The Scottish Boinc Team

I have an Intel HD IGPU on an MSI motherboard and a GeForce GTX 460 in the PCIe slot. The 460 GPU is running fine. I can't figure out (or if it's possible) to also get BOINC to use the IGPU. The IGPU is enabled in the BIOS. I can connect the DVI cable to that port and I get a plain desktop without a taskbar so it looks like Windows can see the IGPU. It shows up fine in the device manager too. IGPU was given 256MB of memory. I've connected a VGA dongle to the IGPU VGA port. I've put the cc_config.xml in the boinc folder along with the other xml files, restarted, re-booted, but BOINC doesn't seem to see or use the IGPU. Should it work? If so, any ideas about what I don't have set correctly?

Here's the stdoutdae.txt entries...
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.2.39 for windows_x86_64
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Running under account owner
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 332.21, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 824MB available, 907 GFLOPS peak)
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 332.21, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB, 824MB available, 907 GFLOPS peak)
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Host name: rigby
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3240 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Memory: 7.71 GB physical, 15.41 GB virtual
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Disk: 931.51 GB total, 734.15 GB free
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Config: use all coprocessors
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] 192.168.1.160
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [Einstein@Home] URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 10313800; resource share 100
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [Milkyway@Home] URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 560853; resource share 100
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7205315; resource share 100
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [Cosmology@Home] URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 206809; resource share 100
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 08-Feb-2014 07:26:05)
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Host location: none
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] General prefs: using your defaults
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Reading preferences override file
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Preferences:
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] max memory usage when active: 3946.69MB
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] max memory usage when idle: 7498.71MB
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] max disk usage: 5.00GB
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] don't compute while active
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 50%
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
17-Feb-2014 17:52:45 [---] Not using a proxy
17-Feb-2014 17:52:46 Initialization completed

ask and you shall receive......
link is here http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... =26&t=1938, next topic up from this post

From what you have posted Boinc does not see your intel. Your i3-3240 CPU should have an HD2500 in it. This only works with an HD 2500 or HD 4000 so you should be good. Follow my post above as the standard intel drivers are crap, this will make it run far better.

I suspect the problem is that you do not have use all gpu's enabled in the boinc config. ?
to do this see this post http://www.dunadd.co.uk/seti/forum/view ... =26&t=1944
Basically
To run multiple cards in boinc......

Go to c:/program data /boinc in windows explorer.
look for a file called cc_config.xml
if it's there open it with notepad. If it's not then create one with notepad.

the contents of the file should be this ( make sure the syntax is exact )

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

save this ( note save ,not save as ) the file must be called cc_config.xml but it's not a true .xml file. don't use explorer or double click to open.
After that restart boinc. You should now have 2 or more! gpu's crunching away like eager beavers. They should also both be reported in the boinc event log.

Thanks for the help Alez.

Got it working. I had the cc_config.xml setup ok. What I hadn't done was install the latest Intel drivers.

Here's the log (for the benefit of others to verify all GPUs are being seen and used by BOINC)

18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.2.39 for windows_x86_64
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Running under account owner
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 332.21, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 944MB available, 907 GFLOPS peak)
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 332.21, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB, 944MB available, 907 GFLOPS peak)
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] OpenCL: Intel GPU 0: Intel(R) HD Graphics 2500 (driver version 10.18.10.3345, device version OpenCL 1.2, 1496MB, 1496MB available, 17 GFLOPS peak)
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] OpenCL CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3240 CPU @ 3.40GHz (OpenCL driver vendor: Intel(R) Corporation, driver version 3.0.1.10878, device version OpenCL 1.2 (Build 76413))
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Host name: rigby
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3240 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Memory: 7.71 GB physical, 15.41 GB virtual
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Disk: 931.51 GB total, 742.32 GB free
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Local time is UTC -5 hours
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Config: use all coprocessors
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] 192.168.1.160
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [Einstein@Home] URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 10313800; resource share 100
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [Milkyway@Home] URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 560853; resource share 100
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [SETI@home] URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7205315; resource share 100
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [Cosmology@Home] URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 206809; resource share 100
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 08-Feb-2014 07:26:05)
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Host location: none
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] General prefs: using your defaults
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Reading preferences override file
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Preferences:
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] max memory usage when active: 3946.69MB
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] max memory usage when idle: 7498.71MB
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] max disk usage: 5.00GB
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 50%
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
18-Feb-2014 06:28:12 [---] Not using a proxy
18-Feb-2014 06:28:18 Initialization completed

Your welcome, glad it's crunching away for you.

The logs says I'm getting 17 GFLOPS from this GPU. Is that a typical value for this GPU or do I need to update something?

Yes, thats typical. The iGPU is not very powerful at all, but it is still more powerful than the cpu ! I run my HD4000 mainly on Einstein as it's still less powerful than my GT610 nVidia. Although it can do Collatz etc, I basically found Einstein to be it's best use or Seti .

Crickey, 17 GFlops....I'll post the start of my Ubuntu Box's BOINCManager for ye....

za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.28 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | Libraries: libcurl/7.32.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6520G/6530D/6550D/6620G (SuperSumo) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 2048MB, 1812MB available, 1096 GFLOPS peak)
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | CAL: ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 2048MB, 2026MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | CAL: ATI GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 1024MB, 1002MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6520G/6530D/6550D/6620G (SuperSumo) (driver version 1214.3, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1214.3), 2048MB, 1812MB available, 1096 GFLOPS peak)
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version 1214.3, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1214.3), 2048MB, 2026MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version 1214.3, device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1214.3), 1024MB, 1002MB available, 1315 GFLOPS peak)
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | OpenCL CPU: AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1214.3 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1214.3))
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | Host name: ASUS-F1A75V-EVO
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics [Family 18 Model 1 Stepping 0]
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt arat hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter
za 01 mrt 2014 12:03:50 CET | | OS: Linux: 3.11.0-17-generic

That's 1096 GFLOPS peak for the Llano FM1 AMD IGP.....

but remember it's 17 Gflops powered by Intel's marketing department so they must be very good Gflops
AMD's APU's definitely seem the way forward

I can use the IGP in my A8-3870K, A8-3820 and A10-5700 roughly like a HD 6570-HD 6670.
The IGP of the A10-5700 even has double precision and can crunch MilkyWay.....