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Hi there, just started crunching numbers again after a good 3-4 year absence. Install went fine, but i couldnt get work once everything was said and done. | |
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One thing I notice right away is that BOINC is asking for work for your ATi GPU. SETI@Home does not have a default application for ATi GPUs, so at this time work will never be sent for your hardware. However, I believe it normally reads "No work for selected application" or something to that effect. The "No work available, project servers may be down" is usually indicative of difficulties in reaching the project's servers. | |
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Alright, well how do i set it so that BOINC requests work for my regular cpu? These new features for GPU is new to me. Not sure how to configure it to being off. Is there ports that i can forward to ensure my firewall/router can connect to them correctly? | |
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Alright, well how do i set it so that BOINC requests work for my regular cpu? You can't. The fact that BOINC only requests tasks for the GPU shows that you have (according to BOINC:-) enough CPU tasks from Spinhenge. These new features for GPU is new to me. Not sure how to configure it to being off. That depends. If you don't want to use your GPU for crunching at all, you can disable it by creating a Core Client Configuration file (cc_config.xml) with the <no_gpus> option in it or by using the --no_gpus command-line option when starting the client. If you want to use the GPU only for some projects, you'll have to ignore the messages until the <exclude_gpu> option becomes available with BOINC 6.13. Is there ports that i can forward to ensure my firewall/router can connect to them correctly? You could try to set up an Internet proxy (see the ~ Temporary Fix for HE connection problems ~ and related threads). Gruß, Gundolf | |
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Alright, well how do i set it so that BOINC requests work for my regular cpu? These new features for GPU is new to me. Not sure how to configure it to being off. Is there ports that i can forward to ensure my firewall/router can connect to them correctly? BOINC will automatically request work for the CPU when it needs to. If it's not asking for work, it doesn't need any. You can turn off using the GPU through your SETI@Home Preferences, but note this only turns it off for SETI@Home. You'd have to do the same at every project you belong to. Honestly I'm not sure it's worth the effort since it's not an error message you're receiving, so everything is actually working as expected. I don't think you need to open ports on your firewall or router since, again, those are informative messages and not error messages. BOINC works just like web browsers do in that it initiates the communication from inside your network, and most SPI firewalls will detect this as valid communications to the internet and allow return comms back from the servers. | |
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You can turn off using the GPU through your SETI@Home Preferences, but note this only turns it off for SETI@Home. And at SETI@home, you can only turn off nVidia (CUDA) GPUs. ;-) Gruß, Gundolf | |
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You can turn off using the GPU through your SETI@Home Preferences, but note this only turns it off for SETI@Home. It says nVidia, but it works for ATi too. ;-) | |
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No, it doesn't. That option will work for Nvidia GPUs only. | |
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No, it doesn't. That option will work for Nvidia GPUs only. Yet when I turn off the nVidia option, I stop getting ATi tasks sent to my computer. | |
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There's two things why it won't work that way. if ($app_types->ati) { $project_pref_descs[] = new PREF_BOOL ( tra( "Use ATI GPU %1 Enforced by version 6.10+ %2", "<br><span class=note>", "</span>" ), "no_ati", false, true ); } if ($app_types->cuda) { $project_pref_descs[] = new PREF_BOOL ( tra( "Use NVIDIA GPU %1 Enforced by version 6.10+ %2", "<br><span class=note>", "</span>" ), "no_cuda", false, true ); I hope you can read PHP code, but that's how the 'detection' takes place. app_types being those shown in Seti apps. (Source prefs.inc). 2. You're using the anonymous platform optimized applications. By using anonymous platform (app_info.xml) you tell BOINC which applications to use and what hoops to jump through. The project preferences will be ignored. In the past, the "Use GPU" option did work for both ATI and Nvidia, yet then people started putting Nvidia and ATI GPUs into the same computer, and they wanted options to disable one but not the other, and as such from that time onwards, we had the "Use ATI GPU" and "Use Nvidia GPU" preferences. They work for their hardware counterpart only and then only when the BOINC backend has detected that there are applications of the sort available. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception. | |
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I see. I was unaware of the change and I haven't disabled GPU computing in quite a while, probably before the change occured. | |
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