How to get it to use the gpu?

I have a lenovo thinkpad with a Radeon HD 6630M in it. I can't seem to get the boinc client to use the gpu. It doesn't even mention that i have a gpu anywhere.

Is my gpu not compatible or something?

Thanks for advice.

It doesn't even mention that i have a gpu anywhere.

Actually, it isn't. This is about his other system.

@baobei, as always BOINC won't recognize your videocard when you have not installed the GPU manufacturer's drivers. Normally Lenovo will install its own drivers, or let it up to Windows to do so. Both these will not have essential parts such as OpenGL and in this case OpenCL, since these are direct competitors to things Microsoft sports.

So what you have to do is install the AMD Catalyst display driver. You will need to check if older drivers are installed and if so, uninstall those before installing these. But after that BOINC should recognize your GPU without problems.
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I wonder how do you know which system he is talking about?

Both CPUs seem to be Mobile ('M' in name)?:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 480 @ 2.67GHz


He says:
"Out of the last 15 work units, 3 or 4 have had this message 'Completed, validation inconclusive'."
This matches ID: 6372706 (the only of the two that have such 'high' number of tasks)

And:
"my other laptop has an ati gpu but it doesn't appear to be being used by boinc..."
(ID: 6335930 had only 4 tasks ever)

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=66724&nowrap=true


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Hi,

to be clear, i'm talking about the computer 6335930. CPU is at 100% on it and it clearly isn't using the gpu at all. Do i have to download a different boinc application to use gpu on that laptop?

For some reason the gpu has now gone from co-processor list.

Here's what gpu-z says about the gpu:

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/12/01/24/2kz.png

I downloaded the boinc client from seti website. After downloading Lunatics_Win64_v0.39_setup.exe and running it, boinc has a red circle in the tray icon, but has now started working again.

It is using the gpu for 1 task now... it says in advanced view under status: Running (0.05 CPUS + 1.00 ATI GPUs) and application is setiathome_enhanced 6.10 (ati3ati).

The thing is, it says 15 hours remaining! I thought gpu's were supposed to be able to go through a work unit in like 10 minutes? GPU-z shows gpu load is 98% with temp 91 celcius, ambient temp in the room is 5 celcius. Cpu 100% and is running its own 4 tasts.

After 46 minutes the gpu task is only 20% done. The cpu tasks are running faster than that :(

Here's what gpu-z says about the gpu:



I downloaded the boinc client from seti website.
After downloading Lunatics_Win64_v0.39_setup.exe and running it, boinc has a red circle in the tray icon, but has now started working again.

It is using the gpu for 1 task now... it says in advanced view under status: Running (0.05 CPUS + 1.00 ATI GPUs) and application is setiathome_enhanced 6.10 (ati3ati).

The thing is, it says 15 hours remaining! I thought gpu's were supposed to be able to go through a work unit in like 10 minutes? GPU-z shows gpu load is 98% with temp 91 celcius, ambient temp in the room is 5 celcius. Cpu 100% and is running its own 4 tasts.

After 46 minutes the gpu task is only 20% done. The cpu tasks are running faster than that :(

After 46 minutes the gpu task is only 20% done. The cpu tasks are running faster than that :(

I wonder how do you know which system he is talking about?

Where is the app_info.xml file located?

I'll try the cpu limit at 70%. I tried that version of catalyst it says my computer does not have supported hardware. The only drivers i can get to work with the laptop are those i download from acers website.

Here is screenshot of properties info for the work unit that the gpu seems to be very slow at processing:

http://imagebin.org/195241

I see no mention of VLAR or anything.

Where is the app_info.xml file located?

I'll try the cpu limit at 70%

I see no mention of VLAR or anything.

Here's the contents of that file:

http://pastebin.com/feZt0X1a

How long should a work unit take on a gpu? I know my gpu isn't exactly high end: it is a mobile version but it does play games pretty well on medium settings so should be semi decent at set.

I disabled all tasts but the gpu one and the gpu temp is stable at 61C with cpu never going above 3% but i cant really tell how much the speed is improved until a new task begins.

Here's the contents of that file:

http://pastebin.com/feZt0X1a

I disabled all tasks but the gpu one ...

Ok so i should try re-installing the lunatic thing but select MB6_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r390.exe

I've just changed it to max 75% multi core and now no tasks are disabled but it just runs 3 tasks with the cpu as expected.

As i know, i wont be able to test the gpu again for 3 days as the download servers would be down on Tuesday to Friday which i guess has begun.

It's quite sad really... i was the 'tie breaker' for that work unit, and as you can see the guy with gtx card did it 100x faster than me, and even the guy using his cpu only did it much faster than my gpu (twice as fast):

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=911622127

That is just a weird result unless my gpu really is that horrible.

The guy that 'did it fast' simply did it wrong (often happens on GeForce GTX 560 Ti)

'Weekly Outage' this days is only ~6 hours (unless you have some special USA holidays?)

Now you have two Astropulse v505 tasks for both your CPU and GPU
I'm almost sure the GPU will be faster (e.g. 2 hours on GPU and 20 hours on CPU, but depends on "% blanked" of the task visible after the task is complete).


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The astropulse took 19,906.27 seconds... not sure how that stands up to other people using gpu but seems long. I think my gpu is just not very good lol. It's a mid range card anyway and mobile version so i guess i shouldn't expect too much.

Looking at your tasks times:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=6335930&offset=0&show_names=1&state=0&appid=

maybe the best use of your hardware will be to use:
SETI@home Enhanced only on CPU
Astropulse v505 only on GPU (but Astropulse tasks are very often hard to get)


To do so:

Set [No new tasks]
Report all finished tasks ([Update] button)
Exit BOINC

Use BoincRescheduler
http://www.efmer.eu/forum_tt/index.php?topic=428.0
... to 'move':
all SETI@home Enhanced to CPU
all Astropulse v505 to GPU


Run again Lunatics_Win64_v0.39_setup.exe and select:
for CPU: SETI@home Enhanced only
for GPU: Astropulse v505 only

Start BOINC
[Allow new tasks]

Edit:

The astropulse took 19,906.27 seconds... not sure how that stands up to other people using gpu but seems long.

Can i do somwthing with the credit that i receive?
Or it is for nothing?

thank you.