Okay, I've received everything but my CPU for my new rig and haven't put it together yet. I also received my SSD for my old rig, installed it and loaded Linux Cinnamon on it. I then tried to download the graphics card driver for my RTX 2060 GPU, twice, and both times after a slow download it shows me a screen which says (I'm paraphrasing) that a few characters are indecipherable and can't be read. I also tried twice to download BOINC Manager but I received the same reading.

I can't help but wonder if my downloading from the Firefox browser is the cause. Is there a way to download them through the terminal command, which I am uncomfortable using?

Once you have Mint loaded you go to the Driver Manager and select the Nvidia driver over the Nouveau driver and once that is done you will then need to open a Terminal and type,

sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1

, to load the OpenCL component and then you should be right to go.

Cheers.

Hopefully he will get the OpenCL component installed with the new drivers automatically. I have received them lately with no issues on the last few release versions. If not, then use your provided Terminal installation. One way of checking to be sure you always have all of the drivers installed, both CUDA and OpenCL, is to do a sanity check with clinfo. That quickly tests for and reports what driver components are installed.

sudo apt install clinfo

Every time I reboot the computer after some software installation, one of the first things I do is open Terminal and enter clinfo just to be sure all my drivers are loaded in the kernel. No surprises with BOINC that way.

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Where and which BOINC Manager are you trying to install. I would recommend using TBar's All-in-One installer to install BOINC along with the optimized applications.

http://www.arkayn.us/lunatics/BOINC.7z

Well, I've tried all of your tips but I'm a bit confused still. After using "Terminal" for <http://www.arkayn.us/lunatics/BOINC.7z> I couldn't find the "Software&Updates" application to open the Additional Drivers tab. I did find "Software Manager" and "Software Sources", when I opened the sources folder I went to the PPAs tab on the left and chose "graphics-drivers" on the right. I then chose "libnvidia-fbc1-435 435.21-0ubuntu0~18.04.2" and I got this:

"Package dependencies cannot be resolved

This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time."

I currently have the version 430.26-0buntu0. 18.04.2 installed.

When I ran <clinfo> I got this:

george@GWG-PC-Linux:~$ sudo apt install clinfo
[sudo] password for george:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
clinfo is already the newest version (2.2.18.03.26-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
george@GWG-PC-Linux:~$ clinfo
Number of platforms 1
Platform Name NVIDIA CUDA
Platform Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Platform Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 10.2.120
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_copy_opts cl_nv_create_buffer
Platform Extensions function suffix NV

Platform Name NVIDIA CUDA
Number of devices 1
Device Name GeForce RTX 2060
Device Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Device Vendor ID 0x10de
Device Version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
Driver Version 430.26
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 1.2
Device Type GPU
Device Topology (NV) PCI-E, 03:00.0
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Linker Available Yes
Max compute units 30
Max clock frequency 1680MHz
Compute Capability (NV) 7.5
Device Partition (core)
Max number of sub-devices 1
Supported partition types None
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 1024x1024x64
Max work group size 1024
Preferred work group size multiple 32
Warp size (NV) 32
Preferred / native vector sizes
char 1 / 1
short 1 / 1
int 1 / 1
long 1 / 1
half 0 / 0 (n/a)
float 1 / 1
double 1 / 1 (cl_khr_fp64)
Half-precision Floating-point support (n/a)
Single-precision Floating-point support (core)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations Yes
Double-precision Floating-point support (cl_khr_fp64)
Denormals Yes
Infinity and NANs Yes
Round to nearest Yes
Round to zero Yes
Round to infinity Yes
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add Yes
Support is emulated in software No
Address bits 64, Little-Endian
Global memory size 6221463552 (5.794GiB)
Error Correction support No
Max memory allocation 1555365888 (1.449GiB)
Unified memory for Host and Device No
Integrated memory (NV) No
Minimum alignment for any data type 128 bytes
Alignment of base address 4096 bits (512 bytes)
Global Memory cache type Read/Write
Global Memory cache size 491520 (480KiB)
Global Memory cache line size 128 bytes
Image support Yes
Max number of samplers per kernel 32
Max size for 1D images from buffer 134217728 pixels
Max 1D or 2D image array size 2048 images
Max 2D image size 32768x32768 pixels
Max 3D image size 16384x16384x16384 pixels
Max number of read image args 256
Max number of write image args 32
Local memory type Local
Local memory size 49152 (48KiB)
Registers per block (NV) 65536
Max number of constant args 9
Max constant buffer size 65536 (64KiB)
Max size of kernel argument 4352 (4.25KiB)
Queue properties
Out-of-order execution Yes
Profiling Yes
Prefer user sync for interop No
Profiling timer resolution 1000ns
Execution capabilities
Run OpenCL kernels Yes
Run native kernels No
Kernel execution timeout (NV) Yes
Concurrent copy and kernel execution (NV) Yes
Number of async copy engines 3
printf() buffer size 1048576 (1024KiB)
Built-in kernels
Device Extensions cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_copy_opts cl_nv_create_buffer

NULL platform behavior
clGetPlatformInfo(NULL, CL_PLATFORM_NAME, ...) NVIDIA CUDA
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, ...) Success [NV]
clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [default] Success [NV]
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT) No platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU) No platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ACCELERATOR) No devices found in platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CUSTOM) Invalid device type for platform
clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL) No platform

ICD loader properties
ICD loader Name OpenCL ICD Loader
ICD loader Vendor OCL Icd free software
ICD loader Version 2.2.11
ICD loader Profile OpenCL 2.1
george@GWG-PC-Linux:~$


When I installed BOINC Manager from the "<http://www.arkayn.us/lunatics/BOINC.7z>" link you gave, I then had the BOINC folder in which I moved it to the HOME directory. But I don't know how to get it to run, and if it is running, how do I see what it is doing?

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George

Well you have the 430 drivers installed which are good enough for the 2060. You also have both the CUDA and OpenCL components installed. Did you unpack the archive? If you double click the archive it should automatically unpack itself into a BOINC directory. My understanding is that Mint knows how to handle the 7zip compression protocol already and you don't have to install the p7zip archiver separately. Then read the documents in the projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder to understand how to use the AIO. The archive does not install BOINC to run automatically like Windows. You need to double click the boincmgr file in the BOINC directory and that will start the boinc client and the Manager up. The Manager looks the same as it does in Windows. The client will give you the standard dialog to join a project. Then just join Seti normally with your normal account email and password and the client will contact the project and download work for your cpu and gpu. You will be running the CUDA90 special app on your 2060. It will be much faster than the SoG app in Windows.

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Well you have the 430 drivers installed which are good enough for the 2060. You also have both the CUDA and OpenCL components installed. Did you unpack the archive?

Yes I did unpack the archive. And yes, Mint does know how to handle the 7zip compression protocol already.
I am waiting for SETI to send me some work, currently there is no work units available for Nvidia GPUs, only ATI and Intel GPUs. It's too bad that I can't transfer any work units from another computer.
I thank you once again for helping me get up and running... eventually... with my SETI project. I can't wait until I get my new CPU for my new computer, I'm checking AMDs website, Amazon & Newegg twice a day for any news or sign that the 3950X is available.

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George

Well you have the 430 drivers installed which are good enough for the 2060. You also have both the CUDA and OpenCL components installed. Did you unpack the archive?

Yes I did unpack the archive. And yes, Mint does know how to handle the 7zip compression protocol already.
I am waiting for SETI to send me some work, currently there is no work units available for Nvidia GPUs, only ATI and Intel GPUs. It's too bad that I can't transfer any work units from another computer.
I thank you once again for helping me get up and running... eventually... with my SETI project. I can't wait until I get my new CPU for my new computer, I'm checking AMDs website, Amazon & Newegg twice a day for any news or sign that the 3950X is available.

You must have something wrong with your setup. There is plenty of work available. You are getting cpu tasks but for some reason you are not asking for gpu tasks. What does the startup of BOINC show in the Event Log? Does the client detect your gpu? Post the first 30 lines of the Event Log after restarting BOINC.

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Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, sched_op_debug
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 GnuTLS/3.5.18 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Data directory: /home/george/BOINC
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 430.26, CUDA version 10.2, compute capability 7.5, 4096MB, 3970MB available, 6451 GFLOPS peak)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 430.26, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 5933MB, 3970MB available, 6451 GFLOPS peak)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Host name: GWG-PC-Linux
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid dtherm ida arat flush_l1d
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | OS: Linux LinuxMint: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina [4.15.0-62-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Memory: 15.65 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Disk: 109.53 GB total, 86.55 GB free
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Local time is UTC -5 hours
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Config: use all coprocessors
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Last benchmark was 18150 days 07:11:30 ago
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | No general preferences found - using defaults
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Preferences:
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | max memory usage when active: 8015.26 MB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | max memory usage when idle: 14427.47 MB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | max disk usage: 86.60 GB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | don't use GPU while active
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Setting up project and slot directories
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Checking active tasks
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Setting up GUI RPC socket
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Checking presence of 0 project files
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | This computer is not attached to any projects
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT |  | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:12:01 AM CDT |  | Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:09 AM CDT |  | Running CPU benchmarks
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:09 AM CDT |  | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT |  | Benchmark results:
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT |  | Number of CPUs: 12
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT |  | 2981 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT |  | 10629 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT |  | Resuming computation
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT | SETI@home | sched RPC pending: Project initialization
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Fetching master file
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:42 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Got master file; parsing
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:42 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Found 1 scheduler URLs in master file
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:42 AM CDT | SETI@home | Master file download succeeded
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | sched RPC pending: Project initialization
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 1.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] NVIDIA GPU work request: 1.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Server version 709
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | No tasks sent
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v7
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | No tasks are available for SETI@home v8
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Project requested delay of 303 seconds

This is more than 30 lines but I thought you'd like to read them.

I'm lost at this point.

I have updated this file after merging with another Linux computer from when I was using only the USB stick and didn't have a GPU, and it did have some work units though not being processed. After the merge I updated the SETI project and it still does not show any work units.

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George

Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, sched_op_debug
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 GnuTLS/3.5.18 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Data directory: /home/george/BOINC
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 430.26, CUDA version 10.2, compute capability 7.5, 4096MB, 3970MB available, 6451 GFLOPS peak)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 430.26, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 5933MB, 3970MB available, 6451 GFLOPS peak)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Host name: GWG-PC-Linux
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid dtherm ida arat flush_l1d
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | OS: Linux LinuxMint: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina [4.15.0-62-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Memory: 15.65 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Disk: 109.53 GB total, 86.55 GB free
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Config: use all coprocessors
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Last benchmark was 18150 days 07:11:30 ago
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | No general preferences found - using defaults
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Preferences:
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | max memory usage when active: 8015.26 MB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | max memory usage when idle: 14427.47 MB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | max disk usage: 86.60 GB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | don't use GPU while active
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Setting up project and slot directories
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Checking active tasks
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Checking presence of 0 project files
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | This computer is not attached to any projects
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:12:01 AM CDT | | Fetching configuration file from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:09 AM CDT | | Running CPU benchmarks
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:09 AM CDT | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT | | Benchmark results:
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT | | Number of CPUs: 12
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT | | 2981 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:40 AM CDT | | 10629 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT | | Resuming computation
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT | SETI@home | sched RPC pending: Project initialization
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:41 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Fetching master file
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:42 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Got master file; parsing
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:42 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Found 1 scheduler URLs in master file
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:42 AM CDT | SETI@home | Master file download succeeded
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | sched RPC pending: Project initialization
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 1.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] NVIDIA GPU work request: 1.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] Server version 709
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | No tasks sent
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | No tasks are available for AstroPulse v7
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | No tasks are available for SETI@home v8
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress
Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:50 AM CDT | SETI@home | Project requested delay of 303 seconds

This is more than 30 lines but I thought you'd like to read them.

I'm lost at this point.

I have updated this file after merging with another Linux computer from when I was using only the USB stick and didn't have a GPU, and it did have some work units though not being processed. After the merge I updated the SETI project and it still does not show any work units.

This connect was the first one since installing and connecting to the project. It needed to get the master file and all the supporting files. For the very first connection to the project from a new host, the scheduler will send one cpu task and one gpu task for the first 24 hours. The scheduler needs to see the work sent returned and ostensible valid before sending any more work. This is done to be sure the host is capably set up to process work.

The main problem you have is your preferences are set to:

Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | don't use GPU while active

This is preventing the client from asking for gpu work.

Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:13:47 AM CDT | SETI@home | [sched_op] NVIDIA GPU work request: 1.00 seconds; 0.00 devices

And even if you get gpu work, you can't process it.

Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use

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In my global preferences my SETI@Home project preferences are set to receive CPU tasks and Nvidia GPU tasks from this project, and the Computing preferences for Suspend when computer is on battery, Suspend when computer is in use, and Suspend GPU computing when computer is in use are all NOT checked. I don't understand why I'm not receiving any tasks.

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George

For my computer I.D., 8813159, the Linux Mint computer, it shows 100 CPU tasks and nothing for the GPU.

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George

Then the host must be set to a different venue. You did say you merged the old configuration files from the old host. I see this:

Wed 11 Sep 2019 02:11:30 AM CDT | | No general preferences found - using defaults

The BOINC defaults are all of those things you mentioned being toggled on.

You need to go the to project preferences and resave your general defaults. If needed toggle one setting from its current value to something else, then change it back and save it. Then make sure you restart BOINC or at least do an Update to pick up the new general preferences. Look at the Event Log startup again after restarting BOINC and make sure all the proper preferences are set now to use the gpu when active.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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For my computer I.D., 8813159, the Linux Mint computer, it shows 100 CPU tasks and nothing for the GPU.

Until you get the client to ask for your gpu work you won't get gpu tasks. Your preferences are preventing that.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Or set up a new venue with brand new defaults enabling the gpu and then make the change of the host location to the new venue to pick up the new preferences.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8813159

You still have only contacted the project once so far. Make the preference changes and update the client using the Manager on the Projects tab.

Set the Event Log logging options to include the sched_ops_debug flag. That prints out in the log exactly how many seconds of cpu work and gpu work is requested from the scheduler at every connection.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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After changing preferences, updating SETI, and changing them again back to where they were, updating SETI again, and then exiting BOINC Manager and rebooting my computer and re-launching BOINC Manager this is what I have in the event log - all of it:

Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, sched_op_debug
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 GnuTLS/3.5.18 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Data directory: /home/george/BOINC
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 430.40, CUDA version 10.1, compute capability 7.5, 4096MB, 3970MB available, 6451 GFLOPS peak)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 430.40, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 5933MB, 3970MB available, 6451 GFLOPS peak)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | SETI@home | Syntax error in app_info.xml
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Host name: GWG-PC-Linux
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2]
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | 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 pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid dtherm ida arat flush_l1d
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | OS: Linux LinuxMint: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina [4.15.0-62-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Memory: 15.65 GB physical, 2.00 GB virtual
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Disk: 109.53 GB total, 86.25 GB free
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Local time is UTC -5 hours
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Config: use all coprocessors
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8813159; resource share 100
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 11-Sep-2019 14:46:14)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | SETI@home | Computer location: home
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Preferences:
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | max memory usage when active: 8015.26 MB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | max memory usage when idle: 16030.52 MB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | max disk usage: 85.79 GB
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 35%
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Setting up project and slot directories
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Checking active tasks
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Setting up GUI RPC socket
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT |  | Checking presence of 4 project files
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:20:54 PM CDT |  | Re-reading cc_config.xml
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:20:54 PM CDT |  | Config: use all coprocessors
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:20:54 PM CDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, app_msg_receive, app_msg_send, cpu_sched
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:20:54 PM CDT |  | log flags: cpu_sched_debug, cpu_sched_status, sched_op_debug
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:20:54 PM CDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] Request CPU reschedule: Core client configuration
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:21:02 PM CDT |  | Re-reading cc_config.xml
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:21:02 PM CDT |  | Config: use all coprocessors
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:21:02 PM CDT |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, app_msg_receive, app_msg_send, cpu_sched
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:21:02 PM CDT |  | log flags: cpu_sched_debug, cpu_sched_status, sched_op_debug
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:21:02 PM CDT |  | [cpu_sched_debug] Request CPU reschedule: Core client configuration

I'm concerned with:
<Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060
Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060 >
...where "NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce RTX 2060" is displayed. Does the "0" (zero) mean there isn't a GPU?

I don't understand because I haven't changed my venue yet, but it is set to "home", not "default". And using your link I have contacted the server 3 times, not once.

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George

Something changed. You either touched app_info.xml or something corrupted it. You didn't show using an anonymous platform in your earlier event log dump. You are showing it in this latest however but there is a problem with the app_info.xml file.

Wed 11 Sep 2019 03:11:29 PM CDT | SETI@home | Syntax error in app_info.xml

Unpack the boinc.7z archive and copy and paste the app_info.xml file from the archive into your seti projects directory. Restart BOINC and see if the syntax error message goes away.

BOINC counts the first gpu as GPU0. That is normal for a single gpu host. Your card is detected for both CUDA and OpenCL. It is ready to process gpu work if you ask for it. What does the Event Log show for the scheduler connection? You chopped that off from your post.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Post the contents of app_info.xml

You likely have a truncated delimiter on one of the xml sections.
If app_info isn't formatted correctly, then you are not picking up all the parts of it. Probably the gpu section. Did you edit it by chance? You should use it as delivered by TBar to begin with before tampering with it.

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Here is the app_info.xml file as it is now:

#
# /home/george/BOINC/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/app_info.xml
#
# Configuration file for nvidia-settings - the NVIDIA X Server Settings utility
# Generated on Wed Sep 11 00:43:07 2019
#

# ConfigProperties:

RcFileLocale = C
DisplayStatusBar = Yes
SliderTextEntries = Yes
IncludeDisplayNameInConfigFile = No
ShowQuitDialog = Yes
UpdateRulesOnProfileNameChange = Yes
Timer = PowerMizer_Monitor_(GPU_0),Yes,1000
Timer = Thermal_Monitor_(GPU_0),Yes,1000
Timer = Memory_Used_(GPU_0),Yes,3000

# Attributes:

0/SyncToVBlank=1
0/LogAniso=0
0/FSAA=0
0/TextureClamping=1
0/FXAA=0
0/AllowFlipping=1
0/FSAAAppControlled=1
0/LogAnisoAppControlled=1
0/OpenGLImageSettings=1
0/FSAAAppEnhanced=0
0/XVideoSyncToDisplayID=HDMI-0
[DPY:DVI-D-0]/Dithering=0
[DPY:DVI-D-0]/DitheringMode=0
[DPY:DVI-D-0]/DitheringDepth=0
[DPY:DVI-D-0]/ColorSpace=0
[DPY:DVI-D-0]/ColorRange=0
[DPY:DVI-D-0]/SynchronousPaletteUpdates=0
[DPY:HDMI-0]/RedBrightness=0.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/GreenBrightness=0.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/BlueBrightness=0.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/RedContrast=0.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/GreenContrast=0.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/BlueContrast=0.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/RedGamma=1.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/GreenGamma=1.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/BlueGamma=1.000000
[DPY:HDMI-0]/Dithering=0
[DPY:HDMI-0]/DitheringMode=0
[DPY:HDMI-0]/DitheringDepth=0
[DPY:HDMI-0]/ColorSpace=0
[DPY:HDMI-0]/ColorRange=0
[DPY:HDMI-0]/SynchronousPaletteUpdates=0
[DPY:DP-0]/Dithering=0
[DPY:DP-0]/DitheringMode=0
[DPY:DP-0]/DitheringDepth=0
[DPY:DP-0]/ColorSpace=0
[DPY:DP-0]/ColorRange=0
[DPY:DP-0]/SynchronousPaletteUpdates=0
[DPY:DP-1]/Dithering=0
[DPY:DP-1]/DitheringMode=0
[DPY:DP-1]/DitheringDepth=0
[DPY:DP-1]/ColorSpace=0
[DPY:DP-1]/ColorRange=0
[DPY:DP-1]/SynchronousPaletteUpdates=0

And here is the app_info.xml file from TBar:

<app_info>
  <app>
     <name>setiathome_v8</name>
  </app>
    <file_info>
      <name>setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda90</name>
      <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
      <app_name>setiathome_v8</app_name>
      <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>
      <version_num>801</version_num>
      <plan_class>cuda90</plan_class>
      <cmdline></cmdline>
      <coproc>
        <type>NVIDIA</type>
        <count>1</count>
      </coproc>
      <avg_ncpus>0.1</avg_ncpus>
      <max_ncpus>0.1</max_ncpus>
      <file_ref>
         <file_name>setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda90</file_name>
          <main_program/>
      </file_ref>
    </app_version>
  <app>
     <name>astropulse_v7</name>
  </app>
     <file_info>
       <name>astropulse_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100</name>
        <executable/>
     </file_info>
     <file_info>
       <name>AstroPulse_Kernels_r2751.cl</name>
     </file_info>
     <file_info>
       <name>ap_cmdline_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100.txt</name>
     </file_info>
    <app_version>
      <app_name>astropulse_v7</app_name>
      <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>
      <version_num>708</version_num>
      <plan_class>opencl_nvidia_100</plan_class>
      <coproc>
        <type>NVIDIA</type>
        <count>1</count>
      </coproc>
      <avg_ncpus>0.1</avg_ncpus>
      <max_ncpus>0.1</max_ncpus>
      <file_ref>
         <file_name>astropulse_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100</file_name>
          <main_program/>
      </file_ref>
      <file_ref>
         <file_name>AstroPulse_Kernels_r2751.cl</file_name>
      </file_ref>
      <file_ref>
         <file_name>ap_cmdline_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100.txt</file_name>
         <open_name>ap_cmdline.txt</open_name>
      </file_ref>
    </app_version>
   <app>
      <name>setiathome_v8</name>
   </app>
      <file_info>
         <name>MBv8_8.22r3711_sse41_intel_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</name>
         <executable/>
      </file_info>
     <app_version>
     <app_name>setiathome_v8</app_name>
     <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>
     <version_num>800</version_num>   
      <file_ref>
        <file_name>MBv8_8.22r3711_sse41_intel_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</file_name>
        <main_program/>
      </file_ref>
    </app_version>
   <app>
      <name>astropulse_v7</name>
   </app>
     <file_info>
       <name>ap_7.05r2728_sse3_linux64</name>
        <executable/>
     </file_info>
    <app_version>
       <app_name>astropulse_v7</app_name>
       <version_num>704</version_num>
       <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>
       <plan_class></plan_class>
       <file_ref>
         <file_name>ap_7.05r2728_sse3_linux64</file_name>
          <main_program/>
       </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

I'll replace the app-info.xml file with TBar's and let you know what happens next.

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George

Okay, it's working now. Downloading as we chat... I'll let you know later how the projects are doing. I don't know what I did, but I'm glad it's working now.

Once again, I thank you. I really mean it.

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George

The nvidia settings config file is not really useful. But I see no syntax error in the app_config.xml file as posted. But it is possible that there are some hidden characters in the files like a Windows CR-LF character in the file that is upsetting Linux when it parses the file. Please unpack the virgin app_info.xml file from the archive and replace the existing one.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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OK, George. Glad you got it working. My last post was delayed by a yak from Zalster. So ignore.

See a gpu task already returned and everything looks fine with it using the defaults. If you feel brave, you can speed it up a bit more by changing some values in the app_info.xml file. I would first back up the file before editing. You have plenty of cpu cores available as long as you are not trying to run 12 cpu tasks along with the gpu task. Your gpu task time looks a little bit long I think for what a 2060 should be doing. So first thing it to set the "Use at most cpu%" for the host at 90% either on the website preferences or the local preferences in the Manager. You need to free up one cpu core to support the gpu task.

Do that first and then see if that speeds up the gpu computation. Then you can add the -nobs parameter to the command line entry in the app_info.xml file.

<app_info>
<app>
<name>setiathome_v8</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda90</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome_v8</app_name>
<platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>
<version_num>801</version_num>
<plan_class>cuda90</plan_class>
<cmdline>-nobs</cmdline>

Save the edit with the Text Editor. Then see what kind of times you can now manage. Then the next thing to try is to change to the CUDA101 app that is also provided by TBar in the project directory.

That would be a bit faster than the CUDA90 app that is the default. You would again use the Text Editor and use the Find and Replace function swap out the filename of the CUDA90 app for the filename of the CUDA101 app and then save the file. There are two places in the file the that the filenames are referenced.

</app>
<file_info>
<name>setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda90</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>

and here:

<file_ref>
<file_name>setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda90</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>

You would be replacing those filename entries with:

setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda101


Save the file and restart BOINC and you would now be running the CUDA101 app. Make no other changes to the app_info.xml file. Just change the file name and save. That is all.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

My last post was delayed by a yak from Zalster.

See...I am good for something...Bahahaha

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