if these primarily utilize GPU or CPU. Does anyone here have experience they can share as to which BOINC projects most effectively leverage the power of our GPUs for something worthwhile?

 

I adore the idea behind distributed computing projects like folding@home and climateprediction.net, but the former already has a lot of computing power and the latter (beyond mainly being CPU) is pretty slow to put out new work. I would prefer to support something smaller than folding@home just to balance things out a bit. What's out there? 

 

Thanks!

 

Edited January 17, 2022 by Kick
Levent pointed out BOINC already lists/supports several projects utilizing GPUs so I narrowed the focus of my thread.

[Levent]

Heaps of BOINC projects out there to pick from. I used to contribute to SETI and couple of others back when electricity didnt cost me a huge chunk of my salary.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

[Kick]

24 minutes ago, Levent said:

Heaps of BOINC projects out there to pick from. I used to contribute to SETI and couple of others back when electricity didnt cost me a huge chunk of my salary.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

I should have clarified, I read through that list and was unimpressed. What alternatives exist? 

 

Dang you have a point, though. I guess I am actually trying to ask a different question... thinking. I've edited the OP to narrow the scope and clarify my question.

[Gorgon]

On 1/17/2022 at 3:59 PM, Kick said:

I should have clarified, I read through that list and was unimpressed. What alternatives exist? 

 

Dang you have a point, though. I guess I am actually trying to ask a different question... thinking. I've edited the OP to narrow the scope and clarify my question.

If you look at the list already linked by looking for the Nvidia or AMD logo you can tell which projects support GPUs.

 

Aside from ClimatePrediction.net World Community Grid has the Africa Rainfall Project but like CP is CPU only and it can be finicky to run requiring lots of RAM per thread and you have to either disable SMT or greatly reduce the number of active threads to get it to run efficiently.

 

WCG also had GPU WUs available for Open Pandemics but these are really limited in number so you’d want to run another GPU project concurrently if you want to keep your GPU busy. I run Einstein@Home as my secondary project (with a weight of 0 so WCG gets precedence) as at IMHO it is more useful that finding Large primes etc.

 

But the majority of my GPUs (8-10) run Folding at home as I believe that gives the most bang for the buck and I run WCG/Einstein on 3 older Pascal GPUs that are just not as efficient as Turing and Ampere.