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nanoprobe
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If they go AMD, I MIGHT, BIG MIGHT consider bringing over my Radeon 7850, but something tells me that this might favor Nvidia. Because the WCG GPU app is coded in OpenCl ATI cards will be more efficient than Nvidia because ATI Driver support for OpenCl is much better that Nvidia.
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Former Member
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I would bring 2 cards: Nvidia GTX 680 and Nvidia GTX 570, both of which I currently use for BOINc projects.
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off topic
----------------------------------------Peter, that's some nice hardware ... if you are not already using them on GPUGrid they would rock on that project  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 4, 2012 7:38:25 AM] |
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kateiacy
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I have
----------------------------------------AMD Radeon HD 7750 Nvidia GT 430 AMD E350 that includes an HD 6310 Nvidia ION All of them (except the GT 430, which I don't have a machine for right now) are crunching on various BOINC projects, mainly POEM, Einstein, and MilkyWay. I crunch under Linux, so I'll bring them over to WCG when it has GPU crunching for Linux. I don't think the ION will be powerful enough for WCG; it'll probably stay with POEM and Einstein. IONs are slow compared to other GPUs, but they're a lot faster than most CPUs!  [Edit 1 times, last edit by kateiacy at Aug 4, 2012 3:49:08 PM] |
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Jason1478963
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We will try and bring
----------------------------------------1 5870 1 5850 2 5770 2 6570 a few 5450 if they are worth it. 4 4850 if they revisit their use.  |
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mikey
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I have AMD Radeon HD 7750 Nvidia GT 430 AMD E350 that include an HD 6310 Nvidia ION All of them (except the GT 430, which I don't have a machine for right now) are crunching on various BOINC projects, mainly POEM, Einstein, and MilkyWay. I crunch under Linux, so I'll bring them over to WCG when it has GPU crunching for Linux. Can you point me to a link, PLEASE, that gives details on how to setup a gpu on Linux? I can get Boinc running with no trouble but the gpu just doesn't seem to work like it does in Windows. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 right now but would be willing to switch if it is easier and still free. I am a LONGTIME Windows guy so need some step by step directions. Thanks for any help you can provide. mikey My gpu's would include AMD 5770, 5870, 6850 and 4670's and a couple of Nvidia gpu's such as 9800 GT, a 9600 GSO and a 560Ti. As for the AMD cards I have several of each, all currently running in Win7 machines.   [Edit 1 times, last edit by mikey159b at Aug 4, 2012 12:53:28 PM] |
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captainjack
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Open up System Settings (icon with a wrench and a gear)
Then click on Additional Drivers (icon looks like a pci card) Then it will bring up a list of GPU drivers that you can install. I am using the standard driver (not the one with post-release updates) That is the driver that I am using to run gpu projects at POEM. Hope that helps |
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kateiacy
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Here's a link for how to install the proprietary AMD drivers in Ubuntu:
----------------------------------------https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI For some BOINC GPU projects, to run them on AMD cards you also need to install the AMD APP SDK, which may be downloaded (along with installation instructions) from: http://developer.amd.com/sdks/amdappsdk/downloads/pages/default.aspx In order to run OpenCL applications on GPU, you will need BOINC 7.xx. Also, you need to manually restart BOINC each time you restart the computer; otherwise BOINC will not detect the GPU. You can do this by getting a terminal window and entering: sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart and entering your user password when prompted. Setup is very similar for Nvidia cards. The proprietary drivers can be installed from the Additional Drivers menu; then you download and install the CUDA SDK from the Nvidia website if necessary for the BOINC application you want to run. And you must restart BOINC each time you shut down and restart the computer. I hope this helps. |
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branjo
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I would bring OpenCL ATI AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB on Mac OS X Mountain Lion only :-)
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Jim1348
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I have two dedicated Radeon HD 7770s set up on two different PCs. The first has an E8400 dual-core, and the second an i5-3550 Ivy Bridge (quad-core). The first one is running POEM at the moment as it waits for WCG work.
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