Folding with GPU on Linux

[failblox]

I've recently been trying to set up GPU folding on Linux. I'm running a 760 and the distro I'm using is Ubuntu Gnome 14.10. I've installed the 349.12 drivers and graphics acceleration works fine (I can play games on Steam, the GPU is properly detected, etc.).

 

 

The GPU is not natively detected when looking at the F@H Control, but when I try to add it manually by adding a GPU slot (and using the default settings), it shows up as a 760 under devices and the status of it says that it's downloading what I assume is to be the WU. Eventually though it just gives me a red bar that says failed.

 

 

If anyone could give some advice on how to configure my client to fold with my GPU, it would be greatly appreciate

Thanks in advance.

[Vavetti]

AFAIK Maxwell is only supported (in beta) for F@H.

So you need windows to fold with that gpu. 

[failblox]

AFAIK Maxwell is only supported (in beta) for F@H.

So you need windows to fold with that gpu. 

That's unfortunate... Do you think it would be possible to run it through something like wine?

[Vavetti]

That's unfortunate... Do you think it would be possible to run it through something like wine?

I don't know, I know basically nothing about Linux.

I'm going to mention @alpenwasser he knows his linux stuff, and BOINC, maybe that will run on linux. 

[alpenwasser]

That's unfortunate... Do you think it would be possible to run it through something like wine?

I don't know, I know basically nothing about Linux.

I'm going to mention @alpenwasser he knows his linux stuff, and BOINC, maybe that will run on linux.

A few years ago I did manage to get my GPU running in F@H with Wine for a short time,

but it was an utter pain to set up and I think it only ran through sheer luck for a

short time. You can certainly try it, but from what I've read and experienced, it is

a very finicky proposition at best.

There are indeed BOINC projects which have GPU units for Linux. However, I'm unfortunately

running BOINC in Windows at the moment because I couldn't get the NV drivers and CUDA

to run properly in Linux. Seeing as you've already got that done though, it shouldn't be too

hard to run BOINC GPU stuff if you wanted to.

[Whaler_99]

As mentioned, Folding in Linux is still in Beta as well, so no official support unfortunately. So, 900 and 700 series are not even supported and getting 500 and 600 series to work is very hit and miss. 

 

If you check out the Guides over at the [H]ard site, they have lots of info on Folding and BOINC in *unix...

http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=133