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Topic Title: beta4: CPU target without GPU hardware
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Created On: 11/06/2009 05:42 PM
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 11/06/2009 05:42 PM
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mjharvey

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Hi,


My question is: is there a way to install the beta4 on a Windows machine that is lacking a GPU so that the CPU can be used as the ocl target device?

 

I'd like to use the beta4 runtime to target the CPU on a machine without a Radeon GPU, but the catalyst drivers won't install in the absence of a graphics card.

I've manually installed the aticalcl.dll, &c from a different machine, along with the demo applications.Now, when I try running one, I get:

 

$ ./RadixSort --device cpu
Error: clCreateContextFromType failed. Error code : CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND
For test only: Expires on Sun Feb 28 00:00:00 2010

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 11/06/2009 06:28 PM
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nou

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search before ask.

http://forums.amd.com/devforum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=120308&enterthread=y

 11/06/2009 06:47 PM
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mjharvey

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Well, yes, as you can see from the fact that I can run the program at all, I have already extracted and installed the relevant dlls. The preplexing thing is that context creation is failing.

 

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 11/07/2009 03:45 AM
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nou

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did you try run another examples. parameter --device isnt necessery it fall back to CPU automaticly.

did you have processor with SSE3 support?

 11/07/2009 07:53 AM
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That's it. The Pentium M in my test system doesn't have SSE3.

Thanks for pointing it out!

 

MJH

 

 

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