Posts by octoberfest

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Non-GPU Computation Errors (Message 2945) Posted 24 Mar 2012 by octoberfest Post: After several days of this problem, and having to manually invoke the update process, all is well. I had reset the project before, to no avail. But now, everything is suddenly fine. I had seen the no file error in the past, and have little idea of why the file becomes missing. But all is well now. I'm glad that it did not require reloading BOINC, or the drivers, or the OS. If anyone has any insight into these transient problems, and how they fix themselves, I'd certainly like to know. Thanks.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Non-GPU Computation Errors (Message 2923) Posted 19 Mar 2012 by octoberfest Post: I probably should have mentioned that the machine in question is running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu Linux, in case that matters.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Non-GPU Computation Errors (Message 2922) Posted 19 Mar 2012 by octoberfest Post: In the last couple of days, I'm getting a large number of computation errors on CPU type tasks (perhaps all of the CPU type tasks are getting this). It is not stopping the GPU tasks from running, but it does seem to be causing a problem with automatic updates on BOINC Manager, forcing me to hit the update button manually in order to get credit for the GPU tasks which are continuing to execute. I've rebooted the machine, to no avail, and reset the project, also to no avail. Did the server send out a bad batch of tasks? The machine in question is running an AMD Phenom II processor with 4 cores. I don't have the model number to hand at the moment. It was running just fine until the last couple of days. I have made no hardware or software changes to the machine during this time. It is running Ubuntu Linux.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Ubuntu 10.10 and Radeon HD 6950 (Message 881) Posted 5 Aug 2011 by octoberfest Post: For anyone interested, I got my Radeon 6950 HD 2GB running with Moo. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. What I had to do was not to use the Ubuntu Software Center installer or the Synaptic Package Manager installer. They will result in the "no usable GPUs found" message from Boinc. What I had to do was download Boinc from boinc.berkeley.edu, and use their installer. In the process of debugging, I had also made the boinc user a member of the root group, but, at present, I do not know if that contributed to fixing the problem. The hint that the other installers had fowled up was this: If I did "sudo boinc" in a terminal window, it found the GPU driver, but when boinc was started by the system, it did not find the driver. Now, I need to find a way to autostart the boinc from the Berkeley installation, as I had to start that one manually. Best of luck to all of you facing similar problems. octoberfest
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Ubuntu 10.10 and Radeon HD 6950 (Message 873) Posted 3 Aug 2011 by octoberfest Post: I received the new Radeon 6950 HD 2gb today. Installed the H/W, rebooted, installed the ATI driver, ran aticonfig --initial, and rebooted. How do I tell if Moo Wrapper is using the GPU? I don't see a GPU in the computers section of my account on Moo Wrapper, at least not yet. Thanks for any pointers. I'd like to get some GPU cycles out of this thing for the project. Thanks again.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Ubuntu 10.10 and Radeon HD 6950 (Message 839) Posted 25 Jul 2011 by octoberfest Post: I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and considering a Radeon HD 6950 card in my Phenom II X4 machine for some more computing boost on Moo Wrapper. How difficult is it to load appropriate drivers for this video card in Ubuntu 10.10, and does anyone have any idea how much daily credit boost it will give? Thanks for any pointers on this.