Building a Little Budget Cruncher

[Duke of Buckingham]

Also the name has been decided: Kuro Chan (Japanese)

Kuro simply means black. Chan is a Japanese honorific (it's similar to a suffix) that is normally used when referring to children, teenage girls/young woman or used as a term of endearment.

Go Go Kuro Chan

[zombie67]

How many fingers did you cut?

Seriously though, I never add DVDs to a cruncher. I have a single external USB DVD drive that I use for OS installations as needed.

[Aux10]

*snip*

Lol

How many fingers did you cut?

Seriously though, I never add DVDs to a cruncher. I have a single external USB DVD drive that I use for OS installations as needed.

Amazingly my fingers are intact. If there was one thing done right it's the fact they thought to round-out most of the exposed edges. The build is not done so lets not celebrate quite yet.
The only external DVD drive I have uses firewire 400 which is pretty much dead these days.

[zombie67]

The only external DVD drive I have uses firewire 400 which is pretty much dead these days.

I am just suggesting that the next time you are going to buy a DVD drive, make it an external USB version instead. And then it will be your last one ever.

[Aux10]

Ok everyone Kuro Chan has been built! Here's the electric sex you've been waiting for:

IMG_0749.jpg

I've installed Linux Mint and getting that Nvidia Driver to install has been a pain in the ass! (As it always is with Linux) I've made the driver executable verified that it runs but when I terminate the Desktop session or try to CTR-ALT-F1 to the terminal the screen just goes blank every time, no prompt or anything. Not to mention when I try CTR-ALT-F7 it doesn't return to the desktop.

[Mumps]

MINT is basically Debian/Ubuntu under the covers. YMMV, but this worked well for my initial setup. And once I had noveau out of the way, a driver update went cleanly too.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/48141...nstead-nouveau

[Aux10]

Hurray! We just killed the OS!

*edit*
Ok, after a fresh install I was FINALLY able to get the drivers installed and get Boinc to recognize the GPU! Is there any way to utilize the Intel HD Graphics in Linux?

[zombie67]

Hurray! We just killed the OS!

*edit*
Ok, after a fresh install I was FINALLY able to get the drivers installed and get Boinc to recognize the GPU! Is there any way to utilize the Intel HD Graphics in Linux?

Last time I checked, Intel released the GPU driver for only Windows. But that was over a year ago. Try here:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/art...opencl-drivers

But even if there is a driver now, I am not aware of any BOINC apps for Intel HD on linux. Just windows and mac.

Edit: I take that back. It looks like collatz has one.

http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php

[Aux10]

Well I installed the Ubuntu Intel driver as well as the lsb-core library and when Boinc starts up it recognizes the Intel GPU through the Intel Open-CL driver but for some reason Collaz won't send me the application. I checked my preferences on the project site to make sure the Intel GPU was selected but Boinc keeps saying that it's not requesting new tasks because it doesn't need any. Also what is the typical runtime for the GPU Grid long application on a GTX 750Ti?

[zombie67]

When you start BOINC, does the event log say you have an intel GPU?