HCC GPU Launched.

[bluestang]

How do you keep your cache fill with enough HCC GPU WUs???

[Mydog]

^^ are you still gaining efficiencies from running more than 4 instances at once?

Looks like it from what I can see but I'll supply more accurate numbers tomorrow when I've got more data.

What I got so far:

Running 4 WU's I got on average 96 WU's per hour x24 x33 points(Boinc)= 76,032 x7 to WCG points = 532,224

Running 6 WU's I get on average 144 WU's per hour x24 x30 points(Boinc) = 103,680 x7 to WCG points = 725,760

But I need to see those numbers in Boincstats and free-dc before I belive it

How do you keep your cache fill with enough HCC GPU WUs???

Cache is 100 WU's at all time, getting new ones for every delivered.

[Conquistador SW]

Ok, I have a problem. On my main computer I don't receive any CPU WU's anymore.

I have done nothing like adding app_info etc.
I have in my profile that research is allowed to run on the CPU.

Any idea how to fix this?

Edit: tried restarting Boinc, did not work. Not even GPU WU's are coming in.

Switched language to english, suddenly work starts coming in again ???????????????????

[OldChap]

Try picking/adding another project. provided that you have more cpu cores than gpu cards running (if you are not running any app info's) you should get some

[Conquistador SW]

Try picking/adding another project. provided that you have more cpu cores than gpu cards running (if you are not running any app info's) you should get some

For whatever reason switching the interface language from dutch to english fixed the problem ????????? (I think it has to do with that I had to restart BOINC even though I already tried that and did not work before??)

[Mydog]

Still climbing



If my calculation is right the 7970 should hit 110,000 boinc PPD or 770,000 WCG PPD tomorrow

Think about the numbers we could do if we had a few more.

[OldChap]

I will try to pick one up in a week or two... that will be the last of my spending this year

Even though my 5870's were working in the 94-95% range I thought that because they are dedicated rigs I would try out running two instances on each card together with GFAM. So far so good, now in the 97% range. I will let that soak overnight. This is the last change until mid week as I will be away from Sunday for a day or two and don't want any instability while I cannot fix it.

[pirogue]

Running 4 WU's I got on average 96 WU's per hour x24 x33 points(Boinc)= 76,032 x7 to WCG points = 532,224

Running 6 WU's I get on average 144 WU's per hour x24 x30 points(Boinc) = 103,680 x7 to WCG points = 725,760

If my calculation is right the 7970 should hit 110,000 boinc PPD or 770,000 WCG PPD tomorrow

How'd you squeeze another 45K out of that card? Inquiring minds want to know.

[bluestang]

Has anyone ran 4 WUs on a 7870 successfully for an extended time? Not sure I want to try

[Movieman]

Has anyone ran 4 WUs on a 7870 successfully for an extended time? Not sure I want to try

yup, and 6 on a 7970..

[Rob_B]

After having troubles running 2 WU's on my 7770, I did some testing. I put my 5850 in that cruncher and with the no other changes that one is doing fine for 10-12 hours now.
I put the 7770 in my 2600k cruncher and I have the same problem on that rig with that card. It got stuck on a WU in less than one hour.

Maybe some cards just don't like to run 2 WU's at a time.

[Mydog]

How'd you squeeze another 45K out of that card? Inquiring minds want to know.

I switched from 4 to 6 WU's at the same time and OC'ed the core from 925MHz to 1000MHz still on stock voltage and that did it.

[fallwind]

Still climbing



If my calculation is right the 7970 should hit 110,000 boinc PPD or 770,000 WCG PPD tomorrow

Think about the numbers we could do if we had a few more.

Just stuffed 2 of them in my main rig! Even a 980x at 4.5GHz is only enough to feed them to around 75% (6 threads each) but she's spitting out a HCC WU every 18 seconds! If I can keep the crashes and stuck WU's under control I'm hoping to see well over 1,000,000 a day from it!

[Mydog]

Just stuffed 2 of them in my main rig! Even a 980x at 4.5GHz is only enough to feed them to around 75% (6 threads each) but she's spitting out a HCC WU every 18 seconds! If I can keep the crashes and stuck WU's under control I'm hoping to see well over 1,000,000 a day from it!

With two cards running 6 WU's you'd get 1,5 Mill PPD on that rig.
By the looks of the points for half a day here this rig should hit 780,000 today, that's 114,000 Boinc

[bluestang]

I'll be hitting ~400,000 today now that I'm running 3 WUs on the 7870 since yesterday late afternoon

[Conquistador SW]

Damnit Mydog, now I want a HD7970......

I tested my 5870 very quickly how it does when running multiple WU's at the same time:

1) 190 s/WU = ~105,000 ppd
2) 145 s/WU = ~137,000 ppd
3) 138 s/WU = ~144,000 ppd
4) 130 s/WU = ~153,000 ppd

(HD5870 at 900/1100 on i7 930 at 3.1Ghz)

Even though more work is done when running more WU's, I don't see any increase in power consumption. When the card is under load it uses 190W and when the CPU is at load 160W
I think I will run 4 WU's because that means the WU's take slightly more than 8 minutes. This will prevent the cards from enduring so many heat up/cool down cycles.
If you are going for efficiency though, it seems running more than 2 WU's does not benefit your ppd as you would get more while running 2 GPU + 2 CPU than 4 GPU.

[werdwerdus]

okay I haven't used AMD since about... 10 years ago... on a fresh installation of Windows XP Pro x64 SP2 what do I need to install to get AMD 7850 working in BOINC? I installed CCC 12.8 and the card shows up in Afterburner just fine but BOINC says "No usable GPUs found", even after several reboots. Is there something separate to install for OpenCL to be enable? In GPU-Z OpenCL is not listed as available.

[werdwerdus]

okay I haven't used AMD since about... 10 years ago... on a fresh installation of Windows XP Pro x64 SP2 what do I need to install to get AMD 7850 working in BOINC? I installed CCC 12.8 and the card shows up in Afterburner just fine but BOINC says "No usable GPUs found", even after several reboots. Is there something separate to install for OpenCL to be enable? In GPU-Z OpenCL is not listed as available.

little update, ccc 12.8 has no opencl support in win xp. it seems that 12.4 includes an opencl driver so I will try that!

[BulldogPO]

How about nvidia?

[werdwerdus]

little update, ccc 12.8 has no opencl support in win xp. it seems that 12.4 includes an opencl driver so I will try that!

so ccc 12.x versions don't have opencl support for winxp. and ccc 11.x versions don't have support for 7850. looks like i'm going to have to move the card to the slower win7 machine. oh well.

[werdwerdus]

How about nvidia?

nvidia working fine in winxp.

[Snow Crash]

Thx for the homework werdwerdus ... I have a 7850 on the way and you've just saved me boatloads of time as I've never run ATI

[Mydog]

Not sure how this is possible but my GPU usage maxed out at 143%

[Movieman]

^^^ I look at this and I cringe, then I look at what this machine is doing and start dancing around the room like a kid with his first hula-hoop!

[Snow Crash]

I got a request for and app_info to run 2 GPU on AMD (7850) and also run CPU (all running hcc)
I won't have my 7850 until Monday but app_info is pretty straight foward.
If anyone runs this please post back with your results

<app_info>
   <app>
      <name>hcc1</name>
      <user_friendly_name>XtremeSystems Help Conquer Cancer</user_friendly_name>
   </app>

   <file_info>
      <name>wcg_hcc1_img_6.56_windows_intelx86__ati_hcc1</name>
      <executable/> 
   </file_info>
   <file_info>
      <name>hcckernel.cl.6.56</name>
      <executable/>
   </file_info>

   <file_info>
      <name>wcg_hcc1_img_6.56_windows_intelx86</name>
      <executable/>
   </file_info>

   <app_version>
      <app_name>hcc1</app_name>
      <version_num>656</version_num>
      <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
      <plan_class>ati_hcc1</plan_class>
      <avg_ncpus>1.0</avg_ncpus>
      <max_ncpus>0.783972</max_ncpus>
      <coproc>
         <type>ATI</type>
         <count>.5</count>
      </coproc>
      <file_ref>
          <file_name>wcg_hcc1_img_6.56_windows_intelx86__ati_hcc1</file_name>
          <main_program/>
      </file_ref>
      <file_ref>
         <file_name>hcckernel.cl.6.56</file_name>
         <open_name>hcckernel.cl</open_name>
      </file_ref>
   </app_version>

   <app_version>
      <app_name>hcc1</app_name>
      <version_num>656</version_num>
      <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
      <avg_ncpus>1.000000</avg_ncpus>
      <max_ncpus>1.000000</max_ncpus>
      <flops>3231932486.733310</flops>
      <api_version>6.13.0</api_version>
      <file_ref>
         <file_name>wcg_hcc1_img_6.56_windows_intelx86</file_name>
         <main_program/>
      </file_ref>
   </app_version>

</app_info>