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ralphw Send message Joined: 7 May 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 18,032,718 RAC: 38 |
I'm experimenting with BOINC 7, and looking for advice on these topics:
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LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
You want the advice of the Linux guys, I just have a couple of more general remarks. a) You are talking about applications not clients. the client is BOINC and you are using version 6.12.33 atm not 7 - NB you can't easily downgrade from 7 to 6, a main file (client_state.xml is not downwards compatible, resulting in complete chache loss). b) using optimised apps under 7 isn't much different from using them under 6. main changes from 6 to 7 are the scheduler and the intrinsic OpenCl capability. c) Currently Lunatics do not publicly offer OpenCL apps for Linux, only the CUDA x41g you already found. d) x41g offers a lot of improvements over stock besides being faster. If you are already going anonymous it's certainly better than 6.09. Seeing you are on linux it actually is the ONLY GPU app and you have to use anonymous platform if you want to run on the GPU e) have a really small cache or backup the data folder and set no net while tweaking app_info.xml then you can restore the tasks. I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra! |
Wedge009 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 451 Credit: 431,396,357 RAC: 553 |
In addition to LadyL's remarks, I'll note that there's nothing distribution-specific in the optimised Linux applications (as far as I know). As long as the minimum kernel and library requirements are satisfied (any of the popular distributions should cover this easily), you should be set to go. I'll admit, though, that I've only had experience with the CPU optimised applications on Linux - the 32-bit MB CUDA build was buggy, apparently, and I didn't have a 64-bit CPU for the hosts I wanted to use Linux on. There are no Linux OpenCL applications available at the moment, so unfortunately, we have to make do with Windows builds for the time being. Soli Deo Gloria |
Amauri Send message Joined: 18 May 08 Posts: 26 Credit: 1,107,140 RAC: 0 |
Ralph, why don't you upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04? You'll have new versions of Boinc and NVidia drivers... |
Wedge009 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 451 Credit: 431,396,357 RAC: 553 |
10.04 is LTS release. Yes, so is 12.04, but maybe he doesn't want to go through the hassle of upgrading just yet. Soli Deo Gloria |
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