I seem to notice that when I have both GPUGrid and Seti@home active at the same time, that BOINC tends to prefer to run GPUGrid instead of Seti@home...even though long and short term debts are in Seti's favor.

In order to get BOINC to run Seti tasks, I have to suspend GPUGrid completely. Anybody else notice this?

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

Are you sure about the debts? Have you checked to see what they are?

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Are you sure about the debts? Have you checked to see what they are?

Yep, from BOINCview:

Computer One

GPU Grid -
Short term = -46,789.06 seconds
Long term = -242,149 seconds

Seti@home
Short term = 74,265.49 seconds
Long Term = -122.91 seconds



Computer Two

GPU Grid -
Short term = 19,621.81 seconds
Long term = -225,157.50 seconds

Seti@home
Short term = 86,400 seconds
Long Term = 0 seconds



Based on my limited knowledge of BOINC debt, I would assume that the higher the debt, the higher priority that project would receive. In both cases, Seti@home is much higher short and long term debts than GPUGrid, and they both have Seti@home workunits already waiting in the cache. Wouldn't BOINC run Seti@home until GPUGrid racked up more debt? As it is currently standing, BOINC actually will download more GPUGrid units rather than switching to SETI.

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

Hi, I didn't check if I have a negative dept on GPUgrid, or SETI.
I started with GPUgrid and installed CUDA for SETI a month later, when I changed my resource-share in favor of SETI, this slowly changed and seems quite balanced if you take the resource share into account.

My 8500GT card appeared too slow for GPUgrid, but works OK with SETI and has about the same crunch time as a CPU core.

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Hi, I didn't check if I have a negative dept on GPUgrid, or SETI.
I started with GPUgrid and installed CUDA for SETI a month later, when I changed my resource-share in favor of SETI, this slowly changed and seems quite balanced if you take the resource share into account.

My 8500GT card appeared too slow for GPUgrid, but works OK with SETI and has about the same crunch time as a CPU core.

In this case I have the opposite...I had been running SETI Cuda since it first came out and only now am I adding GPUGrid. I also added about 10 other projects over the last month so it could just be that BOINC is working out the balance. Resource share works with GPU tasks too, yes?

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

Does anyone know if there is a CUDA capable AGP card? I have a couple of older machines which don't crunch much but could be useful if such a card is available.

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As long as the AGP card has one of these nVidia class GPUs, it should work.

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I guess I should have been more clear. Does anyone make an AGP card that uses an Nvidia CUDA capable GPU?

Who makes such a card?

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I posted that list so you can search for yourself if you happen to come across one.

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Meanwhile, I have purchased a GeForce 9400 GT based card for my PCIe based Dell. Seti@Home now recognizes a CUDA card but is there any need to install a CUDA driver from NVidia or am I good to go right out of the box with just the NVidia graphics drivers for Vista?

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Meanwhile, I have purchased a GeForce 9400 GT based card for my PCIe based Dell. Seti@Home now recognizes a CUDA card but is there any need to install a CUDA driver from NVidia or am I good to go right out of the box with just the NVidia graphics drivers for Vista?

Seems like it's got the 190.38 drivers so you should be good to go.

F.

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Thanks for clearing that up.

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