I have an ASUS Crosshair II Formula MB, on which I am running 3 GT 240 cards; I am using the onboard GPU for graphics only - or so I thought. Unfortunately, BOINC has decided to use the onboard GPU, too (it's only 19 GFlops).

Is there any tag I can use to tell BOINC to ignore the built-in GPU? And: where do I put it?

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I have an ASUS Crosshair II Formula MB, on which I am running 3 GT 240 cards; I am using the onboard GPU for graphics only - or so I thought. Unfortunately, BOINC has decided to use the onboard GPU, too (it's only 19 GFlops).

Is there any tag I can use to tell BOINC to ignore the built-in GPU? And: where do I put it?

you need to make a cc_config.xml file with the following in it:

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<ignore_cuda_dev>0</ignore_cuda_dev>
</cc_config>

Make sure you use Notepad, Change the Zero to which ever device number you want to ignore,
then save as cc_config.xml with ANSI encoding selected, drop it in your Boinc Data folder, and restart Boinc.

Note: Boinc 6.10.19 or later required.

Claggy

There is a setting in SETI@home preferences that allows you to turn off the GPU downloads. Once your system has finished the work is has now, it won't get any more.

I have an ASUS Crosshair II Formula MB, on which I am running 3 GT 240 cards; I am using the onboard GPU for graphics only - or so I thought. Unfortunately, BOINC has decided to use the onboard GPU, too (it's only 19 GFlops).

Is there any tag I can use to tell BOINC to ignore the built-in GPU? And: where do I put it?

you need to make a cc_config.xml file with the following in it:

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<ignore_cuda_dev>0</ignore_cuda_dev>
</cc_config>

Make sure you use Notepad, Change the Zero to which ever device number you want to ignore,
then save as cc_config.xml with ANSI encoding selected, drop it in your Boinc Data folder, and restart Boinc.

Note: Boinc 6.10.19 or later required.

Claggy

Thanks, Claggy.
Actually, I found the flags I needed by Googling "BOINC cc_config", and added

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>

to my cc_config.xml file.

I had to upgrade from 6.10.18 to 6.10.56 to do it, of course...

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Actually, I found the flags I needed by Googling "BOINC cc_config", and added

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>

to my cc_config.xml file.

I had to upgrade from 6.10.18 to 6.10.56 to do it, of course...

That's an extraordinarily complicated way round, when changing a 'yes' to a 'no' in SETI@home preferences would have achieved the same effect.

Actually, I found the flags I needed by Googling "BOINC cc_config", and added

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>

to my cc_config.xml file.

I had to upgrade from 6.10.18 to 6.10.56 to do it, of course...

That's an extraordinarily complicated way round, when changing a 'yes' to a 'no' in SETI@home preferences would have achieved the same effect.

He wanted to specifically not run one of his GPUs, while keeping crunching on the other two. Setting the preference to no would result in no GPU task at all wouldn't it? Seeing as I did that because SETI kept telling me my GPU hasn't enough RAM (due to the newish driver reporting 242 instead of 256 MB)
I was wondering how you would know which GPU dev id to give it to silence, but I presume that's among the information given when Boinc starts?

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

Actually, I found the flags I needed by Googling "BOINC cc_config", and added

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>

to my cc_config.xml file.

I had to upgrade from 6.10.18 to 6.10.56 to do it, of course...

That's an extraordinarily complicated way round, when changing a 'yes' to a 'no' in SETI@home preferences would have achieved the same effect.

I agree, except i think jravin is saying that they want to continue to run the GT240's with boinc and not the on-board. If they were to disable the GPU work, wouldn't it stop work for all GPU's not just the on-board one?

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- Jarryd

Actually, I found the flags I needed by Googling "BOINC cc_config", and added

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>

to my cc_config.xml file.

I had to upgrade from 6.10.18 to 6.10.56 to do it, of course...

That's an extraordinarily complicated way round, when changing a 'yes' to a 'no' in SETI@home preferences would have achieved the same effect.

He wanted to specifically not run one of his GPUs, while keeping crunching on the other two. Setting the preference to no would result in no GPU task at all wouldn't it? Seeing as I did that because SETI kept telling me my GPU hasn't enough RAM (due to the newish driver reporting 242 instead of 256 MB)
I was wondering how you would know which GPU dev id to give it to silence, but I presume that's among the information given when Boinc starts?

Actually, I had 3 GT240 cards and the onboard NVIDIA chipset GPU. Basically, knowing that the onboard one used system memory, I used EVGA Precision to find it by memory speed (400MHz), and then added it to the cc_config file.

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Actually, I found the flags I needed by Googling "BOINC cc_config", and added

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>

to my cc_config.xml file.

I had to upgrade from 6.10.18 to 6.10.56 to do it, of course...

That's an extraordinarily complicated way round, when changing a 'yes' to a 'no' in SETI@home preferences would have achieved the same effect.

He wanted to specifically not run one of his GPUs, while keeping crunching on the other two. Setting the preference to no would result in no GPU task at all wouldn't it? Seeing as I did that because SETI kept telling me my GPU hasn't enough RAM (due to the newish driver reporting 242 instead of 256 MB)
I was wondering how you would know which GPU dev id to give it to silence, but I presume that's among the information given when Boinc starts?

Actually, I had 3 GT240 cards and the onboard NVIDIA chipset GPU. Basically, knowing that the onboard one used system memory, I used EVGA Precision to find it by memory speed (400MHz), and then added it to the cc_config file.

And I clearly need to get some sleep, because I completely misread your post.

Sorry about that. G'night all.

Actually, I found the flags I needed by Googling "BOINC cc_config", and added

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>

to my cc_config.xml file.

I had to upgrade from 6.10.18 to 6.10.56 to do it, of course...

That's an extraordinarily complicated way round, when changing a 'yes' to a 'no' in SETI@home preferences would have achieved the same effect.

He wanted to specifically not run one of his GPUs, while keeping crunching on the other two. Setting the preference to no would result in no GPU task at all wouldn't it? Seeing as I did that because SETI kept telling me my GPU hasn't enough RAM (due to the newish driver reporting 242 instead of 256 MB)
I was wondering how you would know which GPU dev id to give it to silence, but I presume that's among the information given when Boinc starts?

Actually, I had 3 GT240 cards and the onboard NVIDIA chipset GPU. Basically, knowing that the onboard one used system memory, I used EVGA Precision to find it by memory speed (400MHz), and then added it to the cc_config file.

And I clearly need to get some sleep, because I completely misread your post.

Sorry about that. G'night all.

Sleep well Richard! Get some well earned rest.

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- Jarryd

And I clearly need to get some sleep, because I completely misread your post.

Sorry about that. G'night all.

You're spending too much time trying to sort out SETI / BOINC. I prescribe more frequent walks down to the pub ;-P

F.

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And I clearly need to get some sleep, because I completely misread your post.

Sorry about that. G'night all.

You're spending too much time trying to sort out SETI / BOINC. I prescribe more frequent walks down to the pub ;-P

F.

Or if you have beer in the fridge, more frequent walks to the fridge.

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- Jarryd

And I clearly need to get some sleep, because I completely misread your post.

Sorry about that. G'night all.

You're spending too much time trying to sort out SETI / BOINC. I prescribe more frequent walks down to the pub ;-P

F.

Or if you have beer in the fridge, more frequent walks to the fridge.

No, I prefer it the way nature intended, straight from the handpump. The pub it is. (I have one conveniently to hand - a major consideration when choosing to buy my current house)

If you look at the timestamp on the offending post, you might deduce that I had just come back from the pub - which may have had something to do with it.... ;-)