Upgraded BOINC last night, and thought that optional use of GPU was a cool idea. Notice "thought" in past tense.

I have a decent video card, but it happens to be ATI this time around, rather than the Nvidia I used in earlier systems.

I'm working SETI, and it doesn't use ATI.

Nonetheless each time BOINC contacts the server on behalf of SETI, it requests work for GPU -- and only GPU; server says no Nvidia card, and sends nothing.

At this rate, once the single Astropulse file being worked on is complete ... all work on SETI will cease because server will no longer provide work.

I have the setup file for earlier version of BOINC, but I don't know if it will allow install over newer version ... nor do I know if all data will be lost track of, should I move backwards with BOINC.

I've been unable to find a way, within BOINC, to turn off GPU-centric aspects.

Best advice from experts please. And has anyone else found problems similar to this with newest version of BOINC? (Check your messages for red lines.)

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At this rate, once the single Astropulse file being worked on is complete ... all work on SETI will cease because server will no longer provide work.

No it won't. At this moment BOINC will think you have enough CPU work to be done, so it just won't request more work for that CPU. Once you are around 90-95% done on the Astropulse task, BOINC will request more work.

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At this rate, once the single Astropulse file being worked on is complete ... all work on SETI will cease because server will no longer provide work.

No it won't. At this moment BOINC will think you have enough CPU work to be done, so it just won't request more work for that CPU. Once you are around 90-95% done on the Astropulse task, BOINC will request more work.

If that is the case, then the way BOINC works on my system seems to have majorly changed. Up to now, running this quad, I've had 3 to 5 SETI projects waiting to run the majority of the time, even though preferences limit CPU use to three(3), and rotates 2 CPUs between two projects every hour. (Currently climate prediction net is running 2, with one waiting.)

I do, at times, scratch my head when server returns a "no work available" message from SETI. With less than 20 minutes to task completion, I should have new tasks waiting when I finish e-mail; if not, I'll be back with update.


My apologies, to skildude, for posting to wrong list; either I didn't see this one, or it didn't seem applicable at the time.

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No problem I'm just getting you to where you'll get the best responses

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