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Germano

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Message 70145 - Posted: 13 Jun 2016, 10:18:00 UTC

Hi, I need to know if BOINC client needs X running to use GPU for calculus.
Thank you very much
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Message 70158 - Posted: 13 Jun 2016, 14:09:56 UTC

This depends on the Driver. For ATI cards it is necessary that someone is logged into an X session in order to use the GPU for computing. For Nvidia cards this is not the case AFAIK. But there are other people around that know more about this.
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