Posts by Randall Hose

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Updated GPU Requirements (Currently not supporting GPU tasks) (Message 60755) Posted 17 Jan 2014 by Randall Hose Post: All, regarding the server message of "R600 GPU 38xx not supporting OpenCL" or something similar... I recently upgraded my 4770 to a 7790, mainly for increased single precision performance. However, after updating to the latest Catalyst driver, I received that dreaded message from the Milkway@home server. After going in circles and tying many things I finally got it working. Here's what I had to do: Uninstalled all AMD software, driver, Catalyst, everything. Ran DriverSweeper in safe mode to remove remnants. Removed all "AMD" references from registry Installed Catalyst 13.4 (tried 13.12 and 13.9 with no success) Hey presto! Now downloading and running MW tasks. Now one thing I did notice - BOINC noted that, with 13.4, that CAL is an option, as well as OpenCL. 13.9 and 13.12 only noted OpenCL. I know that all the project resources indicate OpenCL is what's required, but is this actually true? Have others managed to run a 7790 (Bonaire) with any driver over 13.4?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : All Milkyway@Home 1.02 tasks ending in computation error on HD6950. (Message 60695) Posted 6 Jan 2014 by Randall Hose Post: yep, both cards now crunching away no issues on Einstein.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : All Milkyway@Home 1.02 tasks ending in computation error on HD6950. (Message 60678) Posted 3 Jan 2014 by Randall Hose Post: Hi, Today I did some more troubleshooting. Uninstalled 13.12, installed 12.1 of Catalyst. OpenCL wrong version, so apps wouldn't run. Updated to 12.6, same. Updated to 13.1, OpenCL correct version, however 1.02 units still erroring. Removed 1 card, ran with 13.1, same issue. Uninstalled 13.1, rebooted, installed 13.1, single card, same issue. So it seems I'm snookered. I'll now swap these cards over to Einstein as I don't think it's right to run them when only about 40% of the work is being accepted. Seems a really strange issue, I might have thought it was just my system, but others are having the same issue too. Thanks Mikey for the drivers suggestion
4) Message boards : Number crunching : All Milkyway@Home 1.02 tasks ending in computation error on HD6950. (Message 60673) Posted 2 Jan 2014 by Randall Hose Post: Are you talking about your AMD machine or your Nvidia machine? Mikey, I'm pretty sure I said 5850's. I don't crunch MW on any Nvidias, not that I own any Nvidias anyway. I'm hoping Phil replies soon to the question of older/newer Catalyst drivers.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : All Milkyway@Home 1.02 tasks ending in computation error on HD6950. (Message 60668) Posted 31 Dec 2013 by Randall Hose Post: I get the same error with my 6990s when using 13.9 drivers. I have been using 11.12 and these work fine. Phil, do you mean a really old version of the Catalyst driver?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : All Milkyway@Home 1.02 tasks ending in computation error on HD6950. (Message 60667) Posted 31 Dec 2013 by Randall Hose Post: Hi all, I finally got time over the Christmas break to remove one card, and voila! Fails with just the one card, as well. All 1.02 units fail. Randall.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : All Milkyway@Home 1.02 tasks ending in computation error on HD6950. (Message 60517) Posted 5 Dec 2013 by Randall Hose Post: Hi, I can confirm that I see the same errors of WU's failing, only the "normal" 1.02 programs. My system has dual 5850's and has been running Milkway for well over a year, I don't check it religously, but noted a number of weeks ago that the output of the machine had dropped, i.e. it wasn't crunching using the GPUs. Usually it earns 300k credit a day, but it had dropped to around 80k. The reason for this was that it was receiving 1.02 units, which were all failing within 10 seconds - therefore it capped out a day's work in a few hours and didn't send more. The units appear to start OK but rapidly progress through the percentages and end with 100% and a computation error between 7-10 seconds or so. Both of the cards are not overclocked and never have been. I also updated to Catalyst 13.9 and BOINC 7.2.28 but this has not helped. The separation runs progress with no issues. As others have mentioned, it may be a dual GPU thing. If I get time I will remove one of the cards and see what happens, although this is hardly an optimal solution. Thanks.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc Client for Android (Message 55948) Posted 25 Oct 2012 by Randall Hose Post: Hi, NativeBOINC downloaded, installed and running great on my Ice Cream Motorolla Razr. Pauses when on battery, nice status screen and options, big thumbs up here awesome work. R.