My Radeon VII is starving

I checked the tasks for your computer now few times at different times of the day and everytime I checked there were over 300 in progress tasks assigned to your computer. Don't you have them on your computer? 300 is IIRC the limit per GPU and a constant cache of 300+ tasks should be enough to feed even your GPU. Sure, not for very long, but I guess 13 is the amount your GPU does between each request?

06/02/2023 14:45:51 | Milkyway@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 26 new tasks

Just got 26 tasks, all that was needed to fill up my cache. So it's possible to get more than 13. Perhaps this might help you in case the issue won't go away by itself.

It's not that complicated, don't need to figure out anything actually. Simply run the installer on each Windows installation and point to the data directory on the shared drive, one dir for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. Program files can just go to the current C: or if you want to save some space, same like the data on shared drive. The installer does everything for you, that's not Linux. ;-)

The actual question is how the projects servers will react to OS changes, but I don't recall any issues with that after upgrade from Win7 to Win10.

You can hook up a 2nd drive either internally or externally and do a total install of Boinc on it but some things still have to go in the Windows installation, Windows is bad about that!! If you can figure out which files those are and copy them to the right places every time your C Drive changes it should work.

It's not that complicated, don't need to figure out anything actually. Simply run the installer on each Windows installation and point to the data directory on the shared drive, one dir for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. Program files can just go to the current C: or if you want to save some space, same like the data on shared drive. The installer does everything for you, that's not Linux. ;-)

The actual question is how the projects servers will react to OS changes, but I don't recall any issues with that after upgrade from Win7 to Win10.

It does NOT sound like cheating to me!! You can hook up a 2nd drive either internally or externally and do a total install of Boinc on it but some things still have to go in the Windows installation, Windows is bad about that!! If you can figure out which files those are and copy them to the right places every time your C Drive changes it should work. There is a Boinc Alpha software testing email group and this is what it says at the bottom of each email:
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Hopefully you can figure out to ask to join from one of those links and then ask which files get installed outside the Boinc folders and where they need to go. I'm guessing I used something like this to subscribe..boinc_alpha+subscribe@ssl.berkeley.edu but it's been so long since I did it I'm not sure.

If you are thinking of downloading tasks on one pc and then running them on a different pc there are safeguards against doing that as it's one of the ways people used to cheat big time back when Seti was young. YES there are people that do it today but I don't know how or if it's allowed or ignored at certain projects.

Yes.... what is the alternative?
I assume that nothing will change but over time people will upgrade their GPU's but that will result in less work being completed for this project.

I'm hoping my Radeon VII's kick on for a while longer but any replacement card, won't be as good for M@H.

I finally got the AMD performance software to work. Problem was after driver install, I had 5 "ghost" GPU cards. I had to edit the coproc_info.xml file, remove the extra 5 GPUs and then mark the file read only so that BOINC would not be able to add the "extra" GPUs' back in.

The driver I used was "win10-radeon-pro-software-enterprise-21.Q2.1"
Possible using a device driver cleaner and a re-install might fix the copro_info.xml problem. I got duplicate GPUs due to BOINC ( or clinfo) seeing two drivers instead of one so it marked my system as having two opencl platforms and I had almost 500 error'ed out tasks before I could suspend the project and fix the problem.

What driver(s) are you using? Does one card have one version and a different card have another?

Anyway, this is the display of 4 of the 5 gpus. The 5tth would not fit in the screen capture. Note the junction temp, the so-called "hot spot".
Tuning is only available for the VII. I have not tried any tuning yet.
Is it the same app you are using?

I am running 4 work units per GPU: One AMD VIi and several AMD S9xxx boards

About once every 4-5 days a task hangs up on the VII. It is easily fixed by suspending and then resuming the task. The VII is the fastest board, 2x as fast as S9150 and the problem is only on the VII. I used a boinctask "rule" to automatically suspend any MW task taking over 5 minutes which allows the card to continue processing 4 tasks as is normal instead of 3 and a hung task.

1 - Has anyone seen a problem like this before?

2 - GPUz has a feature that shows the "hot spot". My RTX-2080Ti and the VII card are the only ones that reports "hot spot". My other Nvidia and AMD cards lack that feature, probably too old. The VII has 3 fans and is in an open frame rack and there is a box fan cooling the rack. Its "hot spot" runs 102-107c. The RTX-2080Ti is in a case "Area51" that is cramped. It shows 80c for its hot spot. Do these values seem ok?

The downward trend has resumed


I wonder if they are rebooting the Server on a regular basis to make it happen?