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verstapp Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0	Message 18250 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 4:35:29 UTC Last modified: 11 Apr 2009, 4:38:37 UTC Just a placeholder for if/when something starts happening in http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway_gpu/ Currently there's just an empty directory tree. Cheers, PeterV . ID: 18250 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0	Message 18251 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 4:43:28 UTC They are having troubles getting BOINC to build the "project"... Back when I was working on documenting BOINC this was a place I had started to look and boy does the documentation stink ... the authors never tested the procedures by doing EXACTLY what they wrote ... so the process is murky and usually incomplete (missing steps). Anyway, they ARE working on it ... ID: 18251 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Dave Przybylo Send message Joined: 5 Feb 08 Posts: 236 Credit: 49,648 RAC: 0	Message 18252 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 5:07:34 UTC - in response to Message 18251. Yes, indeed Paul reads the boinc feeds. I found an error which prevented me from making a new project in a python file. Not going into details, I'm working on it, and hopefully I should be able to resolve it soon. Dave Przybylo MilkyWay@home Developer Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ID: 18252 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Brian Silvers Send message Joined: 21 Aug 08 Posts: 625 Credit: 558,425 RAC: 0	Message 18253 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 5:08:45 UTC - in response to Message 18251. Last modified: 11 Apr 2009, 5:09:04 UTC They are having troubles getting BOINC to build the "project"... Back when I was working on documenting BOINC this was a place I had started to look and boy does the documentation stink ... the authors never tested the procedures by doing EXACTLY what they wrote ... so the process is murky and usually incomplete (missing steps). Yet another area dearest David (Anderson) could spend some time working on rather than social networking, forum changes, and Kredit Koppery IMO, YMMV, etc, etc, etc... ID: 18253 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Misfit Send message Joined: 27 Aug 07 Posts: 915 Credit: 1,503,319 RAC: 0	Message 18261 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 5:53:07 UTC - in response to Message 18253. They are having troubles getting BOINC to build the "project"... Back when I was working on documenting BOINC this was a place I had started to look and boy does the documentation stink ... the authors never tested the procedures by doing EXACTLY what they wrote ... so the process is murky and usually incomplete (missing steps). Yet another area dearest David (Anderson) could spend some time working on rather than social networking, forum changes, and Kredit Koppery IMO, YMMV, etc, etc, etc... Cosmo also cannot replace a single file. Meanwhile the granted credit dropped. Kredit Koppery indeed. me@rescam.org ID: 18261 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 24 Dec 07 Posts: 1947 Credit: 240,884,648 RAC: 0	Message 18266 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 6:29:46 UTC - in response to Message 18253. They are having troubles getting BOINC to build the "project"... Back when I was working on documenting BOINC this was a place I had started to look and boy does the documentation stink ... the authors never tested the procedures by doing EXACTLY what they wrote ... so the process is murky and usually incomplete (missing steps). Yet another area dearest David (Anderson) could spend some time working on rather than social networking, forum changes, and Kredit Koppery IMO, YMMV, etc, etc, etc... Too true. ID: 18266 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0	Message 18277 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 8:46:32 UTC - in response to Message 18261. Cosmo also cannot replace a single file. Meanwhile the granted credit dropped. Kredit Koppery indeed. Re: cosmo It is not that the granted dropped, it has been 140 for a long time ... it is just that the run times are now 2-5 times what they used to be ... so now I am claiming 200-600 CS and only getting 140 ... @Brian Or he could have been gracious when some of us were trying to document and accepted help ... but he (Dr. Anderson) was more concerned about writing style than content ... and here we are ... ID: 18277 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0	Message 18278 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 8:55:39 UTC - in response to Message 18252. Yes, indeed Paul reads the boinc feeds. I found an error which prevented me from making a new project in a python file. Not going into details, I'm working on it, and hopefully I should be able to resolve it soon. Only some of them... And I only posted cause some don't and there is a thirst for information ... as in, they are working on it ... even if we can't see anything posted on the news or in the fora ... ID: 18278 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Cluster Physik Send message Joined: 26 Jul 08 Posts: 627 Credit: 94,940,203 RAC: 0	Message 18319 - Posted: 11 Apr 2009, 17:38:15 UTC - in response to Message 18252. Just read the news about the problems with setting up the website for the GPU project. But could you (Travis or Dave) post a link to the code for the CPU part of the new GPU application as soon as possible? I think for the longer WUs the whole parameter handling and checkpointing was changed, even if the core integral calculation may be the same. It won't help if the website is up and running but there are no apps to calculate the WUs ;) ID: 18319 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

[B^S] Beremat Send message Joined: 19 Feb 09 Posts: 33 Credit: 1,134,826 RAC: 0	Message 18383 - Posted: 12 Apr 2009, 15:19:16 UTC Last modified: 12 Apr 2009, 15:19:30 UTC Thanks for doing this, Dave. I can't wait to see a dedicated project for GPUs from MW ^_^ ID: 18383 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Alberto Tanikawa Send message Joined: 29 Jan 09 Posts: 32 Credit: 1,962,668 RAC: 0	Message 18389 - Posted: 12 Apr 2009, 17:03:03 UTC I look forwards to putting my GTX 295 and 8800GT to good use once CUDA is implemented. I also look forwards to using my 3870 without crashing my graphics driver every 5 minutes. ID: 18389 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Emanuel Send message Joined: 18 Nov 07 Posts: 280 Credit: 2,442,757 RAC: 0	Message 18458 - Posted: 13 Apr 2009, 0:04:19 UTC - in response to Message 18389. Your 8800GT won't be that fast as all double precision ops will be emulated by several single precision ops, but your GTX 295 should do just fine. ID: 18458 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Alberto Tanikawa Send message Joined: 29 Jan 09 Posts: 32 Credit: 1,962,668 RAC: 0	Message 18494 - Posted: 13 Apr 2009, 4:31:05 UTC - in response to Message 18458. Your 8800GT won't be that fast as all double precision ops will be emulated by several single precision ops, but your GTX 295 should do just fine. That I've already seen in crunching for GPUGRID. It's very slow, taking about 24 hours to turn in a single WU. But the GPUs will go a long way in playing COD4 and Grid, when I'm not crunching away in Boinc ;) ID: 18494 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

verstapp Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0	Message 18497 - Posted: 13 Apr 2009, 5:49:54 UTC Last modified: 13 Apr 2009, 5:50:46 UTC Alberto>without crashing my graphics driver every 5 minutes Are you using drivers v. 9.1 or .3? I initially had the 'VPU Recover every 5mins' problem, using 9.3. I switched back to v. 8.12 and haven't had a problem since. Needed DriverCleaner.NET to get completely rid of 9.3 though. Perhaps 9.4 has improved things... Cheers, PeterV . ID: 18497 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Cluster Physik Send message Joined: 26 Jul 08 Posts: 627 Credit: 94,940,203 RAC: 0	Message 18503 - Posted: 13 Apr 2009, 7:44:08 UTC - in response to Message 18497. Alberto>without crashing my graphics driver every 5 minutes Are you using drivers v. 9.1 or .3? I initially had the 'VPU Recover every 5mins' problem, using 9.3. I switched back to v. 8.12 and haven't had a problem since. Needed DriverCleaner.NET to get completely rid of 9.3 though. Perhaps 9.4 has improved things... Cat 9.3 had a problem with applications using the CAL interface, it was not stable on WinXP systems. You need either the hotfix for that problem or better, take another driver version. ID: 18503 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Alberto Tanikawa Send message Joined: 29 Jan 09 Posts: 32 Credit: 1,962,668 RAC: 0	Message 18550 - Posted: 13 Apr 2009, 15:17:10 UTC I've tried 9.1 initially, but that was before 0.19e. I then tried 8.12 but my system just refused to install it (Dell/Vista 64 at the time, now running 7 x64). I tried 9.2 and it seemed a bit better, but still crashing. I will wait until it's official to use the 3870 for crunching again. I need stable graphics to still be able to work in Photoshop. ID: 18550 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

verstapp Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0	Message 18590 - Posted: 13 Apr 2009, 20:11:29 UTC >vista Now there's your problem. :) Cheers, PeterV . ID: 18590 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Alberto Tanikawa Send message Joined: 29 Jan 09 Posts: 32 Credit: 1,962,668 RAC: 0	Message 18612 - Posted: 13 Apr 2009, 23:45:05 UTC - in response to Message 18590. >vista Now there's your problem. :) Very likely! ;) ID: 18612 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

Dan T. Morris Send message Joined: 17 Mar 08 Posts: 165 Credit: 410,228,216 RAC: 0	Message 18616 - Posted: 14 Apr 2009, 0:10:10 UTC - in response to Message 18612. >vista Now there's your problem. :) Very likely! ;) Yup that's it in a nutshell.. The word Vista means trouble too me.......smile ID: 18616 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

boosted Send message Joined: 4 Feb 08 Posts: 116 Credit: 17,263,566 RAC: 0	Message 18636 - Posted: 14 Apr 2009, 5:07:18 UTC My Vista machine did erratically crash under 9.1 and 9.2. I HATE VISTA. But I also do not feel like learning new OS (*inx) so it is either that or wait for Win 7 to be out of beta and 'get a copy'. I have one of my other machines under 7 and it is ok, except for some reason the sound does not work at all. ID: 18636 · Rating: 0 · rate: /

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