No GPU app for 64 bit Linux with Radeon GPU?

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KarmannGaz
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1 Jun 2015 20:31:25 UTC
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    I thought I'd add a graphics card to my Linux PC for Einstein to do some GPU tasks with, however it's saying there's no application available for ATI for pc-linux-gnu. Is this correct, and if so, are there any plans to create an app for it in the future?

    My setup is an AMD A8-3270K APU on an ASRock A75M-ITX motherboard with an ASUS HD 6670 (ATI Radeon 6550 based chipset), and I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 (Linux 3.13.0-37-generic) 64-bit OS.

    My CPU tasks are still plodding on as normal. At the moment, the GPU is running some SETI tasks, so is being used, but I'd hoped to have it running Einstein tasks too.

    KarmannGaz
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    No GPU app for 64 bit Linux with Radeon GPU?

    24 Jul 2015 9:55:50 UTC
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      Well, due to the overwhelming response and lack of anything helpful from my own online searches, I gave up and pulled the GPU out, so my Linux box is back almost how it was, but crunching along as usual.

      I tried putting the HD6670 in an old Vista PC with an Athlon dual core processor for a laugh, and was quite surprised to see it working fine for Einstein, in fact the GPU tasks were clocking up huge amounts of credit, I was well pleased. Unfortunately, I also let some SETI tasks run on there, and it said the OpenCL drivers needed updating, so I found the latest Vista Catalyst updater on AMD's website and installed that, and now BOINC can't even find the GPU at all. I've added a cc_config.xml to tell it to use all GPUs, which is read ok, but it still can't find it any more. I give up (again!). This is way too hard.

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      RE: Well, due to the

      24 Jul 2015 10:25:28 UTC
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        Well, due to the overwhelming response and lack of anything helpful from my own online searches, I gave up and pulled the GPU out, so my Linux box is back almost how it was, but crunching along as usual.

        I tried putting the HD6670 in an old Vista PC with an Athlon dual core processor for a laugh, and was quite surprised to see it working fine for Einstein, in fact the GPU tasks were clocking up huge amounts of credit, I was well pleased. Unfortunately, I also let some SETI tasks run on there, and it said the OpenCL drivers needed updating, so I found the latest Vista Catalyst updater on AMD's website and installed that, and now BOINC can't even find the GPU at all. I've added a cc_config.xml to tell it to use all GPUs, which is read ok, but it still can't find it any more. I give up (again!). This is way too hard.

        If you have a spare harddrive you might try Windows 10, it is working just fine for me. Win10 is alot like Win7, unless you have a touch screen then it is alot more like Win8 with the tiles.

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        This is not really the best

        24 Jul 2015 19:35:09 UTC
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          This is not really the best forum to report problems and get help, there is a message boards specifically for that for E@H. Help Desk

          Returning to running Linux and GPU computing, there is some good resources on the boinc website http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/ the documention and GPU message boards, I find helpful.

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