Support for new NVIDIA NVS 5200M

GEOMAR-Film
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Hi all,
i changed my old notebook to a new one which has a NVIDIA NVS 5200M installed. But BOINC version 7.0.28 doesn´t make use of it´s CUDA-cores (96). It´s getting BRP4-jobs, but no cuda32. Why ?

Chris from GEOMAR-Film

Christian Loehrmann
GEOMAR-Film, Hannover, Germany

Michael Karlinsky
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Support for new NVIDIA NVS 5200M

Quote:

Hi all,
i changed my old notebook to a new one which has a NVIDIA NVS 5200M installed. But BOINC version 7.0.28 doesn´t make use of it´s CUDA-cores (96). It´s getting BRP4-jobs, but no cuda32. Why ?

Chris from GEOMAR-Film

Hi,

can you post the BOINC start-up messages?

KR
Michael

zablociak
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Hey! I think you need to

Hey!

I think you need to install different drivers (I guess 305.93):

Quote:
2012-10-23 05:42:58.8793 [PID=20116] [version] Checking plan class 'BRP4cuda32'
2012-10-23 05:42:58.8793 [PID=20116] [version] parsed project prefs setting 'gpu_util_brp': 0.000000
2012-10-23 05:42:58.8793 [PID=20116] [version] driver version required max: -29053, supplied: 29687
2012-10-23 05:42:58.8793 [PID=20116] [version] Checking plan class 'BRP4cuda32nv301'
2012-10-23 05:42:58.8793 [PID=20116] [version] parsed project prefs setting 'gpu_util_brp': 0.000000
2012-10-23 05:42:58.8793 [PID=20116] [version] driver version required min: -30100, supplied: 29687
GEOMAR-Film
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Hi Michael, here is the

Hi Michael,
here is the startup-log of today. I´ll also check the drivers version...

23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | No config file found - using defaults
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.28 for windows_x86_64
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Running under account christian
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | 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 htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx smx tm2 popcnt aes pbe
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Memory: 5.89 GB physical, 11.77 GB virtual
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Disk: 464.98 GB total, 379.59 GB free
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Local time is UTC +2 hours
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | NVIDIA GPU 0: NVS 5200M (driver version 296.87, CUDA version 4.20, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 961MB available, 258 GFLOPS peak)
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: NVS 5200M (driver version 296.87, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB, 961MB available)
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 5968585; resource share 100
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | Einstein@Home | General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 19-Oct-2012 21:57:28)
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | Einstein@Home | Computer location: work
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | General prefs: using separate prefs for work
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Reading preferences override file
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Preferences:
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | max memory usage when active: 3013.31MB
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | max memory usage when idle: 5423.95MB
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | max disk usage: 10.00GB
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
23.10.2012 07:15:22 | | Not using a proxy
23.10.2012 07:15:26 | Einstein@Home | Restarting task p2030.20111014.G193.69+00.25.C.b5s0g0.00000_1752_1 using einsteinbinary_BRP4 version 122 (BRP4SSE) in slot 1

Thanks, Chris

Christian Loehrmann
GEOMAR-Film, Hannover, Germany

Horacio
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The nvidia drivers in the

The nvidia drivers in the versions 295.xx and 296.xx have a bug and then the project doesnt send GPU work to hosts using those versions.

So to be able to use your GPU in this project you need to go back to any driver less or equal to version 290.53 (if those have support for your GPU) or to any driver higher than 301.00

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