V1.0 — optimized CUDA app for Linux x64 + aarch64 (BOINC anonymous platform)

Optimized CUDA build of the AsteroidsAtHome period_search application (asteroid lightcurve inversion), packaged for BOINC anonymous platform use on Linux. Roughly 7× faster than the original CUDA build on data-center GPUs (Tesla V100, input_239_1: 168 s → ~23 s) with arch-gated code paths so consumer GeForce and Jetson parts each get their best FP64-economy variant (Jetson Orin Nano full workunit: ~34.6 min). Scientific outputs are bit-exact or validated within reference tolerance against the stock application — see OPTIMIZATION_NOTES.md for the complete engineering log.

Downloads

archive	platform	plan class	GPU support (embedded SASS)
periodsearch_cuda-opt_linux_x64.zip	x86_64-pc-linux-gnu	cuda1200_linux	sm_50 – sm_120 (Maxwell → Blackwell)
periodsearch_cuda-opt_linux_aarch64.zip	aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu	cuda129	sm_60 – sm_120 incl. Jetson Xavier (sm_72) and Orin (sm_87)
periodsearch_cuda-opt_win64.zip	windows_x86_64	cuda1200_win	sm_50 – sm_120 (byte-identical GPU code to the x64 Linux app)
periodsearch_HIP-opt_linux_x64.zip	x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (AMD/ROCm)	hip_amd_linux	gfx906/908/90a, gfx101x, gfx103x, gfx110x, gfx120x (GCN5/CDNA + RDNA1-4, 16 targets)
periodsearch_HIP-opt_win64.zip	windows_x86_64 (AMD)	hip_amd_win	same 16 gfx targets; MinGW cross-build, amdhip64.dll loaded dynamically (needs only the AMD driver, no ROCm SDK)

sha256:

4789814ab857268dcc0f546dc9817fbc399cd6daa20ee9695d09b6c69742a0c3  periodsearch_cuda-opt_linux_x64.zip
3d55dc9a9039be4a73aff6900091566e77429ea7b0b31d7f0275c4bd145c8fb4  periodsearch_cuda-opt_win64.zip
a9eb226594c58a10043dd00b861d9acdfdd37166903310d690c4b9455105e049  periodsearch_HIP-opt_linux_x64.zip
bb83aaecdc34b46f9fdbb609e723dbaed99be131d1de6d2e5f7068a749e222ec  periodsearch_HIP-opt_win64.zip
cfc542206a19af58036c9b5d490782c9dd56a26fc237c4a21d226b9b52ebc1c0  periodsearch_cuda-opt_linux_aarch64.zip

Highlights

• Pole-merged grid: the 10 pole trials of each frequency run concurrently (bit-exact, ~2×).
• Memory-locality rewrite: per-block Dg matrix eliminated via Dg = Dsph · g; shared transposed basis matrix; transposed dytemp; in-shared-memory Gauss solver.
• Arch-gated FAT_FP64: data-center GPUs (≥1:2 FP64) use the FP32 basis mirror + uniform-DP products; GeForce/Jetson keep the FP64 table with lane-parallel geometry batching.
• Blackwell (RTX 50-series) fixes: sm_120 SASS generated from compute_89 PTX (avoids a ptxas codegen bug that produced intermittent NaN χ²), plus a clamp on the solar-phase acos argument that fixed all-NaN outputs on 5060 Ti / 5070.
• Built with CUDA 12.9.1 — requires an NVIDIA driver with CUDA 12.9 support.
• AMD build (HIP/ROCm): the same optimized app ported to HIP for AMD GPUs on Linux (periodsearch_HIP-opt_linux_x64.zip, plan class hip_amd_linux, coproc type ATI). Correct on wave64 (Radeon VII) and wave32 (RDNA); ~2.2× faster than the project's OpenCL app on the Radeon VII. Unlike the CUDA builds it needs a ROCm 7.x runtime installed (not just the driver — HIP's runtime can't be statically linked), plus the amdgpu kernel driver with KFD.
• Windows build: cross-compiled from Linux with MinGW-w64 over the CUDA driver API (build_win.sh) — no CUDA toolkit or Visual C++ redistributables needed on the target, only an NVIDIA driver (nvcuda.dll). Its embedded GPU code is extracted from the Linux build's device link, verified byte-identical per architecture. Validated on RTX 3080 Ti: results match the Linux/ROCm reference (179/182 lines bit-identical, rest last-digit rounding).

Install (BOINC anonymous platform)

1. Stop the BOINC client.
2. Unzip into your project directory (.../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/). Each archive contains the executable and a ready app_info.xml — if you already have an app_info.xml, back it up and merge.
3. Restart BOINC.

Unofficial build: workunits are still validated server-side against the project's canonical results, so an incompatibility shows up as an invalid result, not bad science.