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Message 37941 - Posted: 22 May 2011, 23:56:55 UTC

I have a new machine, i7-2720QM, nVidia GeForce GT 555M.

This is the first time I have ever had graphics that were noticed by any project.
I saw in BOINCStats that my credits were flying up, and that one project in particular was making huge outsized gains.

Sure enough, it is crunching with the graphics.

I do not want to crunch with GPU because of the heat. This is a laptop which I run 24/7.

I have aborted all existing WU's from the project and marked it for no new work.

I am running BOINC 6.10.43. I see in Local Preferences no choice about GPU except a box to not check re: GPU when computer is in use.

How can I get this project to run only on CPU?
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Message 37942 - Posted: 23 May 2011, 0:52:25 UTC - in response to Message 37941.  

Deselect at that project's preferences page, 'Use Nvidia GPU', then you'll no longer get GPU work from that project,

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Message 37943 - Posted: 23 May 2011, 1:38:52 UTC - in response to Message 37942.  

Thanks, I thought of that also; but there is no configuration that even asks on their Computing Preferences.

Should I be looking somewhere else?
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Message 37944 - Posted: 23 May 2011, 1:57:01 UTC - in response to Message 37943.  
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Thanks, I thought of that also; but there is no configuration that even asks on their Computing Preferences.

Should I be looking somewhere else?

Not Computing Preferences which is Global across all Projects, But Project Preferences, which are the Preferences for that project,

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Message 37945 - Posted: 23 May 2011, 2:01:47 UTC - in response to Message 37944.  

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Message 37981 - Posted: 25 May 2011, 1:25:17 UTC

You should also be able to use the <no_gpus> option in cc_config. This should solve the problem once and for all, so even if a project introduces GPU processing, you won't run those tasks.
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