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1) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 116131
Posted 3 days ago by ProfileJord
I have heard back about Richard, he's alive and doing all right.
2) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 116112
Posted 6 days ago by ProfileJord
Linus Tech Tips calculated the digits on pi to 300 trillion digits.
See how they did it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-AJwqzWsU
3) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 116079
Posted 11 days ago by ProfileJord


😂
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Intel 630 graphics card not used by BOINC/Einstein in Ubuntu 24.04
Message 116078
Posted 11 days ago by ProfileJord
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL specifies a programming language (based on C99) for programming these devices and application programming interfaces (APIs) to control the platform and execute programs on the compute devices. OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing using task- and data-based parallelism.

What you used was OpenGL, the graphics library that's used for 3D acceleration of graphics (like games).
The drivers already installed on the system, are only a software layer that points out to the operating system and other programs, how to use this hardware to output to a monitor.

OpenCL (and CUDA for Nvidia cards) specifies how to use parts of the GPU for calculations. And that's what used by the projects for their applications that use the GPU for their calculations.
5) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 116067
Posted 13 days ago by ProfileJord
Has anyone heard from or contacted Richard Hselgrove in the past 2 weeks?
People ask me if I know what happened to him, but all I can say is what I heard from someone else in April.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Intel 630 graphics card not used by BOINC/Einstein in Ubuntu 24.04
Message 116063
Posted 14 days ago by ProfileJord
To be able to use any GPU, no matter what operating system, you need to install the videocard drivers, and the OpenCL drivers.
Not sure how well supported Intel drivers are under Linux, but you could follow https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/driver/installation.html
7) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 116055
Posted 18 days ago by ProfileJord
We went from 27C two days ago to 13C now. From too much warmth to "nice". It's really 17C on my balcony, so don't believe the outdoors temps.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Windows Exploit Protection Settings - Which exe to whitelist to avoid memory errors?
Message 116054
Posted 18 days ago by ProfileJord
Editing posts is an hour. Outside that hour, a thread starter can add a post, edit that post and then edit the thread title as well. Or he can click the Red X underneath one of his posts and via the message box that comes up report his post to the moderators and ask that they change the thread title.
9) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics
Message 116030
Posted 21 days ago by ProfileJord
They'd learned from the last time and put you "in the system". ;-)
10) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics
Message 116028
Posted 21 days ago by ProfileJord
So... what did you vote?
11) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 116011
Posted 24 days ago by ProfileJord
Today's the 19th anniversary of me being your dominator. Uhm no.🤔

Moderator! 😅
Although I do use the anonymous account for now. May at one time switch back again as it feels empty.

What do you think? 😘
12) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC client 8.2.1 ready for testing
Message 115964
Posted 29 days ago by ProfileJord
The login form uses, as far as I know, the same login as the old alpha site. If you never had one, you can ask David Anderson to make you an account, emailing him via boinc_alpha@ssl.berkeley.edu
13) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC client 8.2.1 ready for testing
Message 115961
Posted 29 days ago by ProfileJord
Dear Alpha testers:
We don't have any test results for 8.2.1 so far.
Please test it, and report results on the BOINC Alpha site:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Remember: we need positive test results, not just bug reports;
otherwise we can't be sure that things are working on a wide range of computers.

Thanks -- David and Vitalii
14) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC client 8.2.1 ready for testing
Message 115960
Posted 29 days ago by ProfileJord
David Anderson wrote:
Great news! A new version of the BOINC client is ready to test.
The release notes are here:
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes

The major new feature is support for Docker apps.
Docker is a 'container' technology: sort of like virtual machines,
but more efficient and easy to use.
We think that Docker is the future of BOINC.
The 8.2.1 client detects Docker (or its open-source variant, Podman)
and reports it to projects.
Currently two projects have Docker apps: LHC@home and BOINC Central.

Eventually we plan to offer Podman in the BOINC installer,
but for now you have to install it yourself.
This is easy to do; instructions are here:
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Installing-Docker

As usual, report test results here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_form.php

Thanks for your help!

-- David
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : Error 2718 New Install
Message 115957
Posted 22 Apr 2025 by ProfileJord
Installer Error 2718 apparently means that the Windows Installer Service is disabled, and needs to be re-enabled.
Here's how to do that: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-installer-has-an-error-code-2718/d3b50117-40be-4e7a-836e-9d8e2599865e

For all the other installer trouble, and if Grant's proposal didn't work, see this BOINC FAQ.
16) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Ubuntu software center - BOINC manager not responding
Message 115956
Posted 22 Apr 2025 by ProfileJord
Can you post the first 30 orso lines of the BOINC startup log, please?

Also, do know that BOINC in Ubuntu repository is updated by the Ubuntu package manager. Any glaring errors in the code should be taken up with them, not us.

That said, this sounds more like a permissions problem, hence me asking your BOINC startup log. Let's see what that says.
17) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 115948
Posted 21 Apr 2025 by ProfileJord
Pope Francis, 88.
18) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe
Message 115932
Posted 18 Apr 2025 by ProfileJord
Typical. Just an hour after I asked Eric about it (didn't get an answer on this, though). ;-)
19) Message boards : GPUs : BOINC does not recognize the correct GPU driver
Message 115925
Posted 17 Apr 2025 by ProfileJord
In reply to Erich56's message of 17 Apr 2025:
So in my opinion the problem clearly is with BOINC, right?

All BOINC does is recognize the driver according to drivers on your system. If the driver part in the designated place is wrong, then it can only recognize it wrong.

AMD and Intel use their own OpenCL drivers, but OpenCL being an open standard, the file can essentially run on all hardware that can run OpenCL, and so your Nvidia GPU can recognize AMD's and Intel's OpenCL driver as its own. Hence my request to delete for them as well. Even the OpenCL driver for an Intel CPU can throw a spanner.
20) Message boards : GPUs : BOINC does not recognize the correct GPU driver
Message 115918
Posted 16 Apr 2025 by ProfileJord
Did you run DDU only for Nvidia drivers?
If you did, try rerunning it and choose AMD and Intel as well.
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