Folding@Home using GPU with Nvidia

[DJViking]

I have installed Folding@Home with FAHClient, FAHControl and FAHViewer. The folding works with CPU, but I am having trouble folding with GPU. The installed nvidia driver is 361.48 from nvidia opensuse leap repository.

Someone on Folding@Home forum mentioned that I perhaps was missing OpenCL, but I have installed nvidia-computeG04 which contains OpenCL. I could install libOpenCL, but that conflicts with nvidia-computeG04.

File /usr/lib64/libOpenCL.so.1.0.0
  from install of
     libOpenCL1-2.2.7-1.1.x86_64 (openSUSE-leap/42.1-Oss)
  conflicts with file from package
     nvidia-computeG04-361.42-21.1.x86_64 (@System)

I tried to install libOpenCL in spite of the conflict and still folding would not work using GPU.

Has anyone gotten folding to work using GPU on OpenSUSE?

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.p...285006#p285006

The Log from FAHControl

13:03:12:WU00:FS00:Assigned to work server 140.163.4.235
13:03:12:WU00:FS00:Requesting new work unit for slot 00: READY gpu:0:GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti] from 140.163.4.235
13:03:12:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 140.163.4.235:8080
13:03:12:WU00:FS00:Downloading 3.78MiB
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:Download complete
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:Received Unit: id:00 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:10485 run:0 clone:53 gen:264 core:0x18 unit:0x0000014f538b3dbb54aeb39d80684dce
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:Starting
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:Running FahCore: /usr/bin/FAHCoreWrapper /var/lib/fahclient/cores/web.stanford.edu/~pande/Linux/AMD64/NVIDIA/Fermi/Core_18.fah/FahCore_18 -dir 00 -suffix 01 -version 704 -lifeline 6462 -checkpoint 15 -gpu 0 -gpu-vendor nvidia
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:Started FahCore on PID 6510
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:Core PID:6514
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:FahCore 0x18 started
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:0x18:*********************** Log Started 2016-04-19T13:03:16Z ***********************
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:0x18:Project: 10485 (Run 0, Clone 53, Gen 264)
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:0x18:Unit: 0x0000014f538b3dbb54aeb39d80684dce
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:0x18:CPU: 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:0x18:Machine: 0
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:0x18:Reading tar file state.xml
13:03:16:WU00:FS00:0x18:Reading tar file system.xml
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Reading tar file integrator.xml
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Reading tar file core.xml
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Digital signatures verified
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Folding@home GPU core18
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Version 0.0.4
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:ERROR:exception: Bad platformId size.
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Saving result file logfile_01.txt
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Saving result file log.txt
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:0x18:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT
13:03:17:WARNING:WU00:FS00:FahCore returned: BAD_WORK_UNIT (114 = 0x72)
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND error:FAULTY project:10485 run:0 clone:53 gen:264 core:0x18 unit:0x0000014f538b3dbb54aeb39d80684dce
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:Uploading 1.92KiB to 140.163.4.235
13:03:17:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 140.163.4.235:8080
13:03:17:WU01:FS00:Connecting to 171.67.108.45:80
13:03:18:WU00:FS00:Upload complete
13:03:18:WU00:FS00:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)
13:03:18:WU00:FS00:Cleaning up

[gogalthorp]

I believe that openCL requires the NVIDIA cuda driver in addition to the screen diver

[DJViking]

The package nvidia-computeG04 gives both Cuda and OpenCL.

Information for package nvidia-computeG04:
------------------------------------------
Repository: Nvidia
Name: nvidia-computeG04
Version: 361.42-21.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: obs://build.suse.de/home:sndirsch:drivers
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 51.3 MiB
Summary: NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU
Description:  
  NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPUs using CUDA or OpenCL

[malcolmlewis]

Hi
I run seti@home on occasions, site is down for maintenance so can't login... anyway with just the 340.96 driver and an 8800GT Card I see using the BOINC client;

....
19-Apr-2016 14:25:19 [---] CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8800 GT (driver version unknown, CUDA version 6.5, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 200MB available, 504 GFLOPS peak)
19-Apr-2016 14:25:19 [---] OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 340.96, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 512MB, 200MB available, 504 GFLOPS peak)
19-Apr-2016 14:25:19 [---] Creating new client state file
19-Apr-2016 14:25:19 [---] Host name: big-bird.homelinux.org
19-Apr-2016 14:25:19 [---] Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 635 Processor [Family 16 Model 5 Stepping 3]
....

Sure you need the compute one....? I only use the run file to install the driver (I find it way easier..)

[DJViking]

I can't remove nvidia-computeG04 it would then also remove the x11-video-nvidia package.

The following 2 packages are going to be REMOVED:
  nvidia-computeG04 x11-video-nvidiaG04

[gogalthorp]

You need all the GO4 packages

[DJViking]

I have installed all the Nvidia G04 packages
nvidia-computeG04
nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default
nvidia-glG04
x11-video-nvidiaG04

[gogalthorp]

And you can't remove one only since they are dependent

Still think you may need cuda. But the fold docs should tell you for sure what you need

[DJViking]

I have CUDA. The package nvidia-computeG04 contains both OpenCL and CUDA.

[gogalthorp]

That may not be sufficient for ALL programs