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BOINC

TL;DR

# Install.
flatpak install 'edu.berkeley.BOINC'
sudo zypper install 'boinc-manager'

Client management

Name Type Description
BOINC Manager Graphical
boinccmd Command line
boinctui Text

Use the GPU for computation

AMD Linux drivers and Radeon™ Software for Linux® Installation

On OpenSUSE

Install the amdgpu-install package from AMD's Linux drivers page, then execute it.

# Previous versions of the package (like the one in the official documentation
# at the time of writing) made DKMS fail.
sudo zypper install 'https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/22.20.3/sle/15.4/amdgpu-install-22.20.50203-1.noarch.rpm'
sudo amdgpu-install

At the next restart of the boinc-client, something similar to this line should appear in the client's logs:

Oct 09 23:09:40 hostnameHere boinc[1709]: 09-Oct-2022 23:09:40 [---] OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: gfx90c:xnack- (driver version 3452.0 (HSA1.1,LC), device ve>

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