Anyone have any ideas on the new ATI core?

[cje]

As title really, does anyone know an ETA on the new ATI gpu cores they're working on, if at all?

Would get a lot of users here folding hopefully.....

[Mr Grapes]

I'm sure nova have an idea, but will be under NDA...
anyone else will be speculating...
anyway, I'm sure it'll be timed with any major nvidia announcements..

[cje]

No, I don't mean the cards themselves. I mean the folding@home gpu core clients that will run on ATI cards better. lol.

[Mr Grapes]

oops! didn't see the subforum!

[Mechanics Fan]

Taken from the Folding @ Home site, dated 25th May 2010

Open beta release of the GPU3 client/core
We have a new GPU core (core 15) going into an open beta test for NVIDIA clients. This core requires a new client (see below) as well as the latest drivers (197.45). This core is the first run of the GPU3 technology, derived from the OpenMM project at Stanford (http://simtk.org/home/openmm). You can find more information in our GPU3 FAQ (see url below). While this release is for NVIDIA only to start, we are actively pushing ATI support (with the help of AMD/ATI), although we have no ETA at the moment. This is the first open beta test of this new client and core, so there are likely bugs to be found as more donors try this out on more diverse sets of hardware. Also, the documentation (GPU3 FAQ) is new too and there are possibly some errors there too. However, the client has been QA'd both internally at Stanford and with our closed group of beta testers and is looking pretty good so far. Some testers in the closed beta test have found problems with 8800 and 9800 class GPUs (we are working on this).

Source: http://folding.typepad.com/