This is good instruction when translated to English. Works well

Hello: Just to mention that following the steps in this thread I mentioned, installing BOINC is as follows:

CUDA and OpenCL in GPUs and OpenCL in CPUs.

Unfortunately my GTX 770 is under repair.

My event log BOINC 7.4.12
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lun 18 ago 2014 12:22:17 CEST | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0 (ignored by config): GeForce GT 640 (driver version 340.32, CUDA version 6.5, compute capability 3.0, 2048MB, 2024MB available, 692 GFLOPS peak)

lun 18 ago 2014 12:22:17 CEST | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0 (ignored by config): GeForce GT 640 (driver version 340.32, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 2048MB, 2024MB available, 692 GFLOPS peak)

lun 18 ago 2014 12:22:17 CEST | | OpenCL CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1411.4 (sse2,avx,fma4), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1411.4))
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Anyone:

Is there a definitive, step-by-step 'GPU on Linux Mint' guide for idiots like me, who just want to crunch to help cure cancer, not become computer programmers?

I see many forums, but they are full of folks asking questions or posting possible answers.

Instead, I am looking for an official, sanctioned, dedicated web page with absolute, straightforward, step-by-step instructions (with screen caps), to get my GPU to be recognized by BOINC on Linux Mint.

Does such a thing exist here at GPUGrid?

Thanks

As some know, I am stuck as well with Linux Mint 17 (on a USB-Stick), BOINC and “No usable GPUs found”.

So if somebody might help Peter over this forum, he makes me happy as well.

Over in PrimeGrid I found a user, who seems to run happily several NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 in Linux Mint, as he is member of “Linux Mint”-team, but he has not responded to my PM yet. The good thing Peter, it seems to be possible, but we (GPUGRID users) have not solved the puzzle quite yet.

As some know, I am stuck as well with Linux Mint 17 (on a USB-Stick), BOINC and “No usable GPUs found”.

So if somebody might help Peter over this forum, he makes me happy as well.

Over in PrimeGrid I found a user, who seems to run happily several NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 in Linux Mint, as he is member of “Linux Mint”-team, but he has not responded to my PM yet. The good thing Peter, it seems to be possible, but we (GPUGRID users) have not solved the puzzle quite yet.

Hello: In this thread, more INTO THE BOTTOM, (in Spanish) is like the Nvidia driver must be installed for Ubuntu 14.04 recognizes the GPUs you install and also have dataO OpenCL GPU and CPU (but the latter must take a few steps more).

The NVIDIA driver you have to install it in Ubuntu 14.04 MANUAL to see BOINC Team GPUs and I guess for the other SO well be related to Ubuntu.

It's not complicated, you just have to be clear about the next steps.

I can put an automatic translation from Spanish to English (Google) as I do in this message may be easier to understand. Greetings.

Carlesa, I have tried your instructions, but it did not work for me. I will PM you so I will be able to write in Spanisch. If we get it working I will post here.

Carlesa, I have tried your instructions, but it did not work for me. I will PM you so I will be able to write in Spanisch. If we get it working I will post here.

Hi, I have sent a private message, I hope will be useful. Greetings.

331.38 drivers have OpenCL support. Just install the nvidia-opencl-icd packages from repo. If Boinc can't detect OpenCL support, do a file search for a file named nvidia.icd. When you found the file, copy it to /etc/OpenCL/vendors/ then restart Boinc.
This solved my OpenCL problem, which I couldn't run any OpenCL projects for months with 331.38 drivers.
In fact after installing my Kubuntu, OpenCL was working. But after trying newer series of drivers which Boinc can't detect the CUDA support, OpenCL was gone too...

GPUGrid wants drivers with CUDA6 capability. However, all drivers beyond 331.38 on this Ubuntu 14.04 Linux machine do not allow BOINC to see the GPU (Missing GPU in BOINC). And 331.38 does not give OpenCL, ....

Hi ! I am experiencing quite the dame problem.

The context : Running Lubuntu 14.04 uptodate, Boinc 7.4.22 and NVidia proprietary drivers 331.38 on 2 x GTX690 , I allways install from Synaptic : yjis works fine but crunching CUDA42 WUs only.
Since a long time I added a "sleep 15" delay in the boinc-client script and this solved the "Missing GPU" problem every time.

As soon as I try to update NVidia drivers above 331.38 , whatever Boinc version, I get the "Missing GPU" , including the latest 340.46 from Xedgers repository.
NVidia X server settings correctly displays my 4 GK104 GPUs

What I want is to replace one of my GTX690 with a GTX Titan Black, do I need to update the drivers
Note that I never couls install a driver from NVidia site using thier script.

So is there a combination of Boinc/NVidia that allows me to run a GTX Titan black in ùy context ?

Journal follows
Thanks for your time...

jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.4.22 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.35.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1f zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | No usable GPUs found
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | app version refers to missing GPU type NVIDIA
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | app version refers to missing GPU type NVIDIA
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | app version refers to missing GPU type NVIDIA
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | app version refers to missing GPU type NVIDIA
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | app version refers to missing GPU type NVIDIA
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | app version refers to missing GPU type NVIDIA
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | app version refers to missing GPU type NVIDIA
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Application uses missing NVIDIA GPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Host name: odysseusV
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Processor: 12 AuthenticAMD AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6348 [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | 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 constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid amd_dcm aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb arat cpb hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold bmi1
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | OS: Linux: 3.13.0-36-generic
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Memory: 31.40 GB physical, 47.68 GB virtual
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Disk: 203.13 GB total, 167.56 GB free
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Local time is UTC +2 hours
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Config: report completed tasks immediately
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Config: use all coprocessors
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 2457632; resource share 100
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | URL http://www.gpugrid.net/; Computer ID 157053; resource share 100
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | General prefs: from GPUGRID (last modified 19-Sep-2013 00:21:43)
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Computer location: home
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | General prefs: using separate prefs for home
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Reading preferences override file
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Preferences:
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | max memory usage when active: 24118.35MB
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | max memory usage when idle: 24118.35MB
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | max disk usage: 4.00GB
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | max CPUs used: 11
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | gui_rpc_auth.cfg is empty - no GUI RPC password protection
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Not using a proxy
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:49:29 CEST |  | Suspending computation - initial delay
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:50:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:50:29 CEST | GPUGRID | Requesting new tasks for CPU
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:50:31 CEST | GPUGRID | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:50:31 CEST | GPUGRID | No tasks sent
jeu. 09 oct. 2014 19:50:31 CEST | GPUGRID | No tasks are available for Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card)

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Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64

As soon as I try to update NVidia drivers above 331.38 , whatever Boinc version, I get the "Missing GPU" , including the latest 340.46 from Xedgers repository.
NVidia X server settings correctly displays my 4 GK104 GPUs

Hello jlhal: In this thread already mentioned the problem.

ALL Nvidia drivers above 331.38 BOINC does not detect the GPUs, is a problem that currently has no solution through normal channels, ie installing from Ubuntu repositories.

The only way to find the GPUs BOINC is to install the NVIDIA driver manually also as I mentioned, it's really just following the instructions I detailed.

Anyway it seems that a colleague has had problems with this way of installation ... my experience is a perfect performance but must be monitored very logical responses during manual driver installation.

I have installed the latest Nvidia driver, 340.46 now it's no problem (I've updated a lot of times) and I have BOINC running perfectly with my GTX770. Greetings.


NOTE: There is one last update to Nvidia 331,104 diver I had to uninstall as it gave me problems, if not installed from repositories solve the problem in BOINC GPU not detected ... I have to try it.

jlhal,

Here are some instructions written in English that show how to manually install the NVIDIA drivers in Ubuntu. It includes a section on how to stop the nouveau drivers.

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3713&nowrap=true#36671

If you scroll down a few posts, there are some additional comments from skgiven that help clarify.

I am currently running 343.22 and they seem to be working fine.

Hope that helps.

Thanks everybody !

Will try (again) to manually install the latest from Nvidia website, following the instructions.. and reinstalling boinc afterwards.

I'll keep you in touch ;-)

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Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64

AFter following instructions my 2 gtx 690 are now crunching CUDA60 with Nvidia manually installed drivers and boinc 7.4.22

In a while I'll replace one of the gtx690 with a Gigabyte Titan Black Ghz Edition (Windforce 600) and I"ll keep you in touch ;-)

Regards

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Lubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x64