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Message 5867 - Posted: 25 Jun 2018, 2:28:38 UTC

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Hi folks, I am trying to get my MBP to crunch GPU tasks. Boinc Event Viewer sees the GPU but no tasks are run:

Sun Jun 24 22:09:55 2018 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 650M (driver version 10.30.33 355.11.10.10.35.101, device version OpenCL 1.2, 1024MB, 1024MB available, 156 GFLOPS peak)

However it also sees the built in Intel GPU and lists them both as "GPU 0" so maybe this is the problem?

Sun Jun 24 22:09:55 2018 | | OpenCL: Intel GPU 0: HD Graphics 4000 (driver version 1.2(May 8 2018 16:00:00), device version OpenCL 1.2, 1536MB, 1536MB available, 154 GFLOPS peak)

I suspect I'll need to set something in app_config.xml ??

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Message 5868 - Posted: 25 Jun 2018, 2:37:12 UTC
Other notes, I am running latest OS update "High Sierra 10.13.5" and have toggled "Automatic Graphics Switching" both on and off to force it to use the dedicated GPU, with no change in BOINC (no GPU task is downloaded/ran).

I suspect it will need to be done with the app_config.xml I just do not know the proper syntax
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Message 5880 - Posted: 7 Jul 2018, 19:13:04 UTC
Any suggestions on how to utilize the Nvidia GPU?

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Message 5911 - Posted: 10 Jul 2018, 22:55:50 UTC
I have added this and relaunched the client, it still will not download Nvidia WU.

/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/cc_config.xml

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

Tue Jul 10 18:36:48 2018 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 650M (driver version 10.30.33 355.11.10.10.35.101, device version OpenCL 1.2, 1024MB, 1024MB available, 156 GFLOPS peak)
Tue Jul 10 18:36:49 2018 | | Config: use all coprocessors

Tue Jul 10 18:45:00 2018 | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
Tue Jul 10 18:45:05 2018 | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks


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Message 5912 - Posted: 11 Jul 2018, 6:39:14 UTC
Hi, sorry, there is no GPU app for MacOS at present. There is only CUDA app for linux and Windows now.
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Message 5913 - Posted: 11 Jul 2018, 10:58:16 UTC - in response to Message 5912.  
Ahh I see. Well that explains it! Thanks Kyong.
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