No, you don't have to understand the algorithms in order to use the software.
But I understand your feedback. I put it on my list to make it really easy to see the software running once you have the executable.
There is one little complication though -- you do need a working OpenCL install in order to use GpuOwl. For example, for AMD GPUs, you'd need to install ROCm. On Nvidia GPUs you'd need a working install of CUDA.
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No, you don't have to understand the algorithms in order to use the software.
But I understand your feedback. I put it on my list to make it really easy to see the software running once you have the executable.
There is one little complication though -- you do need a working OpenCL install in order to use GpuOwl. For example, for AMD GPUs, you'd need to install ROCm. On Nvidia GPUs you'd need a working install of CUDA.
By default, we provision our machines for our customers, with Ubuntu and the latest version of ROCm.
The software compiled cleanly and easily, that part is very well done.
The flags on the software though are greek to me.