Nvidia GPU seems to not work
9 Feb 2013 15:30:33 UTC
Topic 196799
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Hi, I just started to use Einstein@Home and I noticed that the tasks for my GPU always have a computation error. I looked and I found this error message:
7.0.28
- exit code -1073741515 (0xc0000135)
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I am using a GTX 660 with the latest drivers (310.90). What could the issue be?
Nvidia GPU seems to not work
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Hi Alex! Are you using the driver that Windows installed for you? I've seen lots of messages saying you should use the drivers from the NVIDIA website.
Yes, I am using the latest
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Yes, I am using the latest Nvidia drivers that I installed from the Nvidia website
Check if you have the i7
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Check if you have the i7 Intel OpenCL graphic drivers installed.
If so remove them in Control Panel-->Programs,
If not running BOINC 7.042 OR later Boinc will use the wrong Opencl
Intel drivers instead of the Nvidia OpenCL drivers.
Ok, my first guess was wrong
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Ok, my first guess was wrong :)
Because 0xc000135 looks like a Microsoft error code, I had a look at it. Seem to be a lot of people saying you need to install a later version of .net. Bit beyond me why you'd need to do that, must be a Windows expert around who can help?
RE: Ok, my first guess was
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The actual meaning of 0xc0000135 is "The application failed to initialize properly" (note that's 0x - to signify a hexadecimal number - followed by 8 hex digits: you left out a zero. Always better to copy'n'paste if you're about to Google an error code).
It usually means that you are missing a DLL - a Dynamic Link Library - but of itself it says nothing about which DLL is missing. Google-hunters tend to assume it's some part of the dotNET framework, but that's far from inevitable - and in the case of scientific applications like Einstein, it's actually highly unlikely.
In the case of the Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) v1.33 (BRP4cuda32nv301) application which Alex is having problems with, there are only two DLLs which need to be present and correct:
cudart_xp32_32_16.dll (384,616 bytes)
cufft_xp32_32_16.dll (28,551,272 bytes)
(note that these are CUDA files, to support a CUDA application - no need for OpenCL for this app)