http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

BOINC 6.10.17 is now recommended for all platforms. Windows 98/ME support has stopped, you need Windows 2000 or above to be able to install it.

The major change is ATI detection. Besides being able to run CUDA coprocessors, you can now also run work on ATI GPUs. Only a handful of projects that use it though.

Version History
Change Log for 6.10.0 to 6.10.17

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Rom Walton wrote:

We are pleased to announce that 6.10 is now ready for public use.

This release of BOINC contains the following enhancements:

1. Support for ATI GPUs

2. Support for detecting proxy configurations within companies

3. Improvements to the CPU/GPU scheduler

4. A new default screen saver

I would like to thanks everybody who has used a pre-release version of 6.10 over the last couple of months, for providing feedback and helping us make the BOINC system even better.

Release Notes: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes

System Requirements: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/System_requirements


----- Rom

BOINC Development Team

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Hi. I just upgraded my video card from a an ATI Radeon X1650 512Mb to a Radeon 4670HD 1Gb and now seti@home is has this in the message tab -

1/24/2010 5:39:42 PM SETI@home Beta Test Message from server: Your computer has no NVIDIA GPU


Well duh, it's an ati video card! But in the detection phase when the client first boots up it has this --
1/24/2010 5:27:12 PM ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 4600 series (R730) (CAL version 1.4.515, 1024MB, 480 GFLOPS peak)

Oh, I'm also using a combo of Catalyst 9.12 (AMD broke the 9.12 drivers)
and 9.10 display drivers (both w/ the AGP Hotfix)
what ever the issue is it is preventing me from getting/proccessing work units.

it just keeps repeating these lines:

1/24/2010 5:29:34 PM SETI@home Beta Test Message from server: No work sent
1/24/2010 5:39:36 PM SETI@home Beta Test Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
1/24/2010 5:39:36 PM SETI@home Beta Test Requesting new tasks for GPU
1/24/2010 5:39:42 PM SETI@home Beta Test Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
1/24/2010 5:39:42 PM SETI@home Beta Test Message from server: No work sent
1/24/2010 5:39:42 PM SETI@home Beta Test Message from server: No work is available for AstroPulse
1/24/2010 5:39:42 PM SETI@home Beta Test Message from server: Your computer has no NVIDIA GPU


I'm not sure why the client thinks i have an nvidia GPU but any help would be appreciated

Actually, I think that the messages are saying: The work application (AstroPulse), that you've selected requires an NVIDIA card for GPU work, and you don't have one.

Have at look at the SETI web site and see what hardware is required for AstroPulse work, and/or what work (applications), is/are available for an ATI card.

Seti Beta can supply MB WU for Nvidia and is testing a hybrid ATI/CPU Astropulse app. Ask on the Beta message board for the specifics and requirement. Also check the project preference options relating to GPU usage. I'm not familiar with the details since I don't have compatible GPU on my system.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

The reply is coming from the Server, not the client, you're asking for GPU work, you don't get any Astropulse work (for your ATI GPU) because there isn't any,
Eric needs to split another tape before there is any, (bar a few resends)
and you're asking for Setiathome_enhanced work for your GPU, but you won't get any, because the only GPU app available is for a Nvidia GPU and you don't have a Nvidia GPU.

Claggy

how do i tell it to ignore the gpu presence and just download the traditional CPU only work units? -- Never Mind i found the option in client prefrences. It is ok to erase this message.

This version comes with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

And what version might that be, for the initiated? Have you told the people who keep that Ubuntu's RPM up-to-date? As that's the first port of call.

As soon as it comes with such and so's version of Linux, it's their responsibility.

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