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Nobody316
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19 Jan 2013 7:56:33 UTC
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    Ok been searching around and found GPU computing down the page a bit is Attach to projects with GPU applications. Some have linux support but it seems most don't. So the question is do we have support for linux and gpu yet or is being worked on or not messing with it? Here is the reason I ask I use windows :( most of the time because of games and afew other things but I love linux and would rather use linux not just for this but for everything. Waiting for the work to get done and I am going to be switching over to the linux side and going to be working on getting boinc setup on that side. I like to do as much as I can with what I have so that means gpu usage as well. But even if we don't have the support for gpu in linux yet I still want to get the client boinc setup and run some benchmarks under linux on this desktop.

    So if anything I might be down on the GPU work for a bit but will still work on the CPU side none the less.

    PC setup MSI-970A-G46 AMD FX-8350 8 core OC'd 4.45GHz 16GB ram PC3-10700 Geforce GTX 650Ti Windows 7 x64 Einstein@Home

    Claggy
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    19 Jan 2013 9:41:29 UTC
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      All projects have an Applications page which shows which applications are available for what systems:

      Einstein applications

      Claggy

      Gary Roberts
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      RE: ... So the question is

      19 Jan 2013 11:52:35 UTC
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        ... So the question is do we have support for linux and gpu yet or is being worked on or not messing with it?


        Have you ever taken a peek (through the statistics link on the front page of the website) at the top hosts list? There are several hosts on the first page running Linux and all hosts on that page run multiple GPUs. Currently, the #1 host runs Linux.

        So I guess you could say there is quite mature support for both Linux and GPUs here :-).

        Cheers,
        Gary.

        Nobody316
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        RE: All projects have an

        19 Jan 2013 17:34:24 UTC
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          All projects have an Applications page which shows which applications are available for what systems:

          Einstein applications

          Claggy

          Nope didn't know this... but will come in handy now that I do.

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          Have you ever taken a peek (through the statistics link on the front page of the website) at the top hosts list?

          Nope been busy reading over forums looking for answers and what not. I will be looking into this soon. All most done with all units in windows side and will be switching over to linux side. I know what windows benchmarks say this desktop can do but can't wait to see what linux says as it is a faster OS.

          Thanks Claggy and Gary

          Note I might still be new around here but I am learning, might be a bit slow at times but this is because of the lack of sleep I get everyday until crash day then I try to catch up on sleep... lol

          PC setup MSI-970A-G46 AMD FX-8350 8 core OC'd 4.45GHz 16GB ram PC3-10700 Geforce GTX 650Ti Windows 7 x64 Einstein@Home

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