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Message 37461 - Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 6:02:57 UTC
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Hi everyone!

Please tell whether it is possible to bind, for example, each of 2 GPUs (under Linux system, if any) to certain projects or not? I.e. more powerful - to gpugrid, less one - to collatz.
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Message 37462 - Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 8:29:04 UTC - in response to Message 37461.  
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You'll have to set up two separate BOINC installations, one for each card/project pair [edit] using a cc_config.xml file with different <ignore_cuda_dev>N</ignore_cuda_dev> / <ignore_ati_dev>N</ignore_ati_dev> directives[/edit].

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Message 37468 - Posted: 12 Apr 2011, 15:46:18 UTC

Well, it's not an elegant solution. Let it be another one item in BOINC's future versions "wishlist".

Btw, do you really think that OS will let me run two copies of boinc at the same time? I have a doubts here...
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Message 37469 - Posted: 12 Apr 2011, 16:39:29 UTC - in response to Message 37468.  

Well, it's not an elegant solution. Let it be another one item in BOINC's future versions "wishlist".

It's been on that list about forever and has recently been demoted to 'not going to do it'.

Btw, do you really think that OS will let me run two copies of boinc at the same time? I have a doubts here...

It's not a question of whether the OS can do it, but if the program can do it. By default BOINC checks if another version of itself is in memory and if tehre is, it won't start a second program. However, this can be circumvented using the command line command boinc --allow_multiple_clients, which will allow the starting and running of more than one BOINC on the same computer. They will need to run from separate directories, and probably be set to use different data directories as well.
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Message 37470 - Posted: 12 Apr 2011, 23:50:15 UTC

Ok, thank you for an answer. Once it will be very useful fore someone.
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