Folding Forum

Note; old information at https://web.archive.org/web/20131022203 ... tOfGPUsTxt (information which would not make explicit e.g. my 5770 not being supported due to no DP whereas a 5830+ is, so how relevant that information still is remains to be seen...)

Yes. Judging by awarded credits, GPUs capable of double precision OpenCL seem to be about 10 to 40 times as efficient at folding as the CPU is.

Please see if this recent thread helps: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=33419 EDIT: Oh, and focussing on the headless bit more, Jesse_V's advise should be directly applicable and my follow-up you can then in fact do via the FAHControl interface, but it's also no more involved than additionally adding e.g. ...

.... but also see viewtopic.php?f=18&t=33072&start=15#p319257

12:39:06: GPUs: 2 12:39:06: GPU 0: Bus:7 Slot:0 Func:0 AMD:4 Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series] 12:39:06: GPU 1: Bus:2 Slot:0 Func:0 AMD:4 Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series] [ ... ] 12:39:06:ERROR:No compute devices matched GPU #0 AMD:4 Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series]. You may need to update your grap...

Yes. I'm actually fairly certain that I've lost a few jobs along the way, but we're in any case basically DDoS-ing F@h; it tends to work out, even if some jobs might take up to a few hours to in fact register in your statistics.

Yes, as to the open-source bit, sure, I can sort of see some of the reasoning behind this particular instance possibly being a slighty less standard "security through obscurity" mechanism than is normal for closed-source, and thanks for commenting, and while I wouldn't find myself to be an...

If there's by the way anyone who could fix the "For technical details" link at viewtopic.php?t=26208 then this would be great. I.e., while it's stated everywhere that GPUs.txt is both a white- and blacklist I can't any information about exactly how it is such anywhere. Searching for that a...

Don't seem to see DP or not specified at e.g. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/r ... -5770.c250

But bringing that thing online was basically just for the fun of it anyway; shall be retiring it again.

For the next poor sod that hits on this thread trying to get his AMD HD 5770 or more generally HD 5000 series card folding: after (on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/...) - installing ocl-icd-libopencl1, ocl-icd-opencl-dev and mesa-opencl-icd - creating a file /etc/default/fahclient consisting of "USER=root...

It is. Darn; that means I get to debug OpenCL on an ancient AMD chip on Linux. Thanks

If you want all of them to fold as the same donor, yes.

Thanks much; good to know.

... and you can also in fact open up the web-interface for remote access. For that, you on the server in Advanced Control -> Configure -> Expert add a new client option "web-allow" with value again e.g. "10.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.1". I believe I've noticed that that option must be space...

I'm very new to FAHClient, and not so much to Linux

Very good to know that it now works. If you can, please let me/us know if the GPU slot now also in fact picks up WUs; if it does, I'll take that "clGetDeviceIDs() returned -1" thing that I myself had more seriously...