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This was just donated to my classroom. Says disabled so I imagine it is not on the whitelist. We did have a regular radeon with the same "Oland" core config that was folding before but it bit the dust. How do we go about getting this one enabled?

Explain this to me like I am a kindergartner please.

Thank you for your time. I know you all are short handed.

Welcome to Folding@Home!

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/f ... 2100.c2612
Good news, there are two prerequisites to folding: double precision floating point math (FP64) and OpenCL 1.2 or newer, and your card meets both.
Bad news, this will be a really slow card.

I hope someone can explain how to get your card on a whitelist, it would help to know if it was running Linux or Windows.

And also if you are using Linux, we would want to know what distribution (RedHat/CentOS/Fedora; or Ubuntu/Debian). As the driver installation process will vary slightly.

Paul

There is already an entry for the W2100: So potentially the card should fold under Windows with a driver version downloaded from AMD that includes OpenCL support. Driver installed through Windows Update will be missing the OpenCL support.

Under Linux the card will be difficult to get a usable setup. AMD dropped full support with OpenCL for GCN version 1 based cards a few years ago for Linux systems. The older drivers with OpenCL support can still be found, but often only work with older Linux kernels.

The open source Mesa drivers have not had sufficient OpenCL support to work with F@h. The ROCm drivers the last I checked do not support cards far enough back to include the GCN Ver. 1 cards such as the Oland based ones.

It's on Windows 10 Pro. Perhaps I need a different driver. It's not showing the Open CL box checked in GPU-Z despite being a Open CL 1.2 capable GPU. I'm going to try some older drivers and I will report back my findings.

Try this link: https://www.amd.com/en/support/professi ... epro-w2100, then click on the Windows 10 - 64-bit Edition, before clicking download.

Paul

Joe_H wrote:Under Linux the card will be difficult to get a usable setup. AMD dropped full support with OpenCL for GCN version 1 based cards a few years ago for Linux systems. The older drivers with OpenCL support can still be found, but often only work with older Linux kernels.

Yes, this was difficult to set up - I managed to do it in the end once I found the exactly right driver and kernel - but in retrospect I would just install Windows, (natively or virtualized with virtIO/IOMMU passthrough), if you want to fold on these old cards.

It worked once I put the card in a different machine. There was some sort of conflict between the W2100 and the Vega 56. As long as the Vega was active, the W2100 refused to use OpenCL. I confirmed this when looking at the GPU-Z checkboxes when I would enable/disable the Vega card. Some weird driver stuff, though I never had that issue when folding multiple cards, even when mixing Nvidia and AMD/ATI.

Update: Through some BIOS/driver/Afterburner trickery, I have overclocked the card from 680MHz to 1360MHz. It's folding away and punching way above its weight.

how tho can you tell what you used to achieve this