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B1ng

B1ng

B1ng

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Greetings!

As my system is AMD-centric, I decided to browse through the other available DC projects and find something more suited to my system than F@H (8-10k PPD on CPU/GPU). I came across World Community Grid as being our lowest scoring DC Project, and that apparently it is AMD GPU friendly. I therefore decided to give it a whirl.

However, I seem to be having the following issues:
  • On Linux (where I spend most of my time when not gaming) my GPUs are not detected as being usable.
  • On Windows (not ideal as only used when gaming, therefore not doing much if any DC computation) my GPUs are detected but are doing no work.

On Linux, is there something I haven't set up correctly? On Windows, is there also an issue or are the projects i'm currently working on simply not needing of the GPUs?

I have allowed both instances to utilise the GPUs by checking the 'use GPU when in use' option.

Any help/tips/advice would be greatly appreciated!
 
Thankyou!

I will double check, but I believe I am using the proprietary drivers as opposed to the 'standard' ones when you first use when installing Linux.

I will check out the settings for it, but like you say as well there may be no GPU work available.

Ah right ok, still getting to grips with the various scoring systems for the numerous different projects! I must have just seen the rank and gone for that!!

I may have a look at these other projects in that case. Is there one in particular where we are short of people at present, suitable to a Linux setup utilising AMD GPUs?
 
I'm stealing my thread back! :D

Managed to coax the GPUs into doing something useful under Linux. WCG seemingly has no current GPU work, or won't download any. Managed to get PrimeGrid & Poem@Home working well with the GPUs under BOINC. Couldn't manage to get RC5-72 to run last night, but I will have another play.

Cheers for the help and advice Hanluc; let me know if you think my efforts need re-directing!
 
How are you seeing what i'm upto with it? I'm still looking for a reliable way to check my stats against team members and such?

That's not a bad idea at all! Now that I've got the GPUs happy, I can contribute elsewhere too. :)
 
:eek:

That's handy that is! Started checking when I'm at work, have I caught the bug?

Just to confirm, are the numbers I'm producing reasonable for this project?
 
Good for the medical profession, bad for my electricity bill! :D

Awesome stuff. Plenty more to come!
 
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