Posts by WildVaHawK

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1) Message boards : GPUs : Wrong GPU being declared Not Used
Message 42248
Posted 26 Jan 2012 by ProfileWildVaHawK 		The GT 520 was marked down and the GTX 570 is mark available and used for computation
2) Message boards : GPUs : Wrong GPU being declared Not Used
Message 42239
Posted 25 Jan 2012 by ProfileWildVaHawK
You can tell BOINC which GPU to use by setting up a cc_config.xml file. Look for <use_all_gpus> and <ignore_cuda_dev> or <ignore_nvidia_dev>, respectively (depending on your BOINC version).

I used the following configuration file in the BOINC data directory to mark the GT 520 as Not Used:

<cc_config>
<options>
<ignore_nvidia_dev>1</ignore_nvidia_dev>
</options>
</cc_config>
3) Message boards : GPUs : Wrong GPU being declared Not Used
Message 42209
Posted 24 Jan 2012 by ProfileWildVaHawK 		LOL... Only NVIDIA would mark a $60 dollar GPU higher than the $350 dollar GPU. To alleviate my problem, I bought another GTX 570 SC for SLI and will use it as my secondary video card. Hurt the pocket, but BOINC wins with an additional job with GPU power of 1530 GFLOPS

Thanks for Info
4) Message boards : GPUs : Wrong GPU being declared Not Used
Message 42193
Posted 23 Jan 2012 by ProfileWildVaHawK 		I don't know where to find my cc_config.xml. I searched my installed drive and did not find file that file name.
5) Message boards : GPUs : Wrong GPU being declared Not Used
Message 42191
Posted 23 Jan 2012 by ProfileWildVaHawK 		BOINC 7.0.11 also declared the wrong GPU Not Used.
6) Message boards : GPUs : Wrong GPU being declared Not Used
Message 42189
Posted 23 Jan 2012 by ProfileWildVaHawK 		When I added a second video card(GT 520) to system, my first video card(GTX 570) is marked as NOT USED during the initialization of BOINC program. BOINC then uses the second video card for the single job.

1/23/2012 12:35:00 PM | | NVIDIA GPU 0 (not used): GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 290.53, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 2.0, 1280MB, 1118MB available, 1530 GFLOPS peak)
1/23/2012 12:35:00 PM | | NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GT 520 (driver version 290.53, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 979MB available, 156 GFLOPS peak)
1/23/2012 12:35:00 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0 (not used): GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 290.53, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1280MB)
1/23/2012 12:35:00 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GT 520 (driver version 290.53, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB)


When I disable the GT 520 via the device manager, BOINC marks the GTX 570 as okay during initialization and uses the video card for the job.

1/23/2012 12:37:59 PM | | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 290.53, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 2.0, 1280MB, 1108MB available, 1530 GFLOPS peak)
1/23/2012 12:37:59 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 290.53, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1280MB)

Currently using version 7.0.8 of BOINC. I don't think the problem occurred when I had a secondary video card of a GT 220.

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