Hey guys long time no speak have just added my new pc the intel i7 975 extreme with the 5850 xfx blackedition gaphics card 4 solid state drives 6gbs ram 2000mhz combined with a 24in monitor this pc Is big its powerful and very very very fast. need you's to tell me something can i run climate prediction on my gpu as is supports this sort of thing and if so how so.
cheers,
Robbie
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PinkPenguin
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I am nota aware of any CPDN GPU app. ATI 5850 GPUs seems to work fine on both Collatz and MilkyWay projects if you want to try them out. Check for the right version of ATI drivers on the message boards as this is important for GPU apps. You can still run a lot CPDN on the I7 cpus cores at the same time.... 8)
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jockmacmad2
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No Climate Prediction on GPU the algorithm is not SIMD friendly I believe.
Collatz is the easy option for the 5850 as you don't need an optimised app.
I'd say get Catalyst 9.12 from th AMD site it's less than a week old but far better than 9.10 and 9.11.
If you feel brave then I'd say put the 5850 on Milkyway. You need to join the project and go to the website. On the message boards is a thread that will tell you where to get the Milkyway Optimised App for ATI (if your on Windows 7/Visa x64 it's here http://www.arkayn.us/milkyway/Win64_0.20b_ati.zip)
Get the x64_ATI version and read the instructions in the readme file in the ZIP VERY carefully :). Install it to the C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway directory and start BOINC up. That directory should already exist if BOINC has joined the project.
Collatz is the easy option for the 5850 as you don't need an optimised app.
I'd say get Catalyst 9.12 from th AMD site it's less than a week old but far better than 9.10 and 9.11.
If you feel brave then I'd say put the 5850 on Milkyway. You need to join the project and go to the website. On the message boards is a thread that will tell you where to get the Milkyway Optimised App for ATI (if your on Windows 7/Visa x64 it's here http://www.arkayn.us/milkyway/Win64_0.20b_ati.zip)
Get the x64_ATI version and read the instructions in the readme file in the ZIP VERY carefully :). Install it to the C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\milkyway.cs.rpi.edu_milkyway directory and start BOINC up. That directory should already exist if BOINC has joined the project.
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Megacruncher
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Welcome back guys! Where you been?
If CPDN ran on a GPU then we would not be languishing in 6th place in the UK!
Never mind that i7 will run 8 models simultaneously and pretty fast.
Collatz conjecture is probably the simplest as well as most profitable thing to do with your graphics card. Milkyway is something to try later I think.
If CPDN ran on a GPU then we would not be languishing in 6th place in the UK!
Never mind that i7 will run 8 models simultaneously and pretty fast.
Collatz conjecture is probably the simplest as well as most profitable thing to do with your graphics card. Milkyway is something to try later I think.
Willie the Megacruncher
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Robbie
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power bill was too big with all them pcs running so i had a cooling of period and have since went very eco friendly and now bought a pc that can do it all do you guys know how to change the disk drive of which boinc uses because i have 4 solid state hdds on raid 0 and i dont want CPDN using my writes on these SSD's the only way i know how is to reinstall boinc and i dont want to do that
cheers, Robbie
cheers, Robbie
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Megacruncher
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I fairly sure that nowadays you can reinstall Boinc & have it move all your existing boinc data to where-ever you chose to put it. [Take a backup before you try it.]do you guys know how to change the disk drive of which boinc uses because i have 4 solid state hdds on raid 0 and i dont want CPDN using my writes on these SSD's the only way i know how is to reinstall boinc and i dont want to do that
cheers, Robbie
Willie the Megacruncher
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Nightlord
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Yup. just re-run the installer package.
It should give you the option to repair and from there you should be able to change the location of the program and data files.
If it doesn't, then you can force it by rolling back to one version earlier from the boinc download location http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl (this won't hurt CPDN) which will definitely ask for confirmation of the install location. If you wanted to, you could then re-install your current boinc version over the top again.
Oh and welcome back too
It should give you the option to repair and from there you should be able to change the location of the program and data files.
If it doesn't, then you can force it by rolling back to one version earlier from the boinc download location http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl (this won't hurt CPDN) which will definitely ask for confirmation of the install location. If you wanted to, you could then re-install your current boinc version over the top again.
Oh and welcome back too