Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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#1 Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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not much to say ... it all worked like a dream with iso from https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

4K screen even during installation and Boinc saw the GPU right away

Nice job guys :dance: :dance:

I am crunching Collatz at the moment as there doesn't seem to be much choice for AMD GPU. Any suggestions please?
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#2 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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Seriously ??? You have a AMD crunching on Linux without having major hair loss !! :o That in it self is a major achievement. I think I will have to try and see if my 7970's now work easily. Collatz is the daddy for points, if you have decent double precision on that GPU then Milkyway@home is also worth a look. Enigma is good to if you fancy some historical code breaking.
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#3 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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Why did you have to mention hair loss !!! At least it wasn't caused by this setup
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Alez wrote: Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:59 am Seriously ??? You have a AMD crunching on Linux without having major hair loss !! :o That in it self is a major achievement. I think I will have to try and see if my 7970's now work easily. Collatz is the daddy for points, if you have decent double precision on that GPU then Milkyway@home is also worth a look. Enigma is good too, if you fancy some historical code breaking.
HD7970 has no VEGA chips, so no go. Only VEGA architecture is supported under Linux, crunching-wise, sorry.
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#5 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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Has anyone tried the Radeon RX Vega 64 - it is a bit greedy at 295W (the RX580 is 185W). Is it worth the extra purchase and running costs ?
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#6 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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Also now crunching under Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS on a Firepro W5100 https://www.amd.com/en/products/profess ... epro-w5100

Collatz reports it as
AMD BONAIRE (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-36-generic, LLVM 6.0.0) (4096MB) OpenCL: 1.1
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#7 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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Out of interest, I fitted two graphics cards into the same machine (ubuntu with rx580 and a Firepro W5100)

xrandr correctly reports both cards but Boinc doesn't give any work to the second card (even when I leave a CPU core spare).

Not a deal-breaker but I'd be interested if anyone has got multiple cards working under Linux before? Either 2 x AMD, 2 x nVidia or one of each :D
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#8 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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Sorted. In cc_config.xml

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<options>
        <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
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#9 Re: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and AMD Radeon RX580

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Beat me to it. I had 4 x nVidias crunching in Caro with a workstation server board. 1200W PSU required for that set up.
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