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Old 09-17-2022, 01:15 PM   #2 (permalink)
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"Space Shuttle 10 billion voxel CFD on 8x 64GB GPUs"

An example (DDGs first choice) of a computer that would take eight GPU: www.titancomputers.com/Titan-A575-Up-to-8x-NVIDIA-Multi-GPUs-Computing-p/a575.htm. $9,700 with one GPU; so 8xhundreds more. that's no home gamer rig.

OTOH the Github FAQ says
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I'm on a budget and have only a cheap computer. Can I run FluidX3D on my toaster PC/laptop?

Absolutely. Today even the most inexpensive hardware, like integrated GPUs or entry-level gaming GPUs, support OpenCL. You might be a bit more limited on memory capacity and grid resolution, but you should be good to go. I've tested FluidX3D on very old and inexpensive hardware and even on my Samsung S9+ smartphone, and it runs just fine, although admittedly a bit slower.
https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D

Have you tried it yet? It will be a while until I clear my schedule for this.
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