How to setup Bonic to use my ATI card on seti@home?

Ok Im a little confused about how to actually get seti@home working with my ATI card. I found out so far that standard bonic only uses Nvidia cards and only an optimized version will use an ATI card.

Ok so how do I setup and optimized version of bonic is there a beginners guide as its not at all clear.

I downloaded and installed Lunatics_Win64_v0.38_setup but as far as I can see it has made no difference to how seti is running on my bonic client?

So how do I set this up?

First thing: ATM ati-WU's seems to be rare... I had to wait a week or so before I got my first one.

Second:
Having Lunatic's excellent optimised apps is just half of the game.
I had to install AMD's APP (Accelerated Parallel Processing) SDK too.

Edit:

According to the latest readme it is not longer necessary:

Minimum required driver: Something that is OpenCL capable. You can check with
GPU-Z (see above).
Catalyst 10.7b with SDK
Catalyst 10.10 APP without SDK
Recommended driver: Catalyst 11.3

For cards, see
http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibility.aspx

Well it seems to be working, my card is OpenCL capable and its attempting to request work for it but saying there are no tasks available so I guess Ill just have to wait and see what happens.

I have an HD 6850, which is not getting any work - yet. Thanks.

just an FYI. the more recent ATI drivers all come with SDK so you don't have to do an extra step to get that installed or working
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I installed Lunatics on an ATI 4870 about 3 months ago and it's getting lots of work. Also installed an a 3650 (i think) not open CL, and its gets works, but occasionaly runs out.
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Would be useful to know what card you are using.

I have had the same problem, with some new hardware and reconfiguring the 3 PCs I run BOINC, I can't get any GPU work, that includes 2 PCs with ATI cards, and one with the standard SETI install on a linux macine with nvidia cards. I think though it may have been a hallucination, that I saw a couple or 3 of ATI tasks running, but for over a week I haven't gotten any from SETI. I have tons of cpu tasks running.

You can see requests etc:

...and one with the standard SETI install on a linux machine with nvidia cards.

One of your ATI machines has 50 CPU tasks which is the limit for CPU tasks at the moment, it probably can't get any GPU tasks because it's getting refused because it's at the CPU limit,
So you'll need to stop it asking for CPU work, eithier reduce it cache settings until it stops asking for CPU work, or deselect 'Use CPU' in your project preferences until you have enough GPU work,
(It might be best if you did new preferences just for that host, and then moved that host to that venue)

I think that was my speculation a while back, but it doesn't seem to be true - at the moment, if it ever was.

I'm monitoring a host with currently exactly 450 tasks in progress - 400 NVidia GPU, and 50 CPU. It's doing VLAR on the CPU just at the moment, so that 50 limit doesn't get recycled very often: but that isn't stopping the NVidia side of things reporting completed shorties, and getting replacements, every six minutes or so.

I think we were speculating much earlier in the current server problems, when the quotas were first introduced. It may be that a host which already had more than the quota cached from before the troubles got backed off more aggressively than hosts which are on the current line.

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Thanks again for the replies. This is an impossible time to troubleshoot this, but the lack of gpu work is 2+ weeks old, there were plenty of wu to spread around, looking at my valid tasks, I see a lot of the non-gpu tasks validated in that time by cuda-wu,eg:

@Claggy
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@LadyL

Thanks again for the replies. This is an impossible time to troubleshoot this, but the lack of gpu work is 2+ weeks old, there were plenty of wu to spread around, looking at my valid tasks, I see a lot of the non-gpu tasks validated in that time by cuda-wu,eg:

2093516012 5072951 26 Sep 2011 | 8:29:46 UTC 26 Sep 2011 | 20:28:04 UTC Completed and validated 2,949.64 293.92 40.97 SETI@home Enhanced v6.08 (cuda)
2093516013 6172575 26 Sep 2011 | 8:29:46 UTC 26 Sep 2011 | 16:32:09 UTC Completed and validated 2,680.19 2,667.87 40.97 SETI@home Enhanced
Anonymous platform (CPU)

Have there been many fewer ati-wu during that time? I am too much the village idiot to comprehend why calcs aint always calcs-why can't many of these be processed by any of the 3-cpu, cuda, openCL--in other words, are the ATI cards usable on a fairly restricted set of work?

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Edit: And of course as I was preparing the above, the situation changed, a bunch of work came in, but seems only cpu's, that is all that was requested, thanks BTW about the info on how that works, I just hit update and it requested GPU work and got no new tasks available. I don't think it wants to send me ATI work for some reason even though it knows I have the cards for it.

Go into your project preferences and deselect 'Use CPU', now Boinc will only ask for GPU work, you should get some, patience is the key here, you can re-enable CPU work fetch later,

There is no such thing as an ATI Wu, any Wu can be sent to any device that has a compatible app (with the exception of VLAR's to Nvidia GPUs)

Claggy