For the Dummy.... moi

[Furlozza]

Okay. Still having fun and games with iGnatious and cuda.

Have a copy of libcudart.so sitting on my desktop, with ownership now belonging to boinc and group boinc.

I saw WS's solution and also know mike has one.... but am wondering if the following option/method will work:

1) Cd desktop
2) stop boinc via the init.d boinc-manager stop command
3) cp libcuddart.so to the correct folder as per WS's/Rob's instructions
4) restart boinc via init.d b-m start.

SECONDLY, the above start command starts boinc basically at boot-up, or a bit thereafter. Is there a command that allows me to start boinc when I open the graphic interface as with Windoze?

THIRDLY.... A Boot-Up Manager was mentioned in another post herein. I am currently using 6.6.12 and the closestthing I can find to a BUM is efibootmanager.... is this the correct one?

That's all fur now, folks *wanders off, munching on carrot..... quit smokin'... yeah, grate idea.....*

[veebee]

my Boinc-manager doesn't start up at boot. The client does, but not the manager....

as for "moving the file"...you could also just "sudo nautilus" and copy/ paste the libcudart.so file in the desired folder.

[Rob]

as for "moving the file"...you could also just "sudo nautilus" and copy/ paste the libcudart.so file in the desired folder

Yeah, thats how I did it, although in my case it was with Dolphin ;D
Boinc & Boinc manager start on boot for me although manager has to be manually connected to the client.
Boot up manager has nothing to do with what version of Boinc your using although it could possibly be related to your version of K/Ubuntu, don't really know ??? I'm running Kubuntu 9.04 & I just typed bum into the Synaptic search box & it was one of about 4 options that came up. You can also type boot up manager, but it gives a heap more results.

[yoda]

I've just replaced a dud motherboard and put a new GTX260 in it.  Runs 64bit Ubuntu 8.10 with BOINC from the repository and a reasonably new NVidia driver.  I upgraded BOINC to 6.6.20 and used bum to get BOINC to start after gdm (the Gnome equivalent of kdm). 

Works fine - I've rebooted it a couple of times and BOINC CUDA worked every time.

I don't use BOUNC Manager and don't know if that's working.  I wouldn't start it up automagically though - only run it when you actually want to control or view what your BOINC client is doing.  Why waste CPU cycles :)

For Boot-Up Manager, try the following in a terminal/konsole:

sudo apt-get install bum

Or look for bum (package name) in Synaptic. 

[clownius]

Let us know if everything is working or not.  I managed to get my server going and i think i could get yours going if you havent.

[veebee]

I'll call myself the dummy for this one...

why does the "time" for Cuda (GPUgrid) WU's show up as "hours" worth of work in my linux machines, yet they were only minutes when under Windows.

I kniow they still took "X" amount of hours to process, but they would only show like "15 minutes" or so (GTS250) when the i7 was running windows.

now I have it running ubuntu and it ticks over 1 second, every 3 seconds or so. consequently the "time taken" shows up  in hours.. not just "minutes"...

using BM 6.4.5.

[Cruncher Pete]

I do not take any notice of any of those indications as all the forums I have read on GPU's running  BOINC applications indicates that none of those are calculated properly hence it is useless as far as any indications are concerned.  I just run it and forget it until they indicate 100% complete or they upload themselves when complete.

[Rob]

Boinc 6.6.20 reports time taken correctly.

[yoda]

I'm not sure what the answer is, if there is one.  It could be that Windows does not report CPU usage (as opposed to GPU usage) correctly.  Or maybe in Linux the CPU is used more. 

Either way, the only real time indicator of any value is the one stored against the final result, where it says "# Approximate elapsed time for entire WU: "

[Wang Solutions]

As Rob said, BOINC 6.6.20 reports elapsed time correctly. Previous versions on Windows were very inaccurate, whereas the Linux version was closer to it.

Latest NVIDIA drivers also correct many little issues that occurred such as WUs hanging.