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Standalone memory tester for ATI+NV GPUs

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Jmtyra

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Reposting this from a thread at foldingforum.org (from August, but still interesting...)

Could be useful to verify a GPU OC prior to 24x7 FAH duty. :thup:

We've just released MemtestCL, a dedicated memory tester for OpenCL-capable GPUs in the same vein as MemtestG80 for CUDA-capable GPUs. In particular, this means that owners of ATI OpenCL-capable GPUs (the Radeon 4000 and up) can test their GPU memory as well. Binaries for Windows and 64-bit Linux are available, as is (LGPL-licensed) source code for those of you interested in doing additional development work (for example, GUI frontends).

Note that you must have an OpenCL-capable driver and runtime installed on your machine for this to work. For Nvidia, this means a 195 driver or newer; for ATI, you need the Cat 9.12 or newer video drivers, AS WELL AS installing the ATI Stream SDK (http://developer.amd.com/gpu/atistreamsdk/) - for some reason the OpenCL runtime does not come with the video driver. Incidentally, by installing the Stream SDK, you can use MemtestCL to test your CPU memory too.

Source and binaries are available at https://simtk.org/home/memtest. Binaries may also be found (without the SimTK mandatory registration) on the official FAH utilities page: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadUtils
 
Have to look into this... might be something I could incorporate or call from HFM. Just a thought as I have no idea how I would deal with remote machines.
 
That would be pretty neat, but wouldn't that stray away from HFM as being a reporting utility?

However, if you did want to do that, perhaps PsExec (from the PsTools suite) could allow you to remotely execute the tool.
 
Pretty sweet Jmtyra... when in doubt, look to sysinternals. This would only cover folks executing on Windows, but that's 90~95% of the HFM user base I think. Yes, it would stray slightly. Key word there is might incorporate. Sometimes I throw out ideas like this to see who bites... if it get's some attention, then it may be something the user base would like to have.
 
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