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1) Message boards : Number crunching : possible to use less than 100% of GPU? (Message 41004)
Posted 20 Jul 2010 by daan!
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You can reduce the GPU load by using the app_info.xml file and utilising the wait factor as per below:

Wait factor: w (default 1.0)
The app tries to release the CPU during the the GPU computations. It does so by predicting the runtime for the GPU calls and send the CPU thread to sleep for that time. One can manually correct the prediction of the application with this factor. When raising it, the CPU thread sleeps longer, decreasing the value will lead to some faster polling. Setting this value to 0.0 turns off the release of the CPU. Default is of course a value of 1.0.

If you see a low GPU load, you can try to decrease it (if you have a load of 80%, set it to 0.8). If you see a high CPU load, a slight increase of this value may help. Increase it too much and it will affect the crunching speed. You could use this for throttling of the GPU in case the high GPU load leads to a very sluggish behaviour of the user interface or even VPU recover events.
Setting w1.1 could improve the situation (see also the n and f options).

Example:
<cmdline>w1.3</cmdline>

This would increase the sleep time by 30% in relation to the prediction.

More relevant information can be found here. Downlaod the relevant optimised application and read through the readme.txt.

Thanks!
I used the Win64_0.23ati.zip
Without changing any parameter, the gpu load is now 85% and noise is very acceptable.
However, It now takes 26 minutes to complete a project in stead of 3. ??
Also, windows has become very sluggish when dragging/maximizing/minimizing a screen.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : possible to use less than 100% of GPU? (Message 41000)
Posted 20 Jul 2010 by daan!
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Is the temp high? Maybe you could turn the fan speed down ?

Edit:
Also worth checking the dust bunnies on the case, cpu, psu and card fans. If they are clogged up, the heat inside the case will build up. Cleaning them out should bring it down a few degrees, and you may be able to then reduce the card fan speed.

Turning the fan speed down to an acceptable level resulted in a temp of 95C.
I suppose the chip is designed to be able to take that.. but I'd still prefer the option to turn the gpu load down to about 75%.
There was hardly any dust.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : possible to use less than 100% of GPU? (Message 40997)
Posted 19 Jul 2010 by daan!
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It's not the temperature I'm concerned about.
It's the noise the fan makes.
When gaming, it doesn't bother me because the game makes more noise.
But when the computer is not being used by me but by boinc, the noise is very annoying.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : possible to use less than 100% of GPU? (Message 40993)
Posted 19 Jul 2010 by daan!
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So it's not possible (yet) do decrease the gpu load?
That's unfortunate. :(

Is this impossible to implement?
If not, will this be an option in the future?
5) Message boards : Number crunching : possible to use less than 100% of GPU? (Message 40990)
Posted 19 Jul 2010 by daan!
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Tried the search and I couldn´t find an anwser.

I can set the percentage of CPU time boinc may use, but not the percentage of GPU time.

My GPU is running quite hot and the fan is making too much noise, so I want to lower the load on the gpu.
How can I do that?




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