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Trying to run six Tahiti gpu's at once
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Send message Joined: 7 Jan 12 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,459,322,653 RAC: 0 |
Hi Trying to problem solve my cruncher with three 7990 graphics cards. the machine in question seems to run well on most projects but when I try MW@H with all six gpu's enabled I get stuck WU"s after a time. Ive tried win 7 win8.1 win 10 + new and old drivers and Bionc manager vesions. any help would be appreciated as this machine is going to be upgraded with one more 7990 graphics card to give a total of eight Tahiti gpu's which would be one mighty MW cruncher. thanks |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3315 Credit: 519,940,206 RAC: 22,496 |
Hi The only help I can give you is that my own setup which is a 7970: AMD AMD Radeon HD 7870/7950/7970/R9 280X series (Tahiti) (3072MB) driver: 1.4.1848 OpenCL: 1.2 but only a single gpu, runs just fine on Win7 64bit Ultimate. I run one unit at a time and am getting about 150K RAC per day out of it. I am pretty sure it could run 2 units at once, but I am not interested in passing my own teammate right now. |
Send message Joined: 7 Jan 12 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,459,322,653 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for that I see some other people are running up to three Tahiti based graphics cards but I don't see any one running more than that .if I could find someone who has had success with six or eight gpu's on MW@H that would be good.I was going to make this machine a dedicated MW only machine just because how fast the Tahiti gpu is on it. |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3315 Credit: 519,940,206 RAC: 22,496 |
Thanks for that Maybe you could try 2 separate instances of Boinc then, each running 3 gpu's. They would need to be installed in different directories, but could both be running MW I think. |
Send message Joined: 7 Jan 12 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,459,322,653 RAC: 0 |
Interesting I give that a go .I figured out how to open two instances of boinc from the primary installation and have it running . if that fails I will try putting it into two different directories but im not shore how to configure it to run three gpu's each . |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3315 Credit: 519,940,206 RAC: 22,496 |
Interesting First you use a cc_config.xml file in each Boinc to use all the gpu's, then you tell it to exclude gpu 0, 1 and 2 from the first Boinc setup, then exclude gpu 3, 4 and 5 from the 2nd Boinc setup. <cc_config> <options> <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus> <exclude_gpu> <url>http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/</url> <device_num>0</device_num> [<type>NVIDIA|ATI|intel_gpu</type>] </exclude_gpu> <exclude_gpu> <url>http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/</url> <device_num>1</device_num> [<type>NVIDIA|ATI|intel_gpu</type>] </exclude_gpu> <exclude_gpu> <url>http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/</url> <device_num>2</device_num> [<type>NVIDIA|ATI|intel_gpu</type>] </exclude_gpu> </options> </cc_config> Then as long as you don't sign up for any other gpu projects gpu's 0, 1 and 2, in the cc_config.xml above, will NOT crunch for MilkyWay in this copy of Boinc. Copy and paste the above file into each of the Boinc directories and you should be good to go. Remember to change the 2nd one to exclude gpu's 3, 4 and 5 instead of 0, 1 and 2 so that only 3 crunch using the 2nd copy of Boinc. |
Send message Joined: 7 Jan 12 Posts: 6 Credit: 1,459,322,653 RAC: 0 |
Just finished testing primegrind and got the same problem ,wu's stuck at 100% It took about eight hours to happen.MW does it in about one hour.so it looks like the problem is not just with MW. thank for the info Mikey .the part that you said about installing two copy's of boinc manager had me scratching my head. I tried an could only install one copy.is it possible to install two copy's ? |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3315 Credit: 519,940,206 RAC: 22,496 |
Just finished testing primegrind and got the same problem ,wu's stuck at 100% Yes just be sure to choose separate directories from the default installation choices. |
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