I have a Dell dual-core machine with Ubuntu OS. Can someone tell me how to check its GPU compatibility for the faster processing available on the newer BOINC versions? All I can find 'round these parts is how to check on a Windows machine. Thanks.

I have not tried to use the GPU on any OS so i don't know how helpful this link is but hopefully it will help little:

http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?language=1&view=471&sessionID=567c78d095aaf2bb2c44aae2f922d2ae

I have not tried to use the GPU on any OS so i don't know how helpful this link is but hopefully it will help little:

http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?language=1&view=471

I made the link active, though I fear that it has not much linux info.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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I think that there's a few lines in the manager's Messages tab soon after BOINC starts, that give some info on the gpu. This may be sufficient for comparing with project requirements.

Related question. When one runs the BOINC software on a computer, does it detect whether the hardware is compatible with GPU processing and allow one to set it up (or not) right from the beginning?

Maybe I don't have to figure compatibility on my own? Maybe if I've never seen BOINC detect GPU processing capability, I don't have it?

Maybe if I've never seen BOINC detect GPU processing capability, I don't have it?

BOINC uses the respective dlls for the graphics devices to determine if any are present. If it can't find the dlls or if the access to the device files in /dev is not sufficient, BOINC will tell that it didn't find any GPUs, although they are there.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Great help, folks! Thanks so much! It looks like I can finally put this to bed.

it all depends on the nvidia driver version. and the ubuntu boinc pakcage doesnt contain the libcudart.so file. but you can get this file with the official package from the boinc site. you extract it and copy it to /var/lib/bonc-client and it should get detected.

Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:43 PM CST		Starting BOINC client version 6.10.24 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:43 PM CST		Config: use all coprocessors
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:43 PM CST		log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:43 PM CST		Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 c-ares/1.5.1
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:43 PM CST		Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9550  @ 2.83GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		Processor: 6.00 MB cache
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		OS: Linux: 2.6.31-17-generic
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		Memory: 3.87 GB physical, 1.20 GB virtual
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		Disk: 11.82 GB total, 7.58 GB free
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		Local time is UTC -6 hours
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 275 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.3, 895MB, 691 GFLOPS peak)
Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:24:44 PM CST		NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTS 250 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 470 GFLOPS peak)

I installed the recommended proprietary "nvidia" driver from the repositories v185.xx and then installed v190.53 over that using the script from nvidia. A somewhat dated tutorial: http://dcteam.guru-mountain.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=107&p=790&hilit=driver#p790.
Omit the steps to delete the repository installed v185.xx.

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