I would be grateful for some help getting my GPU running work units
7 Nov 2009 3:28:06 UTC
Topic 194613
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Hello,
I was reading the forums and found information that looked like I would be able to use my ATI HD 2600xt GPU to run work units if I installed the proper software. First, I should probably say I am running Vista x64, service pack 2 with an overclocked Q6600 and 8 gigs of RAM with an old RaptorX. I updated BOINC to 6.10.17. I installed the latest ATI driver, 9-10. I installed ATI Stream-1.4.0_beta-vista64. Every step went just fine without any error messages. I go to the "messages" tab in the BOINC manager and see that "requesting new tasks for GPU" then "Scheduler request completed: Got 0 new tasks". In my preferences I have changed "Suspend GPU work while computer is in use?" to "no". In the BOINC manager, under the projects tab, in the properties option, one of the bits of information reads "ATI GPU work fetch priority 0.00."
There is a lot of information in the forums and I have done my level best to find my answers there but I am stuck at this point. Is it possible for me to use my ATI HD 2600xt card to run work units on Einstein? If so, could some kind soul give a brother a hand?
Dana
I would be grateful for some help getting my GPU running work un
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I think there is not an Einstein app working with ATI cards but only on Nvidia cards using CUDA.
Indeed, there is currently no
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Indeed, there is currently no ATI GPU supported science app at E@H. The developers are looking into OpenCL tho which would greatly simplify writing code that can be made to run on ATI and NVIDIA GPUs without the need to completely rewrite the stuff (and maintain separate versions).
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Bikeman
RE: OpenCL Too bad you
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Too bad you need newer GPUs for that (ATI HD4xxx series and above, Nvidia G200 and above) and a CPU that has SSE3.
RE: RE: OpenCL Too bad
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Q6600 supports SSSE3 too. The one and only problem would be the old HD2xxx series.
If i remember me right, only collatz has appz for this series. The other projects needs either min a nVidia gt260 or a AMD/ATI card with doubleprecision-ability.