. . Actually, the harder a system is to implement and use properly the smarter you need to be, I guess that is why I am having trouble with Linux :)

Stephen

:)

you just need to be patient when it comes to reading and learning from your own trial and error. it has nothing to do with being smart, there is only experienced and inexperienced... and how much time you have on your hands...

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. . Ok then I guessed wrong, I had nothing missing at all, thanks for that information.

. . I am hoping to get those so.8.0 libraries from Michael. Is there anything else I need? Apparently there are different apps for either SSE or AVX under Linux.

. . Is there any particular reason for the 6 hour time limit? I can abort any unfinished work but I was wondering what the rush was for?

Stephen

:)

check your inbox. you still need the special app from petri33 and the avx. those 2 are the executables. refer to my earlier post where i showed you the files that should have the "x" attribute.

. . Actually the Core2 Duo doesn't have AVX, I need something with SSE3.0 or SSE4.1 support (SSE2.0 would do). But I will check my mailbox.

Stephen

8^}

You could look for the AVX/SSE apps where we said to look, at Lunatics.
Google tells me it is here http://lunatics.kwsn.info/ Go to the download section of Linux and look for what matches your CPU/GPU for MB/AP. BOINC tells you what your processor info is in the first 30 lines of log at start up (Windows or Linux), so match the app to processor. And READ what you download.

That reminds me. People wishing to use the New Special App are going to need to Acquire the Two CUDA 8.0 libraries listed above, libcudart.so.8.0 & libcufft.so.8.0.
So, everyone is either going to have to download and install the CUDA 8.0 Toolkit, or hope someone is nice enough to Host the Files on a download link. The libcufft.so.8.0
file is too large to email or post at C.A, and it's not on the SETI Server.

People are also going to need to Finish their Existing Stock tasks before switching to Anonymous platform or you will Ghost the Stock tasks. If you have Stock tasks, I suggest you finish them in the next 6 hours...or so.

. . OK TBar, I now have the two libraries, but exactly where do I put them? Without being rude LOL!

. . Stephen

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The CUDA App and SSSE3 CPU App is posted here, http://www.arkayn.us/forum/index.php?topic=197.msg4499#msg4499
For those without any existing tasks, and with the Berkeley version of BOINC in your Home folder, it's as simple as placing the Expanded files and two CUDA 8.0 libraries into the BOINC/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder. If you want to add more Apps you'll have to modify the provided app_info.xml. If you don't have any Existing tasks you might want to change the app_info.xml line <plan_class>cuda60</plan_class> to <plan_class>cuda80</plan_class> before running the App and downloading any New tasks. It won't make any difference other than cosmetic. With the BOINC folder in your Home folder you don't have to set any file permissions.

If you have Existing tasks and Existing app_info.xml do Not change your existing app_info.xml <version_num></version_num> or <plan_class></plan_class> as the existing tasks are assigned to your existing numbers. If you have installed the Repository version of BOINC, you will have to set the file permissions after adding the new files to setiathome.berkeley.edu. The app_info.xml is set to -unroll 5, you should change the number to match the number of compute units on your GPU.

As always, you should check the Execute bit on All new Executables before attempting to run them.
Rob the Mod is currently working on hosting the CUDA 8.0 Libraries on his server, so, the library links should appear shortly.

The CUDA App and SSSE3 CPU App is posted here, http://www.arkayn.us/forum/index.php?topic=197.msg4499#msg4499
For those without any existing tasks, and with the Berkeley version of BOINC in your Home folder, it's as simple as placing the Expanded files and two CUDA 8.0 libraries into the BOINC/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder. If you want to add more Apps you'll have to modify the provided app_info.xml. If you don't have any Existing tasks you might want to change the app_info.xml line <plan_class>cuda60</plan_class> to <plan_class>cuda80</plan_class> before running the App and downloading any New tasks. It won't make any difference other than cosmetic. With the BOINC folder in your Home folder you don't have to set any file permissions.

If you have Existing tasks and Existing app_info.xml do Not change your existing app_info.xml <version_num></version_num> or <plan_class></plan_class> as the existing tasks are assigned to your existing numbers. If you have installed the Repository version of BOINC, you will have to set the file permissions after adding the new files to setiathome.berkeley.edu. The app_info.xml is set to -unroll 5, you should change the number to match the number of compute units on your GPU.

As always, you should check the Execute bit on All new Executables before attempting to run them.
Rob the Mod is currently working on hosting the CUDA 8.0 Libraries on his server, so, the library links should appear shortly.

. . Hi TBar

. . Yesterday I ran out my cache and "installed" the CUDA42 "pack" (there were no aistub files but there was an app_info.xml) but when I d/l'd new work I got mostly SoG with a few sah tasks, with NO CUDA42 tasks at all. Have I missed something? I did just as you described above for CUDA80. Also as I understand it I can put all those files in the S@H folder without the app_info.xml and it will not affect the work that is running, is that correct?

BTW how do you make a new directory ??

Stephen

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. . Hi guys,

. . OK, I have copied the two cuda libraries into my Seti@Home folder under projects, also the CUDA80 executable and the app_info.xml file (after changing cuda60 to cuda80 and -unroll 5 to -unroll 6). The SSSE3 executable was already there from my attempt to go anonymous platform with CUDA42. All files have their executable permission set. I cleared my caches (before copying the app_info.xml)and restarted Linux and Boinc. But when I downloaded new work, again, all sah tasks no CUDA80. What am I missing?

Stephen

???

I cleared my caches (before copying the app_info.xml)and restarted Linux and Boinc. But when I downloaded new work, again, all sah tasks no CUDA80. What am I missing?

From Tbar's previous post

If you have Existing tasks and Existing app_info.xml do Not change your existing app_info.xml <version_num></version_num> or <plan_class></plan_class> as the existing tasks are assigned to your existing numbers. If you have installed the Repository version of BOINC, you will have to set the file permissions after adding the new files to setiathome.berkeley.edu. The app_info.xml is set to -unroll 5, you should change the number to match the number of compute units on your GPU.

Use the Linux equivalent of Task Manager to see what application is actually running. If you have gone the anonymous platform route, check what you've got in the app_info.xml file
What you see in the Manager is what the app_info.xml tells it.
eg- when you run the Lunatics installer in Windows regardless of what the WU might be labeled as (CUDA42, 50, SoG), it will run the application you just installed. Any new work downloaded will have the correct Application details against it.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I cleared my caches (before copying the app_info.xml)and restarted Linux and Boinc. But when I downloaded new work, again, all sah tasks no CUDA80. What am I missing?

From Tbar's previous post

If you have Existing tasks and Existing app_info.xml do Not change your existing app_info.xml <version_num></version_num> or <plan_class></plan_class> as the existing tasks are assigned to your existing numbers. If you have installed the Repository version of BOINC, you will have to set the file permissions after adding the new files to setiathome.berkeley.edu. The app_info.xml is set to -unroll 5, you should change the number to match the number of compute units on your GPU.

Use the Linux equivalent of Task Manager to see what application is actually running. If you have gone the anonymous platform route, check what you've got in the app_info.xml file
What you see in the Manager is what the app_info.xml tells it.
eg- when you run the Lunatics installer in Windows regardless of what the WU might be labeled as (CUDA42, 50, SoG), it will run the application you just installed. Any new work downloaded will have the correct Application details against it.

. . Thanks Grant, but I actually cleared my cache before doing the upgrade. I restarted and then downloaded all fresh work so it should have shown as the anonymous platform but it isn't.

Stephen

.

Thanks Grant, but I actually cleared my cache before doing the upgrade. I restarted and then downloaded all fresh work so it should have shown as the anonymous platform but it isn't.

Check in the BOINC Manager event log for
12/03/2017 9:34:29 | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform

If it's not there, i'd make sure app_info.xml is in the right directory, and the file permissions are correct.

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Grant
Darwin NT

. . Hi guys,

. . OK, I have copied the two cuda libraries into my Seti@Home folder under projects, also the CUDA80 executable and the app_info.xml file (after changing cuda60 to cuda80 and -unroll 5 to -unroll 6). The SSSE3 executable was already there from my attempt to go anonymous platform with CUDA42. All files have their executable permission set. I cleared my caches (before copying the app_info.xml)and restarted Linux and Boinc. But when I downloaded new work, again, all sah tasks no CUDA80. What am I missing?

Stephen

???

How many versions of BOINC did you install? The only thing that makes sense is if you installed the Repository version of BOINC and that is the version being used. What files are present in Home/BOINC/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu? If the only files there are the ones you placed there, it's pretty obvious the system is not using that version of BOINC. I don't use the Repository version, you'll have to get help from someone that does. If you are running the Repository version, the version in your Home folder is quite useless.

. . OK, I have copied the two cuda libraries into my Seti@Home folder under projects, also the CUDA80 executable and the app_info.xml file (after changing cuda60 to cuda80 and -unroll 5 to -unroll 6). The SSSE3 executable was already there from my attempt to go anonymous platform with CUDA42. All files have their executable permission set. I cleared my caches (before copying the app_info.xml)and restarted Linux and Boinc. But when I downloaded new work, again, all sah tasks no CUDA80. What am I missing?
Stephen

How many versions of BOINC did you install? The only thing that makes sense is if you installed the Repository version of BOINC and that is the version being used. What files are present in Home/BOINC/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu? If the only files there are the ones you placed there, it's pretty obvious the system is not using that version of BOINC. I don't use the Repository version, you'll have to get help from someone that does. If you are running the Repository version, the version in your Home folder is quite useless.

. . I installed the version from the link you provided. But the process has been rather convoluted for me and I cannot swear that there was not an unsuccessful earlier attempt. What files being present could confirm that it is the active Boinc directory?

. . OK I am convinced you are right. There are no d/l'd task files in that directory and only one task Slot folder when there should be at least 2. But I have searched the whole drive and cannot find another Boinc folder except for a couple labelled Boinc Client with only 2 or 3 files in them. Yet BOINC is running. So is there any environment variable that can be interrogated and point me to the location of the running version?

. . Linux ... pfftt!

Stephen

<shrug>


Stephen

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If you have the Repository version installed it should be here, /var/lib/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu.
Yes, deep in the bowels of the Computer requiring Root privileges. But, you don't need to be Root to just look at it.

What files being present could confirm that it is the active Boinc directory?

The Linux equivalent of Task Manager should show you (or give you the option to show you) the location of the files that are running.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Hi,

To mess around the computer for a short period of time you can run 'sudo bash' in a terminal window. That will give you permission to do whatever you like, but you can destroy so much and at the same time with an inadvert rm -r * at the / andOr give any hostile app you accidentally run the superuser powers too. *Try this at home before trying it at work*

a) top
b) ps -A|more

those will tell you what is running at the moment.
b) can be also : ps -A|grep searchword



Petri

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To overcome Heisenbergs:
"You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones

What files being present could confirm that it is the active Boinc directory?

The Linux equivalent of Task Manager should show you (or give you the option to show you) the location of the files that are running.

. . And what is the Linux equivalent of Task Manager?

Stephen

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If you have the Repository version installed it should be here, /var/lib/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu.
Yes, deep in the bowels of the Computer requiring Root privileges. But, you don't need to be Root to just look at it.

. . OK, in /var/lib there is no boinc folder only a boinc-client folder and it will not let me look at anything below that. OK, so maybe the best thing is to uninstall/remove BOINC completely and start again. So my next question is how do I remove all traces of the current BOINC?

Stephen

??

What files being present could confirm that it is the active Boinc directory?

The Linux equivalent of Task Manager should show you (or give you the option to show you) the location of the files that are running.

. . And what is the Linux equivalent of Task Manager?

Stephen

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Hi,

a terminal window. (Command line prompt)
plus command like 'top' or 'ps'.

try top -c

top - 03:00:19 up 5 days, 18:22,  4 users,  load average: 10,10, 10,03, 9,92
Tasks: 323 total,  12 running, 310 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0,5 us, 10,6 sy, 67,2 ni, 21,6 id,  0,0 wa,  0,0 hi,  0,0 si,  0,0 st
KiB Mem:  32857876 total,  6544192 used, 26313684 free,   305248 buffers
KiB Swap:  8325116 total,        0 used,  8325116 free.  3196360 cached Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                          
24989 root      30  10 39,417g 602912 379536 R 100,3  1,8   0:38.93 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiatho+ 
16111 root      39  19   49196  39920   3636 R 100,1  0,1  12:15.22 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MBv8_8.0+ 
24451 root      30  10 39,509g 699232 379148 R 100,1  2,1   1:23.13 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiatho+ 
24480 root      30  10 39,417g 600404 379048 R 100,1  1,8   1:22.25 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiatho+ 
 8967 root      39  19   51680  48280   3636 R  99,9  0,1  62:09.03 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MBv8_8.0+ 
 9445 root      39  19   49196  41720   3636 R  99,9  0,1  20:17.86 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MBv8_8.0+ 
15054 root      39  19   49196  38780   3636 R  99,4  0,1  13:37.88 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MBv8_8.0+ 
21235 root      39  19   49196  41696   3636 R  80,3  0,1   5:42.10 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MBv8_8.0+ 
20816 root      39  19   49196  41952   3636 R  80,1  0,1   5:57.35 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MBv8_8.0+ 
25404 root      30  10 39,415g 598008 379404 R  62,5  1,8   0:03.76 ../../projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/setiatho+ 
  887 root      20   0  250836  88776  65220 S   3,3  0,3  81:22.01 /usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/+ 
 1462 petri     20   0 1731740 271996  78944 S   1,7  0,8  54:20.98 compiz                                           
 1989 petri     20   0  655900  42508  27132 R   1,5  0,1   8:49.51 /usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server    
32353 petri     20   0 1212200 336360 109388 S   1,5  1,0   1:40.38 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox                         
 2100 root      20   0   27056   4364   3364 S   0,8  0,0  40:22.46 /bin/bash ./schedb.sh                            
 2440 root      20   0 6408512  42404  10404 S   0,5  0,1  33:49.20 /home/petri/Downloads/BOINC/boinc --redirectio + 
23656 root      20   0   14468   3304   3000 S   0,3  0,0  41:38.58 nvidia-smi -l                                    
   46 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,2  0,0   1:09.48 [rcuos/5]                                        
 1237 root     -51   0       0      0      0 S   0,2  0,0   4:07.20 [irq/69-nvidia]                                  
 2634 petri     20   0  565232  30604  25332 S   0,2  0,1   0:00.51 update-notifier                                  
12335 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,2  0,0   0:00.16 [kworker/0:1]                                    
    1 root      20   0  185260   5844   3880 S   0,0  0,0   0:05.45 /sbin/init splash                                
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.24 [kthreadd]                                       
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:02.30 [ksoftirqd/0]                                    
    5 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 [kworker/0:0H]                                   
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   4:32.97 [rcu_sched]                                      
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 [rcu_bh]                                         
    9 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   1:34.42 [rcuos/0]                                        
   10 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 [rcuob/0]                                        
   11 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:14.28 [migration/0]                                    
   12 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:01.30 [watchdog/0]                                     
   13 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.78 [watchdog/1]                                     
   14 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:02.10 [migration/1]                                    
   15 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.04 [ksoftirqd/1]                                    
   17 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 [kworker/1:0H]                                   
   18 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:07.68 [rcuos/1]                                        
   19 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 [rcuob/1]                                        
   20 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.86 [watchdog/2]                                     
   21 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:02.40 [migration/2]                                    
   22 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.04 [ksoftirqd/2]                                    
   24 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 [kworker/2:0H]                                   
   25 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:11.10 [rcuos/2]                                        
   26 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.00 [rcuob/2]                                        
   27 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.84 [watchdog/3]                                     
   28 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:02.24 [migration/3]                                    
   29 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.06 [ksoftirqd/3]        

and or check the timestamp of the client state xml file.

root@Linux1:~/sah_v7_opt/Xbranch/client# ps -A|grep boinc
 2413 pts/11   01:20:44 boincmgr
 2440 pts/11   00:33:50 boinc
root@Linux1:~/sah_v7_opt/Xbranch/client# ls -la ~petri/Downloads/BOINC/client_state.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1106984 Mar 12 03:04 /home/petri/Downloads/BOINC/client_state.xml
root@Linux1:~/sah_v7_opt/Xbranch/client# 

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To overcome Heisenbergs:
"You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones

Also on Ubuntu I use something called 'Activity Monitor' that seemed to have already been there. Is there a need for tutorials/guides/videos on this kindof stuff ? I could think about doing something like that...

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

@petri. Saw that. Try using too many registers, or too few, and see what happens ;D

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.