I updated my drivers (using a ATI OpenCL beta v0.2) and have successfully managed to pickup and process a Hybrid Astropulse. unfortunately Beta is down at the moment so I can't report it. It seemed to run through fine, but had nothing else running on the GPU at the time.

That's the nature of the hybrid, it does the FFA processing on the GPU (search for repetitive pulses), but single pulses, FFTs, etc. so far have to be done on the CPU. AMD/ATI will eventually provide FFT, I'm sure, though they do not seem as interested in scientific code as nVidia. But if they want to produce video cards usable in new Apple systems they must have adequate OpenCL support, and that should provide motivation for improvement.
                                                                            Joe

try to sen <count> to 0.5 instead of 1
It will allow 2 AP tasks instead of one. This should increase GPU usage.

Set avg_ncpus to low value to allow Multibeam be running together with AP

You can set it to 0 as long as <count> will not go lower than 0.5.
Anyway, only 2 AP from launched by BOINC will consume memory and do progress at time.

somewhere in BOINC's WiKi maybe...

Installed as specified a few days ago, but can't get any AP WU?

Yes, I have checked to receive all three types of units (seti, ap, apv5), and seti units are getting in, bot not the AP;

In messages, I get:
19.11.2009 9:57:29   SETI@home   Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
19.11.2009 9:57:29   SETI@home   Reporting 2 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for GPU
19.11.2009 9:57:39   SETI@home   Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
19.11.2009 9:57:39   SETI@home   Message from server: No work sent
19.11.2009 9:57:39   SETI@home   Message from server: No work is available for Astropulse v5

Any ideas? I am using Boinc 6.10.17 and ATI Catalyst 9.10.


My app_info.xml:

<app_info>
   <app>
      <name>astropulse_v505</name>
   </app>
   <file_info>
           <name>ap_5.05_win_x86_SSE3_BROOK_r280.exe</name>
           <executable/>
       </file_info>
       <app_version>
           <app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name>
           <version_num>505</version_num>
      <avg_ncpus>0.1</avg_ncpus>
      <max_ncpus>0.5</max_ncpus>
   <coproc>
   <type>ATI</type>
   <count>0.5</count>
   </coproc>
             <file_ref>
                  <file_name>ap_5.05_win_x86_SSE3_BROOK_r280.exe</file_name>
                  <main_program/>                           
           </file_ref>
       </app_version>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>AK_v8_win_SSE41.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>528</version_num>
        <file_ref>
           <file_name>AK_v8_win_SSE41.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
 <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>603</version_num>
        <file_ref>
           <file_name>AK_v8_win_SSE41.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

The project sometimes splits work for "Astropulse v505", and that's what the app_info.xml indicates your host is prepared to handle. But the "If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?   yes" setting in the project preferences is needed for SETI main. The "Astropulse" and "Astropulse v5" settings are basically meaningless now, the first is totally gone and resends of tasks for the second are perhaps possible but highly unlikely.
                                                                               Joe