\"Hi\" to all of you expert people out there!

I\'m running Windows Vista with Nvidea. All of the necessary criteria are met, yet this isn\'t showing up on my BOINC file. It seems more than a little dumb to be crunching numbers with less than the maximum capabilities.

Is there something that needs to be adjusted, or some such thing? I\"ve pocked around a bit but wouldn\'t recognize the right answer if it jumped off the screen and bumped me on the nose.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Jean

Hi Jean

Everything seems to be OK on your models on the server.
What is it that you think is missing?

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Are you perhaps referring to crunching with your GPU? In that case, there\'s no application for a GPU on CPDN.

Hi Jean, welcome to the forum.

I\'ve looked at your CPDN web pages starting here. If you go through the links you\'ll see that everything looks good. That looks like a very nice C2Duo machine, by the way.

But as Transient says there are no CPDN tasks using NVidia CUDA-capable cards. There won\'t be in the foreseeable future because of the way the models are processed.

As you\'re new to the project I\'ll just mention that the CPDN README compilations are very useful, particularly the collection about backups and item #6 in the one about crashes & problems. My signature has a link to them.

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Thank you kind folks for your responses. What I seem to be missing with the Nvidea is SPEED, and lots of it. But as is mentioned, it\'s not appearing anywhere else either.

As you\'ve noticed, I\'m running two machines, a Mac and a PC Laptop. My Mac is now and always has been my workhorse for everything at home. But I\'m disabled with spinal cord injury and reached a point where I couldn\'t really sit at my desk much anymore. Tried adjusting height, good high-backed office chair, etc. but nothing really worked for me.

So, it was time to bite my knuckles and go back to a Windows machine. I get so blessed bored that started playing games, an area that the Macs sadly lack. The obvious solution for me was a PC Laptop that I can run from my overstuffed armchair in the living room. It\'s worked out very well for me overall, and that\'s where the need for speed came in. Still can\'t win those blessed games, though.

And then I found BOINC. What a joy this has been for me. I\'ve been watching the climate change situation for about 10 years now, and to be able to be some small part of assisting in finding causes and potential solutions is indescribable. All of a sudden I\'m contributing something to the world again and feel fantastic about the whole situation.

Have also had a giggle as am one who hates math. In fact, my throat closes up, eyes cross, and brain goes into a major meltdown. So, naturally, signed up with one of the programs dealing with a math problem. I guess it\'s true that small things amuse small minds.

Thanks again.
Jean

Nvidea is a graphics card. This doesn\'t get used for crunching here, and likely never will. In fact, the fastest processing is done with the screen saver set to None, or Blank, and turning off the display when the computer isn\'t being used by you.

The science applications, (in this project the climate models), will only run when the processor isn\'t being used for something else, such as games, video streaming/editing, etc.

The fastest machines around at the moment, are the new Intel i7 processors.

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