Changed GCard - no more progress
30 Nov 2009 19:41:55 UTC
Topic 194646
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I had a failure with my old NVidia card and I exchanged it for a new ATI model. Now I am getting 2 messages anytime my BOINC manager connects to the web.
1. Message from server: no work sent
2. Message from server: Your computer has no NVIDIA GPU
As far as I can see the task will not start to progress at all. It seems that the client will not work with the other GPU. Can I make a change? That it will start working again?
Changed GCard - no more progress
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You'll have either to abort the task or to exchange your ATI card for a (new) Nvidia card, since the Einstein applications only run on CUDA-capable graphics devices (and ATI uses CAL).
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
Thanks for the information. I
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Thanks for the information. I feared that it would be that way. That means that I am off for now. Although I like to help computing, I will only be able to continue with this task, if I change the graphic card again.
I have taken a look on the FAQs. I have not found the answer there. Thus I have asked here. I would suggest that somebody would add something to the FAQ. This is a basic problem that should be mentioned somewhere.
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Maybe you got Gundolf wrong: The CUDA tasks that you got while you still had an NVIDIA card cannot be done on your ATI card, so those tasks could as well be aborted now. But you can still contribute to Einstein@Home by running tasks on your CPU, like the rest of us :-). The vast majority of work for E@H is done with CPUs rather than GPUs at the moment.
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Bikeman
Michael may want to read my
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Michael may want to read my CUDA & CAL FAQ for a lot of information on CUDA & CAL.
RE: I have taken a look on
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Did you see the news item dated Nov 26 regarding the automatic delivery of work to hosts with CUDA capable GPUs? That news item pointed to a specific thread containing more information. The opening post by one of the developers went to great trouble to spell out exactly what was required (an NVIDIA GPU with at least 450MB of RAM, etc). It's a little unfair to claim that no information was available.
If that information is insufficient or unclear, why not contribute to that thread so that the information there may be improved?
Also, as Bikeman mentions, you can still use your CPU to crunch ABP1 tasks. I don't know if you realise just how many pulsars have been rediscovered using the ABP1 app running on CPUs. Take a look at the pulsar (re)discovery page and imagine your name there 'up in lights' if your machine was lucky enough to be handed a task containing a pulsar signal. At the moment, pulsars are being rediscovered every several days or so and it's only a matter of time before someone finds a brand new one rather than just a rediscovery of a known pulsar. Now a task containing such a signal is surely one to covet ;-).
Cheers,
Gary.