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6 Dec 2012 2:23:09 UTC
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    Greetings my Einstein cousins.

    After 10 long years of running nothing but Seti, I've recently packed my bags and headed over here. Like an abusive lover, I will never go back to Seti now.

    Looking forward to crunching numbers with you!

    Allen Clifford
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    HELLO Einstein GOODBYE Seti

    6 Dec 2012 4:49:09 UTC
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      Welcome to the party :)

      Jeroen
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      Welcome aboard! :)

      6 Dec 2012 5:55:03 UTC
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        Welcome aboard! :)

        tullio
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        I am running 7 BOINC projects

        13 Dec 2012 16:26:21 UTC
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          I am running 7 BOINC projects on 2 Linux boxes, so I am never out of work.
          Tullio

          Bikeman (Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein)
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          Welcome to

          13 Dec 2012 23:06:19 UTC
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            Welcome to Einstein@Home!

            I see you have several GPU euqipped hosts, you will be interested in the feature to run several tasks in parallel on the GPUs by using Einstein@Home project specific web interface config settings (no app_info.xml tricks required anymore to do this).

            Cheers
            HB

            Phil Buglass
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            I recently installed a new

            19 Mar 2013 21:51:40 UTC
            Message 113570 in response to message 113569
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              I recently installed a new video card, with an NVidia gpu. Many years ago, I had one of these and the PC would use the GPU for processing - and real fast it was too!

              Now, Einstein keeps telling me that the GPU is missing...

              I can't remember, but is there something else I have to do to enable it?
              I see that I downloaded a file, cudadriver something or other, back in October of 2009. Was that something I needed to let the computer use the GPU?

              Thanks,

              Phil Buglass

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              Welcome to Einstein@Home!

              I see you have several GPU euqipped hosts, you will be interested in the feature to run several tasks in parallel on the GPUs by using Einstein@Home project specific web interface config settings (no app_info.xml tricks required anymore to do this).

              Cheers
              HB


              Neil Newell
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              I think on Windows you have

              19 Mar 2013 22:39:32 UTC
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                I think on Windows you have to download the nvidia driver (not the one from Microsoft).

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                Yes, go to

                19 Mar 2013 22:40:13 UTC
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                  Yes, go to http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and download the driver for the right OS and videocard, then install that one. The drivers supplied by Windows lack CUDA, OpenCL and other features.

                  After you installed the drivers and you managed to do so without reboot(s), exit & restart BOINC, so it can check for the GPU again.

                  Phil Buglass
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                  Thanks. I just did that, but

                  19 Mar 2013 23:20:31 UTC
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                    Thanks. I just did that, but it is still saying the gpu is missing. Looking in the log file, apparently it is looking for the gpu on my old ATI card...
                    So, I assume that new units will access the CUDA stuff?

                    Thanks again,

                    Phil.

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                    RE: Thanks. I just did

                    19 Mar 2013 23:29:04 UTC
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                      Thanks. I just did that, but it is still saying the gpu is missing.


                      Not according to your computer details: Coprocessors NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 (1024MB) driver: 31106

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                      Looking in the log file, apparently it is looking for the gpu on my old ATI card...


                      What log file? The BOINC Event Log, or the contact log?

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                      So, I assume that new units will access the CUDA stuff?


                      Not as long as you don't set your preferences to use the new GPU.

                      Quote:
                      Checking plan class 'BRP4cuda32nv301'
                      parsed project prefs setting 'gpu_util_brp': 0.000000
                      plan class ok
                      Skipping CUDA version - user prefs say no CUDA


                      So go to Your Account, then on to Preferences for this project: Einstein@Home preferences, edit those, change "Use ATI GPU" to No, change "Use Nvidia GPU" to yes, save changes with the "Update preferences" button at the bottom of that page.

                      Next open BOINC Manager->Projects tab->Select Einstein->Click Update. That tells BOINC that Einstein has new preferences, amongst which not to ask work for the now missing ATI card, and only ask work for CPU and Nvidia GPU.

                      Phil Buglass
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                      Thanks a lot. I don't

                      20 Mar 2013 2:16:56 UTC
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                        Thanks a lot. I don't remember having to do this the last time around, but then again, I don't remember what I had for breakfast half the time!

                        So, I should be off flying like the birds when I get some new work units!

                        Thanks again,

                        Phil.

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