I've just set up a new linux workstation.
The workstation has 2 video cards:

Nvidia Quadro 2000
Nvidia Quadro NVS 295

The Quadro 2000 is my primary card and is currently set up for my monitors.
I've just installed the other video card, but it isn't currently powering any monitors, just installed.

When I look at my BOINC event log I see that it knows about both video cards and it even knows that the 2nd card is "not used". However, I can't tell if BOINC is using either of these card for CUDA crunching.
How can I tell?

When I look at the list of tasks and I look at the "application" column, I see these unique apps:

AstroPulse v6 6.03
SETI@home Enhanced 5.28
SETI@home Enhanced 6.03

The event log has a few messages that look like this:

Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA

My event logs non-seti@home lines are here http://pastebin.com/FwVWrzqL for you viewing pleasure.

I have my preferences set to "use GPU always".
Could it be that there simply isn't any GPU tasks to do?
Sorry for these questions, this is my first workstation with any kind of good video card, I've always just run general CPU before (servers and the like).

I want to get the most out of this work horse, is there anything I could do? I've read a bit about optimized clients, will they give a boost? (I'll read the sticky thread about these in a few minutes)

Thanks in advance for any help!

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One thing to help people diagnose your problem is to un-hide your computers. This doesn't mean they can "tinker" with your computers, but it lets them see details of your configuration that help them in suggesting solutions to your problem.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Ok, I've gone ahead an set my preferences so that they aren't hidden anymore.
It doesn't appear to have updated just yet. Just a waiting game now.

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A cuda card running under Linux will be used by several BOINC projects, but not by SETI unless you install a third-party app yourself. The project itself has no Linux/cuda applications shown on the application list.

A cuda card running under Linux will be used by several BOINC projects, but not by SETI unless you install a third-party app yourself. The project itself has no Linux/cuda applications shown on the application list.

Ahh thank you so much. This is it. I've gone ahead and installed the Lunatics Linux CUDA client. As soon as I start up BOINC, boom, there it is running the CUDA client.


All I need to figure out now is why it threw away my Astropulse and SETI@home Enhanced 6.03 apps.
I assume it has something to do with app_info.xml.
There wasn't a previous one, so I had no reference point to view a working app_info for those two applications.

I'll keep plugging away.

Thanks for your help.

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Arkayn has download packages available with all the apps, just select Linux packages, then the package you need, after that you'll need to add the app_info details for the x41g app to your app_info:

Setiathome Linux Downloads

Claggy