 NanoprobeLooking for cures in memory of MomPremium
join:2003-05-11
Crab Nebula
kudos:2 | reply to Slava
Re: HCC GPU app close to going live IT HAS LAUNCHED said by Slava:By the way, is there a certain download that we have to make to have the GPU start to process tasks or does this automatically happen?
Where would we be able to see this (the GPU at work and crunching tasks)?
If you will, can you take a moment to walk us through? 
Thanks, Slava
First thing is to check the list of non-compatible cards. You can find it here.
If you have any of the listed video cards in your computer they will not work.
Next I would highly recommend that if you're running a boinc version 6 that you update to the latest version 7.0.36. You can find the links for the 32 or 64 bit versions here. Version 6 had by far the most problems during beta testing. If you're still running a version 6 finish the tasks you have in cache, uninstall it and the install version 7. There some changes in version 7 that are a little different but they're very minor and I'll cover that later.
If you have a card that will work log on to WCG and click on the MY Grid tab. On the upper left side of the page select Device Manager. Select the device name that you want to run GPU tasks and open the profile of that device. Select only HCC from the available projects. Scroll down and put a check mark in the box next to If my computer can process work on my graphics card, then please send me work to run on my graphics card for the projects that I have selected above.
Next scroll down to Advanced options. If you want to receive both GPU and CPU tasks select yes from the Allow research to run on my CPU? option. I recommend you set that option to no for starters so you can get used to how your machine runs while it's processing GPU tasks. You can always change it later but be advised that running both will raise your power consumption and and temperatures. Scroll down to the bottom and hit the save button and you're done.
This note is for teamies that are running multiple crunchers using the same profile. If, for instance you're using the default profile option for all of your machines including the 1 (or more) that will be running GPU tasks you'll need to use a different profile (home, school, work) setting for your GPU crunchers because if you have selected the no option to run CPU tasks on your GPU crunchers and all of your machines use the same profile option then they will all stop receiving CPU tasks even if they are not running GPU tasks. I hope this is not too confusing. All it basically means is that you'll need separate profiles for GPU and non GPU crunchers.
That's basically it. If you have any questions fire away.
Just a FWIW. If you're looking to upgrade or purchase video cards this GPU app is better suited to run on ATI cards. It's not that they are better than Nvidia. The difference is ATI has much better driver support for OpenCL, which is the platform that the WCG GPU app runs on. I've heard rumors that Nvidia will be having better OpenCL support in the future but I don't know when that will be.
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 syslockPremium
join:2007-02-03
Honolulu, HI | What PCI only GPU cards work?
Not pci express.
Everything I have looked up so far is on the bad list.
Sill looking... |
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JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
kudos:5 | PCI is a shared bus system and not nearly fast enough. If there were a usable GPU on a PCI bus I don't think it would work that well which is likely why you haven't found one yet. That said, you might be able to find an AGP version. IIRC there were some AMD 5000 series made with an AGP interface. |
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NanoprobeLooking for cures in memory of MomPremium
join:2003-05-11
Crab Nebula
kudos:2 | reply to syslock
said by syslock:What PCI only GPU cards work?
Not pci express.
Everything I have looked up so far is on the bad list.
Sill looking...
PM me. |
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 glennaxlPremium
join:2007-02-16
Zion
kudos:1 | reply to syslock
said by syslock:What PCI only GPU cards work?
Not pci express.
Everything I have looked up so far is on the bad list.
Sill looking...
If I recall correctly from SETI forums, its not worth it. |
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