Thread 'New box, R9-280x, Catalyst 14.12 Not using GPU'

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usao Send message Joined: 15 Apr 15 Posts: 50	Message 61993 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:32:34 UTC Ok, I fired up a new box, installed the Catalyst 14.12 software under Windows 7. It's an R9-280x, which should be able to run Boinc. Yet, all im seeing in the tool is the CPU being used. I already set the location to one which supports GPU's, but no joy. ID: 61993 ·

Claggy Send message Joined: 23 Apr 07 Posts: 1112	Message 61994 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:34:36 UTC - in response to Message 61993. Please post your Boinc startup from the Event Log, the first 30 lines or so will do. Claggy ID: 61994 ·

usao Send message Joined: 15 Apr 15 Posts: 50	Message 61995 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:38:41 UTC 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| cc_config.xml not found - using defaults 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.4.42 for windows_x86_64 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Running under account admin 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: Hawaii (driver version 1642.5 (VM), device version OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1642.5), 4096MB, 4096MB available, 3555 GFLOPS peak) 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| OpenCL CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1642.5 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5)) 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Creating new client state file 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Host name: m1 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor [Family 16 Model 6 Stepping 3] 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 pni cx16 popcnt syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Memory: 3.98 GB physical, 3.98 GB virtual 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Disk: 29.72 GB total, 15.60 GB free 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Local time is UTC -7 hours 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| No general preferences found - using defaults 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Preferences: 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 2038.35MB 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 3669.03MB 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| max disk usage: 15.50GB 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| don't use GPU while active 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25% 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Not using a proxy 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| This computer is not attached to any projects 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions 4/30/2015 12:59:04 PM \| \| Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use 4/30/2015 12:59:27 PM \| \| Fetching configuration file from http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/get_project_config.php 4/30/2015 12:59:44 PM \| \| Suspending computation - CPU is busy 4/30/2015 1:00:04 PM \| \| Resuming computation 4/30/2015 1:00:05 PM \| \| Running CPU benchmarks 4/30/2015 1:00:05 PM \| \| Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress 4/30/2015 1:00:36 PM \| \| Benchmark results: 4/30/2015 1:00:36 PM \| \| Number of CPUs: 1 4/30/2015 1:00:36 PM \| \| 2595 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 4/30/2015 1:00:36 PM \| \| 5568 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 4/30/2015 1:00:37 PM \| \| Resuming computation 4/30/2015 1:00:40 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Master file download succeeded 4/30/2015 1:00:45 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. 4/30/2015 1:00:45 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Project has no tasks available 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| General prefs: from Milkyway@Home (last modified 21-Apr-2015 13:11:44) 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Host location: none 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| General prefs: using your defaults 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| \| Preferences: 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 2038.35MB 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 3669.03MB 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| \| max disk usage: 14.61GB 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25% 4/30/2015 1:00:46 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 4/30/2015 1:00:47 PM \| \| Resuming GPU computation 4/30/2015 1:01:45 PM \| \| Suspending computation - CPU is busy 4/30/2015 1:01:55 PM \| \| Resuming computation 4/30/2015 1:02:52 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 4/30/2015 1:02:52 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU 4/30/2015 1:02:54 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Scheduler request completed: got 3 new tasks 4/30/2015 1:02:57 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Started download of milkyway_separation_1.00_windows_x86_64.exe 4/30/2015 1:02:57 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Started download of 80_rev_8_5.prmtrs 4/30/2015 1:02:58 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Finished download of 80_rev_8_5.prmtrs 4/30/2015 1:02:58 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Started download of 80_Rev_8_3.stars 4/30/2015 1:03:02 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Finished download of milkyway_separation_1.00_windows_x86_64.exe 4/30/2015 1:03:04 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Finished download of 80_Rev_8_3.stars 4/30/2015 1:03:04 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Starting task de_80_DR8_Rev_8_5_00004_1429700402_4344065_0 4/30/2015 1:04:00 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 4/30/2015 1:04:00 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks sent 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks are available for MilkyWay@Home 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks are available for Milkyway@Home Separation 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks are available for Milkyway@Home Separation (Modified Fit) 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Message from server: ATI GPU R600 (R38xx) does not support OpenCL 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress ID: 61995 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149	Message 61996 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:43:57 UTC - in response to Message 61995. Try asking at the Milkyway forum - there's a recent thread called AMD R9 290X does not receive any GPU work. I believe they haven't updated their server software in a while, and the current code can't handle the detection strings from the R9 range. ID: 61996 ·

Claggy Send message Joined: 23 Apr 07 Posts: 1112	Message 61997 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:47:24 UTC - in response to Message 61995. 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: Hawaii (driver version 1642.5 (VM), device version OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1642.5), 4096MB, 4096MB available, 3555 GFLOPS peak) 4/30/2015 12:59:03 PM \| \| OpenCL CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1642.5 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5)) Your GPU is reporting OpenCL Support, But no CAL support. 4/30/2015 1:04:00 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 4/30/2015 1:04:00 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks sent 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks are available for MilkyWay@Home 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks are available for Milkyway@Home Separation 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| No tasks are available for Milkyway@Home Separation (Modified Fit) 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Message from server: ATI GPU R600 (R38xx) does not support OpenCL 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress Milkyway at home looks as if they're mixed their planclass specs up a bit, they are reporting your GPU is missing OpenCL support, when it is only missing CAL support, Try a different project, Like Einstein, or Seti. Claggy ID: 61997 ·

usao Send message Joined: 15 Apr 15 Posts: 50	Message 61998 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:49:34 UTC - in response to Message 61997. Ill do that, although I got the R9 specifically to run MW@H. Wasn't aware of any issues. I didn't read the entire thread on the link you provided, but it sounds like they are having server resource issues? Is that true? What kind of server resource do they need? I have lots of HP server machines if that will help. ID: 61998 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15634	Message 61999 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:54:18 UTC - in response to Message 61995. 4/30/2015 1:04:01 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Message from server: ATI GPU R600 (R38xx) does not support OpenCL Definitely bad back-end code as it's recognizing this GPU as a HD38xx series (R600), not as the R9-280x that it is. ID: 61999 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149	Message 62000 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:54:39 UTC - in response to Message 61998. Ill do that, although I got the R9 specifically to run MW@H. Wasn't aware of any issues. I didn't read the entire thread on the link you provided, but it sounds like they are having server resource issues? Is that true? What kind of server resource do they need? I have lots of HP server machines if that will help. Scan the thread where you have a moment. The main resource they seem to be lacking seems to be human - BOINC administrators. The project 'scientists' mostly seem to be students, and I don't think they're allowed to have the keys to the server. ID: 62000 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5149	Message 62001 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:57:14 UTC - in response to Message 61998. Oh, and the same thread does contain all the resources you need to bypass the dodgy server software - I think with all the typos sorted out in the end. ID: 62001 ·

usao Send message Joined: 15 Apr 15 Posts: 50	Message 62002 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:57:21 UTC - in response to Message 61999. Ratz, I was hoping to fire-up some workload and crank out some work units... ID: 62002 ·

usao Send message Joined: 15 Apr 15 Posts: 50	Message 62003 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 20:58:01 UTC - in response to Message 62001. Oh, and the same thread does contain all the resources you need to bypass the dodgy server software - I think with all the typos sorted out in the end. Thanks, ill read through it and see if there is a way to get it going. ID: 62003 ·

usao Send message Joined: 15 Apr 15 Posts: 50	Message 62004 - Posted: 30 Apr 2015, 21:23:58 UTC - in response to Message 61997. Milkyway at home looks as if they're mixed their planclass specs up a bit, they are reporting your GPU is missing OpenCL support, when it is only missing CAL support, Try a different project, Like Einstein, or Seti. Claggy Tried SETI, but im not getting ANY work. Just connected to their project, but didn't setup anything as I don't know that project or how they do things. I deleted the MW@H project, but I still see references to it below. 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| cc_config.xml not found - using defaults 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.4.42 for windows_x86_64 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Running under account admin 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: Hawaii (driver version 1642.5 (VM), device version OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1642.5), 4096MB, 4096MB available, 3555 GFLOPS peak) 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| OpenCL CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1642.5 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1642.5)) 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Host name: m1 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor [Family 16 Model 6 Stepping 3] 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 pni cx16 popcnt syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Memory: 3.98 GB physical, 3.98 GB virtual 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Disk: 29.72 GB total, 15.38 GB free 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Local time is UTC -7 hours 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| SETI@home \| URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7561317; resource share 100 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| General prefs: from http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ (last modified 21-Apr-2015 13:11:44) 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Computer location: home 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Preferences: 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 2038.35MB 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 3669.03MB 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| max disk usage: 14.38GB 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25% 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Not using a proxy ID: 62004 ·

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15634	Message 62006 - Posted: 1 May 2015, 0:26:52 UTC - in response to Message 62004. I deleted the MW@H project, but I still see references to it below. 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| General prefs: from http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ (last modified 21-Apr-2015 13:11:44) 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| Computer location: home 4/30/2015 2:22:48 PM \| \| General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults Yes, that's where your general (computing) preferences come from. If you want another project to take over on those preferences, you'll have to change some prefs there, then Update BOINC on that project. ID: 62006 ·

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