Hello everyone,

I'm hoping that someone can help me. I just installed a NVinda 9800GT which isn't GPU capable. I don't have GPU selected and I've checked all of my accounts and changed the ones that had GPU options to no. But the BOINC manager keeps requesting GPU work units. Is there some way to get the BOINC manager to stop requesting GPU work units?

Thank you,

Warren

Hello everyone,

I'm hoping that someone can help me. I just installed a NVinda 9800GT which isn't GPU capable. I don't have GPU selected and I've checked all of my accounts and changed the ones that had GPU options to no. But the BOINC manager keeps requesting GPU work units. Is there some way to get the BOINC manager to stop requesting GPU work units?

Thank you,

Warren

the 9800 GT is cuda capable,...... as long as boinc detects a card, it'll ask for work for gpu from projects.

their is a setting in the cc_config file:

<no_gpus>0</no_gpus> insert into options under the config file of boinc data directory. cc_config is the name of the file.


http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

bare in mind: that in the future if you decide to let boinc projects use your gpu, you will have to undo this option in config file.

Quote from mentioned file:

<no_gpus>
If 1, don't use GPUs even if they're present.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Quote from mentioned file:

<no_gpus>
If 1, don't use GPUs even if they're present.

Gruß,
Gundolf

thanks Gundolf for correcting it. i thought that it was 0 but it's 1.

Thank you for your help. I enabled GPU WUs for SETI and I did get WUs that are using the CUDA capabilities of the card. Although it asks for GPU WUs for all of my project even the projects that don't have GPU WUs. But now it seems to be working the way it should. I've actually gotten quite a bit of work from SETI. I'll see how it works and decide later if I want to continue using the GPU to do work units.

Thank you for your help,

Warren

Before I make any changes to my BOINC manager I wanted to run this format by you to see if I have it correct. I actually have to create the cc_config.xml file so I wanted to see if I understand what I have to create before I add it to the manager.

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
<no_gpus>1|1</no_gpus>
</log_flags>
</cc_config>

I hope this is correct if it isn't can you correct my mistake.

Thank you,

Warren

No, the <no_gpus> clause goes into the <options> section. So, your file should look like this:

<cc_config>
	<options>
		<no_gpus>1</no_gpus>
	</options>
</cc_config>

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Thank you very much!! I didn't want to do anything before I checked.

Thank you for your help,

Warren

But... that option is only available from BOINC 6.5.0 and above. So unless you made a typo in your BOINC version, it won't work with 6.3.6!

And in that case, if you didn't make a typo, why use such an old version? We're up to 6.10.4 in Alpha and 6.6.36/.37/.38 for release.

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