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Do I need OpenCL?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:33 am
by Blue_Topaz
OK I'm running opensuse tumbleweed on a ryzen 2700 with an rx580. The fahclient runs fine now but I see an error msg on startup concerning not finding the opencl
libs. Everything seems ok, so should I install the opencl libraries?
Re: Do I need OpenCL?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 3:47 am
by bruce
Yes, FAH needs (at least the run-time) OpenCL libraries if you're going to fold with your GPUs. Without it, FAH can fold exclusively on the CPU. The GPU is many times more productive than the CPU alone.
You'll also see a message saying that the CUDA libraries could not be found but this can be ignored as they're not needed by AMD hardware.
Re: Do I need OpenCL?
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 1:26 am
by Blue_Topaz
Thanks Bruce...I installed OpenCL but the FAClient says failed to open libOpenCL.so.....
I have libOpenCL.so.1 in the lib64 directory. Is there something else I have to do? I can ask
on the opensuse mailing list....thanks again...
Re: Do I need OpenCL?
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 3:20 pm
by Blue_Topaz
Thanks for the help Bruce, following a suggestion on opensuse-support I created a softlink and its working now....thanks again