Which GPU are you using ? If you are running a CI or VI part (Bonaire,
Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji etc..) then you can install the amdgpu hybrid stack
which is replacing fglrx, and get the same OpenCL driver. If you are
running an SI part (Cape Verde, Pitcairn or Tahiti) then we are still
working on that support so staying on 14.04 for a bit longer would be
good.

For older parts (anything pre-GCN) you will need to go back to a 14.04
LTS install for sure.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568233

Title:
  BOINC doesn't recognize AMD/ATI GPU in 16.04 despite sudo /etc/init.d
  /boinc-client restart

Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Back on 14.04 and also 12.04, all you had to do to get BOINC to use
  the GPU(s), was to install AMD's proprietary fglrx driver, and then
  type in terminal:

  sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart

  You had to type that like every time you (re)started Ubuntu for BOINC
  to recognize your graphics card, but it worked to fix the GPU
  recognition with AMD cards (not sure about Nvidia cards though, since
  I don't have any). Now however, in 16.04, AMD's Catalyst drivers have
  been deprecated, and while the switch to AMD's improved open source
  GPU drivers is a good move, for some reason, this command line no
  longer works to recognize AMD graphics cards. And since we can no
  longer install fglrx/Catalyst on Xenial, I hope AMD's work on their
  open source drivers gets a BOINC optimization ASAP.

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