GpuGrid

[[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]

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.

[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 s up ways too often for me.

[mike047]

I really don't like GPUgrid, it 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....

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
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