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Message 55794 - Posted: 14 Oct 2012, 21:21:15 UTC
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I tried to upgrade Catalyst from 12.1 to 12.8, hoping to improve my crunch times. When I installed 12.8, I noticed that my GPU/Mem preset of 900/300 showed in my preset list on the left side of Catalyst but the lowest number all the way on the left of the memory slider was 900. I did not want all the excess heat that involved so I downgraded back to 12.1. The reinstall of 12.1 recognized the 900/300 preset properly but all my WUs promptly errored out after a fraction of a second. I re-upgraded back to 12.8 and am crunching OK again. The 900/300 preset still shows on the left of Catalyst but the lowest slider setting is still 900. Does anyone have any ideas how to get Catalyst 12.8 to properly use the 900/300 preset?
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Message 55805 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 11:45:48 UTC - in response to Message 55794.  

I tried to upgrade Catalyst from 12.1 to 12.8, hoping to improve my crunch times. When I installed 12.8, I noticed that my GPU/Mem preset of 900/300 showed in my preset list on the left side of Catalyst but the lowest number all the way on the left of the memory slider was 900. I did not want all the excess heat that involved so I downgraded back to 12.1. The reinstall of 12.1 recognized the 900/300 preset properly but all my WUs promptly errored out after a fraction of a second. I re-upgraded back to 12.8 and am crunching OK again. The 900/300 preset still shows on the left of Catalyst but the lowest slider setting is still 900. Does anyone have any ideas how to get Catalyst 12.8 to properly use the 900/300 preset?


I can't answer your specific question but once you get rid of all of your current tasks, thru no new work, you can then downgrade back to ver 12.1.
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Message 55810 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 15:16:53 UTC - in response to Message 55805.  
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Didn't think to get rid of current tasks, but it was the same bunch throughout anyway. But I'll try that and let you know.
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Message 55813 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 16:40:50 UTC

Just apply the stored profile, and the slider scale should expand to encompass the mem clock stored in it. (You might have to apply it twice to actually set the mem clock too.)
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Message 55815 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 19:04:06 UTC - in response to Message 55810.  

Didn't think to get rid of current tasks, but it was the same bunch throughout anyway. But I'll try that and let you know.


But the units were downloaded expecting the NEW version and when you then tried to use an older version they couldn't handle it. It is similar to downgrading Boinc itself.
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Message 55817 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 19:08:57 UTC

Just got done downgrading, restarting, and downloading all new work. Same problem, all errored out immediately. Here is an example: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=321029683
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Message 55818 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 19:11:41 UTC - in response to Message 55813.  

Just apply the stored profile, and the slider scale should expand to encompass the mem clock stored in it. (You might have to apply it twice to actually set the mem clock too.)

This is exactly what I am unable to do. The slider scale does not expand to the range recognized in the preset. It remains at 900-1300MHz.
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Message 55822 - Posted: 15 Oct 2012, 23:44:01 UTC - in response to Message 55813.  
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Just apply the stored profile, and the slider scale should expand to encompass the mem clock stored in it. (You might have to apply it twice to actually set the mem clock too.)

This is what I have in my profile now, everything looks just like it was before:

-<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="30000"/>
<Property name="Want_1" value="30000"/>
<Property name="Want_2" value="30000"/>
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Message 55826 - Posted: 16 Oct 2012, 11:56:09 UTC - in response to Message 55817.  

Just got done downgrading, restarting, and downloading all new work. Same problem, all errored out immediately. Here is an example: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=321029683


I saw this:
Using device 0 on platform 0
Failed to find number of devices (-1): CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND

and am thinking you need to restart your pc. Windows can NOT reset the gpu unless you restart the whole pc. If it can't find the gpu it will error out as it did.
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Message 55829 - Posted: 16 Oct 2012, 15:05:26 UTC - in response to Message 55826.  

Just got done downgrading, restarting, and downloading all new work. Same problem, all errored out immediately. Here is an example: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=321029683


I saw this:
Using device 0 on platform 0
Failed to find number of devices (-1): CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND

and am thinking you need to restart your pc. Windows can NOT reset the gpu unless you restart the whole pc. If it can't find the gpu it will error out as it did.

The computer was restarted after each install, before starting Boinc.
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Message 55832 - Posted: 16 Oct 2012, 21:04:51 UTC - in response to Message 55829.  

Just got done downgrading, restarting, and downloading all new work. Same problem, all errored out immediately. Here is an example: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=321029683


I saw this:
Using device 0 on platform 0
Failed to find number of devices (-1): CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND

and am thinking you need to restart your pc. Windows can NOT reset the gpu unless you restart the whole pc. If it can't find the gpu it will error out as it did.

The computer was restarted after each install, before starting Boinc.


DARN I was hoping that would 'fix' it!
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Message 55834 - Posted: 16 Oct 2012, 21:28:35 UTC

I'm wondering if the 12.8 install created another ATI/AMD folder somewhere. If so, there might be a file in it that needs to be edited like the profile that ver. 12.1 used.
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Message 55839 - Posted: 17 Oct 2012, 11:38:36 UTC - in response to Message 55834.  

I'm wondering if the 12.8 install created another ATI/AMD folder somewhere. If so, there might be a file in it that needs to be edited like the profile that ver. 12.1 used.


Did you keep your 'settings' when switching to the new version? I think it asks you about that during the install process doesn't it? If not can you just make a new set of personalized settings?
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Message 55887 - Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 16:30:21 UTC - in response to Message 55839.  

I'm wondering if the 12.8 install created another ATI/AMD folder somewhere. If so, there might be a file in it that needs to be edited like the profile that ver. 12.1 used.


Did you keep your 'settings' when switching to the new version? I think it asks you about that during the install process doesn't it? If not can you just make a new set of personalized settings?

Got it figured out. The install of 12.8 changed a value in the memory speed section of my pre-set profile. Even after uninstalling and reinstalling 12.1 that value stayed, that's why reloading the profile didn't work. I found the value that was wrong then reinstalled 12.8 and corrected the profile. Now everything is working the way I want it to.
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Message 55897 - Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 11:21:35 UTC - in response to Message 55887.  

I'm wondering if the 12.8 install created another ATI/AMD folder somewhere. If so, there might be a file in it that needs to be edited like the profile that ver. 12.1 used.


Did you keep your 'settings' when switching to the new version? I think it asks you about that during the install process doesn't it? If not can you just make a new set of personalized settings?

Got it figured out. The install of 12.8 changed a value in the memory speed section of my pre-set profile. Even after uninstalling and reinstalling 12.1 that value stayed, that's why reloading the profile didn't work. I found the value that was wrong then reinstalled 12.8 and corrected the profile. Now everything is working the way I want it to.


WOO HOO!!!!!!
I am glad the house is cooling down AND the work is continuing!!
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Message 55907 - Posted: 21 Oct 2012, 22:28:34 UTC

I am getting a lot of errors while computing and the stderr.txt reads as follows:

Stderr output

<core_client_version>7.0.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
BOINC: parse gpu_opencl_dev_index 0
<search_application> milkyway_separation 1.02 Windows x86_64 double OpenCL </search_application>
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: max_gfx_cpu_pct
Skipping: 0
Skipping: /max_gfx_cpu_pct
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_poll_period
Skipping: 30
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_poll_period
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_float_speed
Skipping: 5
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_float_speed
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_textured_point_size
Skipping: 250
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_textured_point_size
Unrecognized XML in project preferences: nbody_graphics_point_point_size
Skipping: 40
Skipping: /nbody_graphics_point_point_size
BOINC GPU type suggests using OpenCL vendor 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'
Error loading Lua script 'astronomy_parameters.txt': [string "number_parameters: 4..."]:1: '<name>' expected near '4'
Error reading astronomy parameters from file 'astronomy_parameters.txt'
Trying old parameters file
Using SSE4.1 path
Found 1 platform
Platform 0 information:
Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1016.4)
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices cl_khr_d3d10_sharing cl_khr_d3d11_sharing cl_khr_dx9_media_sharing
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Using device 0 on platform 0
Found 2 CL devices
Device 'Tahiti' (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.:0x1002) (CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU)
Driver version: 1016.4 (VM)
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1016.4)
Compute capability: 0.0
Max compute units: 32
Clock frequency: 925 Mhz
Global mem size: 2147483648
Local mem size: 32768
Max const buf size: 65536
Double extension: cl_khr_fp64
Build log:
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