Folding@Home GPU3 Beta

[Soleron]

ethomaz said:

Soleron said:
Why don't they just use OpenCL? Then it would work on both GPUs. 

Because this...

http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/01/some-more-details-on-the-gpu3-core-regarding-opencl.html

The first GPU3 uses CUDA, but after OpenCL matures (on both ATI and NVIDIA) will be will able to finish and optimize to OpenCL.

Ah. Good.

I dislike CUDA (and AMD's Stream's) proprietary spec and hardware tie; OpenCL should mean that improvements to the software are expressed on both GPUs, rather than which company has paid the most (because seriously, supporting 4xx instead of 5xxx can't be a neutral decision).