#BOINC MULTIPLE GPU HOW TO#
#BOINC MULTIPLE GPU INSTALL#
#BOINC MULTIPLE GPU DRIVERS#

Now you should be able to connect to the server through the boincmgr program, using the password you set above.To enable remote management of the BOINC server software, add/edit the following files in /var/lib/boinc_client: A couple more things and we are almost done.

#BOINC MULTIPLE GPU DRIVERS#

Some debug steps are: (i) try nvidia-smi to see if the Nvidia drivers can see your GPUs, and (ii) set the BOINC logging flags – possibly in BOINC Configuration. If everything is going well, you will see the GPUs being detected and indicating how many are usable (hopefully the number you installed, in this case 3). Check out /var/log/boinc.log and you can see the startup messages. If you can’t see boinc, running you will need to do some debugging. Now, a small adjustment is necessary to make sure the GPUs are detected at startup – there is a race condition with drivers, so edit the boinc-client script (as root) and add a sleep 2.0 line so that the start() function in the file looks like: Make sure the BOINC client autostarts on boot up – check your /etc/init.d/ directory for a boinc-client script.

#BOINC MULTIPLE GPU INSTALL#

Sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver boinc-client-opencl boinc-client-nvidia-cuda boinc You might want to install them sequentially to make debugging simpler in case something goes wrong. Now install the BOINC software and related drivers.Sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb # your devices may differĬat /media/usb/id_rsa.pub > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys Note that you could transfer the key with a USB key if you don’t want to copy over the network: To be able to ssh into this machine without a password, add your public key which you have copied to this machine already, to the list of authorized keys.You should have a line in the sources.lst file that looks like: Add contrib and non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.lst file as some of the nvidia driver files are in those categories.Install sudo so you can become root as needed – first log in as root, then.

NOTE: you will need an Internet connection, preferably hardwired, to install Debian, so plug in an Ethernet cable to your Internet connection before you start. Do choose ssh server and standard system utilities. I did NOT install the desktop environment because I only plan on ssh’ing into the computer and did not want to have X software installed/running. You can take defaults for just about everything. There are plenty of guides on the Internet to help you, but it is pretty straightforward. If it does not boot from the DVD drive, you will need to go into the BIOS and set up the boot order so that the DVD is first or at least tried after the HDD fails.

Boot the multi-GPU computer with this DVD.

On a Windows machine, I used ImgBurn, but you can use any program you like. iso file you need (probably the amd64 package) to your computer, then use an ISO writing program to write that to a DVD/CD. I used RC2, but RC3 is available now, and should work as well. I found that the latest stable version (Jessie) did not have the correct packages to get BOINC running.

Create a netinst DVD or CD for Debian Stretch.

I choose Debian – I am familiar with it, and more importantly, I got it to work with BOINC.

The BIOS shows our 3 GPUs installed in the proper slots and we like the speeds (Gen 3) of PCIe that are chosen. OK, we have our multiple GPU system wired up and it seems to boot OK into the BIOS.

#BOINC MULTIPLE GPU HOW TO#

Already built a multi-GPU computer? No? See How to Build a Multi-GPU Computer here.

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