Jason too, likely way back in one of the GPU Wars threads.

Unless (and until) nvidia or AMD make a same specced card with (only) different memory types so we can compare... we're all just making educated guesses.

Edit: Where is JayGee anyway? Is he OK? Sure hope so.

I believe the euphemism was "moved on to greener pastures" a couple of years ago. We sure do miss his hand tuning of the cpu apps.

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Edit: Where is JayGee anyway? Is he OK? Sure hope so.

Last I heard he was busy with personal stuff, and a new job & barely had time to scratch himself.

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Grant
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+1

Plus he was tuning the GPU apps, not the CPU ones. That was someone else who's name escapes me at the moment, Joe Segur??. He hasn't been heard from in several years

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Well as long as the pastures are greener then, awesome! I just hope he still has time for his tomatoes :)

Hope Joe is well too. Joe could answer almost any Seti question you had!

With any luck they're both just on a mini Seti sabbatical.

What does this status mean, ?

Wed 09 May 2018 08:44:18 AM EDT | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.13.0-39-generic, LLVM 5.0.0) (driver version 17.2.8, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 17.2.8, 1024MB, 1024MB available, 100 GFLOPS peak)

Will not get any GPU w/u

Thanks, Tony

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With your host hidden its hard to say.
I assume you are running Linux with Mesa drivers installed.
Install AMD GPUPro drivers instead.

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Try again Mike, Should be available now.

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Neither of your hosts show any work loaded or completed. So nothing to look at there. Post the first 30 lines of the Event Log after BOINC first startup. That should allow examination of what BOINC thinks of your hosts.

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Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:06 AM EDT | | Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:06 AM EDT | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:06 AM EDT | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:06 AM EDT | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:07 AM EDT | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-21-generic, LLVM 6.0.0) (driver version 18.0.0-rc5, device version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5, 1024MB, 1024MB available, 384 GFLOPS peak)
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | Host name: brute-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-9370 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM 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 cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf 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 cpb hw_pstate vmmcall bmi1 arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS [4.15.0-21-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | Memory: 7.82 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | Disk: 72.86 GB total, 61.58 GB free
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:08 AM EDT | | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 529541; resource share 125
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | Cosmology@Home | URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 341577; resource share 100
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | URL http://www.enigmaathome.net/; Computer ID 237446; resource share 200
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | pogs | URL http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/; Computer ID 843929; resource share 200
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8511515; resource share 100
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | General prefs: from http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ (last modified 04-May-2018 09:18:26)
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | Host location: none
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | General prefs: using your defaults
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | Reading preferences override file
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | Preferences:
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | max memory usage when active: 4002.89 MB
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | max memory usage when idle: 7205.20 MB
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | max disk usage: 62.29 GB
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | max CPUs used: 4
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | don't use GPU while active
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | Setting up project and slot directories
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | Checking active tasks
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | gui_rpc_auth.cfg is empty - no GUI RPC password protection
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:09 AM EDT | | Checking presence of 948 project files
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:10 AM EDT | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:10 AM EDT | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:10 AM EDT | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for AMD/ATI GPU
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:14 AM EDT | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:19 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:19 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:20 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 20 new tasks
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:22 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Started download of wg_m4_c_g432_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:22 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Started download of g4_vroln72_2
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:24 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of wg_m4_c_g432_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:24 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of g4_vroln72_2
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:24 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Started download of 00trigr.u534
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:24 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Started download of 00unigr.r3u534
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:27 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of 00trigr.u534
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:27 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of 00unigr.r3u534
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Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:27 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Started download of wg_m4_c_g427_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:29 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of wg_m4_c_g428_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:29 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of wg_m4_c_g427_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
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Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:31 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of wg_m4_c_g384_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
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Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:44 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of wg_m4_c_g426_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:44 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Finished download of wg_m4_c_g425_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:44 AM EDT | Enigma@Home | Started download of wg_m4_c_g423_aa_zz_aaaa_zzzz_1_2_013_0

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Thanks for the Event Log output. I am not an expert in ATI/AMD or their drivers. I do know there are different drivers other than the Mesa ones. You might try using the open source AMDGPU drivers and hope they will work on I think that older card of yours. The AMDGPU drivers are supposedly for the newer cards.

I think Mike is the ATI/AMD expert here and should be the one providing the best answer.

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Try again Mike, Should be available now.

What GPU are you running Turks sounds rather old to me.
HD 6xxx or HD 7xxx ?

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With your host hidden its hard to say.
I assume you are running Linux with Mesa drivers installed.
Install AMD GPUPro drivers instead.

Not when he is using AMD Turks or Caicos....AMDGPU-PRO is only for the latest and greatest, not for Caicos or Turks (HD6xxx family)

BTW: I am running Collatz on a Linux Mint 17.3 system, using the Open Source driver. It is just that the application should not search for OpenCL by vendor, but by the OpenCL that is available, POCL in this case.

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BTW: I am running Collatz

That project made me feel stupider than normal.

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So I think you are saying that the Seti application is at fault for searching for a OpenCL vendor name and not by the OpenCL version level. If that is so, has this been reported to the developers?

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BTW: I am running Collatz

That project made me feel stupider than normal.

Fact is that you can run a GPU project using the Linux Open Source drivers, whether it makes you feel stupid or not.
BTW: it is Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia that can do it (and Einstein@Home too, if that makes you feel smarter)

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I'm not sure why issue arise for old HD6xxx card that was supported for yeas for now.
Is it Linux OS that deprecated old drivers use?
(That is, download old AMD HD6xxx compatible Linux drivers, install them and crunch).
Open-source ones unsupported AFAIK, can be easely checked via source code observation.

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SETI apps news
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So I think you are saying that the Seti application is at fault for searching for a OpenCL vendor name and not by the OpenCL version level. If that is so, has this been reported to the developers?

Apps features depend mostly on Vendor name (that is, their quality of runtime implementation) not from OpenCL version (that is only theoretical set of possibilities for given runtime).
Nevertheless app robustness can be increased by defaulting to some basic set of features in case vendor can't be established but OpenCL GPU is detectable.
In any case sources rebuild required so not an option for now - the option is to install AMD drivers that supported HD6xxx card at the time of its appearance on market.

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SETI apps news
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AND, btw, all this doesn't explain why BOINC didn't download any work.
Perhaps, plan class wants AMD driver too, not only app binary itself...
In that case going to anonymous platform could allow tasks to be downloaded at least.

Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:10 AM EDT | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:10 AM EDT | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for AMD/ATI GPU
Fri 11 May 2018 08:36:14 AM EDT | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

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Does SETI@Home no longer support a Nvidia Quaddro FX 4800 GPU? If any additional info would help, just ask. Thanks.

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