NVidia driver 515.48.07 gives OpenCL errors for 12GB RTX 3060 on Linux

Mike Hewson
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Just a quick note to be aware of installing the Nvidia driver as above. For myself on this host it yielded a string of 184 failed WUs ( as compute error ) over five days, each dropping out after merely three seconds with the same problem eg.

2022-06-28 06:32:47.6317 (2358) [normal]: Start of BOINC application '../../projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/einstein_O3AS_1.01_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__GW-opencl-nvidia'.
[DEBUG} GPU type: 1
[ERROR] Couldn't get OpenCL device from BOINC (-1)!

Problem solved by reverting to the 510.73.05 driver.

Cheers, Mike.

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Keith Myers
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Thanks for the post Mike. 

Thanks for the post Mike.  Always a crap-shoot on just released drivers.  If you don't need them to support the latest hardware release, best to stick with tried and true, stable series drivers.

 

Mike Hewson
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To be fair to Nvidia they

To be fair to Nvidia they haven't tested usage with Pop!_OS, as per their support documents. I guess I just did that though. :-)

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Keith Myers
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Wow, big changes.  What the

Wow, big changes.  What the hell is the fabric-manager?

 

Mike Hewson
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A new type of machine washing

A new type of machine washing powder for delicates. :-)

Seriously, I gather from the user guide one can combine multiple A100 GPUs* in a hardware array with NV proprietary links and switches, to make the GPUs appear as a single object ( with a single memory space ). OMG what one could do with such a virtualisation, a beastly composite of beasts. Someone will/has probably make/made a supercomputer from these.

Cheers, Mike.

* One of which you can get for AUD $23K ! And yes, you can put that on a PCIe bus !

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Keith Myers
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Mike Hewson wrote: A new

Mike Hewson wrote:

A new type of machine washing powder for delicates. :-)

Cheers, Mike.

Plus! get that fresh spring clean smell!

 

Mike Hewson
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Ah, this is what I'm really

Ah, this is what I'm really after :

ie. a whole lot of WUs have validated. ;-0

Cheers, Mike.

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Harri Liljeroos
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Oddly your embedded picture

Mike, your embedded picture does not show for me, but if I open just the picture in a new tab it shows OK. I am using Chrome in win 10.

Mike Hewson
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This is a known issue with

This is a known issue with Chrome and is often due to the second reason in this list.

Cheers, Mike. 

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GWGeorge007
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Mike, your image doesn't show

Mike, your image doesn't show up in Firefox (v101) either, and I'm using Ubuntu.  I'll check into it later.

.....[EDIT].....

It just appeared when I came back to this thread.  Did you do something with the file, or maybe my Firefox program that came with Ubuntu got a behind the scenes update and I wasn't aware. 

Nope, it is still v101.0.1 (64 bit).  Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0

George

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Mike,    Image is fine in

Mike,

   Image is fine in Firefox v.97 (Debian); this is v.97 direct from mozilla and not the distribution package... but, one moment please...  it is also o.k. in the v.91.7 firefox-esr Debian package (3/26/22 release).

   I also see a nice credit surge.  It appears to be the result of FGRPB1G work units yielding 3465 credits (in ~10 minutes run time) vs. the O3AS1 work units yielding 1000 credits (in ~13 minutes run time).  And with O3AS1 wrapping up I/we am/are getting lots more FGRPB1G work units.  As noted in another thread, however, the FGRPB1G set has only ~18 days of work remaining - so we better enjoy the credit boost while we can!

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