GpuGrid

[STEvil]

At last CUDA is workin trough BOINC!
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cuda.php

http://www.gpugrid.net/science.php



Hey guys, run this on your GPU's (nV only at the moment) until WCG gets with the program :D

[[XC] Lead Head]

How bout some love for us ATI guys?

[D_A]

I seem to remember hearing that they were going to get with the program and start putting CUDA capability in their stuff as well ... eventually.

[123bob]

http://www.gpugrid.net/science.php



Hey guys, run this on your GPU's (nV only at the moment) until WCG gets with the program :D

Help me out with how to do this. I run it as another project in CUDA Boinc 6.4.5, right? Do I simply attach like I did for WCG?

I'm assuming I can run both WCG and this at the same time, right? I'll have to see how much it slows WCG down by crunching the vid card.

Does Xtreme have a team on GPUGRID I need to join?

Sorry for the 20 questions....

I'll give it a whirl. I have an 8800GTX that needs some work...
Thx,
Bob

[STEvil]

Honestly I dont know, I havent tried yet as my motherboard decided to blow up. When I get it back together with my backup board i'll toss in my 8800GTS/G92 and see if I can make anything happen.

[Angmaar]

I'm pretty sure XS has a gpugrid team because I was going to join it with my 9600gt.

[123bob]

OK, did some playing around. I went over to GPUgrid, found our Xtreme team ranked 71st.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s48/123bob_bucket/680i%20install%20pics/GPUGIRDxtremeteam.jpg

Here's who is on the team. I added myself afterwards, of course...;)
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s48/123bob_bucket/680i%20install%20pics/GPUGIRDxtrememembers.jpg

Got all excited and installed 6.4.5 on my only machine that was listed as barely compatible. (My expensive 8800GTX won't even play here...:mad:)

Attached to GPUgrid project just like we attach to WCG.

These are the messages I got back from GPUGrid.....on both the 8800GTX and the 8600GTS.
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s48/123bob_bucket/680i%20install%20pics/gpugridrejection.jpg

This was on my 8800GTX, which is not supposed to be capable. I got the same messages on my 8600GTS card, which is supposed to be able barely run it anyway.

EDIT: Well, stupid me :slobber: The machine I thought had the 8600GS actually had the old 7100 card.....Oopps! I knew I was tired last night...:eek: I threw 6.4.5 on the machine that has the 8600GS, connected to CPUGRID and it took off. Now crunching on the GPU. Right at the moment, I'm only attached to gpugrid because I want to see how it behaves without WCG masking it. I can say that it makes your video (at least on this 8600) rather jerky when you try to do other tasks. It doesn't seem to "hide" like WCG does. For gamers this means suspending the project when you are gaming.... A small trade-off for getting more crunching done. I'll post more detailed analysis in a bit, when it settles in and I can take some screenies. 2ND EDIT: You can suspend project automatically when computer is in use on the gpugrid preferences page. I'll see how this works. END EDIT:

Hmmm, does not look promising but I'm not about to stop there. I'll try getting new drivers and such. There is a sub-forum for nVidia cards over there that seems to show some promise. Some folks are even having this same issue with high end cards so there must be some growing pains going on. I'll do the research tomorrow. I may be able to get one card running at least.

BTW, the SH2 project they have looks sort of interesting.

Regards,
Bob

[STEvil]

I think CUDA requires an installer that doesnt come with the driver package.

[The Warlock]

Well, i joined, and my 8800gt 1gb seems to be working fine.

[don_xvi]

Good to see you guys diversifying to use more hardware !

And there's still Folding @ Home for you to use your GPUs on, ATI & NVidia !

[Naja002]

:welcome: aboard gentlemen......:up:

[123bob]

Always happy to further my crunching addiction......emmm...errr.....my contribution....:rofl:

For the others, Naja is the "DDT" of xtreme gpugrid team stats right now. With only 9 team members, it should be easy to get into the top ten for some of you. The only hardware I have capable of running is a 8600GTS, for now.

This will put new considerations into my cruncher builds if this co-exists nicely with WCG. I can see a high end graphic card(s) in each machine. (And it could damage my bank account too. :eek:)

Bob

[don_xvi]

Speaking of DDTung, where is he ?

[Naja002]

For the others, Naja is the "DDT" of xtreme gpugrid team stats right now.




:rofl: :ROTF: I'm actually down to 25% (1 Gpu) atm. Just need to get off my lazy @zz and get a few things straightened out......:shakes:

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f347/Naja002/Smilies/procrastinators.png

[Metroid]

The problem is using 7 cores of my I7 920 is no problem. I still can use my computer for everything which uses up to 1 core. The computer will get slow when using the GPU even if you leave many cores unused idle. The GPU does the most of the working.

Rule: leave at least 1 core CPU + 1 core GPU idle. If you can not then 1 GPU core will be enough for system instability.

If you have 2 to 4 GPU's great, 1 for the system and 3 for the GPUGrid.

[illidan]

i'm waiting for asus 9800gtx+ dark knight and then will put current 9600gt 100% available for GPUGrid

[Martijn]

What about a GTX280? :cool:

[illidan]

to expensive :)

[123bob]

What about a GTX280? :cool:

As far as I can tell on the gpugrid forum, that's the "i7" of GPU crunching right now.

What I'm going to start asking over there is what the ppd for various cards is. I'm going to be looking for the equivalent of the Q6600 for the "sweet spot" on cost versus performance.

First I need to re-assure myself that it can co-exist with WCG properly. I'm not sure how far I will take this new form of the "addiction". :rofl:

.....and I thought you were off skiing in Switzerland? How is that going? :up:

Bob

[illidan]

GTX295... meaner beast :D

http://i39.tinypic.com/20p6g7r.jpg

[The Warlock]

Ok, been giving this go with 2 8800gt 1gb and a 9600gt 512mb, seems i`m loosing some points in wcg, but the gains in GpuGrid,wow, a 8800gt will produce 3200 points a day and the 9600gt 2400 points, not bad, i mite loose a thousand in wcg,though. I also have put a 8600gt on folding home. The three computers on GpuGrid gets abit choppy with wcg, but folding home runs fine with wcg. Not many members on the Gpu team yet, so climbing will be fast and furious,lol. Some off the tasks on one machine has also errored out, looking into that. So if youre looking at boinc combined score, GpuGrid really pays off. But .........i hate loosing wcg points, ill run it for a week and two to evaluate, then ill make up my mind about it. (dont try too run games with this in the background, wont be fun:yepp::ROTF:)

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

Oh, Great, Now I have to watch my back in F@H from you too :shakes: :p: Just one HD4870 here though so no much of a PPD maker.

Might as well run Dimes and MJ12 and just chase me all around :hehe:

[The Warlock]

mysticmerlin;3521487']Oh, Great, Now I have to watch my back in F@H from you too :shakes: :p: Just one HD4870 here though so no much of a PPD maker.

Might as well run Dimes and MJ12 and just chase me all around :hehe:

lOL, A 8600gt can`t make more than a hd4870,now,can it?
And hmm, dimes and mj12, considering,lol:ROTF:,no, dont worry my friend, and i`m not chasing you in wcg anymore, you and youre darn collective is strong:yepp::ROTF:. But ill race you in gpugrid, how about it?
Anyone here that have some tips and results,ppd and such, please post here.

[[XC] riptide]

Is GPUgrid still limited to Unix?

EDIT: AAAHAHAHAHAH it now windows also!!! http://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php

EDIT2: Won't run on my 8800 GTX. Idiots. lol

[The Warlock]

Im running windows vista x64 on all mine.

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

And hmm, dimes and mj12, considering,lol:ROTF:,no, dont worry my friend, and i`m not chasing you in wcg anymore, you and youre darn collective is strong:yepp::ROTF:. But ill race you in gpugrid, how about it?

GPU grid is nVidia only :down:

[[XC] riptide]

Im running windows vista x64 on all mine.

Ya. Windows is a recent addition. For a while it was Unix/PS3 only IIRC. Windows came out only a week or so ago.

[The Warlock]

riptide;3521701']Ya. Windows is a recent addition. For a while it was Unix/PS3 only IIRC. Windows came out only a week or so ago.

Seems to work fine though, many points to be had, have only had errors on one(could be my computer), strange 8800gtx isnt supported, havent had any problems with mine.With my three on the project the trade off for 1000-1500 wcg points too 8000 gpugrid points seems too good to be true,:yepp::up:

[[XC] riptide]

Seems to work fine though, many points to be had, have only had errors on one(could be my computer), strange 8800gtx isnt supported, havent had any problems with mine.With my three on the project the trade off for 1000-1500 wcg points too 8000 gpugrid points seems too good to be true,:yepp::up:

8800GTX = G80. ;) Apparently not supported for Cuda SDK version 2.0 :rolleyes: Not surprisingly I can own most 8800 Gt's (G92) and 9600 's on Folding @ Home, thanks to 128 shaders. But alas on this particular project they seemed to cater for teh G92 and upwards crowd. :(

[The Warlock]

riptide;3521845']8800GTX = G80. ;) Apparently not supported for Cuda SDK version 2.0 :rolleyes: Not surprisingly I can own most 8800 Gt's (G92) and 9600 's on Folding @ Home, thanks to 128 shaders. But alas on this particular project they seemed to cater for teh G92 and upwards crowd. :(

I threw a a 8600gt at it also,thats seems to be working aswell, rather slow, but chugging along.

[mike047]

Is anyone having issues with "memory leak" using Ubuntu 8.04. I have a XFX 9600GSO on a bone stock X2 3800 and after about 4 hours all the memory[1gb] is gone and the swap is full...causing constant writes to the hard drive. Using 6.4.2 or 6.4.5 makes no difference and running other project makes no difference.

Only resolution that I have found to release the memory is to reboot or re-run benchmarks.

[BulldogPO]

I´m doing gpugrid with two GTX 280´s

[Paladin]

I've been having to reboot frequently under first 8.04 then 8.10 (I thought the update would fix it), but for issue of eth0/eth1 disappearing and ifdown/up doesn't restore it.

[The Warlock]

Good work, guys, were climbing pretty fast now!:up:

[Angmaar]

I'm joining GPUgrid with my 9600gt while i test my cpu for stability.

[Firechicken]

I am going to join on with my 9800 GTX and see how she runs, protine research is always good research!

[Martijn]

As far as I can tell on the gpugrid forum, that's the "i7" of GPU crunching right now.

What I'm going to start asking over there is what the ppd for various cards is. I'm going to be looking for the equivalent of the Q6600 for the "sweet spot" on cost versus performance.

First I need to re-assure myself that it can co-exist with WCG properly. I'm not sure how far I will take this new form of the "addiction". :rofl:

.....and I thought you were off skiing in Switzerland? How is that going? :up:

Bob
I had internet :up:

I did GPU Grid for a while. It ran fine on my GTX280, but the other 8600GT required a full CPU core and made my screens lagging like crazy. Since I run these cards in the same system I can't do GPU crunching, unless I can find a way to disable the 8600GT in CUDA. I really hope this won't be the case when WCG release their client.

[[XC] riptide]

CPU usage has been reported at between 80% for quads and a 'normal' CPU usage of 15%... depending on diff setups.

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=633#5396

[mike047]

riptide;3587061']CPU usage has been reported at between 80% for quads and a 'normal' CPU usage of 15%... depending on diff setups.

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=633#5396

Mine is 15% or less on one core only[linux], Windows users get hammered on the cpu usage. I have 9600GSO[384/768] cards running on 4 AMD dual cores and 2 AMD quads. Cards make 3k+ a day and I still get all the cores crunching something else. Poem, Docking, Sha-1 work with little or no issues. Rosetta uses too much memory and uses swap files to the max. I run Ubuntu 8.04.

I run 6.4.5 boinc manager with 177.82 nvidia drivers. Runs good overall.

[Firechicken]

I had internet :up:

I did GPU Grid for a while. It ran fine on my GTX280, but the other 8600GT required a full CPU core and made my screens lagging like crazy. Since I run these cards in the same system I can't do GPU crunching, unless I can find a way to disable the 8600GT in CUDA. I really hope this won't be the case when WCG release their client.


I just been finding out same problems as you martijn :( My card is a 9800GTX and it wasnt to bad with the jerkeyness there was a little with many web pages open but I did not like the fact It required a whole cpu core from my dual core cpu like your smaller card did. I am working on increasing my output so I thought I'll put this on hold least till I get into a dual core type card or one faster than the 9800gtx (which is a real dissapointment btw) 280,295, or 4870x2 would be nice then maby I can have another look at this eh.

Cheers,


EDIT: Doh!! Sorry Riptide I just seen your posts....sorry mate! (thats what I get for typing away after waking up eh **smacks head**)

MD.

[bowman]

No G80 support, cute.

I'll keep my power bill low, they can stay elitist. F@H doesn't seem to have any problem supporting CUDA 1.0 devices. Funny.

[jcool]

Nvidia only? What an epic fail. No NV card can match the raw shader power of an HD4870X2 to date, not even the GTX 295. Oh well their loss.
And don't even get me started about folding on it, I'd have to attach 1 fake monitor first and do all kinds of crazy optimizations and still lose to a single GTX 280 in PPD :ROTF: :shakes:

[[XC] riptide]

Nvidia only? What an epic fail. No NV card can match the raw shader power of an HD4870X2 to date, not even the GTX 295. Oh well their loss.
And don't even get me started about folding on it, I'd have to attach 1 fake monitor first and do all kinds of crazy optimizations and still lose to a single GTX 280 in PPD :ROTF: :shakes:

beacause thats 'The Way its meant to be Crunched'

[Gamekiller]

i tried it, but i only have a card in my main rig.. and sadly it slowed down my wcg too much to continue using it =/ good luck guys

[YukonTrooper]

Nvidia only? What an epic fail. No NV card can match the raw shader power of an HD4870X2 to date, not even the GTX 295. Oh well their loss.
And don't even get me started about folding on it, I'd have to attach 1 fake monitor first and do all kinds of crazy optimizations and still lose to a single GTX 280 in PPD :ROTF: :shakes:
ATI's fault for not getting with the program and offering support.

Anyways, GPU crunching is fantastic. Using it for SETI@Home Beta. Maybe I'll tag up for GPUG on Xtreme. I imagine we could have a pretty competitive team, considering all the high-end GPU's kickin' around these parts.

[123bob]

This is my first adventure into GPU crunching land. I appreciate the comments above, lets keep them coming.

From my perspective, I crunched only CPU WUs for WCG, so all this is new to me. Only my main rig was considered to do GPUGrid for it's GPU card. I had an 8800GTX in there which was fine for everything else but GPUGrid. :mad: Yes, I was kind of PO'ed to find out it wasn't good enough to put some points on the board. I had to come at it with a secondary 8600 GTS, that was in a back up rig. That kind of s**ked too. I had to keep ditching WUs so that the card could get a few through. Forget actually using the machine while crunching, surfing was even out of the question....

I will say the GTX 260-216 I have now in the main rig is working well. I can actually do other stuff on that machine while it crunches.

Technology moves on. I'm willing to accept that the rig I bought two years ago is now obsolete. It still stings though that the GPU is too out-of-date to perform though.....I'll live with that and move on. Just like other things in my life that sting....:yepp: Nothing is perfect, nothing takes you, the individual, into total consideration. It just plain is.....

That's the true nature of the universe. We are mere participants. If we are wise, we can also have some small influence on the outcome, at any given moment in history. Something to think about....

As to the angst about nVidia vs ATI, I hope both of them come up with research friendly interfaces. I make ALL my hardware choices on the farm based on this. Yes, we are a small part of the computer world, but we are vocal and we make decisions based on this.

Keep your eyes on the goal. I'm no fan-boy for anyone's product. I expect them to make a product for my needs, not the other way around. If they don't, I don't buy it. I would hope that AMD/ATI survives. I will buy their products again, in lots of copies, when they meet my needs.

The burning question I have for all here is not about the details. It is about whether crunching GPUGrid projects have some beneficial use. I don't have an answer to that yet. I'm still looking and taking it on faith so far.

We now have a forum to debate these things in. Let's use it wisely.

Regards to all,
Bob

[mike047]

Here are the experiments that they are running;

http://www.gpugrid.net/science.php

I also see sometimes a "GPUTEST" work unit. I don't know their specific intent but only see them occasionally.

[The Warlock]

We are in 27 place on recent credit and 42 place on total, wow, we will seriously be moving up, and, ill take my hat off for you ,Naja002,yeez!:yepp::up:

[jcool]

ATI's fault for not getting with the program and offering support.

Anyways, GPU crunching is fantastic. Using it for SETI@Home Beta. Maybe I'll tag up for GPUG on Xtreme. I imagine we could have a pretty competitive team, considering all the high-end GPU's kickin' around these parts.

No offense, but I'd rather save the 300W my GFX card would drain searching for space aliens ;)
If it was even supported, that is :rolleyes:

Truth is, I didn't think GPU crunching would be here so soon. Or I might have gotten an NV card... for Gaming, the X2 just was the better option at the time (and still is on a 24"). Still I feel kinda screwed having that much power idling away all the time :shakes:

So, anyone discovered a good use for overpowered, watercooled ATI cards yet? Apart from gaming and running 3d06 :p:

[Naja002]

We are in 27 place on recent credit and 42 place on total, wow, we will seriously be moving up, and, ill take my hat off for you ,Naja002,yeez!:yepp::up:

Many Thanx, Warlock. :up: I've just got a head-start on everybody that's all. :yepp: I'm only running 3x 8800's, so it won't be long before someone with the 260/280, 285/295 catches up and passes me.....:yepp: :p:

It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride though...both on their end and mine. Mostly their end though as they work through the growing pains. They pretty much got things sorted out until Seti and Einstein came along.....now more growing pains as they all band together to get Boinc to run the various clients.

F@H has and still is going through the same growing pains as they try to advance their gpu client also.

Best advice that I can offer is: If you are into beta and troubleshooting et al...jump in there and enjoy it. If not, then just find a version and driver that works well and update cautiously. This last round of problems has really been beyond the end users control, so ya just have to roll with it. But it can be frustrating. This last bit has cost me probably 12K/day in WCG points, but I think that's sorted out. I'll know in a few days....:up:

Glad to see others joining in though. GPUGrid is a Boinc points goldmine...:up:

[YukonTrooper]

No offense, but I'd rather save the 300W my GFX card would drain searching for space aliens ;)
If it was even supported, that is :rolleyes:
If we were to get into that discussion, I'd tell you I have my own personal feelings about crunching for AIDS and cancer, but it would stir the pot, so I won't go there.

[jcool]

In case anyone is interested, I registered the project currently letting a GTX 280 crunch on it. Surprisingly it takes almost 0 CPU load (0-1% on one HT core of the i7 rig it's installed in), so that it can run WCG and GPUgrid without wasting any cycles.
It's a 3,8Ghz i7 with HT enabled running on XP Pro x64 and 180.48 NV drivers.

[[XC] riptide]

Thats good going.. they must have improved the client somewhat.

[skycrane]

on a q9400 with xp64, its only taking 1-2% of the cpu with 2 gso's running. anyone know if there is a way in boinc to change the priority it runs at?
id like to be able to bump it up to above normal, or high. just to make sure the gpu is getting fed with info. ive tried running dnet with it on single core, but im not sure how well that is working.

[[XC] riptide]

You can change teh GPU priority in the dnet client you know. 9 been highest.. etc Might work for what your doing.

[123bob]

In case anyone is interested, I registered the project currently letting a GTX 280 crunch on it. Surprisingly it takes almost 0 CPU load (0-1% on one HT core of the i7 rig it's installed in), so that it can run WCG and GPUgrid without wasting any cycles.
It's a 3,8Ghz i7 with HT enabled running on XP Pro x64 and 180.48 NV drivers.

I think you've found the "sweet spot" for GPU crunching? On my harper rig without HT, GPUGrid occupies an entire CPU core. It can't crunch the WCG WU on that core. Are you finding that the unused part of the HT core is being used by the WCG WU? I.e. is the completion times on the lightly loaded HT core, and it's "real" core, shorter for the WCG unit it's running?

Hope this makes sense,

Bob

P.S. We are moving up in the team ranks quick, even though we are few. :up: To everyone putting in cycles. :toast:

[The Warlock]

I use boinc client 6.6.3 and its doing 4 wcg and one gpugrid now, havent seen losses now, not on wcg(increase) and no loss on gpugrid.Isnt cool. going to try out beta 6.6.7 now.

[123bob]

I use boinc client 6.6.3 and its doing 4 wcg and one gpugrid now, havent seen losses now, not on wcg(increase) and no loss on gpugrid.Isnt cool. going to try out beta 6.6.7 now.

Oh, I see. I'm using an older version client. I'll load up the newer one.. It would help if I paid attention once in a while...:D

As a side note, I came down to check my main rig. It seems to be out!! Won't power up. Have to look into that for a bit. I may have lost the PSU....

EDIT: Main rig was dead. I had thought the PSU went bad. It tested good....Hmmm....Turns out that the 24 pin extension cable I used on this rig is a bit bad. I can bend the wires on one end and get the machine to come up. I'm glad I found this....Had to clean out my shorts thinking that my dualie board may have gone away.....

On the other topic, I've been using 6.4.5. Looks like I want 6.5 or higher to get it to crunch WCG on all cores and use only part of a core to crunch GPUGrid. I see 6.6.7 out there. I give that a try. It certainly was bugging me to waste cycles on the core that fed GPUGrid.....END EDIT

Bob

[jcool]

I think you've found the "sweet spot" for GPU crunching? On my harper rig without HT, GPUGrid occupies an entire CPU core. It can't crunch the WCG WU on that core. Are you finding that the unused part of the HT core is being used by the WCG WU? I.e. is the completion times on the lightly loaded HT core, and it's "real" core, shorter for the WCG unit it's running?

Hope this makes sense,

Bob

P.S. We are moving up in the team ranks quick, even though we are few. :up: To everyone putting in cycles. :toast:

I have no idea what youre talkin about, but I am pretty drunk right now so it might not be your fault :D
Anyway I dont think its specific to HT or no HT, more like dependant on the OS/Driver configuration. Maybe the card used plays a role as well. I get 5-10 CPU minutes used per GPUgrid WU, which takes the card a few hours, so yeah its pretty good.

[jcool]

Oh yeah, something else that pisses me off about GPUgrid... the scheduler requests are only done once every 24 hours, and the freakin project doesn't assign a lot of WUs somehow. Which means the GTX 280 always runs out of WUs after half a day until the freakin scheduler requests new ones. Can I enable a cache queue like with WCG somewhere? Because I can't keep manually syncing the darn project all day

[Naja002]

Oh yeah, something else that pisses me off about GPUgrid... the scheduler requests are only done once every 24 hours, and the freakin project doesn't assign a lot of WUs somehow. Which means the GTX 280 always runs out of WUs after half a day until the freakin scheduler requests new ones. Can I enable a cache queue like with WCG somewhere? Because I can't keep manually syncing the darn project all day

It's a known glitch. The faster cards are chewing through the wus. They upped the max wus/day from 4 to 15. What they plan on doing now or when--I have no idea. If you are getting through 15 wus/day...then you are pretty much out of luck for now. If not, then there may be an issue for you to look into on their forums...:up:

[jcool]

Hm yeah.. its pretty fast lol. GPUgrid measures its computational power at 144 Gigaflops :rofl: :up:

[road-runner]

How do I get the gpu to work? I installed the lastest boinc but I see nothing about gpugrid, I attached to WCG and it is running?


Edit: Never mind I figured it out...

[skycrane]

good to see youre over here on the "other side" RR :) im going to have to give the new client a try now

[road-runner]

Thanks skycrane, I got this going on 2-8800Gt yesterday evening and it is just now on 94-95 % is it supposed to run that slow, it is showing gpu time to like 1:04 and it has been running around 11 or 12 hours?

[skycrane]

yea that sounds about right, it dosent use much cpu power. what version of boinc are you using? and what CUDA ?
i believe that the newest ones are working the best right now. if you have Affinity Changer, you can increase it to " above normal, or high" and still be able to crunch something else on the cpu, but it cant be any boinc stuff. ogr-26 works well running it on the cpu while you run gpugrid. ive got them both running on one of my riggs and they work ok together.

[jcool]

Something is off with this freaking project. Every now and then I get computational error on all the WUs it downloaded from one day, and then it won't download any WUs for a day. Then when it loads new ones it crunches them perfectly fine. Card is 2h ATItool stable so it's not the HW. WTF?

[road-runner]

yea that sounds about right, it dosent use much cpu power. what version of boinc are you using? and what CUDA ?
i believe that the newest ones are working the best right now. if you have Affinity Changer, you can increase it to " above normal, or high" and still be able to crunch something else on the cpu, but it cant be any boinc stuff. ogr-26 works well running it on the cpu while you run gpugrid. ive got them both running on one of my riggs and they work ok together.

I have the newest drivers from nvidias website I got them yesterday after my format and new install. I am boinc 6.4.5 and running WCG along with it, WCG only uses 3 cores while gpugrid is using 1...

[The Warlock]

I have the newest drivers from nvidias website I got them yesterday after my format and new install. I am boinc 6.4.5 and running WCG along with it, WCG only uses 3 cores while gpugrid is using 1...

Get the latest beta client, it will run wcg on all cores and gpugrid on the side, 5 workunits.:yepp::up:

[road-runner]

Get the latest beta client, it will run wcg on all cores and gpugrid on the side, 5 workunits.:yepp::up:

Gone to get it!

http://www.schemamag.ca/archive2/images/speedy-gonzales.jpg

[skycrane]

just got the beta myself, i was able to install the new one right over the old one, without any problems. everything is looking good:)

[[XC] Hicks121]

Get the latest beta client, it will run wcg on all cores and gpugrid on the side, 5 workunits.:yepp::up:

Ok but is this on XP or Vista x64? I have a nice VC sitting idle, but I dont want to loose a core for WCG.

& a link to the beta. Also do I sign up for XS? I look if its explained elsewhere.

Hicks

[skycrane]

all of mine are on xp64, and you will NOT loose a core to run gpugrid

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

[Angmaar]

I just got the newest boinc client and i'm running 3 work units (1gpu,2cpu).

[[XC] Hicks121]

oK, I have this all set up & crunch for XS.

How long does it take for your gpu's to do a wu? Mine seem to be taking like 6-8 hrs each.

LMK

Hicks

[[XC] Hicks121]

bump!!!

[[XC] junglemaster]

I put this on my main machine last night :) not sure if I downloaded any WU's for it though...my card might not be strong enough :) maybe I need to invest in a few 285's?

[Naja002]

Hicks121;3725086']oK, I have this all set up & crunch for XS.

How long does it take for your gpu's to do a wu? Mine seem to be taking like 6-8 hrs each.

LMK

Hicks

There are 3 or 4 different WUs now of varying length, and it depends upon which card. For a 260---6-8 hrs sounds reasonable. :up:

[Angmaar]

Is it even worth it to crunch on a 9600gt or does it take too long?

[skycrane]

im running it on 2 gso's and they are running good :)

i think anything over 64 shaders should be a decent cruncher.... i mean if your going to have it on, why not let it crunch ??

im doing 4200 on a 88gs, 6600 on 9800gx2 but its only running one core, and 8400 on 2 9600GSO

[BababooeyHTJ]

I need to update BOINC to use GPU GRID. Would I lose my work done in WCG? Could I run WCG and this or will I lose a WU?

[skycrane]

i would say to let the wu finish then update boinc, it all depends on how old the version of boinc you are using, ive had some of the older ones redo al the wu and delete them, but on the newer ones, ive updated in the middle of a wu, and it kept on going. without deleting anything

[STEvil]

I swapped in an 8800GTX last night and now I cant get GPU work units?? Still have my 8800GTS in there too...

[[XC] riptide]

I swapped in an 8800GTX last night and now I cant get GPU work units?? Still have my 8800GTS in there too...

Stevil. G80 = don't work. I have one too. :(

[STEvil]

but my 8800GTS quit working too...

[jcool]

I really don't like GPUgrid, it :banana::banana::banana::banana:s up ways too often for me.

[mike047]

I really don't like GPUgrid, it :banana::banana::banana::banana:s up ways too often for me.


I have 11 cards running, 2-260,2-8800, a 9800, a 250, and 5-9600.

I have almost NO issues with this project. Being a new project it has had two extended outages on weekends when the school staff were unavailable to sort the servers. This has since been rectified. The staff generally reacts to problems in prompt manner.

I had two cards have a total of 4 wu failures and those were attributed to hardware/software errors on my part.

From my point of view, this is a well run stable project that offers Nvidia card users a means to contribute to science and make "big" Boinc credit.


If you have issues, post on their forum or pm some of the more active crunchers there, help to sort an issue is available.

[jcool]

Well, I had a GTX 260 and a 280 running GPUgrid for a week or so once, both watercooled and not overclocked on 2 different machines. Both failed repeatedly after 2-3 days runtime, showed computational errors after like 5s and then didn't get new WUs of course. I don't have any compatible cards any more anyways, since they are only supporting NV G92 and up, and I mostly use ATI. If they start supporting my X2, then we can talk.

[mike047]

Well, I had a GTX 260 and a 280 running GPUgrid for a week or so once, both watercooled and not overclocked on 2 different machines. Both failed repeatedly after 2-3 days runtime, showed computational errors after like 5s and then didn't get new WUs of course. I don't have any compatible cards any more anyways, since they are only supporting NV G92 and up, and I mostly use ATI. If they start supporting my X2, then we can talk.

X2, 9800????

[jcool]

HD4870X2 ofc

[mike047]

HD4870X2 ofc

Oh, I don't know anything about the ATI cards. There are a couple of projects that use the ATI cards though. Seti, milkyway, Einstien is working on one also and Lattice, maybe.

They are all in infancy also.

[skycrane]

milkyway is probably the best for points, but untill they get thier new "milkyway gpu "servers up and running, you will hardly get any work, unless you run a script to pound the servers to get you wu. but thats the problem, everyone is running scripts, and no one is getting work.

they should have the new WU for the gpu on its own server verry soon, hopefully by next week, then we can start running :)

[Duh]

is there an installation tutorial?

[Angmaar]

is there an installation tutorial?

Go to attach project and select the gpugrid url. Then make an account.

[loonym]

What about sli? Anyone doing this? Is it of any use?


edit: nm... I tried and can't enable sli after I installed the cuda driver.

[Naja002]

What about sli? Anyone doing this? Is it of any use?


edit: nm... I tried and can't enable sli after I installed the cuda driver.

Not sure why You can't enable it, but it doesn't work with GpuGrid and, IIRC, it doesn't work with any of the Gpu projects. Physx appears to offer no benefit, so people normally disable it also....:up:

HTH

[123bob]

is there an installation tutorial?

It installs just like WCG. You make an account at GPUGrid, then BOINC away. You should use the current version of BOINC for it.

You just attach to project GPUGrid in BOINC and away you go. You can also attach to WCG on the same client. That's how I run mine. GPUGrid crunches the cuda GPU, WCG crunches the CPUs. (It's a dually machine).

Bob

[jcool]

Hey guys,

I just joined back to GPUgrid with 2x GTX 260. One will be running 24/7 (a 55nm 260-216) while the other is only part-time (65nm in friend's rig).
Unfortunately Rivatuner won't let me OC with the latest 185.85 drivers, so I am stuck at stock clocks for now. BOINC is estimating 104Gflops. Any idea how I could increase clocks?
I could edit the bios ofc, but there has to be an easier way.

Also, does raising core and mem speed also help GPUGrid/Folding, or was it shader core only?

[mike047]

Hey guys,

I just joined back to GPUgrid with 2x GTX 260. One will be running 24/7 (a 55nm 260-216) while the other is only part-time (65nm in friend's rig).
Unfortunately Rivatuner won't let me OC with the latest 185.85 drivers, so I am stuck at stock clocks for now. BOINC is estimating 104Gflops. Any idea how I could increase clocks?
I could edit the bios ofc, but there has to be an easier way.

Also, does raising core and mem speed also help GPUGrid/Folding, or was it shader core only?

I believe that the shader core will get you more production.

Have you tried Evga Precision 1.7.0, that is what I use for all my cards.

[jcool]

I believe that the shader core will get you more production.

Have you tried Evga Precision 1.7.0, that is what I use for all my cards.

Thanks, didn't know that util :up:
Works fine, unfortunately the card seems to be a pretty weak clocker. 650 core/ 1450 shader is all I can get, 1500 shader immediately fails ATITool, while more core clock will lock up the driver. Oh well, up to 112Gflops, better than nothing right :)