A couple of years ago i tried to use linux (Kubuntu) to crunch Einstein, because many people in the forum talked about speed advantage with Linux. I was unable to get my AMD card working, even with help from Einstein forum and a german Ubuntu forum. OpenCL did not work.

I do have a system (https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5403) that could be easily converted to a dual boot system; it's a backup system and not actively in use. It has a RX570 card installed. What would be the best Linux distribution to be used for a non Linux experienced user like me, easy to install even the AMD card? What is the performance of the RX570 here?

Or will be there a windows version for this card in the near future?

Just my two cents, but this project makes use of the CUDA libraries for the GPU version of the application. There is also a GPU test version using AMDROCM, but that uses a non-standard driver, one that doesn't get installed when installing whichever version of Linux, nor of the standard proprietary AMD GPUPRO drivers.

I keep missing these posts. Ugh.

One of a few things needs to happen to for AMD support under windows:

* AMD ports ROCm to Windows (unlikely anytime soon)
* PyTorch expands their Vulcan and/or OpenCL support to support training as well as inference.

ROCm on linux is actually pretty nice, and works fine with the stock kernel driver (4.19+). Polaris support will give a nice speedup over CPU, but for right now both vega and polaris support are lagging behind equivalent nvidia cards. There's an [url= https://gitlab.com/mlcathome/mlds/-/issues/8]issue on gitlab[/url] to look into why. Maybe the move to PyTorch 1.8 (in progress) might help.

Thank you for the reply.
The Question was: Which Linux distribution ist a good choice for a windows-user, who is not familiar with all the setup procedures required in linux.
I have a spare-system that can easily convertet to a linux system. I tried this a couple of years ago to crunch Einstein, but i was not able to get the ATI card running to crunch Einstein. For daily business all worked fine, but no crunching.
I had a three month discussion on the einstein-board, got a lot of help, but nothing worked. I was told, that different Linux distributions show a different level of complexity regarding the installation.

Since there are a lot of Linux crunchers here, who have experiance in using and maintaining Linux, i thought, i can get a hint which distribution to use and the chance to place questions here to get it running.

Thank you for the reply.
The Question was: Which Linux distribution ist a good choice for a windows-user, who is not familiar with all the setup procedures required in linux.
I have a spare-system that can easily convertet to a linux system. I tried this a couple of years ago to crunch Einstein, but i was not able to get the ATI card running to crunch Einstein. For daily business all worked fine, but no crunching.
I had a three month discussion on the einstein-board, got a lot of help, but nothing worked. I was told, that different Linux distributions show a different level of complexity regarding the installation.

Since there are a lot of Linux crunchers here, who have experiance in using and maintaining Linux, i thought, i can get a hint which distribution to use and the chance to place questions here to get it running.

Ubuntu is a good choice.

I prefer Linux Mint, although Ubuntu is always a good choice. If you are used to Windows, Linux Mint is the closest and is based on Ubuntu.

Note I've temporarily disabled the ROCm client as I needed to re-write the new version of the client and it'll change the WU format a little bit. Will re-enable it over the next few weeks.

I installed Linux Mint, Boinc.
Boinc manager says: no usable GPU found.
I have the RX570 installed.
Please help me ! What have i to do to get my gpu recogniced by boinc?

I tried the Ubuntu x86 64Bit friver package. Installer script said:
Unable to install pin package.
This driver may not support the running operating system

Download page offers:
- windows drivers ... not good for Mint
- RHEL x86 64 Bit
- CentOS
- SLED/SLES 15
- and of coarse Ubuntu x86 64 Bit.

Which one is the right package?

Try updating the GPU drivers in the OS settings in the GUI. Otherwise I am not sure, you can always give Ubuntu a try. Wish I could be more help.

I've tried that. Driver manager said, no updates available, all drivers installed.

So i tried ubuntu 21.04.
After installing boinc i tried to start boinc. An error occured, saying : chdir: access denied.
Did not start boinc.

I give up for now, it's too time consuming.

Anyway, thanks for the help.