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by Stonecold
Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:42 am
Forum: New GPUs (whitelist)
Topic: Nvidia Driver Tuned for Running Folding@Home?
Replies: 22
Views: 15979

Re: Nvidia Driver Tuned for Running Folding@Home?

well, that all goes to the difference between consumer and professional cards. Both AMD, and Nvidia make professional cards that have the exact(except in many cases not crippled)GPU that goes into consumer cards. Often the difference between these $4000 professional grade cards and the $500-$1000 c...
by Stonecold
Sat Jul 20, 2013 2:23 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: what other programs can run on my computer like folding home
Replies: 8
Views: 1687

Re: what other programs can run on my computer like folding

There are many other projects out there. As Bruce pointed out, many of them are distributed computing projects, which use the idle processing power of your CPU (and/or GPU) to tackle large problems of interest. I would not recommend running two of these at the same time, although I will note that i...
by Stonecold
Sat Jul 20, 2013 1:10 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: windows 7 vs Linux performance
Replies: 13
Views: 6060

Re: windows 7 vs Linux performance

Much has changed since I did my testing. SMP, GPUs, etc. SMP optimizations are clearly better in linux at this time. That wasn't always the case though. The performance pendulum swings back and forth, and the operating system has one of the least impacts on folding performance as compared to so man...
by Stonecold
Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:31 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: windows 7 vs Linux performance
Replies: 13
Views: 6060

Re: windows 7 vs Linux performance

Windows bloat is a Linux fanboy myth. In the past, when Windows and Linux used the exact same fahcores, their performance was exactly the same on the same projects. Since then, the Linux fahcores have slightly better SMP optimizations, so they run faster, NOT because Windows is bloated. The kernel ...
by Stonecold
Fri Jul 19, 2013 5:26 am
Forum: Scientific discussions (Non-FAH)
Topic: University computers under cyber attack. [URL]
Replies: 13
Views: 5229

Re: University computers under cyber attack. [URL]

Even for me as private user with a fixed IP address I get quite a number of "trials" into my system. Good to have a logging firewall. When I'm board I check with whois; and yes: lots of China, Romania and US (!) ...not only universities; just every IP address. There's a difference between...
by Stonecold
Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:00 am
Forum: Problems with NVidia drivers
Topic: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.
Replies: 19
Views: 8142

Re: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.

From what I'm reading online, it seems like Bumblebee does allow CUDA and OpenCL by passing the --no-xorg option to optirun.
by Stonecold
Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:58 am
Forum: The Science of FAH -- questions/answers
Topic: Future of F@H: folding speed and protein size
Replies: 23
Views: 13340

Re: Future of F@H: folding speed and protein size

Computing can be fast, but majority of time is being wasted by sending bits between various chips within the system and outside of it. More improvements are needed for interconnections. Maybe it will prove fruitful: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/intel-labs-optical-interconnect-in-...
by Stonecold
Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:13 am
Forum: Problems with NVidia drivers
Topic: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.
Replies: 19
Views: 8142

Re: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.

I tried compiling LuxMark (it looks like only the source code is available) but it gave an error about OpenCL not being installed. I had thought I had it but maybe not. When I tried to install CUDA (is that's what required to get OpenCL to work?) it gave an error. The install log says: Using more to...
by Stonecold
Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:57 am
Forum: Problems with NVidia drivers
Topic: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.
Replies: 19
Views: 8142

Re: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.

I don't think there's an intermediate visualization step. I know OpenGL is helpful. I was just trying to show that, to the application, it's entirely transparent. After all Bumblebee does is start up the GPU, put it on display :8, and starts the application while making the GPU available. An applica...
by Stonecold
Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:35 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: windows 7 vs Linux performance
Replies: 13
Views: 6060

Re: windows 7 vs Linux performance

Linux tends to run things faster in general, one reason being it has less load from bloatware, a faster kernel, etc. I don't know if this would effect the GPU though.
by Stonecold
Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:29 am
Forum: Scientific discussions (Non-FAH)
Topic: University computers under cyber attack. [URL]
Replies: 13
Views: 5229

Re: University computers under cyber attack. [URL]

Old news? The article is from the 16th, one day ago... Or do you mean China's attacks in general?
by Stonecold
Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:13 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: New web site
Replies: 119
Views: 71737

Re: Community support page notation

:?: "We are scientists. Citizens. Gamers. Thinkers. Mothers. Brothers. Friends. Family." No fathers? :?: John It's political correctness, you can't fight it... No, it's not PC! And it's already changed twice since this was first posted, so you're way off base. Ah, you're right. I didn't s...
by Stonecold
Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:39 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: New web site
Replies: 119
Views: 71737

Re: Community support page notation

JCM3500 wrote::?: "We are scientists. Citizens. Gamers. Thinkers. Mothers. Brothers. Friends. Family."

No fathers? :?:

John
It's political correctness, you can't fight it...

EDIT: nvm didn't re-read the page.
by Stonecold
Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:00 pm
Forum: Problems with NVidia drivers
Topic: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.
Replies: 19
Views: 8142

Re: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.

Bumblebee is a program which allows me to use a discrete GPU on only certain applications. Because Nvidia optimus does not work well on laptops running Linux, I'm either stuck with my low-power, weak, integrated Intel GPU, or stuck with my over-powered, battery-devouring discrete Nvidia GPU. But wit...
by Stonecold
Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:29 am
Forum: Problems with NVidia drivers
Topic: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.
Replies: 19
Views: 8142

Re: ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.

I have already installed nvidia-current. Also it is not being used as my default driver, the Intel graphics driver is (which is why I have to use Bumblebee's optirun).

I can install the proprietary drivers but cannot use them by default, only through Bumblebee.