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#71

ROSETTA@HOME / Re: When Rosetta active, only ...

Last post by Dingo - April 16, 2026, 01:43:32 PM

found this on the Rosetta forum, an answer to the same problem. 

The Percentage of CPU time used for graphics only affects the amount of CPU used on the screensaver so I do not think it will help.  There version of the web site is very old and does not have the more up to date prefeeences that other projects have to reduce CPU etc.  I think you might be Euchred.  Given the number of tasks that the project sends out it might not be a problem.

Setting "Use at most 90% of the CPUs" is a legitimate change if you think it might help (I have no idea).
"Use at most 90% of CPU time" does more harm than good in my experience. Rosetta works best with this always set to 100%
"at most 90% of CPU time" is implemented by running 100% for 90% of the time, then 0% for 10% of the time and rapidly switching between the two, not at 90% for 100% of the time as you might more reasonably expect.

You might want to try reducing the %age of CPUs used a little further to see if it makes any difference, though I can't see why it would when Rosetta never calls for any gpu time.

#72

ROSETTA@HOME / When Rosetta active, only one ...

Last post by Polaxis - April 16, 2026, 02:48:19 AM

Hi

I just observed, that when Rosetta fills all my cores and threads, only one of my GPUs is active.
Other projects leave enough CPU overhead allowing both GPUs to be active.

Can someone point me to the specific setting that may undo this bottlenecking?

Best regards and thanks in advance

#73

ALL THINGS LINUX / LHC Theory Simulation

Last post by Dave Studdert - April 16, 2026, 12:36:52 AM

Any team members running LHC Theory on Linux?
I have followed the instructions, have CVMFS installed with the correct config, Podman is installed, but just cant Theory to work. Clearly Im missing something, Atlas works fine.
I will keep at it but just wondering if you guys might have any insight on how you set it up if you're running it.

#74

ALL THINGS LINUX / Re: BOINC in WSL GUI

Last post by Dingo - April 15, 2026, 09:28:53 PM

Hi Dingo,

I did sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

then

sudo apt-get update

I have Ubuntu 24.04.01
I tried 570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 (I changed it to a .1 instead of a .2) and I also tried  550.163.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
but it said this -

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'nvidia-570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'nvidia-570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1'

I then tried this -  lsmod | grep nvidia and got -

grep: or: No such file or directory
grep: try: No such file or directory
grep: nvidia-smi: No such file or directory

I tried this - lsmod | grep nouveau but nothing happened.

So I'm not sure what to do from here sorry.

If you have version 550.163.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 then run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-550

#75

WORLD COMMUNITY GRID / Re: Project Update

Last post by chooka03 - April 14, 2026, 07:40:40 PM

Wow... I can see some credits in BOINC stats!
Amazing!

#76

ALL THINGS LINUX / Re: BOINC in WSL GUI

Last post by chooka03 - April 14, 2026, 04:56:27 PM

Hi Dingo,

I did sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

then

sudo apt-get update

I have Ubuntu 24.04.01
I tried 570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 (I changed it to a .1 instead of a .2) and I also tried  550.163.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
but it said this -

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'nvidia-570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'nvidia-570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1'

I then tried this -  lsmod | grep nvidia and got -

grep: or: No such file or directory
grep: try: No such file or directory
grep: nvidia-smi: No such file or directory

I tried this - lsmod | grep nouveau but nothing happened.

So I'm not sure what to do from here sorry.

#77

ALL THINGS LINUX / Re: BOINC in WSL GUI

Last post by Dingo - April 13, 2026, 06:42:45 PM

Thanks Dingo.
My goodness.... that's a lot of stuff to do. Not keen on all that :(

Not that much to do. 


Pick your version from this list.  I have picked version 570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.2

server  # version 535.288.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
version 570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
server  # version 570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
version 580.126.09-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
server  # version 580.126.09-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
version 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.4
server  # version 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.4
server  # version 565.57.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
version 550.163.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1



If you have Ubuntu 24.04.02 just do this
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-570  *** -- If you have a different versons of linux pick the number from this list above

Check Installation status
    lsmod | grep nvidia

    If there is no output, then your installation has probably failed. It is also possible that the driver is not available in your system's driver database. You can run the following command to check if your system is running on the open source driver nouveau. If the output is negative for nouveau, then all is well with your installation.

      lsmod | grep nouveau

#78

ALL THINGS LINUX / Re: BOINC in WSL GUI

Last post by chooka03 - April 13, 2026, 06:05:25 PM

Thanks Dingo.
My goodness.... that's a lot of stuff to do. Not keen on all that :(

[**** Current version is 570 ***]

#79

ALL THINGS LINUX / Re: BOINC in WSL GUI

Last post by Dingo - April 13, 2026, 05:21:54 PM

Not sure if this is curent but this is what I did on mine a long time ago.

nvidia-smi
Command 'nvidia-smi' not found, but can be installed with:
apt install nvidia-utils-525         # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1, or
apt install nvidia-utils-525-server  # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1
apt install nvidia-utils-470         # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
apt install nvidia-utils-470-server  # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
apt install nvidia-utils-535         # version 535.288.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
apt install nvidia-utils-535-server  # version 535.288.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
apt install nvidia-utils-570         # version 570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
apt install nvidia-utils-570-server  # version 570.211.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
apt install nvidia-utils-580         # version 580.126.09-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
apt install nvidia-utils-580-server  # version 580.126.09-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
apt install nvidia-utils-590         # version 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.4
apt install nvidia-utils-590-server  # version 590.48.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.4
apt install nvidia-utils-565-server  # version 565.57.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
apt install nvidia-utils-550-server  # version 550.163.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1


Multi GPU install in Linux.

This is what worked for me in getting Linux up and running.  Have a look at this page and see if the drivers are there.  https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

1. Install Linux
2. Check for updates and then update.
3. Reboot (doesn't hurt to do this)
4. Update to latest kernel
5. Reboot (doesn't hurt to do this)
6. Add NVIDIA PPA to the repository
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
    sudo apt-get update
11. Look at this page to see what version to install 
8. It will check and give you options on which NVIDIA Driver to install.  https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
  currently:  sudo apt-get install nvidia-390  **** Current version is 570  ***
9. reboot
10    Check Installation status
    lsmod | grep nvidia  or try  nvidia-smi

    If there is no output, then your installation has probably failed. It is also possible that the driver is not available in your system's driver database. You can run the following command to check if your system is running on the open source driver nouveau. If the output is negative for nouveau, then all is well with your installation.

      lsmod | grep nouveau

11. Prevent automatic update:
      sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-390  **** Current version is 570  ***

12. Are you running into issues with the new drivers, you can easily remove it.

      a. Remove the graphics-drivers PPA as indicated in the step above.
        b. Enter the following command to completely remove the driver

  sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

13. Reboot

#80

ALL THINGS LINUX / Re: BOINC in WSL GUI

Last post by chooka03 - April 13, 2026, 01:10:30 PM

Is there a way to load these drivers in Ubuntu?
I updated the drivers on the Windows machine but I'm not sure how to load them into Ubuntu.