Posts by techbird

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Computational Error? (Message 58327) Posted 18 May 2013 by techbird Post: I Have the same issue. However the errors only occur on milkyway@home. Both Einstenm@home and SETI@home run fine with the 13.4 catalyst driver and boinc 7.0.28 (x64) combination. may be its a bad batch of work units, or the gpu apps for milkyway are not compatiple with this combination.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : help missing gpu after restarting windows (Message 57961) Posted 22 Apr 2013 by techbird Post: OK. Even after uninstalling and then wiping with driver sweeper ther were still several files left behind and all of them were part of OpenCL. http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/160303 The Catalyst installation doesn't over write a file if it already exists, if the version is the same. So if a file gets corrupted reinstalling drivers doesn't fix the corrupted file. AMD knew this but did not fix their uninstaller to solve the issue. They did make a cleaning utility that will fix this. The only drawback is it also removes chipset, and other driverfiles for their motherbord hardware as well. So you will have to reinstall all AMD/ATI drivers thsat you have on your system. The file is for Windows 7 ONLY!! There are reports of it messing up windows 8 to the point of having to reinstall windows. http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/catalyst-uninstall-utility.aspx OpenCL is now working as it should again.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : help missing gpu after restarting windows (Message 57960) Posted 22 Apr 2013 by techbird Post: the account it was installed on is the only account on the computer so yes i'm running it on the same account. Also boinc was not installed protected installation or service checked.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : help missing gpu after restarting windows (Message 57952) Posted 20 Apr 2013 by techbird Post: Both the drivers and Boimc are installed with default settings. what a head ache after uninstalling and using driver sweeper I can't get it to work on GPU tasks at all. My event log sys thath my GPU doesn't support OpenCL but I know it does. here is my event log. 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| No config file found - using defaults 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.0.62 for windows_x86_64 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Running under account techbird 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor [Family 16 Model 10 Stepping 0] 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 popcnt syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00) 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Memory: 15.96 GB physical, 31.92 GB virtual 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Disk: 1.82 TB total, 228.30 GB free 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Local time is UTC -5 hours 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6900 series (Cayman) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 2048MB, 2016MB available, 6221 GFLOPS peak) 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| App version needs OpenCL but GPU doesn't support it 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Einstein@Home \| Application uses missing ATI GPU 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| App version needs OpenCL but GPU doesn't support it 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Einstein@Home \| Application uses missing ATI GPU 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Einstein@Home \| Missing coprocessor for task p2030.20121201.G175.46-00.87.S.b4s0g0.00000_800_0 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Einstein@Home \| Missing coprocessor for task p2030.20121201.G202.41-00.83.S.b6s0g0.00000_1448_0 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Einstein@Home \| Missing coprocessor for task p2030.20121201.G176.73+01.12.S.b0s0g0.00000_2240_1 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Einstein@Home \| Missing coprocessor for task p2030.20121201.G176.31+00.45.S.b0s0g0.00000_1880_1 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| App version needs OpenCL but GPU doesn't support it 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Application uses missing ATI GPU 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4095056; resource share 100 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 310042; resource share 100 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| General prefs: from Milkyway@Home (last modified 12-Feb-2012 14:33:54) 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| Computer location: home 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| Milkyway@Home \| General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Reading preferences override file 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Preferences: 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 8172.13MB 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 14709.84MB 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| max disk usage: 10.00GB 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| max CPUs used: 5 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 4/19/2013 11:38:43 PM \| \| Not using a proxy 4/19/2013 11:38:44 PM \| \| Suspending computation - time of day
5) Message boards : Number crunching : help missing gpu after restarting windows (Message 57948) Posted 19 Apr 2013 by techbird Post: I have ben having this problem for about a year now. It makes no difference what version of boinc or GPU drivers I use, and boinc is the only program that can't find the GPU. After a restart of windows Boinc reports a missing GPU. If I exit boinc and reinstall the drivers (for my AMD/ATI 6950 GPU) and then restart boinc, It works fine until the next time windows restarts and then I have to exit boinc and reinstall the drivers and then restart boinc again. At least I can still run my projects but I'm getting frustrated with having to reinstall drivers every time I run an update that requires a restart of the computer. Does anyone have any Ideas of how I can solve this issue? Maybe s setting in the registry or something. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate X64 on an ASUS Crosshair V Formula with an AMD 1100T processor, 16 GB Ram, and an ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 that has been flashed to a 6970 on the 13.1 drivers with version 7.0.62 (X64). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : All work Units giving "Computational Error" (Message 53126) Posted 13 Feb 2012 by techbird Post: I was experiencing issue with the catalyst 12.1 drivers. BOINC would report no compatible GPU for my unlocked 6950. Had to downgrade drivers to 11.9 and run the 1.02 app_info.xml from Arkayn, to get it to run GPU tasks. 12.1 is not all that stable I would get crashes in several of my game with it as well.
7) Message boards : News : N-body updated to 0.40 (Message 48419) Posted 1 May 2011 by techbird Post: After a detach/reattach everything seemed to work fine. using 3 coes of PII-955 But when I put my App info file back in the directory it instantly started erroring out again. after removing app_info file it works correctly again. can someone please tell me what is wrong with my app_info below: <app_info> <app> <name>milkyway</name> </app> <file_info> <name>milkyway_0.62_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>milkyway</app_name> <version_num>62</version_num> <flops>1.0e11</flops> <avg_ncpus>0.05</avg_ncpus> <max_ncpus>1</max_ncpus> <plan_class>ati14ati</plan_class> <coproc> <type>ATI</type> <count>1</count> </coproc> <cmdline>--gpu-target-frequency 60 --gpu-polling-mode 1</cmdline> <file_ref> <file_name>milkyway_0.62_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> <app> <name>milkyway_nbody</name> <user_friendly_name>MilkyWay@Home nbody Simulation</user_friendly_name> </app> <file_info> <name>milkyway_nbody_0.40_windows_x86_64__mt.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>libgomp_64-1.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>pthreadGC2_64.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>milkyway_nbody</app_name> <version_num>40</version_num> <plan_class>mt</plan_class> <cmdline>--nthreads=2</cmdline> <file_ref> <file_name>milkyway_nbody_0.40_windows_x86_64__mt.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>libgomp_64-1.dll</file_name> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>pthreadGC2_64.dll</file_name> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info>
8) Message boards : News : N-body updated to 0.40 (Message 48416) Posted 1 May 2011 by techbird Post: All was well with n_body WUs last night. Now they all error out. Looks like you (and your wingmen)had the -177 problem. You can find that in the Stderr output; <message> Maximum elapsed time exceeded </message> Max elapsed time exceeded after Run time 1.14 sec. CPU time 2.56 sec. Run times were around 25min each and completing successfully now I'm excedding max time I don't really understand how this can be. as for the -177 problem what is it and how can I fix it? A reboot didn't help. changing the app_info file --nthread=2 from 1 thru 4 has had no effect. I'm about to try to detach and reattch and see if that will help, as soon as my gpu finishes its tasks.
9) Message boards : News : N-body updated to 0.40 (Message 48403) Posted 1 May 2011 by techbird Post: All was well with n_body WUs last night. Now they all error out.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : no cpu tasks downloaded (Message 48402) Posted 1 May 2011 by techbird Post: Ok now all n_body tasks are erroring with a computing error. When I finally started getting the n_body WU they were running fine about 25 min each run time and when I got up today they all ended like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <core_client_version>6.10.60</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> Maximum elapsed time exceeded </message> <stderr_txt> <search_application>milkywayathome nbody 0.40 Windows x86_64 double OpenMP Crlibm</search_application> 10:29:23: Using OpenMP 2 max threads on a system with 4 processors </stderr_txt> ]]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Max time exceeded after Run time 1.14 sec. CPU time 2.56 sec. can A WU really be completed in this short of a time? A reboot did not help with this. My Problem with the 0.62 WU erroring is getting better some still error but most are completing abd validating now. I think that they are producing alot of bad WUs again. After checking these and noticing that the same WU after being sent to a secound computer were also erroring. not positive though some have errored out on 2 or three other computers but validate on others.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : no cpu tasks downloaded (Message 48386) Posted 1 May 2011 by techbird Post: I running at 63C right now on an unlocked HD6950 DirectCUII the one from ASUS that has the 2 100mm fans. I'm running at the cards at stock speed of 810/1250 have been for a week now. I use to run it at the 950/1350 OC but I didn't get over 66C when I ran it then. I don't really know why it is reporting that it is still running at that speed. All of completed WU are saying that I'm running at that speed even when I'm not OCing.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : no cpu tasks downloaded (Message 48384) Posted 1 May 2011 by techbird Post: ok I just needed to wait I guess. I'm getting the n_body WU now. But for some strange reason I started getting a rash of validate errors on my 0.62s about 30 min before getting the n_body WU Don't know what up with that.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : no cpu tasks downloaded (Message 48376) Posted 30 Apr 2011 by techbird Post: server status shows over 500 wu waiting to send for n_body but none will download to my computer. Is there anythingelse I can do to get this this app up and running. maybe some preference somewhere that is required. Under messages boinc 6.10.60 states that it is requesting a cpu task but none are being sent not even 0.50 WUs My work laptop seems to be getting 0.50 WUs, with no app_info since My GPU doesn't meet the requirements for 0.62 app, but it is not receiving n_body WUs either.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : no cpu tasks downloaded (Message 48357) Posted 30 Apr 2011 by techbird Post: Ever since adding the app_info.xml file to adjust gpu usage I haven't gotten any cpu tasks. can any body tell me,what do I need to do to the app_info to get it running nbody and 0.50 tasks again. I added the nbody portion of the app_info trying to get it to run, but it didn't help. Don't really under stand all this app_info stuff anyway. Here is my current app_info: <app_info> <app> <name>milkyway</name> </app> <file_info> <name>milkyway_0.62_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>milkyway</app_name> <version_num>62</version_num> <flops>1.0e11</flops> <avg_ncpus>0.05</avg_ncpus> <max_ncpus>1</max_ncpus> <plan_class>ati14ati</plan_class> <coproc> <type>ATI</type> <count>1</count> </coproc> <cmdline>--gpu-target-frequency 60 --gpu-polling-mode 1</cmdline> <file_ref> <file_name>milkyway_0.62_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> <app> <name>milkyway_nbody</name> <user_friendly_name>MilkyWay@Home nbody Simulation</user_friendly_name> </app> <file_info> <name>milkyway_nbody_0.40_windows_x86_64__mt.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>libgomp_64-1.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>pthreadGC2_64.dll</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>milkyway_nbody</app_name> <version_num>40</version_num> <plan_class>mt</plan_class> <cmdline>--nthreads=2</cmdline> <file_ref> <file_name>milkyway_nbody_0.40_windows_x86_64__mt.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>libgomp_64-1.dll</file_name> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>pthreadGC2_64.dll</file_name> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info> any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : help!! lost several work units (Message 47674) Posted 12 Apr 2011 by techbird Post: power outage due to storm and computer didn't shut down before ups died. when I booted backup I: noticed that all my workunits were gone. I get a message csaying I have reached my limit for work unit MW@H under my account it says I have 52 work unit. On the boinc it says i don't have any. How can redownload the work units I lost? :(
16) Message boards : News : ATI application (v0.57) should be available now (Message 47375) Posted 10 Apr 2011 by techbird Post: I'm running new ati14 app and the Asus driver on a non-reference 6950 Direct CUII card due to ati's driver are not compatible with this card asus has modified the 11.2 drivers to work with this card and it is the only drivers that I can get to work on this card. I have noticed that all of my WU's that are erroring out are the de_seperation_17_3s_fix_4_ ones, two of these that I have run ran for over 20+ minutes and still showed 0.000% complete. (7 out of 9 WU of this run errored within 1 second and the other 2 would show any progress.) I've been completeing WUs in about 80-90 seconds up until now. I am now running de_seperation_13_3s_fix_1_, de_seperation_13_3s_free_1_, and de_seperation_10_3s_free_1_ and all seems normal and they are validating.