Posts by Jord

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1) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 116131 Posted 3 days ago by Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	😂
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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	Pope Francis, 88.
18) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 115932 Posted 18 Apr 2025 by Jord	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 Jord	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 Jord	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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