Trying to crunch with ubuntu

[Abruraspingi]

Does anyone know how I might get einstein to send tasks .

This thread should help you, it's not simple unless you know what you are doing but it's a pain

https://einsteinathome.org/fr/content/cant-get-amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-crunch-einsteinhome-ubuntu-2204-lts

The main thing to do is download and install the ROCm drivers (basically professional drivers) and then change the following system config

(Find boinc-client.service file (in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ for Ubuntu) and change ProtectSystem=strict to ProtectSystem=off)

[TIM B]

Are You shore Abruraspingi . Some projects send GPU tasks and crunch just fine.
And some dont.

[Abruraspingi]

No I cannot guarantee it but it has worked for others. I have an external GPU and when I had an nVidia attached it worked without issues as cuda is supported.

When I swapped ot over for my you bute AMD I jumped through these hoops to get it working as OpenCL is developed differently

[Dave Studdert]

Im going to ask a silly question, in Einstein project preferences is Use AMD GPU: YES

[TIM B]

yes I have selected yes for AMD GPU

[TIM B]

can you tell me how to locate the  boinc-client.service file.

[Abruraspingi]

I prefer using Nano but you can use VIM or any other text editor

The easiest way to do it
Open up Terminal
Sudo nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service
<Enter Sudo password>
Change ProtectSystem=strict to ProtectSystem=off
Press Ctrl+X to close and press 'y' to save

You can do it graphically
Open Text Editor
Open>Open New Document>Other Location
Computer/usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service

Make the change and save

[TIM B]

No cant get it to work. says /usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service file does not exist.
Do you have to install the ROCm drivers first?

[Abruraspingi]

You shouldn't need to as this should be created when BOINC is installed
Do a find command and search for it
find / -name "boinc-client.service"

This should show you were you can find it within your system.
You may just have to settle for crunching Numberfields or Primegrid on your GPU

[TIM B]

Thanks for the info guys.
I finally got it all working by installing an OS called Garuda OS.
I got a lot of help from Google AI.   

[TIM B]

Just wondering how are you meant to monitor things like CPU and GPU temp and usage.

[Abruraspingi]

Just wondering how are you meant to monitor things like CPU and GPU temp and usage.

You can try Mission Sensor
https://missioncenter.io/

Or PSensor
https://www.tecmint.com/psensor-monitors-hardware-temperature-in-linux/

Great work pushing through with your ordeal

[chooka03]

I've been going through the same hell Tim. You might find some tips here but my issues were NVIDIA -

https://einsteinathome.org/content/all-things-windows?page=10

You know what... turns out Linux using WSL is worse than native Windows so whilst I kinda learnt something, I've just stuck with Windows.
I'll never get the most out of my cards compared to Linux but so be it. I can live with that these days.