I noticed that no progress bar is showing with the new application version from Aug 30. Everythings else - credit, runtime etc - is the same as with the old version.

Anyone else noticing the same behaviour?

Ok, after few restarts it works!!!!

But I install driver 190.62, BOINC 6.10.1 and detached + atached to projest and set only GPU...

It works witch AQUA@HOME CPU.

Win7 64 bit.

On GTX260 (625Mhz GPU 1348 Shader) = 11 m. 25 s. = 685s. 74.24 credits so 1 credit in 9.23s.

GPUGRID pays better..... (1 credit at 4-7sec.)

But MW app is "young" and I hope soon it will be improved to have better performance :)

When my CPU (i7) is working full with other BOINC projects, calculation time for Milkyway/CUDA is 9.5 minutes. When my CPU is idle, calculation time is 5.5 minutes. Close to two times difference !

Edit: confirmed on my second computer.

The GTX 285 that I have takes about 5:24 per WU with no load on the CPU and leaving the computer idle, this is with the WU that begin with gs_s222_3s.

@Anthony:

I sent you a solution to this problem by PM!

Anthony, I found something wrong. When my CPU (i7) is working full with other BOINC projects, calculation time for Milkyway/CUDA is 9.5 minutes. When my CPU is idle, calculation time is 5.5 minutes. Close to two times difference !

Edit: confirmed on my second computer.

Thank You for the reply. I re-read the first post/message and found the
preference for the project. I have the GPU selected as NO.

Use GPUs for Computation? no
Use CPU for Computation? yes

The problem is that it does not work. I ran update for the project and it still trys to get work for GPU and does not try to get CPU work. So that means I will run out of work very shortly.

Thanks again. Jim

:-( My new gpu is a gts 250 . it looked good in comparison with the gtx 260 in gpu grid's chart, close in bang for half the cost. almost bought a 260 today (cheaper now)but ended up getting a hub, some mice, keyboards, cables, kvm etc. woulda put it in a 64 bit linux box though (too cheap to buy windoze, can't stand it nywayz) as ThierryH says tho, #1 is best 4 Me cuz i don't need to use the pc.

why the 32 bit BOINC ?
my server2003 64 bit 'doze wont run that. (disingenuous (ungenuine) of course ;-)
is there a 64bit 'nix app in the pipeline ?

Not sure where to put this. Not cuda related per say, I have only been getting 5 wu at a time today. Did this change from 6, or just my luck?

I'm not quite sure how BOINC decides which platform to request tasks for (GPU or CPU) but I will try BOINC 6.10 over the next day to see if that is the source of the issue.

I tried to downgrade to 6.6.36, but got an error and the BOINC manager wouldn't run, so had to go back to 6.10.1

I've set GPU to no, but it it's trying for it anyway, and I'm not getting any work at all:

Use GPUs for Computation? no
Use CPU for Computation? yes

27/08/2009 01:03:07 Milkyway@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
27/08/2009 01:03:13 Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
27/08/2009 01:03:13 Milkyway@home Message from server: No work sent

I'm using BOINC 6.10.1

A new preference has been added to the Milkyway@Home preferences page that specifies whether the project is allowed to use your GPU for computation, this has to be enabled in order to receive work from the CUDA application.

how about a new preference for not running CPU work for any of us that want to run GPU only?