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What does Boinc-Client look for to find a 'usable' GPU?
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20283 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Question as in the title: What does Boinc-Client actually look for to find a 'usable' GPU? For example, given a CUDA capable nVidia card and the libcudart libs are installed ok, what else is needed for Boinc to see that there is a GPU there? Happy fast crunchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22199 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
BOINC does not define the computational requirements, it is the project (e.g. Seti at Home) that does that, even then within a given project different applications may set different requirements - An example of this is that until recently S@H's Astropluse could not be run on an Nvidia GPU, but could run on selected ATI; then there were new drivers, and a new Nvidia Astropulse application came along and now we can run a version of the Astropulse application on an Nvidia GPU with the correct drivers installed. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20283 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Mmmm... OK, so a rephrased question: For s@h, can you get to run CUDA/OpenCL tasks without having to go "Annonymous platform" and manual install of optimised apps? Does s@h support CUDA/OpenCL on default settings? Happy crunchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Yes, but for the moment only for Windows: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php So you could try to run BOINC through Wine, if you fancy testing with that. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20283 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Full good answer is here. Thanks to that user. Happy fast crunchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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