GPU clients

[AMDave]

Brucifer,

I am using Gnome Ubuntu 8.10 on a Phenom 9750 with a 9600GT and the 177.x version of the NVIDIA driver,
which your Ibex should load for you under
System > Administration > Hardware Drivers

I had a quick chat on IRC #distributed and per the note under the client download we "should" be installing the CUDA library first.
That is the correct way.

But then I found this interesting trail (plus others that were similar):
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion...hp?t81442.html

So, I cheated on the libraries :P
I copied the cudaart library from the BOINC GPUGRID client into my dnetc-cuda folder

(my thinking was "Hey this is an ELF version", and this ".so" file is kind of like the ".so" files for eOn and they live in the same folder, so I'll just try that...)

cp ~/BOINC/projects/www.ps3grid.net/libcudart.so.2 ~/dnetcuda/

and it "just worked"
Awesome.
heh heh heh

I just cleared my GPUGRID cache.
I see Bender10 flying up behind me
Time to get rolling, rolling rolling, RAW HIDE!

(Just because I got away with it this time does not mean that it will work with the next version of the client. We will see what happens then)

PS - Gnome is better :P

[AMDave]

This page
http://bugs.distributed.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4030

advises (comment #5) downloading the CUDA libs from
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html#downloads

I may have to re-do.
My client won't accept OGR-NG in preferences.

[Bender10]

I can help out later today (after werk). I see AMDave has posted some good info. I also should have a procedure for adding the nVidia driver (*nix noobish here also). I am currently using 180.60 (for PS3grid).

And yes AMDave, just copying the libcuda.so(?) file to the dnetc folder worked for me also.

[Bender10]

Oh what the , i'll be lat for work today...

Try this for the driver install. I'm not sure about the "gdm" stuff, that may/may not be necessary.

Download the drivers from the NVIDIA website into a directory (for instance /tmp)


This works with my ubuntu 8.10. But i lost the page with my procedure. You may be able to skip: root login, and start/stop gdm. If the sh "driver file.run" does not work, try adding sudo before sh

1* Press ctrl-alt-F1, a text login screen will appear

* login as root (this might not be necessary in ubuntu, skip?)

2* type "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop" to stop the X server

3* change to the dir where you saved the driver file

4* type "sh NVIDIA....pkg.run" to install the driver from the directory where you had downloaded it (use name of driver file)

5* answer yes to all questions from the installer (it will want to re-compile the kernel, this is ok)

6* type "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start" to start the X Server again

Play with that

[AMDave]

Go to work.

No, Boss.
I haven't seen Bender10 on any forum this morning.
He must be delayed in traffic :D

Psst - don't forget the coffees. Mine is the Large Cap. with none, and a Flat White with *10* sugars for the boss, to sweeten the day ;)

[Bender10]

made it with time to spare (for my morning oatmeal, coffee later..)

[AMDave]

Hey, where's my coffee.
Bah.
Late order, huh. Srry.
Off to get my own.
BRB.
;)

[Bender10]

I'm running OGR-NG on 1 of my PS3 boxes. the other one is now a holiday game/movie machine.

My entrance into RC5 is actually only limping along now. I am only running it on 1 GPU (of my 9800gx2), and that is sharing cycles with PS3grid wu's. I think it's running around 100Mkeys/s. The other half is still full time PS3grid tasks.

[Bender10]

No, I'll get the coffee....may be a few minutes ....hangon...don't get your knickers in a....grumpy old sod...the things I do for a friend...must be half barmy that's me...

[AMDave]

50% of your 9800gx2 is going to take my 9600GT out to the car park and bloody its nose.

Maybe if I close my eyes and wish really hard, I will get one of those for Christmas?

Either way, I will be eating your dust in a couple of days.

Thanks for the comment on the NG.
I was wondering if your GPU client was crunching NG work but apparently not.
The info says NG support is there, but it no crunchy for me...yeti.