Recently I noticed that my BOINC is running seti units on my GPU just fine I am running windows 7, BOINC manager V7.0.64. My event log looks like this:

6/7/2013 10:32:22 PM | | No config file found - using defaults
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Running under account Ray
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 630 Processor [Family 16 Model 5 Stepping 2]
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 popcnt syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Memory: 12.00 GB physical, 24.00 GB virtual
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Disk: 686.46 GB total, 477.66 GB free
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1720, 1024MB, 991MB available, 1248 GFLOPS peak)
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version CAL 1.4.1720 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (923.1), 1024MB, 991MB available, 1248 GFLOPS peak)
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6560195; resource share 100
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 08-May-2012 21:16:25)
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | SETI@home | Host location: none
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: using your defaults
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Reading preferences override file
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Preferences:
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | max memory usage when active: 6143.64MB
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 9215.46MB
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | max disk usage: 20.00GB
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | max CPUs used: 2
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
6/7/2013 10:32:23 PM | | Not using a proxy
6/7/2013 10:32:29 PM | SETI@home | Restarting task 24my10ad.606.69023.10.11.167_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 610 (ati13ati) in slot 0

I have restarted the program and the PC a few times. What is going on?

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I dunno....
What does a work request look like?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I have restarted the program and the PC a few times. What is going on?

You're running anonymous platform.
Recently the Seti application was upgraded from v6 to v7. Since you're running anonymous platform you need to manaully update the applications.

You could remove the app_info file, that would let BOINC download the necessary files to run v7 stock applications, or you could go to Lunatics & download the installer for Windows for optimised applications.
You'll need to make sure to select the correct appications for your hardware if you do that.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I have restarted the program and the PC a few times. What is going on?

You're running anonymous platform.
Recently the Seti application was upgraded from v6 to v7. Since you're running anonymous platform you need to manaully update the applications.

You could remove the app_info file, that would let BOINC download the necessary files to run v7 stock applications, or you could go to Lunatics & download the installer for Windows for optimised applications.
You'll need to make sure to select the correct appications for your hardware if you do that.

Better to direct them to my site as I am the primary host at the moment.
http://www.arkayn.us/forum/index.php

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I have a few more questions:

-I am running an AMD Radeon HD6570. Is there a resource here that will tell me what optimized applications it supports?

- will deleting the app_info.xml result in an update to the V7 stock applications?

- how much performance would I lose staying with stock apps?

- Are AMD and ATI the same thing? In the first page of lunatics 0.4, it shows that AMD users must select SSE3_AMD, but the next page has ATI functions.

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I have a few more questions:

-I am running an AMD Radeon HD6570. Is there a resource here that will tell me what optimized applications it supports?

- will deleting the app_info.xml result in an update to the V7 stock applications?

- how much performance would I lose staying with stock apps?

- Are AMD and ATI the same thing? In the first page of lunatics 0.4, it shows that AMD users must select SSE3_AMD, but the next page has ATI functions.

I don't have an ATI card so I can only answer a couple, others will chime in. Also, I've never run the stock app for more than a day so I have no idea how much faster the Lunatics apps are, just that they are. :)

Deleting app_info will cause an auto update to v7, it MAY also abandon/error out any current work you are working on.

Download the new optimised installer, it's pretty straight forward. AMD refers to the CPU; SSE, SSE2, ... Are CPU instructions. ATI refers to the video card.

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I have a few more questions:

-I am running an AMD Radeon HD6570. Is there a resource here that will tell me what optimized applications it supports?

As long as Boinc 7 detects OpenCL support then the OpenCL AP app should work, and as long as OpenCL support is there and you're on Cat 12.10/APP runtime 938.2 and earlier, or Cat 13.2/APP runtime 1124.2 then the OpenCL MB app should work.

- will deleting the app_info.xml result in an update to the V7 stock applications?

You need to restart Boinc too, and maybe reset the project.

- how much performance would I lose staying with stock apps?

The Lunatics GPU apps are supplied to the project, the installer just has newer versions of the same performance,
the Optimised CPU apps are something like 25 to 30% faster than Stock 7.00 app for MB, and about 3 times faster for AP. (your mileage may vary)

- Are AMD and ATI the same thing? In the first page of lunatics 0.4, it shows that AMD users must select SSE3_AMD, but the next page has ATI functions.

There was an AMD SSE3 CPU app for compatibility/performance reasons in the 0.40 Installer, that is not required with the lastest apps.
The ATI GPU page we could have quite as easily called it AMD/ATI as AMD took over ATI.

Interesting all your MB v6 Wu's errored with Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1) was that with an app from the old 0.40 Installer? Which one?

Claggy

I re-ran lunatics 0.41, and seleted multipules V6 this time from the second page. It looks like the GPU is now processing units. Which I need, because it handles as much data as both CPUs combined. Thanks for the help, guys.

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