Boinc linux distro
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The last time I looked at distros I think mint was offered as a slimmed down version of Ubuntu. I'm a bit surprised it seems to be the most popular one these days, taking over from Ubuntu. Given some of the design decisions of Ubuntu, I think I will give Mint a try first this time and see how I go from there. Still plenty of choice I see, and even within the Ubuntu derivatives there's more than a bit of choice. Thanks for all the Linux suggestions so far. The second point is that some GPU/driver combinations just refuse to show up in Ubuntu-Boinc unless there is a monitor or dummy plug connected to that card. There are more elegant ways of resolving this but I just “sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart” as soon as I log in and that gets it going.
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Two further points, the first is that there seems to be a general (Ubuntu?) problem where Boinc is up and running before the Nvidia driver is ready and the GPU is reported as “missing” on reboot. After playing around for a while and spending some time on Google, I found and installed the missing “nvidia-modprobe” package which sorted out the issue. I really battled to get the BOINC installation to detect the GPU. I installed Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and the “boinc” & “boinc-nvidia-cuda” packages for Boinc, the Nvidia driver and dependencies. I went through the process of re-building a machine out of spare parts about two weeks ago (). But, at any rate, here are the command-line incantations that I used to get the real NVidia driver installed: Back in the day, ubuntu distros included a driver called "nouveau" which is brain-dead w/r/t CUDA. but that might be a good thing! :-) Primegrid science app updates will work fine either way. Possible downside of this mechanism is that you won't get automatic BOINC s/w updates. I just downloaded the tarball from /download.php, expanded it into its own sub-directory, and it "just works". I did not use the "apt-get install" mechanism.
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My BOINC install on both boxes is "manual". CPU and GPU are crunching away furiously. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 on one i7 and Lubuntu 14.04 on the other. BUT you may not get the latest Boinc that way, at least not normally, just a fairly current one that works, I have found that sometimes the packages are a bit slow in keeping up.
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I have always tried to use the built in software package installer for that as it is easier and just works.
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Since you won't be using a gpu to crunch with it is almost plug and play one you get it up and running and then download and install Boinc. I'm not a Linux guy either and after trying alot of different Linux OS's have always come back to Ubuntu as it is the most 'Windows like' I have found. Mobo: Gigabyte H81-something (they make a million models which are almost identical) Are there any quirks with configuring BOINC + GPU I should be aware of? I think in the old days it was common to make some tweak to disable power saving otherwise performance dropped. I'm inclined to try the latest Ubuntu unless there is something "better" I should try, considering my goals listed earlier. I have some familiarity with Suse which I started with many years ago, and more recently Ubuntu but not in the last couple of years or so. I've dabbled with it on and off for as long as I can remember, but never got comfortable enough with it for long term use. I would call myself a veteran noob at Linux in general.
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In order of priority (highest first) the following are my goals:ġ, to run BOINC with no fuss (including nvidia GPU)Ģ, to get a taste for what a current Linux desktop interface is like, if it might even replace Windows on more of my older systems (with only XP licences, not worth buying new Windows licences) Stepping up to i5 was pushing costs a bit more than I like after my previous spending.Īnyway, onto the operating system and the subject of this thread, I thought I'd try and break myself off Windows again, this would be a good time to revisit some kind of Linux.
I debated the Pentiums but they seem to lack AVX, and as I'm primarily interested in LLR-ing, the premium for an i3 seemed worth it. After much consideration I ordered an OEM i3 Haswell. Having retired my two old Q6600 boxes, I realised I had almost enough spare parts to build a modern box to replace one of them, needing only a CPU and motherboard.