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Message 64386 - Posted: 15 Mar 2016, 20:00:00 UTC
Last modified: 15 Mar 2016, 20:03:57 UTC

So i don't send myself or anyone else down the wrong path I want to be explain everything that I changed.

I noticed I was getting a high-ish amount of error WUs, mostly modified fit after I noticed my daily average slipping. I thought maybe 7 concurrent was too much and maybe it needed a bit more CPU. So i turned down to 6 concurrent but I also updated driver to the newest amd crimson hotfix. I noticed it greatly reduced cpu usage on Collatz on another card. Anyways after reducing concurrency and running the new driver, I noticed fewer errors but went further and turned off modified fit.

Currently at 6 concurrent i'm getting around 222sec per non modified-fit wu. I used to get around 100-120 secs on non-modified fit wus.

Here are some outputs: Old driver

Platform 1 information:
Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Version: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1912.5)
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_khr_d3d10_sharing cl_khr_d3d11_sharing cl_khr_dx9_media_sharing cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Using device 0 on platform 1
Found 1 CL device
Device 'Tahiti' (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.:0x1002) (CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU)
Driver version: 1912.5 (VM)
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1912.5)

Compute capability: 0.0
Max compute units: 32
Clock frequency: 1050 Mhz
Global mem size: 3221225472
Local mem size: 32768
Max const buf size: 65536
Double extension: cl_khr_fp64
Build log:

Estimated AMD GPU GFLOP/s: 4301 SP GFLOP/s, 1075 DP FLOP/s
Using a target frequency of 10.0
Using a block size of 8192 with 273 blocks/chunk
Using clWaitForEvents() for polling (mode -1)
Range: { nu_steps = 320, mu_steps = 1600, r_steps = 1400 }
Iteration area: 2240000
Chunk estimate: 1
Num chunks: 2
Chunk size: 2236416
Added area: 2232832
Effective area: 4472832
Initial wait: 0 ms
Integration time: 100.745453 s. Average time per iteration = 314.829540 ms
Integral 0 time = 102.021333 s

Running likelihood with 37047 stars
Likelihood time = 0.411575 s
<background_integral> 0.000254840452682 </background_integral>
<stream_integral> 61.112214151510841 79.895548307261919 0.982550827806658 </stream_integral>
<background_likelihood> -3.141897295188446 </background_likelihood>
<stream_only_likelihood> -16.172241066585244 -5.891336555601848 -41.880991865214206 </stream_only_likelihood>
<search_likelihood> -2.898416444780255 </search_likelihood>
18:20:10 (7836): called boinc_finish

Newer driver:

Platform 1 information:
Name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Version: OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (2004.6)
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_khr_d3d10_sharing cl_khr_d3d11_sharing cl_khr_dx9_media_sharing cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Using device 0 on platform 1
Found 1 CL device
Device 'Tahiti' (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.:0x1002) (CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU)
Driver version: 2004.6 (VM)
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (2004.6)

Compute capability: 0.0
Max compute units: 32
Clock frequency: 1050 Mhz
Global mem size: 3221225472
Local mem size: 32768
Max const buf size: 65536
Double extension: cl_khr_fp64
Build log:

Estimated AMD GPU GFLOP/s: 4301 SP GFLOP/s, 1075 DP FLOP/s
Using a target frequency of 10.0
Using a block size of 8192 with 273 blocks/chunk
Using clWaitForEvents() for polling (mode -1)
Range: { nu_steps = 320, mu_steps = 1600, r_steps = 1400 }
Iteration area: 2240000
Chunk estimate: 1
Num chunks: 2
Chunk size: 2236416
Added area: 2232832
Effective area: 4472832
Initial wait: 0 ms
Integration time: 213.290785 s. Average time per iteration = 666.533702 ms
Integral 0 time = 218.105308 s

Running likelihood with 37047 stars
Likelihood time = 0.431816 s
<background_integral> 0.000254884792084 </background_integral>
<stream_integral> 61.108815281212131 80.106593895321026 0.982497705285343 </stream_integral>
<background_likelihood> -3.141935983154649 </background_likelihood>
<stream_only_likelihood> -16.186953952170722 -5.889633635476240 -41.880813709490866 </stream_only_likelihood>
<search_likelihood> -2.898416486402882 </search_likelihood>
12:49:19 (1936): called boinc_finish

Can anyone else confirm slower run times on the newer driver?
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Message 64527 - Posted: 2 May 2016, 11:11:32 UTC

Yes, i noticed that too(40s with 1 WU MWhome 1.02 vs 32s previously). They done something with power management in DP calc mode i presume. So i changed power consumption to 15% in Crimson OverDrive panel and i got previous results.
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