We do, there's known versions that have bugs returning incorrect results or
simply crashes.


--
Pagarbiai / Sincerely
Rytis Slatkevičius
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2018-01-15 10:52 GMT+02:00 David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>:

> BOINC encodes the driver number into an integer in a way that assumes the
> minor number is < 100.
>
> This is bad, of course - BOINC has no business encoding other peoples'
> version numbers -
> but fixing it is not easy.
> That's because the plan classes used by projects refer to
> driver version numbers using these encoded integers.
> If we change the representation of version it might break these projects.
>
> Projects: do you in fact have plan classes that use nvidia driver version?
>
> -- David
>
> On 1/13/2018 8:31 PM, TarotApprentice wrote:
>
>> The CUDA device driver version number is being truncated.
>>
>> Background: Nvidia released CUDA driver 384.111 (for Linux) to resolve
>> one of the Spectre variants. The minor version number of 111 is being
>> truncated to two digits (ie 11). The OpenCL detection seems to get it right
>> though.
>>
>> Event log:
>> 14-01-2018 03:04 PM Starting BOINC client version 7.8.4 for
>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> 14-01-2018 03:04 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
>> 14-01-2018 03:04 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.8
>> libidn2/0.16 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libidn2/0.16) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.18.1
>> librtmp/2.3
>> 14-01-2018 03:04 PM Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
>> 14-01-2018 03:04 PM CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (driver
>> version 384.11, CUDA version 9.0, compute capability 6.1, 3014MB, 2918MB
>> available, 3936 GFLOPS peak)
>> 14-01-2018 03:04 PM OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (driver
>> version 384.111, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 3014MB, 2918MB available,
>> 3936 GFLOPS peak)
>>
>>
>>
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