Hi everyone,

My PC is CUDA ready (BOINC 6.4.5, 8800 GTS 640MB; Message "CUDA Devices found" in the BOINC Message log) but I dont get any CUDA Apps.
It is running for 2 weeks now in that state and no CUDA Apps so far.

Is there anything special I have to set, so that my client receives CUDA Apps ?

I identify CUDA Apps by the term "CUDA" at the end of the application name. So for example "SETI@Home Enhanced 6.03 CUDA". At least, I guess it will look like that, since I got none so far.

Thanks for any advice,
Alexander

Go to your account page, under computing preferences and under processor usage make sure you have number of processors at three. This will allow you CPUs to run APs and the GPU to run MB.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

I've got 5 computers CUDA capable (4 Quads, 1 Buce), and originally proccessed CUDA work units, but haven't gotten any new ones in about a week.

http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/comb-5132.jpg

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I was receiving CUDA units but have not seen any in 10-14 days (as of 1/19/2009). As far as setting your processor number to one more than you have - I have an unresolved issue....Under preferences I have set my processor usage on my quad to 5 CPUs - its been that way for weeks and if I go into my preferences now it shows 5 - but when I look up my info under (my) results it only shows 4 CPUs. When I was getting cuda(s) it never ran 5 units at a time so I'm convinced the Seti system believes I only have 4 CPUs - not the 5 it shows under (preferences) Processor Usage. CUDA is still in its infancy and issues like these will be addressed in time or I'll figure out what I'm not doing to tell the system that 4 CPUs + 1 GPU = 5.

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My C2D is showing 2 CPUs and lists the 8500GT as a coprocessor. I am running two AP WUs and one cuda right now. Are you showing a message like this in your boinc messenger message tab?
1/19/2009 1:45:00 PM|SETI@home|Starting task 08no08ab.2619.80199.11.8.70_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 607

If it shows 603 then it is not cuda. Also are you just running 4 tasks or 5 at a time?

Oops, sorry I didn't see that you were only running 4. Have you tried running Raistmer's version 6 optimizing app? If you are just running the V8 it won't recognize CUDA.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Rather than starting a new thread may I pose a similar question to the present one?
I am also running a C2D along with an 8800GTS 640 MB vid card which is recognized in BOINC manager messages. I have enabled the use of the GPU in preferences, set processor usage as 3 and have an 8 day cache of WU's but have yet to process a single WU with the GPU. The latest GPU driver has been loaded and there is obviously more than enough work for the GPU to share with the CPU. I'm not running any optimized apps mainly because this feeble old brain can't figure out how to. What am I doing wrong??

You really want cuda wu's?

first read this

hardcore solution

option a) you are shure that your card isnt to weak
- check prefs: enable cuda, disable astropulse
- if your ap-cache is empty and still get no cuda wu's -> go option b)

option b) you dont know what your card is / you know your card is to weak
- check prefs: enable cuda, disable astropulse
- install nvidia drivers 181.20 or above
- get Raistmers v6 and install it
-> done

btw. my card is to weak (9600GT) and so i was following option 2:

20.01.2009 04:03:45||[error] Proposed work request 417636.484116 bigger than max 349059.490560
20.01.2009 04:03:48|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 349059 seconds of work, reporting 12 completed tasks
20.01.2009 04:03:53|SETI@home|Scheduler request completed: got 20 new tasks
20.01.2009 04:03:55|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.49
20.01.2009 04:03:55|SETI@home|Started download of 02no08aa.18937.326480.16.8.74
20.01.2009 04:04:00|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.49
20.01.2009 04:04:00|SETI@home|Finished download of 02no08aa.18937.326480.16.8.74
20.01.2009 04:04:00|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.74
20.01.2009 04:04:00|SETI@home|Started download of 02no08ab.31772.20113.15.8.30
20.01.2009 04:04:05|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.74
20.01.2009 04:04:05|SETI@home|Finished download of 02no08ab.31772.20113.15.8.30
20.01.2009 04:04:05|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ac.31739.20113.13.8.24
20.01.2009 04:04:05|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ac.31739.20113.13.8.76
20.01.2009 04:04:09|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ac.31739.20113.13.8.24
20.01.2009 04:04:09|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ac.31739.20113.13.8.76
20.01.2009 04:04:09|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.57
20.01.2009 04:04:09|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.76
20.01.2009 04:04:09|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 275739 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
20.01.2009 04:04:14|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.57
20.01.2009 04:04:14|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.76
20.01.2009 04:04:14|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.116
20.01.2009 04:04:14|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.71
20.01.2009 04:04:15|SETI@home|Scheduler request completed: got 20 new tasks
20.01.2009 04:04:18|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.116
20.01.2009 04:04:18|SETI@home|Finished download of 09dc08ad.31804.16432.7.8.71
20.01.2009 04:04:18|SETI@home|Started download of 09dc08ac.31739.20113.13.8.26

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Where do I get "Raistmers v6"?

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Where do I get "Raistmers v6"?

From this message in the Modified SETI MB CUDA + opt AP package for full GPU utilization thread.

Edit: Or the direct link at Lunatics

There's also a link posted that someone else uploaded here if there are problems with the Lunatics link.

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Thank you for the feedback!

Well, I made sure that "GPU Usage" is checked. It was checked already at the time when I installed BOINC 6.4.5; so about 2 weeks ago.

I thought the CUDA app is already "common practice", thats why I was starting this thread. There is at least the official word on this website, that CUDA apps are ready to use.
But if there are still settings to do like "set your processor number manually to one more than you really have", and I have to install things, the official instruction is not talking about, then I leave my hands from that ;-)

You know, this is still a valuable daily used machine for me and I dont want any sudden crashes or so :)

So good luck with integrating CUDA !

Alexander

Thank you for the feedback!

Well, I made sure that "GPU Usage" is checked. It was checked already at the time when I installed BOINC 6.4.5; so about 2 weeks ago.

I thought the CUDA app is already "common practice", thats why I was starting this thread. There is at least the official word on this website, that CUDA apps are ready to use.
But if there are still settings to do like "set your processor number manually to one more than you really have", and I have to install things, the official instruction is not talking about, then I leave my hands from that ;-)

You know, this is still a valuable daily used machine for me and I dont want any sudden crashes or so :)

So good luck with integrating CUDA !

Alexander

8800 GTS 320/640 is the "old" G80 GPU, which typically won't run with CUDA v2 apps. It certainly isn't supported on GPUgrid, and probably isn't on SETI.

While CUDA drivers will load on this card, any recently built CUDA app most likely will run very slowly or not at all...

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Mark

8800 GTS 320/640 is the "old" G80 GPU, which typically won't run with CUDA v2 apps. It certainly isn't supported on GPUgrid, and probably isn't on SETI.

While CUDA drivers will load on this card, any recently built CUDA app most likely will run very slowly or not at all...

Friend of mine has an 8800GTS 320 that he got at least 6 months ago and I verified with Everest that it really is a G92. Just pointing out that we don't actually have a solid/approximate date of when they switched from G80 to G92.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Well that seems to explain why I'm not processing any wu's with my present vid card...according to GPU-Z my 8800GTS is the G80 flavour. Oh well. In any case thanks for the answer.

Cheers from the great white north.

This is as good as any thread to ask this in, where did the assumption come from that Seti CUDA needs 1.1 capability, that it won't run on 1.0?

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This is as good as any thread to ask this in, where did the assumption come from that Seti CUDA needs 1.1 capability, that it won't run on 1.0?

Detective work amongst the SETI crunching community, mostly at Beta and Lunatics.

Some people got work, other people didn't. By a process of elimination, passing by the 255MB limit on the way, it seemed that a representative sample of the "didn't get" community had 1.0 capability, and a representative sample of the "get" community had 1.1 capability.

However, that is an observational statement, not a formal technical prerequisite statement. It could be that the SETI server is set to reject requests from capability 1.0 cards, much as it was originally set to reject requests from cards reporting 255MB RAM. I believe that there have been reports of capability 1.0 cards, with an app_info.xml to disguise that fact, successfully receiving and returning work.

Maybe asking NVidia directly would be the most reliable way of getting an answer?

Maybe asking NVidia directly would be the most reliable way of getting an answer?

Ah sorry, I didn't say that, but Nvidia was the one asking it.

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Maybe asking NVidia directly would be the most reliable way of getting an answer?

Ah sorry, I didn't say that, but Nvidia was the one asking it.

Tell them to try it and see! If anyone has access to the full range of CUDA-capable cards, it should be them.....

Suggestion: someone fire up a 1.0 card (I think the 320MB 8800GTS is often cited), and attach it to Beta where the downloads work. See what you get. Then, install a package with an app_info.xml (I did some for v6.07, to get round the speed limit - that should be good enough, you're not actually going to run a VLAR with it), and fish for work again. If it works, and you can crunch a shorty, then the 1.0 limit can be removed.

The question then becomes, why did the SETI server installers think that 1.0 should be excluded, if they didn't get the idea from NVidia?

It is a restriction on the Seti server, apparently. But it's being looked into now that this can change. Will keep you apprised.

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01/21/09 19:32:14||Fetching configuration file from http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/get_project_config.php
01/21/09 19:32:38|SETI@home Beta Test|Master file download succeeded
01/21/09 19:32:43|SETI@home Beta Test|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
01/21/09 19:32:43|SETI@home Beta Test|CPU work request: 1.00 seconds, 0 instances
01/21/09 19:32:43|SETI@home Beta Test|CUDA work request: 181440.00 seconds, 1 instances
01/21/09 19:32:58|SETI@home Beta Test|Scheduler request completed: got 10 new tasks
01/21/09 19:33:00|SETI@home Beta Test|Started download of setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe
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01/21/09 19:33:09|SETI@home Beta Test|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
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01/21/09 19:33:21|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: No work sent
01/21/09 19:33:21|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: No work is available for AstroPulse
01/21/09 19:33:21|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: Can't use CUDA app for SETI@home Enhanced: Your CUDA device has the wrong software version
01/21/09 19:33:21|SETI@home Beta Test|Message from server: CPU app exists for SETI@home Enhanced but no CPU work requested
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With an 8800GTX 768mb. Just incase they needed something more

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With an 8800GTX 768mb. Just incase they needed something more

Ye gods. Pick the bones out of that lot. I think you've got every server glitch in the book.

Got 10 tasks for a one-second work request? check.
Got a CUDA card, but no app/work for it? check.
Request 2.1 days' work at project initialisation, when you have no idea of the device speed? check.

The only other things it would be useful to know for a full house would be the version of the BOINC client you're using, and the version number of the NVidia CUDA driver.