Message boards : GPUs : Broadcom VideoCore IV
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Send message Joined: 10 Oct 21 Posts: 2 |
Hello Community, I'm trying to put to good use my army of old Raspberry Pi's. The default client works beautifully for the cpu's. However, it seems there's a GPU in there too. A Broadcom VideoCore IV. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the Boinc client is not usinig it. Is it in fact possible at all to have the client use this kind of gpu ? If not out of the box, let's say, is there a less obvious way ? Many thanks ! |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15542 |
There's no option to use this GPU as General Purpose GPU for calculation, simple because it doesn't support this form of action. |
Send message Joined: 10 Oct 21 Posts: 2 |
Damn. I wasn't aware GPU don't share a common functionality. Whatever that is. That's a pity. Even though it won't make much difference in my case, it's a shame to leave this power unused. I suppose this means there are no plans of providing some kind of support in the future ? |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15542 |
You misunderstood what I wrote. The actual GPU does not support OpenCL or any other form of computation language/hardware so it cannot be used for anything other than projecting images on the screen. |
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