Macbook pro retina not running any GPU tasks

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Michael Yartsev
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8 Aug 2015 17:22:28 UTC
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    I have a brand new macbook pro with retina display, but I can't get einstein@home to run any of the GPU tasks. I'm new to OS X so please bear with me :)

    The computer comes with two GPUs:
    CAL AMD Radeon R9 M370X Compute Engine (2047MB)
    INTEL Iris Pro (1536MB)

    Is it possible to use either (or both!) with einstein@home?

    I had found message here that suggested installing the CUDA drivers, which I did, but I don't know how to troubleshoot the issues. Any help would be much appreciated!

    When I launch the "CUDA preferences" dialog, I see that the CUDA driver version is "7.0.52" and that the "GPU driver version" says "no version found".
    Perhaps this is part of the problem, but I don't know where to go from here.

    Tom*
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    Macbook pro retina not running any GPU tasks

    8 Aug 2015 17:37:21 UTC
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      Your system has no cuda capable devices

      some sort of OS version checking problem

      2015-08-08 17:23:34.5431 [PID=27884] [version] Checking plan class 'BRP6-opencl-ati-lion'
      2015-08-08 17:23:34.5431 [PID=27884] [version] OS version required max: 140000, supplied: 140400
      2015-08-08 17:23:34.5431 [PID=27884] [version] no app version available: APP#29 (einsteinbinary_BRP6) PLATFORM#10 (x86_64-apple-darwin) min_version 0
      2015-08-08 17:23:34.5431 [PID=27884] [version] no app version available: APP#29 (einsteinbinary_BRP6) PLATFORM#6 (i686-apple-darwin) min_version 0
      2015-08-08 17:23:34.5434 [PID=27884] [version] no app version available: APP#19 (einsteinbinary_BRP4) PLATFORM#10 (x86_64-apple-darwin) min_version 0
      2015-08-08 17:23:34.5434 [PID=27884] [version] no app version available: APP#19 (einsteinbinary_BRP4) PLATFORM#6 (i686-apple-darwin) min_version 0

      Logforme
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      As Tom wrote it seems to be a

      8 Aug 2015 18:49:38 UTC
      Message 133232 in response to message 133231
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        As Tom wrote it seems to be a problem with your OSX version being too new. Seems weird that BOINC sets an upper limit on OS versions. A lower makes sense, but an upper? Maybe something radical happened after version 140000 (whatever that translates to in Apple OSX names) that makes the E@H apps not work?

        Your machine has an Intel GPU and an AMD GPU. OSX should already have the drivers for those two installed.
        The CUDA driver is only for Nvidia GPUs and should not be installed on your machine. Don't think it will hurt, but it certainly won't do any good.

        Edit:
        A little digging found this message. Seems Apple broke stuff with Yosemite?

        Michael Yartsev
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        Thank you both for the

        8 Aug 2015 21:04:27 UTC
        Message 133233 in response to message 133232
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          Thank you both for the info!
          I will try to enable the beta applications and see if that successfully picks up and completes any GPU jobs.

          EDIT: No luck (http://einstein5.aei.uni-hannover.de/EinsteinAtHome/host_sched_logs/12003/12003057)

          Seems like there's nothing I can do but wait until apple/einstein@home fixes this issue.
          Do let me know if there's something I missed or if there's any info I can provide to expedite the fix.

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