[CentOS] Folding At Home OT

Tue Apr 28 11:09:05 UTC 2015
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:17:24PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 04/27/15 19:24, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 06:51:31PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> >> On 04/22/15 21:05, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> >>> Can someone recommend a good video card to use with CentOS 6.6 that has
> >>> a GPU, or two, or more, that will work with the Folding At Home project.
> >>>
> >>> I built a killer machine primarily for contributing to the FAH effort
> >>> but the video card, NVIDIA Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT], I had on
> >>> hand is not getting any assignments.  I'm using the proprietary NVIDIA
> >>> driver.  I've got a pcie 16X socket to plug it into.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The underwelming response to my question leaves me wondering:
> >>
> >> Am I to gather that there are no CentOS FAH users here?
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> Am I to understand that none of the CentOS FAH users have a GPU that
> >> works with FAH?
> > 
> > Yes, I'm a Centos Folder. I'm one of 3 or 4 currently active on 
> > Team Centos
> > 
> > However, I've been unable to get GPU folding working, so I just
> > dedicate all six cores to it.
> > 
> > You may want to ask your original question on the forums at the
> > FAH site, also.
> > 
> > Fred
> > 
> 
> Hey Fred,
> 
> Thanks for the tip.  I googled the FAH Hardware Forum.  They recommend
> the NVIDIA 970 or 960 as their first choice.

True. but it "should" work on Fermi chipsets or later, and it doesn't
for me. I may well have a configuration problem, but I drew the line
at butchering my system configuration to find out, this is my personal
workstation, at home, and I don't wanna break it.

(it tries, and tries, and tries to fold but takes some error or other,
backs off, tries again, and again, and again.)

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