A-10 APU - what driver for OpenCL support?

[Raistmer]

I'm trying to setup new A-10 (Trinity) based host.
With drivers from motherboard BOINC recognizes CAL ATi GPU but no OpenCL support.
Catalyst 12.1 driver doesn't recognize GPU at all (VGA standart driver used, ugly resolution, no ATi GPU in BOINC at all).

What driver I need to enable openCL support on A-10 based PC ?

OS is x64 Windows 2008 server in standart edition, SP2 installed.

[corsair]

I'd installed AMD APU A10-5700 with and HD7770 and crunching with both of then (OS win 8 pro x64).

I've had too so many problem to bring it recognised and crunching and at last I've to connect one VGA wire to the motherboard output and to the screen as I've the possibility of having some inputs in the screen HD7770 is the main one via DVI and A10 is the 2nd one in the VGA input.

I'm using CAT 13.1 and I'm crunching with both of them.

e.g.http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=189338&offset=0&show_names=0&state=3&appid=

the hundreds are the HD7770 and the thousands are the A10 working with openCL.

the output for one unit crunched with A10 as follows:

Stderr output

<core_client_version>7.0.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
BOINC: parse gpu_opencl_dev_index 0
<search_application> milkyway_separation 1.02 Windows x86_64 double OpenCL </search_application>
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: max_gfx_cpu_pct
Skipping: 10
Skipping: /max_gfx_cpu_pct
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_poll_period
Skipping: 30
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_poll_period
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_float_speed
Skipping: 5
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_float_speed
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_textured_point_size
Skipping: 250
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_textured_point_size
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_point_point_size
Skipping: 40
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_point_point_size
BOINC GPU type suggests using OpenCL vendor 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
Error loading Lua script 'astronomy_parameters.txt': [string "number_parameters: 4..."]:1: '<name>' expected near '4'
Error reading astronomy parameters from file 'astronomy_parameters.txt'
  Trying old parameters file
Using SSE4.1 path
Found 1 platform
Platform 0 information:
  Name:       AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
  Version:    OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
  Vendor:     Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices cl_khr_d3d10_sharing cl_khr_d3d11_sharing
  Profile:    FULL_PROFILE
Using device 0 on platform 0
Found 2 CL devices
Device 'Devastator' (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.:0x1002) (CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU)
Driver version:      1084.4 (VM)
Version:             OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
Compute capability:  0.0
Max compute units:   6
Clock frequency:     1050 Mhz
Global mem size:     536870912
Local mem size:      32768
Max const buf size:  65536
Double extension:    cl_amd_fp64
Build log:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LOOP UNROLL: pragma unroll (line 288)
    Unrolled as requested!
LOOP UNROLL: pragma unroll (line 280)
    Unrolled as requested!
LOOP UNROLL: pragma unroll (line 273)
    Unrolled as requested!
LOOP UNROLL: pragma unroll (line 244)
    Unrolled as requested!
LOOP UNROLL: pragma unroll (line 202)
    Unrolled as requested!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Estimated AMD GPU GFLOP/s: 63 SP GFLOP/s, 13 DP FLOP/s
Warning: Bizarrely low flops (12). Defaulting to 100
Using a target frequency of 60.0
Using a block size of 1536 with 31 blocks/chunk
Using clWaitForEvents() for polling (mode -1)
Range:          { nu_steps = 640, mu_steps = 1600, r_steps = 1400 }
Iteration area: 2240000
Chunk estimate: 46
Num chunks:     48
Chunk size:     47616
Added area:     45568
Effective area: 2285568
Initial wait:   12 ms
Integration time: 2078.876573 s. Average time per iteration = 3248.244645 ms
Integral 0 time = 2080.872334 s
Estimated AMD GPU GFLOP/s: 63 SP GFLOP/s, 13 DP FLOP/s
Warning: Bizarrely low flops (12). Defaulting to 100
Using a target frequency of 60.0
Using a block size of 1536 with 33 blocks/chunk
Using clWaitForEvents() for polling (mode -1)
Range:          { nu_steps = 640, mu_steps = 400, r_steps = 1400 }
Iteration area: 560000
Chunk estimate: 11
Num chunks:     12
Chunk size:     50688
Added area:     48256
Effective area: 608256
Initial wait:   13 ms
Integration time: 519.833870 s. Average time per iteration = 812.240422 ms
Integral 1 time = 520.855827 s
Running likelihood with 88134 stars
Likelihood time = 1.476011 s
<background_integral> 0.000945384174296 </background_integral>
<stream_integral>  13.745590119137953  487.681351360459760  1279.943084521646400 </stream_integral>
<background_likelihood> -3.956275918431388 </background_likelihood>
<stream_only_likelihood>  -6.245940095166928  -3.494186399484758  -6.348751475348546 </stream_only_likelihood>
<search_likelihood> -3.101716556731784 </search_likelihood>
16:20:50 (6000): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

[Raistmer]

13.1 known to have issues with SETI OpenCL apps...

[corsair]

Following my below, I had to force BOINC use the whole GPU as all you told me in one previous message:

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

again there should be some kind of problem with the APU driver or don't know what that the temperature of the CPU and the GPU is not properly shown for the moment I'm not being able to find any program that gave me the correct readings and I've tried a lot of the e.g. always usinf TTHorttle with in all my computers and is not able to show the correct CPU temperature either not able to show the GPU temp of the APU, the one from the standalone GPU is shown perfectly.    

[corsair]

13.1 known to have issues with SETI OpenCL apps...

YEP but the computer was a X-Mas present for my daughter and was purchased as per my requirements with parts I choose I guess that came with 13.0 or 12.1X so I didn't downgrade as was working

(if works don't touch ....      )

 done only and update in last few days with this newest version.

[Claggy]

I'm trying to setup new A-10 (Trinity) based host.
With drivers from motherboard BOINC recognizes CAL ATi GPU but no OpenCL support.
Catalyst 12.1 driver doesn't recognize GPU at all (VGA standart driver used, ugly resolution, no ATi GPU in BOINC at all).

What driver I need to enable openCL support on A-10 based PC ?

OS is x64 Windows 2008 server in standart edition, SP2 installed.

Does CLinfo or GPUCapsViewer detect OpenCL support?

Claggy

[Raistmer]

I upgraded from 12.1 to 12.8 and both BOINC and GPU-Z detected OpenCL support.

[Josef W. Segur]

That makes sense, drivers released about 6 weeks before the October 1 2012 official release of the desktop Trinity chips. My laptop Trinity has drivers dated about the end of March and those chips were officially released May 15. I'm not sure exactly what Catalyst version they are, the numbers fall between those for 12.1 and 12.2 on HAL6000's cheat sheet.
                                                    Joe