1GB ATI Firepro 5800 - will it crunch?

[Wiz]

My new workstation (@work) has this video card, will it do anything very well (crunching wise)?

The box is a quad core Nehalem @ 2.53Ghz with HT so 8 cpu's show in task manager.
Only 12 GB memory, but that should do.

I can set up Rosetta right now, but just wondering if anything will make use of the graphics card - if it's too weak to be a performer then I'll just use the cpu's.

 

[Ken g6]

Is that a V5800? That's equivalent to a Radeon HD 5770. Yeah, you can do some stuff with that. Check [thread=316927]the "let your gpu work" thread[/thread] for a few options.

 

[dajeepster]

DNETC and Collatz at least

 

[Wiz]

BOINC just says "No usable GPU's found"

I've installed the ATI stream sdk and the 10.7 Catalyst driver update.
Don't see how to get this working.

 

[Ken g6]

Try the 10.10 APP drivers, probably without the SDK.

Also try restarting the BOINC process. I have to do that every time I boot this machine to detect my GTX 460.

 

[Wiz]

I went to the ATI drivers and got 10.11 and installed and restarted and ...

11/18/2010 12:57:32 PM | | No usable GPUs found

Maybe I'm not installing the right choice?

 

[Ken g6]

Note the "APP". It stands for Accelerated Parallel Processing or some such.

 

[Wiz]

I will double check but I think that's what I got.
Maybe not - I will go look now.

 

[Wiz]

Got this one, installed it, restarted computer.

AMD Catalyst™ Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) Technology Edition 93.9 MB 10.11 11/17/2010
Description:
Package Includes:
Display Driver
OpenCL Driver
ATI Integrated Driver
Catalyst Control Center
(English Language Only)
For the 64 bit version of Windows Vista and Windows 7

 

[Ken g6]

Also, by restart, I meant the BOINC service. In Windows, that's "net restart boinc" at a command prompt (or using the service manager, etc.) In Linux, "sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart".

 

[Wiz]

So the restart of the system should have done that eh?

 

[Wiz]

Here is information about hardware and software from the CCC:
(the software info doesn't look right)

Primary Adapter
Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by ATI
Graphics Chipset ATI FirePro V5800 (FireGL)
Device ID 68A9
Vendor 1002

Subsystem ID 2306
Subsystem Vendor ID 1028

Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 2.0
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 2.0 x16

BIOS Version 012.020.000.005
BIOS Part Number 113-C01403-100
BIOS Date 2010/03/08

Memory Size 1024 MB
Memory Type GDDR5

Core Clock in MHz 690 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1000 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 64.0 GByte/s
____________________________________________

Software:

Driver Packaging Version 8.773-100907a-105602C
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1071
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0779
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.10207
Catalyst™ Control Center Version 2010.0907.2140.37006

 

[Ken g6]

For me, with Linux, BOINC gets loaded before the GPU driver gets loaded, so BOINC can't find the GPU. That's why I suggested restarting just BOINC, after your OS is loaded. I don't know if this is a problem with Windows, but it couldn't hurt to try.

 

[Wiz]

Oh, forgot to mention I did that quite a few times too.
Thinking about uninstalling all the ATI stuff then installing the 10.11 package.

 

[Wiz]

This line is pretty cool -

11/18/2010 2:31:10 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx smx tm2 dca popcnt aes pbe

But it's still giving me: "No usable GPU's Found"

 

[Wiz]

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
No good, couldn't get it to reinstall right.
Had to go back to the older driver.
I will look at some other stuff on it tomorrow at work.

 

[Rattledagger]

BOINC just says "No usable GPU's found"

Hmm, can't see you've said which OS you're trying to run it on, but atleast service-installation under Vista & Win7 won't work...

 

[Alyx]

Hmm, can't see you've said which OS you're trying to run it on, but atleast service-installation under Vista & Win7 won't work...

sse4_1 sse4_2

I'm pretty sure that Windows Vista/7 will only show up to sse3 so I'm guessing he's on linux.

 

[Ken g6]

sse4_1 sse4_2

I'm pretty sure that Windows Vista/7 will only show up to sse3 so I'm guessing he's on linux.

I'm pretty sure the BOINC client detects this on its own, so OS doesn't matter there. I can't be sure, but I suspect it's this machine.

Having poked around there, I also notice that Wiz' only functioning GPU-ready project appears to be MilkyWay@home. I don't think this card can do double-precision math. In any case, try Collatz first, as it has the best ATI compatibility out there.

 

[petrusbroder]

Hmmm, I have been reading this thread ... and I remember that I had a similar problem with one of my ATI GPUs.
The problem turned out to be the cc_config.xml-file, it contained the line:
<no_gpus>1</no_gpus>
which means that no GPU should be used (even if one was present) and thus reported that no GPU was found.
I changed that line to
<no_gpus>0</no_gpus>
and the GPU was found at once.

Here are the config options.

If you don't have a cc_config.xml - file you can create one using notepad or a similar txt-editor and just put that one line in. You have to be careful to put in all the correct spaces ... look at the example below

<cc_config>
   <options>
       <no_gpus>0</no_gpus>
   </options>
</cc_config>

I hope this helps!

Edit: Oh, I forgot: you should shut down BOINC-manager and restart it after the cc_config.xml-file is edited/created or deleted.

 

[Wiz]

For those who want to know, it is Win 7 64 bit.

Thanks Peter, I will try that!!

 

[Wiz]

Tried it, didn't have the file so created new one.
Still says no gpu's found.
What's that about running as a service under Win7?

 

[petrusbroder]

If you run BOINC as a service it will not be able to use the GPU ... or so I have heard - may be wrong ...

 

[petrusbroder]

Tried it, didn't have the file so created new one.
Still says no gpu's found.
What's that about running as a service under Win7?

Hmmm, most interesting ...