I applied a patch which should hopefully fix the CPU utilization of the GPU applications, which was causing some users problems with running the CPU app alongside the GPU app. Let me know how it works.

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It looks like it might have fixed the anonymous problem as well, will have to wait and see when there are actual tasks to send out.

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Nope, same problem. Message from server: No work sent

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It looks like it might have fixed the anonymous problem as well, will have to wait and see when there are actual tasks to send out.

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Nope, same problem. Message from server: No work sent

What exactly is the anonymous problem? Are you trying to use an optimized CPU app alongside the server GPU app?

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It looks like it might have fixed the anonymous problem as well, will have to wait and see when there are actual tasks to send out.

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Nope, same problem. Message from server: No work sent

What exactly is the anonymous problem? Are you trying to use an optimized CPU app alongside the server GPU app?

The problem is that if your're using the ATI app on anonymous platform and have the following selected in the project prefs:

Use CPU
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use NVIDIA GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use ATI GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) yes

You will not get work at all.

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It looks like it might have fixed the anonymous problem as well, will have to wait and see when there are actual tasks to send out.

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Nope, same problem. Message from server: No work sent

What exactly is the anonymous problem? Are you trying to use an optimized CPU app alongside the server GPU app?

The problem is that if your're using the ATI app on anonymous platform and have the following selected in the project prefs:

Use CPU
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use NVIDIA GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use ATI GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) yes

You will not get work at all.

Well that's an interesting one, I'll see if I can get the boinc lists to help me fix it :P It's so much nicer being able to do updates myself, lol.

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It looks like it might have fixed the anonymous problem as well, will have to wait and see when there are actual tasks to send out.

[edit]
Nope, same problem. Message from server: No work sent

What exactly is the anonymous problem? Are you trying to use an optimized CPU app alongside the server GPU app?

The problem is that if your're using the ATI app on anonymous platform and have the following selected in the project prefs:

Use CPU
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use NVIDIA GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use ATI GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) yes

You will not get work at all.

Well that's an interesting one, I'll see if I can get the boinc lists to help me fix it :P It's so much nicer being able to do updates myself, lol.

Isn't there anything in the server logs that shows some more info about why the client get's the "Message from server: No work sent" ???

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It looks like it might have fixed the anonymous problem as well, will have to wait and see when there are actual tasks to send out.

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Nope, same problem. Message from server: No work sent

What exactly is the anonymous problem? Are you trying to use an optimized CPU app alongside the server GPU app?

The problem is that if your're using the ATI app on anonymous platform and have the following selected in the project prefs:

Use CPU
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use NVIDIA GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no
Use ATI GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) yes

You will not get work at all.

Well that's an interesting one, I'll see if I can get the boinc lists to help me fix it :P It's so much nicer being able to do updates myself, lol.

Isn't there anything in the server logs that shows some more info about why the client get's the "Message from server: No work sent" ???

Nope, but from what I hear initially from the message boards it's because anonymous apps are assumed to be for CPUs.

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Nope, but from what I hear initially from the message boards it's because anonymous apps are assumed to be for CPUs.

on Collatz they do not have this problem. Maybe Slicker can help here!

It's working for me. After the patch, the cpu usage dropped from 0.87 to 0.05 for gpu app and wus takes 2 seconds longer than the 0.87 cpu usage. Performance effected? I was just about to ask that whether if 1.00 cpu utilization per gpu core is possible, lol.

For me, I use a app_info because I use the command line option b-1 {setting GPU polling behaviour: busy wait (fastest, potentially high CPU load)}.

It speeds up the app on my card by about 45 seconds or so.

Without: 4:50
With: 4:06

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I am still having a problem in that the time allowed to process a work unit is greater than the "deadline".

Example: Expected work time = 42 hours, time to deadline = 36 hours.

It is impossible to process.

Why not give more time such as an extra week or so.

Thanks.

I am still having a problem in that the time allowed to process a work unit is greater than the "deadline".

Example: Expected work time = 42 hours, time to deadline = 36 hours.

It is impossible to process.

Why not give more time such as an extra week or so.

Thanks.

It is a week now. The 3 day ones are the older series of wus.

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

How do i know that the GPU besides the core CPUs is/are being used in processing WU?

How do i know that the GPU besides the core CPUs is/are being used in processing WU?

One easy way is if the wu's are taking a few minutes to complete instead of hours. Looking at your current computers you don't have a recognized gpu. You need a double recision gpu for this project. Here is a list of usable gpus: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=1505

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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
If it makes sense, DON'T do it.

I'm running BOINC from my laptops and this particular one has AMD M8806 with ATI Radeon HD4200 for the display adapters. Then i guess this version of BOINC does not support the GPUs on my machine since its not listed in the links your provided right? Thanks.

I'm running BOINC from my laptops and this particular one has AMD M8806 with ATI Radeon HD4200 for the display adapters. Then i guess this version of BOINC does not support the GPUs on my machine since its not listed in the links your provided right? Thanks.

Your BOINC version (6.10.18) supports ATI GPUs. But you need to install a newer driver. Getting new drivers for notebooks can be a problem, you may need to use the Mobility Modder to get the latest Catalyst installed.

If you do that, BOINC should recognize the ATI HD4200. But unfortunately it is not supported by Milkyway, as it is not able to do double precision calculations. But it would run the Collatz Conjecture project (and probably the upcoming PrimeGrid AP26 application, too). A HD4200 isn't stunningly fast, but 2000 credits a day may be possible (don't know the clock of the notebook version).