Hint to using both cards on MBP with 9600GT+9400M So I've been using the CUDA collatz conjecture project through Boinc, and realized that it was only using 1 of my GPUs (as noted in Boinc messages at startup). I created the Boinc configuration file in /Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/ccconfig.xml.

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In that file, I put: 1 Save that file, relaunch Boinc, and now you can crunch on all GPUs and CPUs at once! Why this isn't the default, I have no idea. For a list of other useful ccconfig options, check out. So, my MacBook Pro (model 5,3) has an nVidia 9600M GT.

That should support GPU via cuda, but even after installing both the latest toolkit, and then the latest cuda drivers, I still get 'no usable GPU's found' messages in BOINC's startup messages. I added Collatz and Einstein to my projects to try to take advantage of the GPU's, but now they're just sucking up time from my other projects I care more about. Without GPU support, they're going to get the boot from my system.:-( I even added the ccconfig.xml file listed above, but it generates a 'no start flag' error message. My MacPro (3 years old next month), has two graphics card in it, an ATI X1900 and an nVidia GeForce 7300. Too bad neither of those support GPU processing. That nVidia card is just in there sucking up juice. There's no monitors attached to it.

Think of all the number crunching goodness an extra dedicated GPU could do 24/7! I'd replace the 7300 with a cuda capable card if I knew for sure it would actually work and these BOINC apps would take advantage of it. Heck, I'd consider replacing the ATI as well. I've got a few spare dollars laying around for a 'good cause'. Any suggestions? My book essential setup for mac.

So, my MacBook Pro (model 5,3) has an nVidia 9600M GT. That should support GPU via cuda, but even after installing both the latest toolkit, and then the latest cuda drivers, I still get 'no usable GPU's found' messages in BOINC's startup messages. I added Collatz and Einstein to my projects to try to take advantage of the GPU's, but now they're just sucking up time from my other projects I care more about. Without GPU support, they're going to get the boot from my system.:-( I even added the ccconfig.xml file listed above, but it generates a 'no start flag' error message. My MacPro (3 years old next month), has two graphics card in it, an ATI X1900 and an nVidia GeForce 7300.

Too bad neither of those support GPU processing. That nVidia card is just in there sucking up juice. There's no monitors attached to it. Think of all the number crunching goodness an extra dedicated GPU could do 24/7! I'd replace the 7300 with a cuda capable card if I knew for sure it would actually work and these BOINC apps would take advantage of it. Heck, I'd consider replacing the ATI as well. I've got a few spare dollars laying around for a 'good cause'.

Any suggestions? Click to expand.BOINC allegedly supports GPU on Mac now, as indicated in the threads above, though it appears to be hit or miss as to if you can actually get it to work.:-( The two projects I mentioned are the only two currently supporting GPU on BOINC that I'm aware of. I'm not willing to boot my Mac Pro to Windows to use GPU, it's too busy doing Mac things.

If a VMWare machine would allow it, that's an option I'd definitely consider, as long as the overhead of running the VM in the background didn't offset the benefit of GPU. I'm not sure the VM would give direct access to GPU, since the drivers report as VM, not the actual card. Re: Folding@Home, I'm already a folder, off and on. Just checked my, and am currently ranked 30,757 out of 1,361,003.

Not bad considering I haven't ran the client since last May. I think back then I decided that F@H wasn't playing nice with letting up the CPU when other tasks needed it.

I certainly need to reconsider, as I do think that's a 'very good cause'. I'm on Team DL.TV, but have no allegiance there - they just happened to be the show that pointed out the project to me. I don't even watch any more. What team are you on? I'll consider moving over if I start running F@H again.

I've got a Mac Pro, Mac Mini, 2 MacBook Pros, and a couple of PCs, even an AppleTV if someone wrote a client for it. Most of them run 24/7, no sense in them sitting idle. So, my MacBook Pro (model 5,3) has an nVidia 9600M GT. That should support GPU via cuda, but even after installing both the latest toolkit, and then the latest cuda drivers, I still get 'no usable GPU's found' messages in BOINC's startup messages. I added Collatz and Einstein to my projects to try to take advantage of the GPU's, but now they're just sucking up time from my other projects I care more about. Without GPU support, they're going to get the boot from my system.:-( I even added the ccconfig.xml file listed above, but it generates a 'no start flag' error message. My MacPro (3 years old next month), has two graphics card in it, an ATI X1900 and an nVidia GeForce 7300.

Too bad neither of those support GPU processing. That nVidia card is just in there sucking up juice. There's no monitors attached to it. Think of all the number crunching goodness an extra dedicated GPU could do 24/7!

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I'd replace the 7300 with a cuda capable card if I knew for sure it would actually work and these BOINC apps would take advantage of it. Heck, I'd consider replacing the ATI as well. I've got a few spare dollars laying around for a 'good cause'. Any suggestions? Click to expand.Is it working now for you (not sure because of the edit).

It is working for me on two different mac Boinc client is officially at 6.10.43 GPU found - On a MBP it was simple and also working on 10.6.3 - On MacPro with 10.6.2 - I had to restart in 32 bits for the card be to recognized - But I think with cuda 3.0 they now have 64 bits drivers. I had to reinstall the os on the MacPro so I will know soon if it is working on 10.6.3 UPDATE- Now working in 10.6.3 on 64 bits kernel - Big improvement Also with CUDA 3.0, There is a new system preference pane to check for CUDA update - nice. I do have some calculation error:-(.

I installed boinc 6.10.21 on my OS X 10.5 in order to upgrade from a 6.6 version that I was running today, and I am the admin user, and I was logged in as the admin user. As I was installing 6.10.21 I was asked if non admin users should be allowed to use Boinc, and I said 'yes' to this. Then when I tried to open Boinc I got a message like the following: 'You currently are not authorized to manage the client. Either re-install and allow non-admin users or contact your administrator to add you to the 'boincmaster' user group.' So I tried to reinstall first, and I was not asked if non admin users should be allowed to use Boinc. So I retried a few times and got no different result.

So I downloaded 6.10.43 and installed that, and again I was not asked if non admin users should be allowed to use boinc. And when I tried to run Boinc I got the same message like: 'You currently are not authorized to manage the client. Either re-install and allow non-admin users or contact your administrator to add you to the 'boincmaster' user group.' So I did a Google search trying to figure out how to add my admin user to the bonicmaster user group and which suggested I run the following in terminal: 'sudo dscl.append /Groups/boincmaster GroupMembership CR' So I did this and now I get the following error: BOINC ownership or permissions are not set properly; please reinstall BOINC (Error code -1200) So I reinstall and I am ever asked the question about allowing non admin users again, and I still get this error message every after every reinstall attempt. What should I do?