GPUGrid Supercomputer week!

[lkiller123]

off topic question i seen a few charts saying the 8800gtx's won't work but I also read that "all cuda cards work" so this means that they do or don't?

Also what would you guys say is the average time for a GTX 460 to finish a WU? I just started up last night on the grid and the WU's look huge and it's only using like 70% of the GPU. is all this normal?

The 8800GTXs will not work for GPUGRID. They are better off doing F@H

The 70% GPU usage is normal for GPUGRID, I have never seen the project use more than 75% of the GPU core.

[[XC] hipno650]

The 8800GTXs will not work for GPUGRID. They are better off doing F@H

The 70% GPU usage is normal for GPUGRID, I have never seen the project use more than 75% of the GPU core.

well thats what i needed to know, thanks

lack of 8800gtx's should save a little bit of power

[werdwerdus]

The 70% GPU usage is normal for GPUGRID for windows 7

fix'd

[Kryja]

Here's a question - is it still not possible to run, say MW@H and GPUGRID on the same machine?

[lkiller123]

If there is an option in MW@H that says "use only ATi cards" or something like that, then it is possible.

[Kryja]

Yes I believe that there is an option for that. You can choose to use either ATI, Nvidia, CPU or any combination of those.

Hm, I smell something expensive

[Kryja]

Thought of another question.

SWAN_SYNC

Does overclocking improve wu completion speed / ppd? Like is the difference say between a stock i7 vs one at 3.5 or 4.0 ghz really that noticeable?

[Otis11]

Thought of another question.

SWAN_SYNC

Does overclocking improve wu completion speed / ppd? Like is the difference say between a stock i7 vs one at 3.5 or 4.0 ghz really that noticeable?

I know overclocking your Shaders makes a noticeable difference, but I don't think your CPU would... or not noticeably. Although I don't think anyone's looked into this...?

[Snow Crash]

I have, and yes it does. While i7s are powerful beasties and bumping your clocks to 3.5/ 3.8 should be a cake walk ... you will see a difference. IIRC not so much after you pass 3.8 GHz. Think about it this way, if the GPU has to wait for the CPU everytime it needs something your runtimes get longer. It is more pronounced with SWAN_SYNC because you are telling the CPU to continually poll the GPU to see if it needs anything and in this case the GPU first has to wait for the CPU to ask and then it has to wait for the CPU to say it's done.

[Otis11]

Haha, glad we got SC here!

Resident expert.

[Kryja]

Nice one Snow. Again the thought just crossed my mind and thought to ask

[NKrader]

wish i could afford more gpu..

my 9800gtx will be on around 98% of the the time of day

i should really pick somthing up for my sammy rig.

[Otis11]

wish i could afford more gpu..

my 9800gtx will be on around 98% of the the time of day

i should really pick somthing up for my sammy rig.

Thanks for the help!

And if there is anything we can do just let us know.

[NKrader]

Thanks for the help!

And if there is anything we can do just let us know.

i need a GTX580.

wana buy it for me?

[roki977]

I would like one or two to. I would put them to good use for sure. I am already runing to max and realy dont know how to give something extra for supercomp. week. 470s are runing at 810mhz or 1620 ahader and that is very close to stable crunching max. I can try to OCed them little bit more.

[lkiller123]

We need to put our efforts to promoting the SC week.

[roki977]

I have only one rig and that is it. It is at the max every day and realty here is that I need to work for a month and not eat to buy one 580.

[Otis11]

I think most of us are already running at full capacity, the way we are going to increase our output is to talk to friends and family and see if they have anything we can involve and help people on this form get it up and running.

We have a bunch of computing power in these forums, we just need to help get people involved!

(and sorry I haven't been around to do much here, even though I have plenty of time, turns out my grandparents don't have internet. )

[slaveondope]

Went with a GTS450 and it should be here by the end of the week.
The 9800GT was doing well with me canceling the KASHIF-HIVPR projects but after 6 days of avoiding them its the only project the server will upload to me now.
Oh well, new hardware

[SMTB1963]

Which stats site will be used for the "official? results of SC Week? The reason I ask is that in the PIE - Perfection In Execution thread, the numbers appear to be pulled from both free-dc and boincstats. Then in the Xtremesystems GPUGRID team and member rank thread, the numbers are drawn from allprojectstats. Kryja has been posting our daily numbers (thanks Kryja!), which I believe are coming from Free-DC.

While I'm not necessarily advocating any change to the status quo, it would be nice to have "one source of the truth" (BI parlance) for the coming week.

Here's the team results from each of the sites utilized in our forum:

free-dc



allprojectstats



boincstats



My personal preference is for boincstats because they seem to have the least variability in their numbers. In any case, it might be helpful to clarify where the "official" data is drawn from so new GRIDders can accurately identify their individual contributions to the team total.

Thoughts?

[werdwerdus]

+1 for boincstats

[stoneageman]

.........

[Kryja]

Yes I do pull the numbers each morning from Free-DC for dailies and used to do both for the pie, though I've been lazy since Christmas and am just using Free-DC. No skin off my nose to change my source.

I can change bro...



On a side note I discovered a magical plastic rectangle which allows me to do trade without parting with goods or services.



So how do I set up swan_sync?

[slaveondope]

Is that 5870 there for show or is it on it's way out
Got my upgrade today from the magical plastic rectangle too

She's a baby fermi but she clocks like mad for $90 From stock 783mhz to 1000mhz with only 0.025 extra volts
Ugly as sin compared to your sexy cyclones Kryja

Do I need swan_sync

[Kryja]

Nice one, is that a 450? One of those would be ~£90.00 this side of the pond, lucky.

I had planned to put a slim bracket on one of mine so I could use the bottom pcie slot on my rampage II but there is a bracket at the bottom the motherboard tray in my TJ07 which obscures the hsf Water cooling ought to do it ;P But yes for the time being no Milky way for me. Not that we're getting work anyway...

You don't need to use swan_sync but it does improve ppd/ wu completion times - I just wanted to maximise my output. Also to see if I could get a nibble of pie.