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Message 70933 - Posted: 18 Jul 2016, 13:49:28 UTC

stdoutdae.txt has the following line just after detecting my GPU

ATI: libaticalrt.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm running on FC22/GeForce gpu. I searched and found an rpm and downloaded ... requires catalyst. OK, dl that, requires 3 more rpms. So is it worth it to go on a Where's Waldo? trek? Would it gain me anything? DNF info says there are 65 perl packages. Am I being taken for a walk in the woods???
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Message 70935 - Posted: 18 Jul 2016, 18:23:31 UTC - in response to Message 70933.  

BOINC does GPU detection by trying to load various libraries and seeing what they report. libaticalrt.so is the library needed for CAL / Brook+ GPU applications.

CAL is what ATI (and later AMD) offered for GPGPU applications before they switched to OpenCL. CAL has been available only on ATI GPUs. And since some time ago AMD dropped support for CAL in hardware and drivers.

Since you have NVIDIA GPU you don't need or have any use for libaticalrt.so or Catalyst/fglrx.
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Message 70939 - Posted: 19 Jul 2016, 2:57:32 UTC - in response to Message 70935.  

Hmmm, kind of what I was thinking later as I went walkabout on the web.
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