GpuGrid

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

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

GPU grid is nVidia only

[[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]

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,

[[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,

8800GTX = G80. Apparently not supported for Cuda SDK version 2.0 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]

8800GTX = G80. Apparently not supported for Cuda SDK version 2.0 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!

[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".

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

Bob

I had internet

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]

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

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

[[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

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

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. 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.... 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!

[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

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

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

[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!

Many Thanx, Warlock. I've just got a head-start on everybody that's all. 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.....

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....

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