Posts by Derrick Knight

1) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Requirements [OLD] (Message 46597) Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Derrick Knight Post: There are 2 different parts to BOINC, the manager is what you see but there is also the underlying process that does the real work. To shut down BOINC, you go to the advanced menu and select Shut down connected client, click ok and then cancel. Then you can quit out of the manager. I greatly appreciate your help. Thanks again. (now kindly stop being so useful so I can stop spamming this board!)
2) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Requirements [OLD] (Message 46593) Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Derrick Knight Post: Thanks. I downloaded, unzipped and ran the program. It appears I need some instructions on how to use it. I found a txt file called stderr. Here is what is reports from my last attempted run. 1. shut down boinc completely 2. open the following folder "C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway" 3. copy all files that you've extracted from the zip file into that folder 4. start boinc again Either Boinc doesn't quit when it says it quits, or it just required a full restart. In either case it is now working. Thanks for your help!
3) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Requirements [OLD] (Message 46586) Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Derrick Knight Post: First thing I would try would be the Fermi Cuda app instead of the Open_CL version, your drivers might not support the correct version of Open_CL. http://www.arkayn.us/forum/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item23 Thanks. I downloaded, unzipped and ran the program. It appears I need some instructions on how to use it. I found a txt file called stderr. Here is what is reports from my last attempted run. 08:39:11 (5616): Can't set up shared mem: -1. Will run in standalone mode. No device was specified on the command line Looking for a Double Precision capable NVIDIA GPU Found 1 CUDA cards Found a Quadro 5000M Device can be used it has double precision support Chose device Quadro 5000M Couldn't find input file [astronomy_parameters.txt] to read astronomy parameters. APP: error reading astronomy parameters: 1 08:39:11 (5616): called boinc_finish
4) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Requirements [OLD] (Message 46580) Posted 17 Mar 2011 by Derrick Knight Post: I just downloaded BOINC today and joined SETI and MilkyWay. I joined MilkyWay because I thought my GPU would be useful and it is being done at RPI (alumnus). Anyway, I think all my GPU computations went bad. When I opened up my GPU for work, 10 projects began and finished within a few seconds. Their status is "Computation error" and they have not updated in several hours. My GPU is nVIDIA Quadro FX 5000M (mobile). It is a Fermi card and supposedly is double precision. My drivers come from HP since this is a workstation (8740w). I'm hoping it is not a driver problem because I am not going to stray from the HP provided ISV certified drivers. Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: I saw the error files get replaced by new files...those did the same thing.