Posts by swiftmallard

41) Message boards : News : New Modfit Runs (Message 63085) Posted 1 Feb 2015 by swiftmallard Post: What would you recommend to set for CPU usage for the GPU projects? Do they each really need a whole CPU core, or can the GPUs share a single core between them? My experience is that leaving a core free to feed the GPU adds so little output that it's not worth doing, I prefer to run a single CPU project on all cores and a single GPU project on the card. I run as few projects as possible at any one time to eliminate any issues with Boinc wanting to switch between them, KISS at work. It seems to me that your measurement of optimization of the overall output includes receiving the maximum credit from a given project, a nice objective goal. But many major crunchers will tell you that the easiest way achieve this is to: A. keep it simple B. set it and forget it You've done what you can. Let it run for a year and come back to see where you are. I have no doubt you will be well pleased.
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Updated GPU Requirements (Currently not supporting GPU tasks) (Message 63035) Posted 18 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: The HD4800 series card supports OpenCL version 1.0. I think Milky Way requires version 1.1
43) Message boards : Application Code Discussion : R9 290 is not recognized on linux x64 with proprietary drivers and OpenCL sdk installed (Message 63007) Posted 13 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: See this thread: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=3457#60804
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation errors (Message 63006) Posted 13 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: "Validation Inconclusive" simply means that they are waiting for someone else to confirm your result, it is not the same as a validation error.
45) Message boards : News : New Separation Runs (Message 62999) Posted 12 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: Me too. Seemingly the WU barely starts and is stopped to start another. Is there a download error? Your card does not support the double precision necessary for this project.
46) Message boards : Number crunching : Milkyway ignoring Boinc CPU limit (Message 62983) Posted 11 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: Unhide your computer.
47) Message boards : News : New Modfit Runs (Message 62954) Posted 4 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: the file has to be named app_config.xml not app-config.xml Oops, glad it's running for you though!
48) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : The Last Person to Post Wins - Fetch it up! (Message 62953) Posted 4 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: And we have a winner! It's *Phil! The current game ended at the close of pheasant hunting season here is Minnesota. Phil has the last post, so he has the honor and privilege of running the next game. Congratulations Phil*
49) Message boards : News : New Modfit Runs (Message 62927) Posted 1 Jan 2015 by swiftmallard Post: ....the runs might not fully utilize your GPU. ...try configuring your GPU to run 2 of these at the same time... Jake Uhm, is there a tutorial for that? Copy this in Notepad (not Word): <app_config> <app> <name>milkyway</name> <gpu_versions> <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage> <cpu_usage>0.05</cpu_usage> </gpu_versions> </app> <app> <name>milkyway_separation__modified_fit</name> <gpu_versions> <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage> <cpu_usage>0.05</cpu_usage> </gpu_versions> </app> </app_config> Save the file as "app-config.xml" and place the file here: (Unhide your folders if you haven't already) Program data\Boinc\Projects\MilkyWay Restart Boinc and you'll be running two at a time.
50) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU tasks only uses 50% load on GTX780TI (Message 62894) Posted 27 Dec 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Boinc manager - advanced view - Tools tab - Computing Preferences - Processor usage - "On multicore systems use at most": put 90 in this box.
51) Message boards : Number crunching : ATI Card Recommendation (Message 62789) Posted 5 Dec 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Yes AMD purchased ATI. As far as a card to your specs, I do not know of one that is able to calculate with the double precision required by MW. Even if there is one, I would expect it to be used. Do some research here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units and then look on ebay?
52) Message boards : Number crunching : Getting work units (Message 62757) Posted 30 Nov 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Boinc is not requesting work, that is your issue. What other projects are you running on that machine?
53) Message boards : Number crunching : Preferences -- what do these mean and should I adjust? (Message 62743) Posted 26 Nov 2014 by swiftmallard Post: There are no graphics to show. Just ignore those settings.
54) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting enough Workunits (Message 62668) Posted 7 Nov 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Let the Bitcoin Utopis run run down with out getting any new WUs from it. The MW units should increase then to a maximum of 40.
55) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting enough Workunits (Message 62665) Posted 6 Nov 2014 by swiftmallard Post: 1. Unhide your computers. 2. What are your other resource shares set to?
56) Message boards : Number crunching : Computation ERROR (Message 62650) Posted 30 Oct 2014 by swiftmallard Post: I have the Geforce GTX 260 card, and with windows 7 Ultimate. And the CPU is Intel Core 2 Duo on 2,80 Ghz. I can see that basicly all of my Milkyway@home packages are calculated/crunched with errors ("Computation error"). I have just installed the windows 7 Ultimate because of a change from HDD to an Samsung SSD 250 GB. So that's also why Boinc and the NVidia drivers is brand new (Boinc ver.7.2.42 (x64) and NVIDIA ver. 340.52). Erhm...Is a old member of Seti@home, but new to Milkyway@home. Hope you can sort this problem out with "Computation Error" somehow if possible. BTW, is it possible to have some kind of graphic or screensaver to Milkyway@home? Plus, where can you see the result of the 3D model of the universe? I have 3D Studio Max, and Maya, and Google Earth is that's possible to view with it. But I guess you're using some other kind of software to view it. Thanks... Regards from Tom Pedersen I'm not familiar with nvidia but I suspect the new drivers are a problem. You may need to downgrade them to crunch effectively. Drivers are developed for gamers, not crunchers, and newer is not necessarily better. There is no screensaver for this project.
57) Message boards : News : New Nbody version (Message 62601) Posted 20 Oct 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Hi Jake. Thanks. In addition to the extraordinary length of time being estimated, my other "concern" is that I have no other tasks being queued. Maybe this is a function of the time estimate (?) There is no maybe about it. I always abort n-body WUs that take longer than 24 hours.
58) Message boards : Number crunching : can only crunch on 3 out of 4 amd cards (Message 62578) Posted 16 Oct 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Remember to write/edit/save the file in Notepad (not Word), name it app_config.xml, place it in the Milky Way folder and restart Boinc.
59) Message boards : Number crunching : sometimes my computer uses 2 or 1 gpu's (Message 62547) Posted 12 Oct 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Thanks for the info Mikey. I have a problem though this morning; the 7770 refuses to start up again. How many watts is your power supply? If you have a 2nd monitor plug it into the 7770 when Windows starts up and see if that helps, you can remove it after Windows is up and running. They make monitor extension cables. Could this b a time where a dummy plug might help?
60) Message boards : Number crunching : Server is ignoring my preferences (Message 62498) Posted 6 Oct 2014 by swiftmallard Post: Does the line below your preferences look like this? If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? no If not, you will get Modified Fit tasks when the others run low.

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