Hi, I've been bothering with BOINC and my video card for some time now. I've scoped forums for similar problems, tested solutions - none worked for me yet.

The problem: Application AstroPulse v6 6.08 (cal_ati) restarts after ca 50 seconds. The progress bar stays at 0.000% (there was 0.033% or something once). Every restart generates certain message in Event log:

2/8/2014 11:35:03 PM | SETI@home | Task ap_03jl13ad_B3_P0_00094_20140208_02094.wu_1 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
2/8/2014 11:35:03 PM | SETI@home | If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
2/8/2014 11:35:03 PM | SETI@home | Restarting task ap_03jl13ad_B3_P0_00094_20140208_02094.wu_1 using astropulse_v6 version 608 (cal_ati) in slot 2

Restarting project haven't solved the problem. GPU-Z shows almost no load on GPU (some spikes only) during this 50 sec run. After some retries (could be 100 or so), the progress bar goes to 100% with "Computation error" label. Sample workunit:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=3377419246
According to the suggestion from several posts I've tried experiment with CPU load options in BOINC preferences - many combinations gave no result at all.

My history (http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/results.php?hostid=52734&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid=14) of AstroPulse v6 tasks shows some completed workunits in the past (but with older AstroPulse 6.06/6.05, Catalyst 13.1 and older BOINC).

Hope I can still make use of my GPU.

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kind regards,
Szymon Jaranowski

PS. Some system/BOINC configuration below:

The graphic card is Mobility Radeon HD 3650 on my Toshiba Satellite A350-10B notebook.

I have the newest driver installed (Legacy Catalyst 13.9, October 2013); package contains (copy from ATI official website http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows%207%20-%2064):

Display Driver ver. 8.97.100.11
OpenCL(tm) Driver 10.0.937.2
Catalyst Control Center 2013.0429.2312.39747

There was the same problem with previous legacy Catalyst 13.1.

My startup Event log:

2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.33 for windows_x86_64
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Running under account spj
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | CAL: ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 2600/3650 (RV630/RV635) (CAL version 1.4.1734, 512MB, 480MB available, 288 GFLOPS peak)
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | OpenCL CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8600  @ 2.40GHz (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 2.0 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (937.2))
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Host name: ciastko
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8600  @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 syscall nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Memory: 3.97 GB physical, 7.93 GB virtual
2/8/2014 10:21:23 PM |  | Disk: 232.79 GB total, 25.17 GB free

Graphic card setup:

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I believe that you need at least a Radeon 4xxx to run SETI on and if anyone ever got a GPU similar to yours to work I'm sure that they'll show up, but I bet that they would've had to jump through hoops to get it to work (my 3850's were never supported when I had them).

Cheers.

CAL is no longer supported.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Legacy Catalyst 13.9 OpenCL(tm) Driver 10.0.937.2

So...Legacy Catalyst 13.9 has the same problem as the Legacy Catalyst 13.1 driver with cal_ati. I suspected as much. Many people have the same results with the Legacy Driver and CAL App. All you need to do is revert back to Catalyst 12.1 and it will probably work. It worked with my 3650. Since you have Win 7, you might be able to use 12.2 or 12.3, not sure, I didn't test the CAL App with Win 7. Use the 13.9 Uninstaller in the Custom Mode to remove all of 13.9, including OpenCL, then restart and install 12.1. Check to make sure OpenCL is reporting version 851.4 verses 937.2, otherwise you will need to run some other driver cleaner to remove 937.2. There's a newer driver cleaner here, Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) V12.1 (Released 02-08-14), seems to work well on AMD drivers.

Thanks for quick response, I'll surely give it a try, but still - it worked ~half year ago with Catalyst 13.1 and a bit older AstroPulse I'm using today.

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kind regards,
Szymon Jaranowski

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The Legacy Driver works fine with the Regular AstroPulse App. It's the CAL_ATI App that has the problems. Most of them end up as this one;
Computer 6990863
Stderr output

AMD ATI Radeon HD 2600/3650 (RV630/RV635) (256MB) driver: 1.4.1734
<core_client_version>7.2.33</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
too many exit(0)s
</message>
<stderr_txt>
ion inside short FFA, probably video-driver restart, restarting app...
Running on device number: 0
Priority of worker thread raised successfully
Priority of process adjusted successfully, below normal priority class used
1 CAL GPUs found
BOINC assigns device 0

Build features: Non-graphics	FFTW	USE_INCREASED_PRECISION	USE_SSE	x86	
     CPUID: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q8300  @ 2.50GHz 

     Cache: L1=64K L2=2048K

CPU features: FPU TSC PAE CMPXCHG8B APIC SYSENTER MTRR CMOV/CCMP MMX FXSAVE/FXRSTOR SSE SSE2 HT SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 
AstroPulse v6
Non-graphics	FFTW	USE_CONVERSION_OPT	
Windows x86 rev 1854, V6 match, by Raistmer with support of Lunatics.kwsn.net team.
SSE
Brook+ version for ATI GPUs by Raistmer
ffa threshold, twindechirp mods by Joe Segur
SSE3 dechirping by JDWhale
state.fold_buf_size_short=65536; state.fold_buf_size_long=262144
ERROR: some exception inside short FFA, probably video-driver restart, restarting app...
ETC...

The example you gave shows the successes were using an Older Driver;
AMD ATI Radeon HD 2600 (RV630) (256MB) driver: 1.4.515

OK, here is the news. Looks like there is some partial (at least) success.

TBar,

Catalyst 12.1: I didn't manage to install 12.1 on my Windows 7. Used DDU, as You suggested, but Windows automatically installed Microsoft driver which somehow conflicted with the one in 12.1 (DDU was supposed to block that, but it didn't) - installing drivers in old Toshibas can be really irritating.

Catalyst 9.7 (this gives CAL 1.4.344): I came up with an idea to try this version, as ATI Stream SDK 1.4 beta (the only SDK still available from AMD website supporting HD 3650, I think) has official support for it. I thought the runtime can be more stable. And: AstroPulse finally kicked off. Driver crashes randomly (with Windows 7 pop up "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered"), sometimes the task must be suspended and resumed to go on, but still - the job is already at ~30%. I will wait till it finishes and gets validated, before experimenting with other drivers. I'll post the results.

Thanks for help.

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kind regards,
Szymon Jaranowski

P.S. I've provided wrong log (messed up with the links); I don't have the proof cal_ati version of AstroPulse ever gave validated results on my machine. Sorry for misleading. It is possible, that CAL 1.4.1734 never worked at all. Still - You've provided good tip: CAL 1.4.515 could work. I think that's Catalyst 9.12 (as 10.1 beta used 1.4.519 already).

There were several screen blackouts, driver restarts and I had to manually pause/resume task one or two times, but finally got the results. Two workunits are done by now, one already validated. Looks like following configuration worked:

Graphic card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Drivers: Catalyst 9.7 for Windows 7 x64 (CAL 1.4.344)

I'll try newer drivers (to see application gets more stable), I'll put the results here. Now I'm waiting for further AstroPulse workunits.

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kind regards,
Szymon Jaranowski

I've checked Catalyst 9.12 (CAL 1.4.515). Few workunits got already validated; the application AstroPulse v6 6.08 (cal_ati) looks much more stable on this driver.