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TCP JESUS Send message Joined: 19 Jan 03 Posts: 205 Credit: 1,248,845 RAC: 0	Message 913445 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 1:15:58 UTC Last modified: 3 Jul 2009, 1:16:41 UTC
	All I can say is WOW ! Could it have been any easier ? ReSchedule 1.7 is the next best thing to Optimized APPs that I have found on this (linked to Lunatics ofcourse) Forum. After spending the last 8 or so hours pulling out my hair because I haven't been able to upload/download....and watching my CUDA cache slowly dwindle down to less than 30 WU's, I decided to give it a shot. http://lunatics.kwsn.net/12-gpu-crunching/cpu-gpu-rebranding-perl-script.msg18617.html#msg18617 I was not only able to buy myself a little more time (about another 8 hours of <full-load-10-thread-crunching> life during this 'noisy' period), I found a tool that I will add to my arsenal for future fine tuning. Are you a MB Cruncher ? have more CPU than CUDA WU's available ? (or the other way around ?) KEEP THOSE GTX Cards Well Fed/Supplied with WU's ! GET THIS TOOL ! (requires Forum registration) That is all for now....and thanks to Zeus for pointing it out in another thread. Allan ____________ I am TCP JESUS...The Carpenter Phenom Jesus....and *HAMMERING* is what I do best! formerly known as...MC Hammer.
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Westsail and Pyxey Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 331 Credit: 19,728,576 RAC: 0	Message 913462 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 2:18:33 UTC Last modified: 3 Jul 2009, 2:21:46 UTC
	*thumbs up* This is the perfect compliment for MB crunching.. Now my hosts can handle all WU thrown their way; with an intelligent thought to using the type of processor that is most efficient for that task. Very nice guys. Big kudos to all those crazy lunatics who helped get GPU crunching to the point it is! =) Thanks! keep crunching ____________ "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm... that's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov
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Geek@Play Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2414 Credit: 79,016,596 RAC: 0	Message 913476 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 3:46:22 UTC Last modified: 3 Jul 2009, 3:47:22 UTC
	There is a version 1.8 in that very same thread. http://lunatics.kwsn.net/12-gpu-crunching/cpu-gpu-rebranding-perl-script.msg18817.html#msg18817 And is the newest version available. ____________ Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....
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Questor Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Sep 04 Posts: 342 Credit: 129,512,053 RAC: 20,042	Message 913566 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 10:50:27 UTC
	Probably worth mentioning that the big win from this app is that you no longer need the VLAR kill version of the opt apps - you can replace them with the standard opt app. Reschedule will rebrand any VLAR/VHARs from GPU to CPU. This helps on two fronts (especially when recently there seem to have been more VLARs than usual) a. You don't run short of GPU taks because you've VLAR killed them and b. It stops the network traffic caused by throwing away VLAR tasks and downloading replacements. (Every little bit helps!) ____________ GPU Users Group
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Samdani Send message Joined: 21 Oct 00 Posts: 75 Credit: 5,667,753 RAC: 3,194	Message 913618 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 16:29:43 UTC
	I am using the same tool since yesterday. It works great as I was able to balance workload between CPU and GPU. However, now around 20 CUDA units are in various stages of â€œWaiting to runâ€. Is that normal? ____________
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Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3075 Credit: 341,354 RAC: 88	Message 913626 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 16:42:55 UTC - in response to Message 913618.
	I am using the same tool since yesterday. It works great as I was able to balance workload between CPU and GPU. However, now around 20 CUDA units are in various stages of â€œWaiting to runâ€. Is that normal? That depends on your view of what is normal :-) It shouldn't happen, but with 6.6.36 there seems to be a bug that causes this behaviour. Check with windows task manager how many CUDA applications (6.08) are active. If more than one, you should reboot to unclogg your graphic memory. GruÃŸ, Gundolf ____________ Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz) SETI@home classic workunits 3,758 SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours
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Samdani Send message Joined: 21 Oct 00 Posts: 75 Credit: 5,667,753 RAC: 3,194	Message 913627 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 16:51:00 UTC - in response to Message 913626.
	Only one CUDA task is active at the moment... but I wonder what will happen to all those waiting tasks in BOINC ? ____________
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Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3075 Credit: 341,354 RAC: 88	Message 913632 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 16:56:30 UTC - in response to Message 913627.
	That was my question: are they preempted correctly (removed from memory) or not. If not, the following tasks tend to error out or fall back to CPU processing.
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Samdani Send message Joined: 21 Oct 00 Posts: 75 Credit: 5,667,753 RAC: 3,194	Message 913638 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 17:18:59 UTC - in response to Message 913632.
	Thanks for the input Gundolf. I rebooted my computer about an hour ago so I have no idea about thatâ€¦ I will keep checking. by the way, this only happened after running the ReSchedule tool. ____________
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JohnDK Send message Joined: 28 May 00 Posts: 756 Credit: 20,368,548 RAC: 36,479	Message 913641 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 17:28:09 UTC
	This tool does what Boinc should do, no reason for bandwidth waste, not least since there's isn't enough in the first place.
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1mp0£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 913647 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 17:48:55 UTC - in response to Message 913641. Last modified: 3 Jul 2009, 17:49:21 UTC
	This tool does what Boinc should do, no reason for bandwidth waste, not least since there's isn't enough in the first place. BOINC shouldn't have any project-specific code, and I'm not sure this is a general CUDA problem. ... but it seems that the CUDA science app. (and the CPU app. for that matter) could do the rebranding, and that's in the project-specific code (the science applications). ____________
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Zeus Fab3r Send message Joined: 17 Jan 01 Posts: 639 Credit: 56,795,340 RAC: 82,367	Message 913661 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 18:30:22 UTC - in response to Message 913618.
	I am using the same tool since yesterday. It works great as I was able to balance workload between CPU and GPU. However, now around 20 CUDA units are in various stages of â€œWaiting to runâ€. Is that normal? You should take some of your time for closer look at explanations back at the original post, which Geek@Play provided earlier. -Running units are now excluded from the rescheduling (better because the slot info wasn't changed). Because of the changed deadlines it is still possible that boinc starts other tasks while the previous running tasks are marked as waiting. ____________ Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?¿
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Andy Williams Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 May 01 Posts: 187 Credit: 111,625,216 RAC: 58,659	Message 913663 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 18:55:38 UTC Last modified: 3 Jul 2009, 19:24:03 UTC
	Works on my Vista 32-bit system. Fails on my 64-bit systems, Vista or Win 7 RC. Error message is "boinc.exe does not exist." All files are in default locations. Ideas? Edit: Got it to run. The ReSchedule.ini file had to be edited to explicitly state the path information on 64-bit systems for some reason. ____________ -- Classic 82353 WU / 400979 h
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FiveHamlet Send message Joined: 5 Oct 99 Posts: 783 Credit: 32,638,578 RAC: 0	Message 913682 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 20:12:43 UTC Last modified: 3 Jul 2009, 20:13:05 UTC
	Got the same error as Andy on my Vista 64bit system is there a work round. Tried in various folders still no joy. Dave ____________
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Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3363 Credit: 25,949,213 RAC: 1,335	Message 913705 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 20:53:44 UTC - in response to Message 913682.
	Got the same error as Andy on my Vista 64bit system is there a work round. Tried in various folders still no joy. Dave You've got to change it to the correct program files directory, Windows 64bit has two different ones. Claggy
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Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7456 Credit: 39,565,988 RAC: 32,254	Message 913720 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 21:10:34 UTC
	According to Marius, ReSchedule 1.8 handles the win/64 platform correctly.
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Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3363 Credit: 25,949,213 RAC: 1,335	Message 913723 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 21:17:30 UTC - in response to Message 913720.
	According to Marius, ReSchedule 1.8 handles the win/64 platform correctly. That's the version i installed earlier, it didn't, and had to change the directory, My Windows 64bit machine did once have 32bit Boinc installed, so it might have a unused Boinc directory in Program files WoW. I'll check later when i get home. Claggy
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Andy Williams Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 May 01 Posts: 187 Credit: 111,625,216 RAC: 58,659	Message 913728 - Posted: 3 Jul 2009, 21:22:59 UTC - in response to Message 913720. Last modified: 3 Jul 2009, 21:26:21 UTC
	According to Marius, ReSchedule 1.8 handles the win/64 platform correctly. Not as delivered. The .ini file has to be edited to include specific path information to the boinc.exe and client_state.xml files. This should be in a readme.txt or equivalent. ____________ -- Classic 82353 WU / 400979 h
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CryptokiD Send message Joined: 2 Dec 00 Posts: 134 Credit: 2,814,936 RAC: 0	Message 913828 - Posted: 4 Jul 2009, 1:11:08 UTC
	rs 1.8 fails on windows 7-64 on 2 different machines. cant find client_state and bunch of other stuff.
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 5057 Credit: 40,714,213 RAC: 52,608	Message 913834 - Posted: 4 Jul 2009, 1:26:57 UTC - in response to Message 913828.
	rs 1.8 fails on windows 7-64 on 2 different machines. cant find client_state and bunch of other stuff. As mentioned in the post above yours- The .ini file has to be edited to include specific path information to the boinc.exe and client_state.xml files. Does it still fail after doing that? ____________ Grant Darwin NT.
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