OpenCL support in BOINC - request for assistance

[Richard Haselgrove]

Rom Walton (BOINC developer) has posted this to the boinc_alpha mailing list:

Howdy Folks,

We are working on extending BOINC's accelerator support to include
OpenCL devices.  In order to complete this task we need to get a large
cross section of capability reports from a tool called clinfo.exe.

I've uploaded a copy of the 32-bit Windows version to:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/clinfo.zip

We are interested in the following scenarios:

*         Multi-GPU (same model)

*         Multi-GPU (different models)

*         Multi-GPU (different vendor)

*         Any Non-GPU OpenCL device.

If you can, would you download clinfo.zip and uncompress the file in a
temp directory and then issue the following command from a command
prompt:

C:\Temp> clinfo > clinfo.log

Please email me back the clinfo.log file so we can figure out how best
to approach the OpenCL enumeration process.

Thanks in advance.

----- Rom

That address would be romw 'at' romwnet 'dot' org

I imagine we should be able to help him out?

Addendum from Rom:

If you get an error that OpenCL.dll cannot be found, all that means is
your driver for your GPU is too old to support OpenCL.

I would not recommend upgrading to the latest drivers just for this test.

[Claggy]

That version of Clinfo doesn't work with some multi vendor hosts like mine, see this thread:

ATI OpenCL MultiBeam app (rev177)

Raistmer posted a modded version in this post

CLinfo.log emailed to Rom for my E8500/GTX460/HD5770 host

Claggy

[Ghost0210]

That version of Clinfo doesn't work with some multi vendor hosts like mine, see this thread:

ATI OpenCL MultiBeam app (rev177)

Raistmer posted a modded version in this post

Claggy

I just emailed Rom a copy of the modified CLInfo file
as his one crashed out on my nvidia card

[Richard Haselgrove]

My Norton Antivirus allowed Rom's version to run, but deleted Raistmer's as a security risk.

Purely a precautionary move from Norton's 'Sonar' heuristic scanner, but people might like to be aware. Full Sonar report below.

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Source File:
explorer.exe
File Created:
clinfo_no_ocl1_1.exe
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File: c:\downloads\clinfo\clinfo_no_ocl1_1.exe
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[Raistmer]

It would be interesting to know if my build infected indeed or not.

[Ghost0210]

From Rom:

> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:35:10 -0400
>
> I've updated the clinfo tool on the download server with one that
> Raistmer got a hold of that fixes the "ERROR: clGetDeviceInfo(-30)
> error" which manifested itself on machines with Nvidia GPU(s).
>
> Thanks Ghost & Raister

[Ghost0210]

It would be interesting to know if my build infected indeed or not.

I ran it through Comodo and Kaspersky a couple of times and had no warnings
Comodo have had the file submitted to them and found no issues with the file when I sent it over for them to check

Could just be a false-positive but better safe than sorry

[SciManStev]

I just performed the test and emailed the results. There were no problems on my end.

Steve

[Raistmer]

> Thanks Ghost & Raister

Looks like my nick too hard for some peoples
I already collected "Ramster", "Raimster", now new one, "Raister" .... OMG, only 8 letters to reproduce... how peoples learn their passwords then, 8 is the lower limit on many sites...

[Claggy]

> Thanks Ghost & Raister

Looks like my nick too hard for some peoples
I already collected "Ramster", "Raimster", now new one, "Raister" .... OMG, only 8 letters to reproduce... how peoples learn their passwords then, 8 is the lower limit on many sites...

Easily done, i emailed Rom, and called him Ron by mistake, at least Rom spelt Raistmer right once in that email,

Claggy

[Raistmer]

> Thanks Ghost & Raister

Looks like my nick too hard for some peoples
I already collected "Ramster", "Raimster", now new one, "Raister" .... OMG, only 8 letters to reproduce... how peoples learn their passwords then, 8 is the lower limit on many sites...

Easily done, i emailed Rom, and called him Ron by mistake, at least Rom spelt Raistmer right once in that email,

Claggy

[Richard Haselgrove]

It would be interesting to know if my build infected indeed or not.

I've run it through www.virustotal.com - clean bill of health, no problems found.

[Claggy]

I've updated my E8500/GTX460/HD5770 host to 270.51 and Cat 11.3, now reporting Cuda 4.0.1 and AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-rc1 (595.9) and sent Rom another attachment,

Claggy

[arkayn]

I have sent in reports on both of my machines, currently downloading the 270.51 beta drivers for the 460.

[cristipurdel]

sent ... Number of platforms: 3