Do BOINC Seti@home Beta projects use my ATI GPU?

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mariod505 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 12 Posts: 3 Credit: 533,494 RAC: 0	Message 41703 - Posted: 22 Jan 2012, 18:52:27 UTC I see astropulse v6 applications running but they are using my CPU. Will BOINC not install/run a higher version of Astropulse? ID: 41703 ·

Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 May 06 Posts: 1037 Credit: 8,440,339 RAC: 0	Message 41704 - Posted: 22 Jan 2012, 19:06:23 UTC - in response to Message 41703. Last modified: 22 Jan 2012, 19:07:41 UTC The Stock v6 Astropulse app is only available for CPU, in Windows, Linux/x86 and Linux/x86_64 flavours: Setiathome Beta Applications Claggy ID: 41704 ·

mariod505 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 12 Posts: 3 Credit: 533,494 RAC: 0	Message 41705 - Posted: 22 Jan 2012, 22:09:09 UTC - in response to Message 41704. I still don't understand. I guess my question is, how do I get any Seti@home (beta) app to use my ATI GPU? The seti@home beta preferences ask if I want to use my GPU (v6.10+), which I have set to YES. ...but I don't control which version/app boinc uses. So why wouldn't it run the latest (v.7.x) on my Win x64/ATI GPU? Do I need to use a manual install of the app (i.e. not use BOINC)? ID: 41705 ·

Josef W. Segur Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Oct 05 Posts: 1137 Credit: 1,848,733 RAC: 0	Message 41706 - Posted: 22 Jan 2012, 23:15:06 UTC - in response to Message 41705. Last modified: 22 Jan 2012, 23:28:15 UTC I still don't understand. I guess my question is, how do I get any Seti@home (beta) app to use my ATI GPU? The seti@home beta preferences ask if I want to use my GPU (v6.10+), which I have set to YES. ...but I don't control which version/app boinc uses. So why wouldn't it run the latest (v.7.x) on my Win x64/ATI GPU? Do I need to use a manual install of the app (i.e. not use BOINC)? The only application this project has for an ATI GPU is for Astropulse, not Astropulse v6. If the project made a mistake and split some work for that older application, BOINC would then deliver both work and application to your systems. There are third-party ATI OpenCL applications being tested here for SETI@home v7 work, and the project has just split nearly 190000 suitable tasks. See the MultiBeam V7 for CPU and ATi GPUs, rev390 thread. Joe ID: 41706 ·

mariod505 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 12 Posts: 3 Credit: 533,494 RAC: 0	Message 41707 - Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 0:36:27 UTC - in response to Message 41706. hmm... So BOINC should be downloading a newer version of the astropulse applicaiton? This is what I'm getting now: http://i.imgur.com/3cpEG.png Looks like seti@home is sending me (for astropulse) v505 units, and the beta is sending me v6 units. ID: 41707 ·

Josef W. Segur Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Oct 05 Posts: 1137 Credit: 1,848,733 RAC: 0	Message 41708 - Posted: 23 Jan 2012, 5:26:19 UTC - in response to Message 41707. hmm... So BOINC should be downloading a newer version of the astropulse applicaiton? This is what I'm getting now: http://i.imgur.com/3cpEG.png Looks like seti@home is sending me (for astropulse) v505 units, and the beta is sending me v6 units. Yes, if/when either project has applications for your ATI cards suitable for the current tasks, BOINC will automatically download the needed files. Joe ID: 41708 ·

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