I put an ATI HD 3870 video card in an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ machine running Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit and BOINC 6.10.17 and added the appropriate brooks libraries. I installed the latest 9.12 Catalyst drivers successfully and the card is working fine. I have reinstalled both the ATI drivers and BOINC to no avail. I'm getting the "no usable GPUs found" message in BOINC in spite of numerous efforts and much web research.

Has ANYONE gotten an ATI card crunching on 64-bit Ubuntu successfully?

I'd really like to get this up and crunching. I have applied every trick I could find, and have got Nvidia cards up and crunching GPU work on this OS, but I've reached a deadend here with the ATI card.

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Jeff Gu
Guru Mountain DC Team

This FAQ seems to indicate support.
Why your card isn't being recogignized is another matter. The '64 bit' part of your setup, perhaps?

Check out MilkyWay@Home and Collatz Conjecture. I don't know which OS or ATI GPU they support.

Collatz is the only project currently with a 64-bit Linux GPU app for ATI cards, and I have been posting there, unsuccessfully, in my attempts to get BOINC to recognize the card.

I'm specifically looking for help from someone who has actually got an ATI card up and crunching on 64-bit Linux, hopefully Ubuntu.

I'm interested, too, in getting the boinc user added to the video group. The GUI tool lacks the necessary functionality, and the command:

sudo usermod -a -G video boinc

...also fails to do anything. This works in all versions of Linux I've ever used, but for reasons I can't fathom, fails to do anything in Ubuntu. I'm not optimistic about it making any difference, anyway. In spite of people's insistance on it working, for both Nvidia and ATI cards, I've never had to do it on the machines running Nvidia cards on 64-bit Ubuntu. But, worth a try if I can actually get it accomplished.

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Jeff Gu
Guru Mountain DC Team

Looking at BOINCstats, there are 9058 hosts on Collatz; 547 are running Linux, 9 'other' systems, and the rest Windows.
Of the AMDs, there are quite a few 64 bit Athlons.

As successful crunchers seldom visit help forums, perhaps your best bet would be to look at the info on the Collatz site and see if there's a list of 'Top hosts'. Then look through the list to find those computers running 64 bit Linux OS.

News?

Some1 got gpu working on karmic 64?

Has ANYONE gotten an ATI card crunching on 64-bit Ubuntu successfully?

http://elect86.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/howto-ati-cal-on-karmic-64-bit-with-boinc-collatz-project/

Ubuntu Karmic 64bit
last kernel, 2.6.31-20
last Catalyst 9.12
last Boinc 6.10.32

How can i check that all my gpu are being utilized under linux?

Which is the config file?


Edit: created an cc_config.xml in BOINC folder

<cc_config>
<log_flags>

</log_flags>

<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>


Boinc restared, nothing changed

Edit: created an cc_config.xml in BOINC folder

It has to go to the BOINC data folder, where also the client_state.xml file resides. The path is shown in the Messages tab after a restart of the BOINC client (reboot). And in the messages are also the entries showing that the cc_config.xml file has been read (starting with "Config:").

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Edit: created an cc_config.xml in BOINC folder

It has to go to the BOINC data folder, where also the client_state.xml file resides. The path is shown in the Messages tab after a restart of the BOINC client (reboot). And in the messages are also the entries showing that the cc_config.xml file has been read (starting with "Config:").

Gruß,
Gundolf

Yes, its there, with the client_state.xml


But still no message

elect@elect-desktop:~/Scaricati/BOINC$ ./boinc
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Starting BOINC client version 6.10.32 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Config: use all coprocessors
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 c-ares/1.5.1
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Data directory: /home/elect/Scaricati/BOINC
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Processor: 8.00 MB cache
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] 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 rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] OS: Linux: 2.6.31-20-generic
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Memory: 3.86 GB physical, 258.85 MB virtual
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Disk: 48.06 GB total, 27.78 GB free
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Local time is UTC +1 hours
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800 (RV740/RV770) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1440 GFLOPS peak)
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] ATI GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800 (RV740/RV770) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1440 GFLOPS peak)
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Collatz Conjecture] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [climateprediction.net] URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1049956; resource share 100
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Milkyway@home] URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 148085; resource share 100
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Collatz Conjecture] URL http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/; Computer ID 16470; resource share 100
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Reading preferences override file
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Preferences:
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] max memory usage when active: 1977.06MB
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] max memory usage when idle: 3558.72MB
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] max disk usage: 10.00GB
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] max upload rate: 10240 bytes/sec
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] (to change, visit the web site of an attached project,
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] or click on Preferences)
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Using proxy info from GUI
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Not using a proxy
Initialization completed
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [climateprediction.net] Restarting task hadam3p_njrq_2001_2_006576276_0 using hadam3p version 614
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [climateprediction.net] Restarting task hadam3p_njrd_2004_2_006576263_0 using hadam3p version 614
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [climateprediction.net] Restarting task hadam3p_njpr_1999_2_006576205_1 using hadam3p version 614
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [climateprediction.net] Restarting task hadam3p_njo7_2001_2_006576149_1 using hadam3p version 614
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Collatz Conjecture] Restarting task collatz_1266517580_140813_1 using collatz version 201
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Collatz Conjecture] Restarting task collatz_1266517580_141598_0 using collatz version 201



elect@elect-desktop:~/Scaricati/BOINC$ aticonfig --adapter=1 --odgc

Adapter 1 - ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
Core (MHz) Memory (MHz)
Current Clocks : 800 1000
Current Peak : 800 1000
Configurable Peak Range : [507-900] [500-1200]
GPU load : 0%

But still no message

The message I meant is here:

21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] Config: use all coprocessors

which corresponds to

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>

in your cc_config.xml and results in

21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800 (RV740/RV770) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1440 GFLOPS peak)
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [---] ATI GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800 (RV740/RV770) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1440 GFLOPS peak)

Sadly, I can't help you with the question about usage of your GPU, since I neither have one nor do I run linux. Perhaps you could ask at the projects that support ATI GPUs.

Gruß,
Gundolf

Milkyway has no Linux compatible ATI application.
Collatz has one that's experimental, runs with the anonymous platform and needs to be installed by hand.

All MW apps.
All normal Collayz apps
Collatz optimised apps

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Milkyway has no Linux compatible ATI application.
Collatz has one that's experimental, runs with the anonymous platform and needs to be installed by hand.

All MW apps.
All normal Collayz apps
Collatz optimised apps

elect has already got the experimental Linux Collatz 2.01 app installed, from the following:

21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Collatz Conjecture] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform

and:

21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Collatz Conjecture] Restarting task collatz_1266517580_140813_1 using collatz version 201
21-Feb-2010 00:57:35 [Collatz Conjecture] Restarting task collatz_1266517580_141598_0 using collatz version 201

He's also posted in this thread under a Different Nick at Collatz: ATI 9.12 / Linux64 / BOINC problem...

But has posted slightly different information, here his log shows two apps being started,
but at Collatz he's not posted any startup messages, but he's posted the following showing only GPU 0 is being used:

The cc_config.xml needs to be in the Boinc Data folder, not the Boinc folder,
the location is quoted in Boinc's startup messages.

Claggy

It reads the setting

21-Feb-2010 01:49:56 [---] Config: use all coprocessors


But if i read the activity on ati gpu1 is always 0% (as well the temp: 40 instead 66° ca)

elect@elect-desktop:~/Scaricati/BOINC$ aticonfig --adapter=0 --odgc

Adapter 0 - ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
Core (MHz) Memory (MHz)
Current Clocks : 750 900
Current Peak : 750 900
Configurable Peak Range : [507-900] [500-1200]
GPU load : 99%
elect@elect-desktop:~/Scaricati/BOINC$ aticonfig --adapter=1 --odgc

Adapter 1 - ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
Core (MHz) Memory (MHz)
Current Clocks : 800 1000
Current Peak : 800 1000
Configurable Peak Range : [507-900] [500-1200]
GPU load : 0%

Claggy