OpenCL < 2.0 getting dropped from Seti@Home?

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Message 1799571 - Posted: 30 Jun 2016, 5:32:35 UTC

I get this message in the Notice tab in my BOINC Manager:
SETI@home: Notice from server
NVIDIA GPU: Upgrade to the latest driver to process tasks using your computer's GPU

however I'm still getting GPU tasks, for which I'm happy about.

the reason I'm hesitant in upgrading my nVidia drivers is that with the newer drivers
nVidia removed Cuda support for my GPU (Geforce 9600GT 512MB, OpenCL 1.1 capable)

my current driver and cuda SDK are working fine... so should I ignore the message
or will support for my GPU in the near future be dropped? If so any indications as to when?
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Message 1799589 - Posted: 30 Jun 2016, 7:29:14 UTC
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I should mention I'm running Gentoo Linux with the latest nVidia drivers which has Cuda support version 331.113
the very next version removes CUDA support for this GPU series (version +340.x)
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Message 1799969 - Posted: 1 Jul 2016, 18:43:58 UTC - in response to Message 1799571.  

I get this message in the Notice tab in my BOINC Manager:
SETI@home: Notice from server
NVIDIA GPU: Upgrade to the latest driver to process tasks using your computer's GPU

however I'm still getting GPU tasks, for which I'm happy about.

the reason I'm hesitant in upgrading my nVidia drivers is that with the newer drivers
nVidia removed Cuda support for my GPU (Geforce 9600GT 512MB, OpenCL 1.1 capable)

my current driver and cuda SDK are working fine... so should I ignore the message
or will support for my GPU in the near future be dropped? If so any indications as to when?


That is BOINC telling you that your drivers are not new enough to run the Open CL apps on your GPU.

You can ignore it if you continue to get CUDA work.

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