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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Benchmark results - times wanted for any hardware, CPU or GPU, old or new! (Message 61296)
Posted 2 Mar 2014 by Profile Arion
Post:
unfortunately i don't think you can help the cause with an HD 3xxx series GPU. according to your app_info, you're using v0.82 (ati14), the non-OpenCL version of the Milkyway@Home applicaiton...i'm assuming that you're HD 3870 is not OpenCL-capable, or else your GPU would be using v1.02 (opencl_amd_ati), the OpenCL version of the Milkyway@Home application.


No big deal... Was asked to run those because it would be nice to have the 3870 included on the list. I don't know if its Open CL capable or not. If anyone knows and thinks this can run the specialised wu's you are running let me know what I need to change or add in my app_info file. Otherwise I'm content to continue along as I have for this long.

Most important is that my old card is able to contribute to the project and earn me some extra credits over the CPU. :)
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Benchmark results - times wanted for any hardware, CPU or GPU, old or new! (Message 61293)
Posted 1 Mar 2014 by Profile Arion
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Got your message today about the 3870 times.... I'm running an app_info shown below. What do I need to add or change to run the app you're asking for?

PS.. I already set up a profile for this system so it doesn't screw up the rest of my systems :)


<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<app_info>
-<app>
<name>milkyway</name>
</app>
-<file_info>
<name>milkyway_separation_0.82_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
-<app_version>
<app_name>milkyway</app_name>
<version_num>82</version_num>
<flops>1.0e11</flops>
<avg_ncpus>0.05</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>1.0</max_ncpus>
<plan_class>ati14ati</plan_class>
-<coproc>
<type>ATI</type>
<count>1</count>
</coproc>
<cmdline/>
-<file_ref>
<filename>milkyway_separation_0.82_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Error: Feeder not running ?? in response to update command (Message 61048)
Posted 11 Feb 2014 by Profile Arion
Post:
Not getting anything here either except constant postponments for next retries for updates ....

That's for returning completed workunits as well and picking up new ones...
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Benchmark results - times wanted for any hardware, CPU or GPU, old or new! (Message 60925)
Posted 3 Feb 2014 by Profile Arion
Post:
HD 3870 512 RAM (GPU 776 MHz) - Run Time average is 380s

BOINC 7.2.33

This is for 159.86 credit WUs we're getting now
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Suddenly Getting 1 GPU every 5 minutes ???????? (Message 60922)
Posted 2 Feb 2014 by Profile Arion
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I noticed today that my NAS system #444185 is only getting 1gpu wu at a time. It was doing fine until recently. I looked at the number of tasks and it says I
have 80 outstanding !!!!!!!!


Disregard this message ... Somehow or another I had it set to only show the current wu and as soon as I said show active tasks a bunch showed up... :doh:
6) Message boards : News : Award Badges Going Live Soon! (Message 60896)
Posted 1 Feb 2014 by Profile Arion
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Ooooooo Something new and shiney ...... Thanks for the badges.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : How To Set Individual System Preferences (Message 60440)
Posted 20 Nov 2013 by Profile Arion
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I tried setting up the cc_config file and it did start downloading CPU wu's but I noticed much later in the day that it had also been grabbing GPU wu's and aborting them.

so I set up locations that mikey suggested and ta da.. I'm getting only CPU work and no downloads and aborts of GPU units.

Appreciated the suggestion Mikey.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : How To Set Individual System Preferences (Message 60414)
Posted 16 Nov 2013 by Profile Arion
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Thanks Mikey... I'll remember how you set the locations in case I run into any problems with the cc_config.xml file I set up.....

I was afraid to go into those settings right now as both of the other computers are getting their work normally. And I'm really good about breaking things that are fixed :)
9) Message boards : Number crunching : How To Set Individual System Preferences (Message 60413)
Posted 16 Nov 2013 by Profile Arion
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You're forgetting the <option> </option> tags.


Syntax

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
[ ... ]
</log_flags>
<options>
[ ... ]
</options>
</cc_config>



I was missing the appname too.. Thank you for the help. Its working as it should now.

This is my new cc_config file and when it got work I grabbed one GPU wu and aborted it.

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
[ ... ]
</log_flags>
<options>
<exclude_gpu>
<url>http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/</url>
[<device_num>N</device_num>]
<type>ATI</type>
[<app>milkyway</app>]
</exclude_gpu>
</options>
</cc_config>
10) Message boards : Number crunching : How To Set Individual System Preferences (Message 60405)
Posted 16 Nov 2013 by Profile Arion
Post:
Okay I looked and I guess I'm supposed to be using a cc_config.xml file. This is what I have based on the link that BOINC gives me in the Notices tab when I start it up:

<cc_config>
<exclude_gpu>
<url>http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/</url>
[<device_num>N</device_num>]
<type>ATI_gpu</type>
[<app>appname</app>]
</exclude_gpu>
</cc_config>

------------------------------------------------

This is what the Client Configuration @ http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration#Configuration_file says it should be in:

<exclude_gpu> Don't use the given GPU for the given project. If <device_num> is not specified, exclude all GPUs of the given type. <type> is required if your computer has more than one type of GPU; otherwise it can be omitted. <app> specifies the short name of an application (i.e. the <name> element within the <app> element in client_state.xml). If specified, only tasks for that app are excluded. You may include multiple <exclude_gpu> elements. If you change GPU exclusions, you must restart the BOINC client for these changes to take effect. New in 6.13

<exclude_gpu>
<url>project_URL</url>
[<device_num>N</device_num>]
[<type>NVIDIA|ATI|intel_gpu</type>]
[<app>appname</app>]
</exclude_gpu>

The problem is that when I start up BOINC it tells me that <exclude_gpu> is an unrecognized tag in cc_config.xml and gives me a link back to the Client Configuration site. My Client Version is 7.0.64 (x64)

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong or am I not even supposed to be doing this to disable GPU processing and only do CPU processing on this system.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : How To Set Individual System Preferences (Message 60403)
Posted 16 Nov 2013 by Profile Arion
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I'm running 3 computers here and its a mixed bag for how they are processing.

#1 computer is set to use the ATI graphics card to process - works fine.
#2 computer is set to CPU because graphics card not supported - works fine

#3 computer now has problem. I've been processing with CPU because graphics card was not supported. Today I upgraded my graphics card and its downloading and running GPU units and I don't want it to run GPU.. ONLY CPU units. I've looked in the system Options and preferences and I haven't been able to figure out how to stop getting GPU units. Any help would be greatly appreciated. After this last batch of GPU units I'm shutting off all work until this is resolved.

Thanks in advance
12) Message boards : News : Narrowed down the problem (Message 59988)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by Profile Arion
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I'm using IE 9 here and the account page takes between 15 and 20 seconds to load. It used to be pretty fast.

Its a killer if you are looking at the stats from various reporting sites and page back to account to look at another one.
13) Message boards : News : update for users not getting CPU workunits (Message 58945)
Posted 18 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
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Does silly WU dance :)

Got a full load of CPU WUs here on CPU only system.. Thanks for all the hard work getting things rolling again Travis and team
14) Message boards : News : update for users not getting CPU workunits (Message 58820)
Posted 13 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
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Still not getting CPU work here on this system

6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | No config file found - using defaults
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.28 for windows_x86_64
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Data directory: E:\ProgramData\BOINC
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Running under account XXXXX
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Processor: 2.00 MB cache
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 page1gb rdtscp
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Memory: 7.90 GB physical, 15.81 GB virtual
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Disk: 365.64 GB total, 301.36 GB free
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | ATI GPU 0: Juniper (CAL version 1.4.1741, 1024MB, 991MB available, 2720 GFLOPS peak)
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | OpenCL: ATI GPU 0: Juniper (driver version 1124.2 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1124.2), 1024MB, 991MB available)
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | A new version of BOINC is available. <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download it.</a>
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 5415730; resource share 100
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | Milkyway@Home | URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 444047; resource share 100
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | Milkyway@Home | General prefs: from Milkyway@Home (last modified 02-Sep-2012 09:08:12)
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | Milkyway@Home | Computer location: home
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | General prefs: using separate prefs for home
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Reading preferences override file
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Preferences:
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | max memory usage when active: 4046.80MB
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 7284.24MB
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | max disk usage: 100.00GB
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | max CPUs used: 2
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | don't use GPU while active
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
6/13/2013 6:07:13 AM | | Not using a proxy
6/13/2013 6:07:14 AM | Milkyway@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
6/13/2013 6:07:14 AM | Milkyway@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and ATI
6/13/2013 6:07:15 AM | Milkyway@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
6/13/2013 6:07:15 AM | Milkyway@Home | No tasks sent
6/13/2013 6:07:15 AM | Milkyway@Home | No tasks are available for MilkyWay@Home
6/13/2013 6:07:15 AM | Milkyway@Home | Message from server: An ATI GPU supporting double precision math is required
6/13/2013 6:07:15 AM | Milkyway@Home | Message from server: GPU lacks necessary double precision extension
6/13/2013 6:07:15 AM | Milkyway@Home | No tasks are available for the applications you have selected.
6/13/2013 6:07:15 AM | Milkyway@Home | Tasks for NVIDIA GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
15) Message boards : News : another scheduler update (Message 58769)
Posted 12 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
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Well I got to give you credit for one thing - I'm not longer getting ATI WU's on my CPU only computer. *yea*

However, I fit the #2 Not getting WU's for CPU.

Glad you are working on this.. Greatly appreciate your efforts.
16) Message boards : News : added applications for ati only GPUs (Message 58673)
Posted 11 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
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We're looking into it, hopefully have it figured out soon. Thanks for the patience with all this.


Thanks Travis
17) Message boards : News : What users aren't getting GPU workunits? (Message 58656)
Posted 10 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
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I'm getting ATI WU's on a computer that can't run them and has been set for CPU ONLY for months... They won't even start and so I'm aborting them.
18) Message boards : News : added applications for ati only GPUs (Message 58653)
Posted 10 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
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I'd still like to know why on a computer that is CPU ONLY I'm getting ATI GPU units that can't run on this computer. I never had a problem only getting CPU WU's until whatever it was you all did last week. I'm getting the ATI units and they are refusing to start now. No surprise since this gfx card has never been able to run WU's. And its a HD 6670 but reads as a HD5700.. I've even reset the project to no avail.

My other computer is running a HD 3870 with an appinfo file and hasn't missed a beat since all this mess started last week.


Domain name FX-4170
Local Standard Time UTC -4 hours
Name FX-4170
Created 30 Apr 2012, 21:55:49 UTC
Total credit 1,676,526
Average credit 3,470.56
Cross project credit
CPU type AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2]
Number of processors 4
Coprocessors AMD ATI Radeon HD 5700 series (Juniper) (1024MB) driver: 1.4.1741 OpenCL: 1.02
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7
Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
BOINC version 7.0.28
Memory 8093.61 MB
Cache 2048 KB
Swap space 16185.39 MB
Total disk space 365.64 GB
Free Disk Space 301.38 GB
Measured floating point speed 3068.57 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 9326.21 million ops/sec
Average upload rate 81.19 KB/sec
Average download rate 624.69 KB/sec
Average turnaround time 0.13 days
Application details
Show Tasks 42
Number of times client has contacted server 34023
Last time contacted server 10 Jun 2013, 22:34:40 UTC
19) Message boards : News : changes finished (Message 58570)
Posted 8 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
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I opened for new work and got a bunch more gpu units for 0.82 on my CPU only system.

Going to shut it down until this is resolved.
20) Message boards : News : changes finished (Message 58547)
Posted 7 Jun 2013 by Profile Arion
Post:
I'm getting slammed with 0.82 ATI units here and I'm running CPU only on this system. Its turning into a nightmare.

Running on This system getting many of to many errors may have a bug

I've put the computer in Get no new work mode until this is fixed


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