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This is just a listing. It includes version data for versions I have not downloaded, much less installed or tested. Use with caution, if at all. Inclusion This listing is not an endorsement. 2019 Mar 22

Factoring calculators online For confirming exponents or found-factors are prime (720kbps = https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/prime-factors.php 324MB/hr) https://alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM

Drivers URL OS Version Date Size MB EVGA NVIDIA GTX 10xx (not compatible with and will disable some early cards such as Quadro 4000) https://www.evga.com/support/download/ Windows 7 419.35 2019 Mar 5 506 https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/ radeon-400-series/radeon-rx-400- AMD Adrenalin driver for RX480 series/radeon-rx-480 Windows 7 19.3.3 2019 Mar 20 451

Adjustment of GPU clock rates and fan curves (Use cautiously, test thoroughly for reliability) OS Version Format Date Size MB MSI Afterburner https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner Windows graphical 45 EVGA Precision XOC https://www.evga.com/precisionxoc/ Windows Vista thru 10 6.2.7 graphical 2018 May 7 50 EVGA PrecisionX1 for NVIDIA RTX20xx https://www.evga.com/precisionx1/ Windows 7 through 10 0.3.12beta graphical 2019 Feb 27 46 http://www.overclock.net/forum/folding-home-guides-tutorials/1506137-ubuntu- For NVIDIA gpus f-h-installation-ubuntu-gpu-cpu.html#user_optional For AMD gpus https://linuxconfig.org/overclock-your-radeon-gpu-with-amdgpu linux

Hardware identification or listing These can be useful when trying to identify what would be a suitable driver for a piece of hardware CPU-Z: Detailed information on your system hardware contents (down to DIMM serial numbers) https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html Windows V1.87 graphical 2018 Nov 13 2 hwinfo identify and monitor hardware www.hwinfo.com Windows V6.02 graphical 2019 Feb 21 8 hwinfo List all hardware on the system Http://www.github .com/opensuse/hwinfo linux 9f92ba4 2018 Dec 6 lspci list and identify PCI devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lspci linux Text console 2017 Feb 25 lsusb list and identify USB devices linux Text console

GPU memory testing NVIDIA CUDA via CUDALucas -memtest option https://sourceforge.net/p/cudalucas/wiki/Home/ source, Windows, linux 2.06beta Text console 2017 May 5 5 ways to check the memory of your video card for errors https://www.raymond.cc/blog/having-problems-with-video-card-stress-test-its-memory/

Hardware monitoring See also MSI Afterburner etc above, as some incorporate monitoring

GPU-Z is a lightweight system utility designed to provide vital information about your video card and graphics processor. Extensive features, including advanced tab showing OpenCL, CUDA, etc parameters; overclock, default clock; GPU BIOS backup. Supports NVIDIA, AMD, ATI and Intel graphics devices. Real-time sensor readings https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ Windows 2.18.0 graphical 2019 Mar 15 6 HWMonitor Monitor temperatures, clock rates, power, disk utilization, battery status, etc. AMD, Intel, NVIDIA https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html#version-history XP through Windows 10 1.40 graphical 2019 Mar 15 1

Kriesel Page 1 of 3 03/22/2019 18:15:34 utilities Sheet1 supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive Windows XP-10, linux, temperature can be displayed. https://openhardwaremonitor.org/ mono 0.8.0 beta graphical 2016 Nov 6 Nvidia-smi part of the driver install linux, Windows Text console ROCm-smi linux Text console Aticonfig --odgc –odgt (Found by SELROC; for ATI/AMD) linux Text console linux mesa open source Radeontop https://github.com/clbr/radeontop drivers33f7476 test or gui 2018 Dec 26 Recommendations for Intel, NVIDIA, and http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/monitoring-amd-intel-and-nvidia-graphics-card- AMD gpu monitoring usage-under-linux/ linux varies 1.0.0.9 AMD System Monitor https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDSystemMonitor.aspx Windows (2012) graphical error message (failed to launch) Windows Ten Task Manager (gpu https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-is-adding-a-gpu-monitor-to-task-manager- monitoring being added) in-windows-10/ Windows graphical Recommendations for linux gpu monitoring https://askubuntu.com/questions/387594/how-to-measure-gpu-usage linux varies lmsensors linux Text console site listing alternatives https://alternativeto.net/software/open-hardware-monitor/

Device control The PCI Utilities are a collection of programs for inspecting and manipulating configuration of PCI devices, all based on a common portable library libpci which offers access to the PCI configuration space on a variety of linux, *BSD, Windows, thought to be operating systems. http://mj.ucw.cz/sw/pciutils/ etc 3.6.2text 2018 Aug 12 1 Devcon https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/devcon Windows Text console 2017 Apr 19

Small software utilities Tail (show last lines of a file; native to linux) http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/ Windows cmd line Tee (native in linux; present in Powershell in some Windows versions) Sends stdout to both console and file https://superuser.com/questions/74127/tee-for-windows#74128 cmd line Send a message to a syslog server (“logger” in linux) http://www.monitorware.com/en/logger/index.php Windows ?cmd line 2006 Sep 19 1

Remote Desktop Server is the desktop being served up; client is the system where it's being viewed/interacted with Windows Remote Desktop (serve desktop to another system) is included in Pro versions of Windows Workstation, but not in home versions TightVNC remote desktop (for remote administration of systems otherwise to Windows 10 and back lacking graphical remote desktop server to Windows 95 and NT4; support, or cross-platform) http://tightvnc.net/ linux 2.8.11 graphical 2019 Feb 1 2 TeamViewer https://www.teamviewer.com/en-us/ 14.2.2558 graphical 2019 Mar 22 22 LogMeIn's GoToMyPC https://get.gotomypc.com/plansandpricing Mac or PC Additional remote desktop choices https://lifehacker.com/5080121/five-best-remote-desktop-tools including for MacOS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop- Remote Desktop client for Mac services/clients/remote-desktop-mac Mac

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Checking OpenCL on a system

clinfo indicated as pre-alpha, from 2010 https://sourceforge.net/projects/clinfo/ linux graphical 2013 Apr 2 OCLDeviceQuery.exe Query OpenCL properties of devices and store in text file in current directory http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/DevZone/OpenCL/Projects/oclDeviceQuery.zip Use results with caution; understates V2.0 as 1.2. From 2012 https://github.com/sschaetz/nvidia-opencl-examples/blob/master/OpenCL/src/oclDeviceQuery/oclDeviceQuery.cpp OpenCL hardware detection listing, etc https://streamhpc.com/blog/2011-12-29/opencl-hardware-support/ 2011

Development oriented Intel OpenCL drivers, runtimes and SDK (CPU and Intel GPU or FPGA) https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/opencl-drivers 2018 Oct 30 AMD tools and SDKs https://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/ NVIDIA OpenCL https://developer.nvidia.com/opencl NVIDIA Performance Analysis https://developer.nvidia.com/performance-analysis-tools NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads 10.1 2019 Feb 9 https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-archive 10.0 and below NVIDIA drivers http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us varies by device varies by device Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition; A free, fully featured, and extensible solution for individual developers to create applications for Android, iOS, Windows, and the web. Target several platforms from one development platform. (expires?) https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ Windows, Mac 2017 15.9.9 graphical 2019 Mar 12 MinGW free and open source software development environment for creating applications. MinGW can be run either on the native Microsoft varies by Windows platform, cross-hosted on component; Linux (or other Unix), or some 2019 'cross-native' on Cygwin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW http://mingw.org/ Windows, Linux, Unix Text console Jan 22

Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts, and supports a large number of guest VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and operating systems AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for including but not limited enterprise as well as home use. Not only to Windows (NT 4.0, is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, 2000, XP, Server 2003, high performance product for enterprise Vista, Windows 7, customers, it is also the only professional Windows 8, Windows solution that is freely available as Open 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Source Software under the terms of the Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and GNU General Public License (GPL) 4.x), Solaris and version 2. See About VirtualBox" for an OpenSolaris, OS/2, and 6.0.4 / introduction. https://www.virtualbox.org/ OpenBSD. 5.2.26 graphical 2019 Jan28

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