http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/ydel/cuda/
I had in a previous thread in Wish List, put in an "open wish", to have a Linux Distro that was a Dedicated GPUGRID Linux. I knew that GPUGRID didn't have the resources to do such a thing, even though it would help us help them, if we could get as much as possible out of our GPU's.

Since then, I tried Ubuntu/Mint being a N00B to Linux & both GPUGRID & BOINC Manager have improved in GPU utilization both for use in Linux as well as Windows.

Then I came across YDEL for CUDA. No way I'm going to spend $400 a year, no do I have any plans on going back to school to get this: https://www.fixstars.com/en/products/ydel/store/education/ But I would be interested to hear from anyone who uses it already, to hear if there is an improvement, in using YDEL for CUDA, & if there are any Linux alternatives to YDEL for CUDA.
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YDEL for CUDA might be a Workstation GPU only OS, but a Mainstream GPU version of YDEL for CUDA might be nice. Both responsible & semi-responsible guides & link to guides on OC'ing CPU/GPU, ROM Updates/Upgrades/Mods/Ports, registry tweaks, & other ways of pimping the PC so it doesn't die or fry, but will be extra useful for the 2-3 years useful lifespan of Hardware. Lets face the facts, even if a piece of Hardware can last for 10-20 years, who would use it?

BOINC Projects aren't the friendliest way of using electricity, but the other way requires huge investments. DC is (Of My Opinion), a way where the cost can be distributed between everyone who wants to help out, as much or as little as they want to help out, & in whichever way that they want to help out. They can donate money, hardware, or CPU/GPU time. Support the projects they want to support, as much or as little as they want to support a project, & if there was a way to donate money or hardware to a certain project, there would be more information to attract money/hardware towards a certain project. Researchers would be more aggressive to inform/attract/promote things to go their way. It wouldn't necessarily be the illness that most people need medicine for (being also the most profitable) deciding who gets the cash, but who's best at selling their project.
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Also found this interesting Linux: http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/Dotsch_UX.html Dotsch/UX with BOINC Client & CUDA. It can run Live CD persistent home directory on a USB Disk. Now it's possible to leave that office & have the PC running w/o installing Linux & having dual boot, save power on HDD, & run GPUGRID Projects(I hope), done very easy thanks to the people behind Dotch_UX!

This is also good news: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-financials-GPU-quadro-tegra,9703.html
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Also found this interesting Linux: http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/Dotsch_UX.html Dotsch/UX with BOINC Client & CUDA. It can run Live CD persistent home directory on a USB Disk. Now it's possible to leave that office & have the PC running w/o installing Linux & having dual boot, save power on HDD, & run GPUGRID Projects(I hope), done very easy thanks to the people behind Dotch_UX!

I'm sorry for not having tried Dotch/UX yet, even though I promised to. I didn't have any more CD's & tried to install it on a USB stick with unetbootin-windows-419 http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/ Universal-USB-Installer http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ & LinuxLive USB Creator 2.4 http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ But they all failed. I "guess" it's because the Dotch/UX LiveCD was meant to be able to install on a HDD or USB-Stick??? I also read from http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1985&nowrap=true#15946 that the performance increase is best when not running X server, but I see that you've read that too. I might be interested in running a Diskless server and client installation as you write here http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/DotschUX-Diskless_Installation.html but right now, I still don't have any CDR (& I'm a bit lazy). So hopefully, when I get a CDR (& get back in the mood), I will. Great work otherwise!
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