I have a computer that has an AMD S8-7600 with 4 cores and 6 GPU cores. I've searched here and online and so far I haven't found any way to configure BOINC (running seti@home) to use the GPU cores.

Any ideas? I would be nice to be able to have the CPU cores running.

CPU type	AuthenticAMD
AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G [Family 21 Model 48 Stepping 1]

I have a computer that has an AMD S8-7600 with 4 cores and 6 GPU cores. I've searched here and online and so far I haven't found any way to configure BOINC (running seti@home) to use the GPU cores.

Any ideas? I would be nice to be able to have the CPU cores running.

CPU type	AuthenticAMD
AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G [Family 21 Model 48 Stepping 1]

Maybe missing OpenCL drivers for Your GPU.

Could be. I should mention that I'm running Linux Mint KDE 17.3

I'm searching for the drivers, thanks. Otherwise, it should just automatically run through GPUs?

Could be. I should mention that I'm running Linux Mint KDE 17.3

I'm searching for the drivers, thanks. Otherwise, it should just automatically run through GPUs?

Yep, I did notice that You're running Linux.

It should run automatically just ONE GPU wu@time when working OpenCL drivers are installed.

It's confusing how BOINC reports compute cores, You do have only one integrated GPU on Your host.

I did install OpenCL from the AMD website but the BOINC event log reports "No usable GPUs found". Still searching for answers.

Can you post the 1st 30 start up lines of BOINC messages as that may offer some insight. ;-)

Cheers

Can you post the 1st 30 start up lines of BOINC messages as that may offer some insight. ;-)

Cheers

You mean from the event log? It's at the bottom.

I'm wondering if BOINC just doesn't support this processor. I tried installing AMD's fglrx driver but it won't work on my Linux 17.3 KDE. I also installed boinc-amd-opencl using the synaptics package manager but that didn't help, either.

Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.35.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1f zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Data directory: /home/cheri/Downloads/BOINC
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | No usable GPUs found
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Host name: studio
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G [Family 21 Model 48 Stepping 1]
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb arat cpb hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 xsaveopt
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | OS: Linux: 3.19.0-32-generic
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Memory: 14.57 GB physical, 14.94 GB virtual
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Disk: 429.69 GB total, 230.40 GB free
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Local time is UTC -4 hours
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8072654; resource share 100
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 03-Oct-2016 10:38:20)
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT | SETI@home | Host location: none
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT | SETI@home | General prefs: using your defaults
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Reading preferences override file
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Preferences:
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | max memory usage when active: 7460.01MB
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | max memory usage when idle: 13428.01MB
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | max disk usage: 214.84GB
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT |  | Not using a proxy
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:12 PM EDT | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:13 PM EDT | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon 03 Oct 2016 08:37:13 PM EDT | SETI@home | Not sending work - last request too recent: 113 sec

Which driver did you try? When I track down the driver I find this, http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Ubuntu%20x86%2064
The last time I checked Linux Mint 17.3 is really Ubuntu 14.04.1 in a different wrapper, so, it should work. You need to remove all the other drivers you've installed and try this one. It should work.

I had removed the other drivers. It was the only way to get X running again. The AMD website had recommended another driver but I installed the one which you had provided the link. I ended up with the same problem - couldn't start X. At least Linux makes it relatively painless to fix these problems. That driver is removed and I'm back running again.

I'm starting to think that the AMD A8 CPU/GPU chip is not the way to go. I can't get any of the drivers from AMD to work. And the synaptics package recommends several but none of them work, either. OpenCL is installed on my system but I think that without an AMD driver installed it won't work.

I can't think of any other steps to take. It just looks like the AMD chip with combined CPU and GPU doesn't work.

Edit: I did try AMD's CodeXL and when it starts it says there are no GPUs in the system.

I've been trying to get SETI@Home GPU WU for my AMD/ATI cards for years and it only ever worked with fglrx, the proprietary driver. Since there have been problems with X11 in the past year, I switched to OSS radeon driver and that was really stable for a while--just snooping around here because of problems--but it never ran SETI@Home. BOINC will try to compile SETI GPU applications, but they fail to build so it never works. I suppose you tried the new AMDPRO driver? Check out Phoronix.com; there are lots of people there using it so they can help. I thought the X11 problems were worked out, but maybe not.

This is not the case with other projects. Naturally, even using OpenCL there are still platform depended compiler flags that not every project has incorporated. I've had to change to other projects to get GPU work. I wish I had time to figure it out.

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Did you try a more recent boinc client ?
I only could get my GPU working with 7.6.22 and later on Mint 17.2.

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I have an A10-6700 CPU on my SuSE Leap 42.1 box, but I have installed an AMD/ATI HD 7770 card and it works with the fglrx Radeon driver provided by SuSE. I also have a laptop with an AMD E-450 APU which should have graphic capabilities, but I am running only CPU tasks on it.
Tullio

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I can't find anything more recent than 7.2.42 for Linux. I did reinstall everything last night and it put that version on. I have another linux box running Linux Mint KDE 18 that I installed using apt-get and it put on 7.6.31. Using apt-get, the synaptics package, and directly from the Berkely site, I can't find the 7.6.31 version for Linux Mint 17.3 KDE.

I'll try running another project as well and see if that recognizes the GPU. I'm thinking that it may be the Boinc client version since my distro only seems to go up to 7.2

I am running SETI@home v8 8.10(opencl_atiapu_SoG) on my HD 7770, SuSE Linux Leap 42.1. Maybe this should run also on an APU. I downloaded the driver from SuSE.
Tullio

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The older 7.2.x BOINC works with Ubuntu versions 14.04.5 and lower. I'm using it on all three of my Ubuntu machines. If you use a higher version of Ubuntu, I think it's 15.04 or higher, then you have to use the repository version of BOINC. I just install Ubuntu 14.04.x, BOINC 7.2.x and it's One dependency in my Home folder, the Driver from AMD, and it just works. I even compile my own Apps. The latest one seems to work fine on my Older ATI cards.
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My third Ubuntu machine is testing the new nVidia App. I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.5, built my own 'Special' CUDA App, and tested it with driver 346.96. It seems to have a few overflows with the older driver, just like it does with every older driver on my 750Ti Cards. It's a shame the new App needs the latest driver.