Does anyone know if Boinc are planning to use ATI's equivalent to Nvidia's CUDA to make use of all those ATI graphics processors out there doing nothing?

See bottom question and answer in this FAQ, which states:

When will ATI GPUs (or any other non-Nvidia brand GPUs) be supported?
All we can say is in the future. The biggest problem with ATI at the moment is that they do not give any support on porting over project's science applications to work with their Stream SDK. People will have to figure this out for themselves and many project administrators just do not have the time or money to learn a whole new programming interface (Brook+).

So BOINC does not support ATI at this moment. Perhaps in the future when the new OpenCL format comes more into swing and the manufacturers you see listed there start giving out support on it.

By the way, the Milkyway project has a user supplied ATI application, which for now works on Win64, a CPU with SSE3 and the HD38x0 and HD48x0 cards only.

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Thanks for the reply, was looking into new cards and GPU compatability with BOINC will be a big factor for me, looks for the moment like I'll be sticking with Nvidia

Oli