MilkyWay@Home for GPUs

[NeoGen]

Just found out that they have a specific side project for the GPUs...

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway_gpu/

But seems to be something for testing purposes only, it's closed account creation, no WUs, no apps, and even some errors on the website...

But even so, here we are, AMD Users!
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway_....php?teamid=15

[liuqyn]

odds are they are not going to use this site, instead just keep run the gpu's from the regular site.

[AMDave]

Account creation is disabled
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway_...count_form.php

SHAZBUT !
Missed it by that much.

[vaughan]

Does anyone have a summary of how to get an ATI Radeon 4870 card to work on milkyway@home?

I used to have it running under Win XP 64 but now the card is in a Win 7 64 Ultimate machine. The BOINC application data folder wasn't visible but my son did some magic tweaking and managed to get it visible for me - dunno what he did, it was all too quick for this old man.

Now I know where to paste the app_info.xml file plus the other two files from the optimised app. However, when I rebooted after installing the latest Catalyst drivers and started BOINC, milkyway just gives computation errors.

I looked at the milkyway site and the optimised apps messages folder is enormous so I'm after a working summary of "what to do" rather than the development blog that is the milkyway message board.

[AMDave]

I gleaned this little gem out of the ATI support thread.

under Vista/Win7 all Catalyst releases run if the appropriate dlls are copied and renamed as described in the readme.

It looks like there are some specifics that you need to accomplish/re-accomplish for your Win7 install.

Look for the "readme' file in the download pack.

BTW they just moved the download location for the optimized clients:
according to this thread:
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/...?id=1297#34213
they are now here
http://www.arkayn.us/milkyway/index.html

[vaughan]

Thank you AMDave.

Tracking down the dlls that needed re-naming was a chore. Michael resorted to using Locate32 to find them, made the copies and we renamed them. Milkyway still misbehaved so I switched to Collatz and its running perfectly.

I don't understand why BOINC changed the location of the critical BOINC files some versions ago. Now under Win 7 they're very hard to find.