I have a machine I would like to start crunching on but I can not get the newer versions of BOINC to work.

I have seen many posts on this forum and I have not seen anything that has a start to finish install for BOINC 7 on CENT OS.

I hope someone can direct me to instructions that give me a start to finish step by step process to setup this software.

I Had setup BOINC 6.4 successfully and it crunched with the processors but it would not recognize my Nvidia cards and when I tried to install the CUDA driver it would crash my system after I blacklist nouvue)

That being said, My goal is to use BOINC 7.* to crunch for World Community Grid

Here is what I'm using.

Currently running Cent OS 6.5
2 Intel Xeon E5-2150 processors (32 Processors at 2.6ghz)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 graphics card
Nvidia Geforce Tesla K10 GK104G1 Card
Intel XEON Phi 5100 card
256GB RAM

All of the devices are seen with LSPCI

I would love to know if someone has gotten any of this hardware to work with BOINC.

Thank you,
Robert

Bump?

Any help would be appreciated.

Anyone? How about a link to site where someone else has it working. or maybe a recommendation?

I don't think that there is anyone out there that managed to get BOINC 7.* working with both CPU(s) and GPU(s) on CentOS 6.5; else it would be easier to find.

The whole problem is always that the necessary libraries aren't available for CentOS, and that it's not possible to build BOINC 7 with older libraries. So really, I doubt you'd find something better than How to run the BOINC Client on CentOS (about BOINC 6.12 on CentOS 6).

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Sorry for the late reply, some time ago I managed to update the Fedora version to 7.2.33 and between yesterday and today I had enough free time to make a test build also for RHEL6.

I've requested commit privileges to make an official build, meanwhile you can manually download the new version from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6502179

Please be aware that is TOTALLY UNTESTED because I don't have a RHEL system where test it.

Regards,
Mattia

The reason I have said nothing is here.

Offering money in exchange for advice is of course ok. Not mentioning about it here and not mentioning on Elance that you are asking for free advice - that's something I don't like.

I don't know about others but I like to do some research before writing proposals but when you are at the same time trying to get free help somewhere else there's too good chances that I'm just wasting my time.

I didn't leave a proposal on Elance because I don't know enough about GPU crunching to be sure I could help. And if I were to try to help you here I would spoil the opportunity for others to make some money. (Compiling BOINC is the easy part here.)

The job still shows as Working for me. I really don't know what to think of that and you still asking for help here. I'll just hope you canceled it earlier and the Working status is an error.

(Seriously, 400?!)

Thank you for your help on this topic...

Juha - Yes we have offered this project on elance and it has been accepted by a vendor on elance. I have offered money to accomplish this task because no one has been able to help.

Your frustration is ironic to me because we are trying to make boinc work in order to "Donate" our processing power to "help" crunch for "charitable" causes.

My interest in charity is so high that yes I am even helping the vendor which I am currently paying accomplish his task. it's a shame you can not be as charitable.

FYI - I posted here on the 20th, I posted on elance on the 27th after having no such success.

Please refrain from posting on my topic if you are not willing to help it is counter productive.

Ageless, I have been able to successfully run Boinc 6, however it will never see the GTX 690 card. From what I understand I must run Boinc 7 in order to perform GPU crunching.

I would be more then content with GPU only crunching on this system if you could lend a hand in that direction I would be grateful.

Thank you...

Mattia, I will try out your build and report back. Thank you.

Ageless, I have been able to successfully run Boinc 6, however it will never see the GTX 690 card. From what I understand I must run Boinc 7 in order to perform GPU crunching.

You ran BOINC 6.4, which was the very first version that did Nvidia (only) detection (2009). The 6.12 I pointed out is from 2 years later (2011), and has a lot of fixes, including also being able to detect AMD GPUs and whether or not either brand was OpenCL capable.

The AMD GPU detection method is different from how Nvidia GPUs are detected. Whereas AMD GPUs need to be declared within the BOINC client, Nvidia GPUs can be read through the drivers and from the graphics processor itself.

And since that didn't change much between 6.12 and 7.0, or 7.2, you can easily get your 690 detected with 6.12

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CRCOMPUTER, boinc 7.2.33 is now being pushed to EPEL6 testing repos, it's awaiting approval and should land in the next few days.

Ageless..

Makes sense, thank you.

Mattia.. thank you that's great news.