| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Completed Research
Forum: Help Conquer Cancer
Thread: Questions of HCC GPU crunching on linux: availability (and requirement) |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 6
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Firstly I would like to thank all who have made GPU crunching possible
 Now I have some questions that haven't solved by my try of googling and searching this forum... In short: My question is (i)whether a linux machine with GPU can crunch HCC WUs for GPU recently released and (ii)if it's possible, what the requirements (drivers, additional software packages and so on) are. Long description: I'm going to install Arch Linux freshly on my PCs and the news HCC GPU WUs released made me consider buying some cheap graphics cards for them. But I have found neither pages nor posts mentioning HCC GPU crunching on linux including this FAQs and forum here, so I'm anxious whether my linux rigs with GPU can crunch. Also, I've heard (I forget the source...) that to make GPGPU enabled X and proper driver (and even some runtimes) should be installed. However unlike Windows open source driver often gives greater functionality over proprietary drivers. Does anyone know what should be installed? Thanks. |
|||
|
||||
|
Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Linux and Mac versions of the app will come later. At the moment, only Windows is available for GPU computing.
---------------------------------------- - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I wonder if using WINE (else a Windows guest) under Linux would work to crunch Windows-based HCC-GPU-v6.56.
 ; |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thank you for replies!
@Falconet Oh... I hope apps for OSs other than Windows will come soon. Buying a copy of Windows doubles the cost for GPU crunching for me  @andzgrid Interesting! I've found OpenCL 1.0 libraries are supported by Wine (according to this page). However it looks like no one have tried that... hmm, needs experiment. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I wonder if using WINE (else a Windows guest) under Linux would work to crunch Windows-based HCC-GPU-v6.56. ; Windows guests have access to the GPU through the virtual driver. When boinc reads the driver for the card it will only see a VMware/Virtualbox graphics card and not get any work units. I have not tried but I think that would be real tough to get boinc to even install in wine. |
||
|
|
mmstick
Senior Cruncher Joined: Aug 19, 2010 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
It's better to just get the project running directly in Linux than use Wine and possibly run into errors. Ive used my graphics card in Linux for openCL tasks like bitmining or that german BOINC research project POEM@Home. AMD processors run better in Linux, but the problem with Linux is graphics card drivers aren't as actively developed as Windows drivers.
|
||
|
|
|