Posts by Malcolm Beeson

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not detecting GPU on Linux Message 87112 Posted 15 Jul 2018 by Malcolm Beeson	Due to the heat here in Southern France I've been running BOINC with just one NVIDIA GTX750 Ti and the CPUs at 50%, have now had to reduce the number of hours per day to 16. Did the update (as I always do at least once a day), machine threw a wobbly, said "the NVIDIA driver was not compatible with this version of Linux (9/stretch) and that I would need to reboot, did so, yet again I have a machine that does not boot! Back to same situation, Linux DOES NOT RUN BOINC!.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not detecting GPU on Linux Message 86892 Posted 5 Jul 2018 by Malcolm Beeson	I live in the South of France close by the Mediterranean Sea, we have 30°C shade temperature at the moment. I bought an enormous cooling fan for the CPU (nearly €100), next step was external water cooling. I have another fan in the room running 24/7 and the window is never closed. "sensors" output: asus-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter cpu_fan: 0 RPM acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +119.0°C) temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +119.0°C) coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +78.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +75.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +72.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 2: +77.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 3: +77.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 4: +75.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 5: +75.0°C (high = +82.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not detecting GPU on Linux Message 86842 Posted 3 Jul 2018 by Malcolm Beeson	To Floyd & Richard Again my heartfelt thanks. I've been running twelve cores and one GPU all weekend and as I expected there is a heat issue. I've dropped BOINC to 60% (from my normal 75%) and the cores all remain around 70°C which is acceptable for an i7 I believe. Adding the other GPU I feel would be unwise until the summer heat has passed, so now I go into "big pause" mode. My daily returns have increased considerably with just one GPU so I'm a happy little boinc-er! Regards Malcolm
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not detecting GPU on Linux Message 86783 Posted 30 Jun 2018 by Malcolm Beeson	Phew! nvidia-opencl-icd did the trick, I'll keep an eye on the temperatures for 24hrs and if all is OK, Monday morning I'll add the second GTX750 Ti. I've a 900w power supply so there will be no problem. All being well, I'll dump the W7 running on my other machine with the two GTX1070 Ti GPUs and switch to stretch, the power supply there is a 1200w so no problem there. Thank you very much for your detailed reply, I understand a little more now. I'll keep you in the loop, thanks you for your time and help, it is much appreciated. Malcolm Beeson P.S. Before I go steaming off into the wild blue yonder, I'll concentrate on the second card for this machine! I've never managed more than one GPU on a Linux machine, have to add "use all gpus" in the config file I think. Thanks again Floyd.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not detecting GPU on Linux Message 86779 Posted 30 Jun 2018 by Malcolm Beeson	Thanks Richard Been through that and installed, identified several things, but still "No usable GPUs found". The machine is running beautifully and I can't afford to lose all my work as I recently did, (nineteen years of it), I'm getting too old to start yet again so I'll leave well alone, my three screens work. I've wasted nearly four thousand Euros so far this year on equipment that I can't use, I'll just admit defeat and run my 12 CPUs. Many, many thanks for all your efforts it really is appreciated, perhaps if I can save up for the end of the year I can buy some copies of Windo$e10, much as that goes against the grain. yours sincerely Malcolm Beeson
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not detecting GPU on Linux Message 86777 Posted 30 Jun 2018 by Malcolm Beeson	Thanks very much for your speedy reply, I've never understood the NVIDIA update system, and someone else said one had to go to debian.org - but I can find nothing there to help either. Result of search : "Debian Website search Search for: Hits per page: Language: Syntax help Contact Raphael Geissert for comments. Search powered by Xapian. Copyright © 1997-2003,2007,2008,2011,2015 SPI; See license terms. "
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Not detecting GPU on Linux Message 86774 Posted 30 Jun 2018 by Malcolm Beeson	Same problem, everytime I install a new version of Debian, boinc loses the GPU(s)! lspci | grep VGA : "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2)" boinc-manager log : "Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | Starting BOINC client version 7.6.33 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | Libraries: libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.8 libidn2/0.16 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libidn2/0.16) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.18.1 librtmp/2.3 Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | No usable GPUs found Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | Host name: tomato Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz [Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10] Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | 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 nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single kaiser tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | OS: Linux: 4.9.0-6-amd64 stretch Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | Memory: 15.60 GB physical, 15.92 GB virtual Wed 27 Jun 2018 22:04:33 CEST | | Disk: 9.10 GB total, 7.89 GB free" I can add at least one more NVIDIA GTX750 (two if the power supply will stand them) but (there's always a BUT with Debian) I've got three screens running on the single card, no problems. Why do all the people who run BOINC with multiple GPUs always have "anonymous accounts"? I've been trying for years to get a completely working machine. I have another machine with the same motherboard, CPU and memory plus two NVIDIA GTX1070 Ti GPUs, but no point in switching it on since the motherboard says it needs Windo$e10, works OK with Windoze7 but Microsoft have disabled the update system! If I "apt-get install boinc-client-nvidia-cuda" (as root) the cards work and the machine dies! Normally the motherboard, power supply or hard drive burn out! I've got through 3 motherboards, 2 power supplies and 7 2Tb/3Tb hard drives! I can't afford to keep replacing things. An attempt to contact the author of "boinc-client-nvidia-cuda" Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> I received this reply : "what boinc-cuda does, is to force the installation of the non-free nvidia drivers. If such drivers have issues, boinc has no fault at all :) They are probably binary-only releases, so even Debian has not much to do here, just reporting to nvidia might help. BTW you don't need to install boinc-cuda to use cuda stuff, you can also manually download the driver from nvidia website and start boinc, that will automatically detect it and use it. hope this helps, Gianfranco" Tried NVIDIA's site, couldn't make any more sense out their offers of help than I could that of Gianfranco, sorry I'm just a user not a software writer! I need a fairy-godmother/father who understands how these things work please.
8) Message boards : GPUs : [Linux] Trick to use AMDGPU-Pro OpenCL capabilities without installing the whole propertary driver stack Message 76553 Posted 20 Mar 2017 by Malcolm Beeson	Hi Will this work for a Radeon HD 5770 GPU as well? I'm running Debian 8 and lspci gives me : "01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770] 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]" So the card is there but BOINC returns the usual "No usable GPU........." Very sad of Béziers!
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50445 Posted 11 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Hi All three machines are now settled into a good rhythm and all seems great thanks to your help, just one little niggle left is the 'VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series]' that Boinc can't find, I (well my expert in Malta really) has installed every driver he can find and it still doesn't get picked up. Any quick and easy tips for not wasting these resources please? Upgrading the machine and BOINC were both well worth the effort, the new operating system 'wheezy' is easier to follow and faster. Have a great day, I fully intend to Malcolm
10) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50403 Posted 4 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Hi I've set 'Minimum work buffer' to '1.00 day' and 'Max additional work buffer' to '0.10 days', brought in a huge number of jobs which was a bit frightening, but they're all do-able. I appreciate your help to my experience with BOINC, if not for you and "Ageless" I think I'd have scrubbed the software from my machine. Best wishes Malcolm
11) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50400 Posted 3 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Hi I'm on Debian 'wheezy' and BOINC 7.0.65, we'll see how that goes for a few days,everything is on schedule except one last cpuPPSseive. I've changed the sources file so as to get the latest version of BOINC with apt-get. Wish me luck, and thank you for all your help, I'd never have got here without your help. I'll worry about the GPU when we see how things have settled down. Best wishes Malcolm
12) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50397 Posted 3 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Back up and running Debian 'wheezy', picked up BOINC jobs where it left off but still only 6.10.58 I'll have a word with my mate in Malta and see if he can upgrade BOINC for me. He's a Debian Geek. M
13) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50395 Posted 3 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	I'm upgrading to 'wheezy' I'll get back to you after I see what I have in the way of BOINC M
14) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50394 Posted 3 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Yes, well, I've looked in all sorts of dark corners that I never knew existed before and I can't find anything that fits with the desired files or directories. I did do an 'apt-get install boinc*' and it has made another installation of 6.10.58 somewhere. Everything came back OK after a reboot, and everything looks like finishing before the 'Report Deadline' so apart from trying to upgrade to a later version of BOINC I thik I ought to stop before I break something. M
15) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50393 Posted 3 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Good Morning Thanks for your quick reply, I'll go carefully through it and the links after breakfast. I'm running Linux Debian 'squeeze' 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (I've 32Gigs of RAM) To be continued...... ;)
16) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50384 Posted 2 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Hello Many thanks for your time and trouble, I'm beginning to feel a lot happier about the whole subject of BOINC. Well I tried upgrading and it didn't work, renamed the current files, downloaded the latest version : 7.0.65 then recreated the three files boinc, boinccmd & boincmgr tried a restart and a big fat nothing, so I overwrote the three new files with the old versions and I'm back to square one. My GPU is a Radeon HD5700 series and I can't afford to change it, and a new CPU is way out of my pension range, but I would like to upgrade, why doesn't 'apt-get install boinc*' not do the upgrade? I've got five Sophie Germain WUs and four old PPS three of which will finish today, in time, the remaining PPS will also beat the Wednesday deadline, so I'm getting there, several Sophie Germain WUs have already been returned and the score is mounting. I'm running 'Sophie Germain' & 'PPSE' only, would you recommend any others? I've 'Proth Prime Search (Sieve) CUDA, AMD (ATI)' ticked and I can't untick them, they just come back. I've a feeling that my GPU should pick this up but doesn't for some reason. Best wishes Malcolm
17) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50375 Posted 1 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Update 15:00 I've reset the hours and will leave the machine running all night, but I can't afford to do this all the time, here is an update of the task progress : It is clear that the manager is getting tasks far too big for the machine, if I had not taken the exceptional course of action the first four jobs could not possibly be finished in time. I want to promote BOINC as I do on the homepage of my site, I want it to be a fun and worthwhile thing to take part in, but something is sadly lacking in the set-up on 'boinc manager' Please if you can see anywhere that I'm doing this wrong I beg you to put me straight. Regards Malcolm
18) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50373 Posted 1 Sep 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	It's that annoying little frog again, sorry "First off, what times do you set here and what are your settings for the Minimum Work Buffer and Maximum Additional Work Buffer in the Network tab?" all set to zero '0' Then I've set 15:30-16:00 then in days of the week I've set 08:00-15:30 for Monday to Friday left blank Saturday and Sunday because I don't work weekends. 7.75h as an estimation by a user of how many hours the machine will be available to BOINC is quite a sound basic way for informing the BOINC controller of how many hours a computer is likely to be available on any particular day, obviously it should be limited to two decimal place, clever idiots who input numbers like '0.616666666' should be blocked. Another strange thing : As you can see from the time stamp of the screenshots (top right hand corner) the remaining time and percentage of work done goes the wrong way sometimes. Am I missing the point? What happens when I want to use the computer for and extra hour or two outside the FIXED times? My complaint against BOINC is that the BOINC Manager does not allow sufficient flexability, and as to estimated times going backwards, well....
19) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50356 Posted 30 Aug 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	Thanks, therefore ; I have a problem with BOINC (GridRepublic and Primegrid) I set the times in 'preferences' and get tasks that are impossible to complete in the allowed time, could the 'preferences' - 'processor usage' input form be more like : Please? Then the manager could more accurately accept or reject tasks. Thanks for listening
20) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinc-manager not receiving jobs in time Message 50352 Posted 30 Aug 2013 by Malcolm Beeson	I have a problem with BOINC (GridRepublic and Primegrid) I set the times in 'preferences' and get tasks that are impossible to complete in the allowed time, could the 'preferences' - 'processor usage' input form be more like : [img] http://www.computours.org/boinc/boinc.png [/img] Please? Then the manager could more accurately accept or reject tasks. Thanks for listening

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