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Message 1477968 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 13:13:11 UTC

Hello crunchers,

When having trouble with Nvidia driver/Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 and PGU cruching data.
Is it then more safe/better to use the "apt-get install boinc-client" command rather than the boinc repository "add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc"??
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Message 1477981 - Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 13:51:42 UTC - in response to Message 1477968.  
Last modified: 16 Feb 2014, 13:54:21 UTC

Apt-get will get you the latest BOINC from repository, which can be a quite old version, depending on how well it's updated by the package maintainers (who aren't the BOINC developers, btw). This can be old BOINC 6 versions, but also 'broken' beta versions that they set to recommended (such as 7.0.27).
Using Gianfranco's PPA you have a bigger chance that you're up-to-date to the Berkeley recommended version, as Gianfranco will try to keep it in sync with Berkeley. He'll also report back to the developers when he finds it won't build, for some reason.

(3 edits to get Gianfranco's name right. Had to look it up, to be sure. Gianfranco Costamagna. :-))
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Message 1478195 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 3:52:25 UTC
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Hello Mr. Ageless,

Thank you ;)

OK, that's the one I use, the one you showed me last year btw ;) The reason I ask, is that several sites containing the issue problems with GPU/Nvidia cards/Ubuntu 12.04 suggest this as a problem.

I will stick with Mr Gianfranco Costamagna ;)
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Message 1478256 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 8:27:03 UTC - in response to Message 1478195.  

Remind me, why can't you use Berkeley's version of BOINC and do you need to use third party versions?
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Message 1478295 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 11:03:04 UTC
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Hello Mr. Ageless..

I'm running version:
# boinccmd --version
boinccmd, built from BOINC 7.2.33

I use the repository we talked about, from mr. Giancarlo.

I can see from the link you just send me, that there's a newer version, version 7.2.39 - do you think that will make any change? I will try to make the 32 clean installation of the server and then use this driver instead. I'm not giving up. I bought a lot of equipment, and I'm not going to install windows on those machines! ;)

How do you install such a downloaded file? I use wget *filename to DL it, then I give it permission to execute the .sh file. Then I sh filename.sh, but it didn't work with this file. On SETI installation site, we are told to use apt-get install boinc-client, just as I'm use to. But this doesn't install boinc v.7.2.39 from the download page!?

I found some guys in the US and in the UK, which might just have a solution to the problem. This is the link to the issues they had. Just like me.:
"Fractal" from the states: http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3371&sort=5#30010
"Dave" from the states as well: http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3083
It's just that this is some time ago, and therefore I contacted them directly to find the solution. Hope it works...

If I misunderstood your question, I'm sorry.. I totally beat. Long hours, late nights, you know how it is, I'm sure :)
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Message 1478301 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 11:49:37 UTC - in response to Message 1478295.  

I didn't mean to tell you to use BOINC 7.2.39 from Berkeley, I only asked why you use the version from repository/PPA? Also, you can't install the Berkeley version in the same place as the one from repository, so don't try to update to it at this time, or not until one of the Linux gurus tells you step by step how that can be accomplished.

All I wondered was if there was a specific problem why you can not use the Berkeley version (which is built and tested on Ubuntu 12.10 LTS)?
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Message 1478310 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 12:22:42 UTC
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Hello again,

No reason at all. I only use the repository because I was told it was a smart thing to do.
But I'm considering giving in and use another OS until the solution had been found. Draco says he has a way, but this means I have to switch to yet another type of Linux.
I think I might try the Desktop version, to see if this works. Then X is installed and everything and I can use the boinc manager to se if its working (i think, I'm not sure if you can se GPU in boinc-manager)
Then I could use the drivers from BOINC's download page ;)

Are you running several computers? If, what do you use? Do you remotely control them? And if you do, how?

One important question:
Please explain this. "...On Linux you can install BOINC as a service daemon and on certain distros configure X-server to allow BOINC access to the GPU.."
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing
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Message 1478321 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 13:25:24 UTC
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Hello again,

Question:

I'm currently reading this, Mr. Giancarlo is named several times. Can this be some sort of repository or package which would help? Maybe? If you got the time, please take a look:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+package/boinc-nvidia-cuda

Please explain this. "...On Linux you can install BOINC as a service daemon and on certain distros configure X-server to allow BOINC access to the GPU.."
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing


In clean installation of Ubuntu DESKTOP 12.04.4:
And trying to follow the BOINC help on installing the boinc

1. Guide tells us to download and install from here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
But after download I try to run the installation file. You cant "dobbeltclick" as it says, then we do it the old way, make bootable and sh filename.sh or ./ filename.sh you are told to start "run_manager" Try that, and it goes on and on.
Just need a way to install "boinc_7.2.39_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh"

2. On another BOINC help page, you are told to do this to install BOINC under Ubuntu: aptitude(apt-get) install boinc-client boinc-manager
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Ubuntu
But then you are not using the file above, and not following the installation todo.

Why is it so difficult, to install these files?


Thanks in advance ;)
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Message 1478344 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 16:16:35 UTC
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Hello friends ;)


Almost solved. Wrong edition, right result!

New attempt to solve the issue "Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 64bit - BOINC using GPU - Nvidia driver/GeForce GT610"

Just finishing the clean installation of Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.4 (Desktop, not Server!) Not being able to install the file from BOINC's download site, I did this instead "apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager" which is showed on BOINC helping pages. But this does not install the newest boinc version. And now a notice tells me to download and install the new version.... etc. etc. never mind that right now.

But, after installing this desktop version, and installing boinc-client and boing-manager, and attaching to project using the manager, I checked to see if the GPU was running. Not yet, so I went on DL the newest driver from Nvidia 64bit 331.38. and making it bootable "chmod +x filename.run". Running the file gave me the same problems as when doing this on the Ubuntu Server Edition! So I went on, doing the same as I did there, almost.
I started a terminal, ctrl-alt-f2 and logged in, the claiming sudo rights "sudo su", then "stop lightdm", then running the Nvidia installer "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.38.run". Some questions are asked during the installation, I answered "Yes" to [install 32bit libraries etc.], "Yes" to [reconfigure X-server or something like that] (I will make a better todo when this is all finished!!)
Rebooting the system and updating the project from Boinc Manager showed me a 5 running unit. (CPU i5-3470 has 4 cores) and this 5 unit is named: (0.01 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU). This I also found when doing it with Ubuntu Server 12.04.4, but the GPU ran for 7 minutes and the the temp. of the GPU suddenly dropped. This meaning the crunching also stopped. But not with the Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.4, here the GPU has been running now for 47 minutes and the GPU is still 47 degrees Celsius!
Here's the log file from Boinc Manager and a screen-dump of Boinc Manager showing the GPU crunching still after more than 10 minutes.:
GPU temp.:
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 44 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 44 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 45 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 45 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 45 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 46 C


Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.27 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Processor: 6.00 MB cache
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | 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 ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | OS: Linux: 3.11.0-15-generic
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Memory: 3.81 GB physical, 3.95 GB virtual
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Disk: 54.68 GB total, 48.59 GB free
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Local time is UTC +1 hours
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 610 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 2.1, 134215680MB, 134215667MB available, 134 GFLOPS peak)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 610 (driver version 331.38, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 2048MB, 134215667MB available)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a>
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID xxxxx; resource share 100
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | General prefs: from Asteroids@home (last modified 15-Oct-2013 16:31:32)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Computer location: work
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | General prefs: using separate prefs for work
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Reading preferences override file
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Preferences:
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | max memory usage when active: 1949.73MB
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | max memory usage when idle: 3509.52MB
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | max disk usage: 0.00GB
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Not using a proxy
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_78_1 using period_search version 10210 (sse3) in slot 0
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_32_0 using period_search version 10210 (sse2) in slot 1
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_73_0 using period_search version 10210 (sse2) in slot 2
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_22_1 using period_search version 10210 (sse2) in slot 3
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16088_26_2 using period_search version 10111 (cuda55) in slot 4
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:03 PM CET | Asteroids@home | update requested by user
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:05 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:05 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:07 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:09 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_16304_3
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:11 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Finished download of input_16304_3


OK, I couldn't upload a screendump, it's not possible in this forum. The reason I would like to show you this screendump is because when 4 work units were done after about 50 minutes, the GPU had only completed about 5-6% of it's work unit.
I know this card GT610 is a "not very fast" card. We discussed this inhere. But I also learned that GPU's would be much faster doing data crunching that ordinary CPU's !! I will replace the GT610 with the faster Asus GeForce GT640 which I was told would be a much better choice. But how much better will it be?

What is the reason for doing all this work, if GPU's are so much "slower" than an ordinary Intel i5 CPU? How fast is a "fast" graphic card" compared to e.g. i5-3470?

We now know that the hardware in this test works, and we know that it runs on Ubuntu Desktop 12,04.4. OK, then why will it not run on Ubuntu Server 12.04.4? The only difference is the graphical environment, X-server! According to Ubuntu, there's not the difference of the Desktop Edition and the Server Edition as earlier on, e.g. Ubuntu Server 10.04 v. Ubuntu Desktop 10.04!
So why is this? Why will the GPU not work properly?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated at this thread:
Hello friends ;)


Almost solved. Wrong edition, right result!

New attempt to solve the issue "Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 64bit - BOINC using GPU - Nvidia driver/GeForce GT610"

Just finishing the clean installation of Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.4 (Desktop, not Server!) Not being able to install the file from BOINC's download site, I did this instead "apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager" which is showed on BOINC helping pages. But this does not install the newest boinc version. And now a notice tells me to download and install the new version.... etc. etc. never mind that right now.

But, after installing this desktop version, and installing boinc-client and boing-manager, and attaching to project using the manager, I checked to see if the GPU was running. Not yet, so I went on DL the newest driver from Nvidia 64bit 331.38. and making it bootable "chmod +x filename.run". Running the file gave me the same problems as when doing this on the Ubuntu Server Edition! So I went on, doing the same as I did there, almost.
I started a terminal, ctrl-alt-f2 and logged in, the claiming sudo rights "sudo su", then "stop lightdm", then running the Nvidia installer "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.38.run". Some questions are asked during the installation, I answered "Yes" to [install 32bit libraries etc.], "Yes" to [reconfigure X-server or something like that] (I will make a better todo when this is all finished!!)
Rebooting the system and updating the project from Boinc Manager showed me a 5 running unit. (CPU i5-3470 has 4 cores) and this 5 unit is named: (0.01 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU). This I also found when doing it with Ubuntu Server 12.04.4, but the GPU ran for 7 minutes and the the temp. of the GPU suddenly dropped. This meaning the crunching also stopped. But not with the Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.4, here the GPU has been running now for 47 minutes and the GPU is still 47 degrees Celsius!
Here's the log file from Boinc Manager and a screen-dump of Boinc Manager showing the GPU crunching still after more than 10 minutes.:
GPU temp.:
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 44 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 44 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 45 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 45 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 45 C
# nvidia-smi -a |grep Gpu
        Gpu                         : N/A
        Gpu                         : 46 C


Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.27 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Processor: 6.00 MB cache
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | 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 ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | OS: Linux: 3.11.0-15-generic
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Memory: 3.81 GB physical, 3.95 GB virtual
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Disk: 54.68 GB total, 48.59 GB free
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Local time is UTC +1 hours
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 610 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 2.1, 134215680MB, 134215667MB available, 134 GFLOPS peak)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 610 (driver version 331.38, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 2048MB, 134215667MB available)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a>
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID xxxxx; resource share 100
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | General prefs: from Asteroids@home (last modified 15-Oct-2013 16:31:32)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Computer location: work
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | General prefs: using separate prefs for work
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Reading preferences override file
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Preferences:
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | max memory usage when active: 1949.73MB
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | max memory usage when idle: 3509.52MB
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | max disk usage: 0.00GB
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET |  | Not using a proxy
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_78_1 using period_search version 10210 (sse3) in slot 0
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_32_0 using period_search version 10210 (sse2) in slot 1
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_73_0 using period_search version 10210 (sse2) in slot 2
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16280_22_1 using period_search version 10210 (sse2) in slot 3
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:07:24 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Restarting task ps_140207_16088_26_2 using period_search version 10111 (cuda55) in slot 4
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:03 PM CET | Asteroids@home | update requested by user
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:05 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:05 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:07 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:09 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Started download of input_16304_3
Mon 17 Feb 2014 04:08:11 PM CET | Asteroids@home | Finished download of input_16304_3


OK, I couldn't upload a screendump, it's not possible in this forum. The reason I would like to show you this screendump is because when 4 work units were done after about 50 minutes, the GPU had only completed about 5-6% of it's work unit.
I know this card GT610 is a "not very fast" card. We discussed this inhere. But I also learned that GPU's would be much faster doing data crunching that ordinary CPU's !! I will replace the GT610 with the faster Asus GeForce GT640 which I was told would be a much better choice. But how much better will it be?

What is the reason for doing all this work, if GPU's are so much "slower" than an ordinary Intel i5 CPU? How fast is a "fast" graphic card" compared to e.g. i5-3470?

We now know that the hardware in this test works, and we know that it runs on Ubuntu Desktop 12,04.4. OK, then why will it not run on Ubuntu Server 12.04.4? The only difference is the graphical environment, X-server! According to Ubuntu, there's not the difference of the Desktop Edition and the Server Edition as earlier on, e.g. Ubuntu Server 10.04 v. Ubuntu Desktop 10.04!
So why is this? Why will the GPU not work properly?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated at this thread:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=74108

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Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 64bit
Kernel 3.13.0-32-generic
CPU's i5-4690K
GPU's GT640/GTX750TI
Nvidia v.340.29
BOINC v.7.2.42

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Message 1478348 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 16:29:55 UTC - in response to Message 1478344.  
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gt610 looks be very weak - about 155 GFLOPS only.
i think, gt630 rev 2 ( gk208 , with 692 GFLOPS - look for 64 bit memory. 128 bit is old 630!) is very good - it also have a best watt / gflops ratio.
gf640 is only 25% faster than gt630, and consume 2x more power, and cost also about 1.5x more. i think, gt630 may be an optimal choice.
there is some info about nv cards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
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Message 1478357 - Posted: 17 Feb 2014, 16:45:28 UTC

Closing thread...

Almost success. Wrong OS edition, right result!

Will be followed up by a todo, if we succeed, in one of these two threads:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=74108
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=73032
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Questions and Answers : GPU applications : apt-get install boinc-client or boinc repository - when Nvidia driver problems?


 
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