I sure its a huge pain in the ass, but if you develop any AMD GPU WU, I'd be happy to help. =)

Hi Weber462,

Developing of an OpenCL application for the project was started some time ago. I hope too that we will have at least some Alpha version soon. But for now it is going slow.

Cheers,
Georgi

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Awesome! Thanks for the reply!

Any updates? no rush, just wondering. I apparently messed up on many levels by purchasing a 7900xtx lol.

Any updates? no rush, just wondering. I apparently messed up on many levels by purchasing a 7900xtx lol.

I made the same mistake few years ago, bought a 5500XT, it did work with BOINC for some time, but then I don't know what happened, something got updated, and I could not make it work with any BOINC project no matter what I did with the drivers. Eventually i Just gave up, sold it and moved to a 2060.

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At least right now AMD cards work fine with PrimeGrid, Amicable Numbers and Einstein projects. Einstein is especially the best for AMD performance-wise.

agreed. I have 5 AMD cards on einstein right now. I had milkyway as my "backup". But now that milkyway pulled GPU WU, i wanted to use asteroids. Im not into math projects.

Alpha version of the OpenCL app for AMD GPUs is on its way to be released.

We'll appreciate any feedback that will help us to try to polish rough edges of the code!

Cheers!

Georgi

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Alpha version of the OpenCL app for AMD GPUs is on its way to be released.

We'll appreciate any feedback that will help us to try to polish rough edges of the code!

Cheers!

Georgi

Got some. Very slow compared to the CPU. Utilisation shows 100%, but the temperature is low so it's not thinking hard. Tried two at a time, no difference. Stopped all CPU apps incase it was throttling it, still slow. CPU usage is minimal from the task.

1 hour on a Fury (8000Gflops card) compared to 24 of 1 hour on a Ryzen 9 3900XT. So 24 times slower!

I'm assuming there's the same work to be done inside each task, or are the GPU tasks larger? Boinc claims they're the same.

Tahiti cards (older, 4000Gflops) were refused work.

Well, Mr P Hucker,
Can you leave those machines of yours with AMD GPUs to do some more work, so we could gather more logs?
If you want to help of course. Something like for a day will be enough.

Same for others.
Guys,
Any feedback is welcome.
I saw already that the app is running slow, with very small Grid dim. That was intended.

Thanks,
Georgi

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Dear all,

GPU tasks fail on my AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX with the following error message:

<core_client_version>7.20.5</core_client_version>
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<message>
process exited with code 1 (0x1, -255)</message>
<stderr_txt>
../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10215_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_102_amd: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by ../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10215_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_102_amd)
../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10215_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_102_amd: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.36' not found (required by ../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10215_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_102_amd)
../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10215_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_102_amd: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by ../../projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10215_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_102_amd)

</stderr_txt>
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Example: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=402590435

Looks like my glibc version is too old (2.35). I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Best regards,

Samuel

Hi Samuel,

Thank you for your feedback!

Your GLIBC version is a bit older indeed

 glibc-2.35.tar.gz   2022-02-03 01:35

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You may want to upgrade all of your packages by running:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Keep me posted,
Georgi

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Ditto with AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (8176MB) OpenCL: 2.0
on Linux Mint 21.1 [5.15.0-83-generic|libc 2.35]
https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=402589928

and with

AMD Radeon RX 6800 (16368MB) OpenCL: 2.0
on Linux Mint 20.3 [5.15.0-83-generic|libc 2.31]
https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=400213012

and with

AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (4096MB) OpenCL: 2.0
on Linux Mint 21.1 [5.15.0-83-generic|libc 2.35]
https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/result.php?resultid=400226936

Well, Mr P Hucker,

Hello :-)

Can you leave those machines of yours with AMD GPUs to do some more work, so we could gather more logs?
If you want to help of course. Something like for a day will be enough.

I always want to help, that's why I'm on Boinc.

However I only have one card (R9 Nano (Fury chip)) which can do it, initially your server wouldn't give me a task for the older R9 280X (Tahiti chip) cards, possibly because they have an older OpenCL version, although I see overnight some were issued which gave a computation error in 1 second.

Any feedback is welcome.
I saw already that the app is running slow, with very small Grid dim. That was intended.

So I can look forward to a speed increase? :-)

BTW, I just aborted one which had run several hours overnight and made no progress, and I see the 4GB VRAM was maxed out on the GPU. It's a reliable card, and I wasn't using the machine at the time, not sure why that one was different.

Hi Samuel,

Thank you for your feedback!

Your GLIBC version is a bit older indeed

 glibc-2.35.tar.gz   2022-02-03 01:35

.
You may want to upgrade all of your packages by running:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Not sure if I can do the same, I'm in Windows and my card is out of support. Last Radeon driver was released June last year (and is actually designed for Windows 10, I'm on Windows 11). Or is there some other update I can put in?

Georgi,

what environment did you build the Linux apps from? GLIBC is a base package that's not easy to upgrade and well integrated to the OS. doing apt update and apt upgrade will not change this package. only a full OS upgrade will change it. having a 2.38 dependency is very bleeding edge, and that's not even available in Ubuntu yet. the latest release (23.04) is still on 2.37, and 2.38 is still in active development for their upcoming 23.10 release.

since 22.04 is still the primary LTS version, i think it would make sense if you use an older build environment (recommend something older like ubuntu 20.04 era with older GLIBC) to avoid these compatibility issues. otherwise people on linux will only be able to run the apps with the very latest OS, which not everyone wants to do.

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otherwise people on linux will only be able to run the apps with the very latest OS, which not everyone wants to do.

For what reason would you not keep your OS up to date?

otherwise people on linux will only be able to run the apps with the very latest OS, which not everyone wants to do.

For what reason would you not keep your OS up to date?

it's not about being up to date. as it stands, the Linux app requires many to run an OS build that's essentially beta and bleeding edge. this can be less stable than something like an LTS release with slightly older and more vetted software packages.

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One task (0.1 CPUs + 1AMD/API GPU) ps_230904 input 14465_117_2 is stuck.
Currently shows 0:46:20 elapsed, 06:18:12 remaining, but only 0.010% progress, with no progress being made since starting yesterday.

Six other Asteroids tasks plus two Universe and one WCG task also running.

This computer
AuthenticAMD
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics [Family 25 Model 80 Stepping 0]
(16 processors) AMD AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (6227MB) OpenCL: 2.0 Microsoft Windows 11
Core x64 Edition, (10.00.22621.00)

Steven Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

I get those, they either work and complete in an hour on an 8000Gflop GPU, with linear progress on the Boinc counter, or they stick at 0.01% forever and eventually consume all the GPU's VRAM. On mine, they start moving from 0.01% in 3 minutes. If they haven't, they're never going to. I think I've had 10 work ok and 3 break.

It seems not all tasks are the same.