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mclang

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From: Finland

Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 79

BOINC and using GPU

I instelled boinc 7.2.42-1 from the community repo and followed the wiki instructions.

I have new GTX750 TI GPU with nvidia 343.36-2 drivers, so I thought that I harness it to do computations also. This is the info boinc gives me while starting:

Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.29 libssh2/1.4.3
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (driver version unknown, CUDA version 6.5, compute capability 5.0, 2048MB, 2009MB available, 2082 GFLOPS peak)
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (driver version 343.36, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 2048MB, 2009MB available, 2082 GFLOPS peak)
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Host name: vishera
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | 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 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 bmi1
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | OS: Linux: 3.17.6-1-ARCH
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Memory: 7.76 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Disk: 111.29 GB total, 106.17 GB free
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Local time is UTC +2 hours

But but... How do I know that my GPU is working and doing some work? And do I have to check if the projects I choose (currently SETI, Einstein, Rosetta and World Community Grid) support CUDA or OpenCL, or is the nVidia padge beside the project good enough clue?

One more thing that is little vague in the wiki is that in what startup script I should put this:

xhost local:boinc

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kg4cjv

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Registered: 2012-12-15

Posts: 3

Re: BOINC and using GPU

I too have a similar setup for my laptop. Did you get any information on this?

I placed the following in my boinc.service systemd file, but I have no idea if it's working correctly.

ExecStartPre=xhost local:boinc

I instelled boinc 7.2.42-1 from the community repo and followed the wiki instructions.

I have new GTX750 TI GPU with nvidia 343.36-2 drivers, so I thought that I harness it to do computations also. This is the info boinc gives me while starting:

Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.29 libssh2/1.4.3
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (driver version unknown, CUDA version 6.5, compute capability 5.0, 2048MB, 2009MB available, 2082 GFLOPS peak)
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti (driver version 343.36, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 2048MB, 2009MB available, 2082 GFLOPS peak)
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Host name: vishera
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | 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 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 bmi1
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | OS: Linux: 3.17.6-1-ARCH
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Memory: 7.76 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Disk: 111.29 GB total, 106.17 GB free
Fri 09 Jan 2015 07:46:21 AM EET |  | Local time is UTC +2 hours

But but... How do I know that my GPU is working and doing some work? And do I have to check if the projects I choose (currently SETI, Einstein, Rosetta and World Community Grid) support CUDA or OpenCL, or is the nVidia padge beside the project good enough clue?

One more thing that is little vague in the wiki is that in what startup script I should put this:

xhost local:boinc

mclang

Member

From: Finland

Registered: 2005-10-24

Posts: 79

Re: BOINC and using GPU

No, not really.

But I noticed that on the Tasks tab in the boincmgr GUI there is status message "Running (0.2 CPUs + 1 nVidia GPU)"... So I thing that the GPU computations are working even without the "xhost local:boinc" thing.

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