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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by cbg0 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:08AM (#22574460)
At this time they are not sending covid CPU projects to clients, only GPU ones.
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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by Leo_Verto on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:07AM (#22574677)
That's not true anymore, there are CPU projects now:

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32339 https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32341

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by DelightOne on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:14AM (#22574490)
I only got a CPU project, but no GPU (GTX 1080).

> No WUs available for this configuration

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by SpikedCola on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:29AM (#22574535)
Same problem on my GTX 1050 (just tried updating drivers, no change). However, my laptop's GTX460M has pulled down project 11745 and is folding away.

EDIT after fiddling with gpu-index, cuda-index, and opencl-index (had to manually set them to point to my GTX 1050 [also have a BARTS card that is unsupported]) I was able to get a WU to download :)

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by nocture on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:51AM (#22574631)
how do you find the correct index values? My 2080 Ti receives no work.
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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by SpikedCola on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:40AM (#22616501)
In my log window I see:

  GPUs: 2
  GPU 0: Bus:1 Slot:0 Func:0 AMD:4 Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
  GPU 1: Bus:2 Slot:0 Func:0 NVIDIA:7 GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 LP] 1862
  CUDA Device 0: Platform:0 Device:0 Bus:2 Slot:0 Compute:6.1 Driver:8.0
  OpenCL Device 0: Platform:0 Device:0 Bus:2 Slot:0 Compute:1.2 Driver:378.49
  OpenCL Device 1: Platform:1 Device:0 Bus:1 Slot:0 Compute:1.2 Driver:1800.8
I want to use the GTX1050, so I set gpu-index to 1. Only 1 CUDA device so I set cuda-index to 0. To use the OpenCL device for the GTX, I looked at the bus # (bus 2), found OpenCL device on bus 2 (device 0), so I set opengl-index to 0. Not sure if this is the right way, but it worked for me.
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