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Bob Cain
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Any direction to support GPU for processing tasks? I am planning my 2012 computer upgrade and would be willing to run a computer with dual high performance GPUs to support computations. But not sure if your going to support it.

I did a search for "GPU" and din't see anything. Let me know.

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No GPU client available, and, as I understand it, this is unlikely to be programmed.
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See previous discusion https://malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=1202#16079 and the many others.

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Since malariacontrol.net doesn't use GPUs, could the server code be tweaked/updated, so newer BOINC clients aren't always asking for GPU work like this:

01/09/2012 10:14:13 | malariacontrol.net | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
01/09/2012 10:14:13 | malariacontrol.net | Requesting new tasks for ATI
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work sent
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for malariacontrol.net
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for openMalaria test version
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h)
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for openMalaria: A simulator of malaria epidemology and control (Branch B)


Some of the projects I run have on the "proprieties of Projects" in the BOINC client, "Project have no apps for ATI GPU", and these don't ask for work for the GPU.
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Since malariacontrol.net doesn't use GPUs, could the server code be tweaked/updated, so newer BOINC clients aren't always asking for GPU work like this:

01/09/2012 10:14:13 | malariacontrol.net | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
01/09/2012 10:14:13 | malariacontrol.net | Requesting new tasks for ATI
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work sent
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for malariacontrol.net
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for openMalaria test version
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h)
01/09/2012 10:14:15 | malariacontrol.net | No work is available for openMalaria: A simulator of malaria epidemology and control (Branch B)


Some of the projects I run have on the "proprieties of Projects" in the BOINC client, "Project have no apps for ATI GPU", and these don't ask for work for the GPU.


If you don't manually update Boinc the note about ATI or Nvidia work WILL stop after a week or so, but it WILL also come back periodically. It is a Boinc software thing not on the Server side.

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But some of the projects signal that they don't have GPU units, and it appears on the project properties of the BOINC client as "Project have no apps for ATI GPU". So it must be a server/application configuration set by the project.
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But some of the projects signal that they don't have GPU units, and it appears on the project properties of the BOINC client as "Project have no apps for ATI GPU". So it must be a server/application configuration set by the project.


I have never seen that so I guess it is a Server thing now too. Thanks I learned something today!

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