CUDA erros with GTX480

Questions and Answers : GPU applications : CUDA erros with GTX480
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

AuthorMessage
Numanoid
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 13 Aug 99
Posts: 42
Credit: 4,119,139
RAC: 0
United States
Message 993815 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 16:56:06 UTC

Hi guys. I bought a GTX480 and wanted to test it's crunching on SETI, but I'm getting a ton of errors with it. A few WUs have completed successfully, but most are erroring out with a -9 "The number of results detected exceeds the storage space allocated."

They only run for about 15 seconds and complete. I have hundreds of these pending. I have several under "Errors" and many under "Validated".

I was getting this using the latest BOINC client, and then I upgraded to the Lunatics optimized client and got the same result. I chose the "easy" installation for the lunatics client.

I am running the 480 on a liquid cooled setup and temps are in the 30s when this is happening. It happens on stock clocks and overclocked.

Running the latest Nvidia drivers and on Win 7.

Let me know if I am missing anything. Please help me out as I'd love to do some more crunching with this thing!

Thanks!
ID: 993815 · Report as offensive
Numanoid
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 13 Aug 99
Posts: 42
Credit: 4,119,139
RAC: 0
United States
Message 993817 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 17:01:10 UTC - in response to Message 993815.  

Update: The vast majority of these are going under Invalid. I check other users with the same WU and they are being marked valid and getting credit.
ID: 993817 · Report as offensive
Profile skildude
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 4 Oct 00
Posts: 9541
Credit: 50,759,529
RAC: 60
Yemen
Message 993818 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 17:02:56 UTC - in response to Message 993817.  

it would be easier if we could see your computers. We could then see what Driver version you are running and other important items that could help diagnose the problem you are having


In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope
ID: 993818 · Report as offensive
Numanoid
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 13 Aug 99
Posts: 42
Credit: 4,119,139
RAC: 0
United States
Message 993827 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 17:33:38 UTC

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5393866

Not sure if this is how to post it, but this is my computer with the CUDA device.
ID: 993827 · Report as offensive
Profile skildude
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 4 Oct 00
Posts: 9541
Credit: 50,759,529
RAC: 60
Yemen
Message 993841 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 18:30:14 UTC - in response to Message 993827.  

I'm not sure why you aren't able just to unhide your computers. We can get a few more details about how you and what you are running on that system. It doesn't give us any sensitive inforamtion like ip or computer name. I'm still wondering what driver version you are running and that is available to us if you just unhide.


In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope
ID: 993841 · Report as offensive
Profile Gundolf Jahn

Send message
Joined: 19 Sep 00
Posts: 3184
Credit: 446,358
RAC: 0
Germany
Message 993843 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 18:38:34 UTC - in response to Message 993841.  

I'm still wondering what driver version you are running and that is available to us if you just unhide.

It's also available from the link in the post you answered to: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5393866.

It says: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 (1503MB) driver: 19741

Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours
ID: 993843 · Report as offensive
Numanoid
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 13 Aug 99
Posts: 42
Credit: 4,119,139
RAC: 0
United States
Message 993845 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 18:50:46 UTC - in response to Message 993841.  

I'm not sure why you aren't able just to unhide your computers. We can get a few more details about how you and what you are running on that system. It doesn't give us any sensitive inforamtion like ip or computer name. I'm still wondering what driver version you are running and that is available to us if you just unhide.


I can't find the spot to unhide it.

I've seen it in the past, but can't find it now. I'll look again.
ID: 993845 · Report as offensive
Numanoid
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 13 Aug 99
Posts: 42
Credit: 4,119,139
RAC: 0
United States
Message 993848 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 18:55:49 UTC - in response to Message 993845.  

I've set this:

Should SETI@home show your computers on its web site?

To yes, but that computer is offline and won't "update" to the project until I get home later today. The computer details are in the link I posted above.

The 197.41 drivers are the latest certified drivers from Nvidia on my platform Win 7 64bit.


ID: 993848 · Report as offensive
Profile Gundolf Jahn

Send message
Joined: 19 Sep 00
Posts: 3184
Credit: 446,358
RAC: 0
Germany
Message 993861 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 19:58:48 UTC - in response to Message 993848.  

but that computer is offline and won't "update" to the project until I get home later today.

That isn't necessary, since it's an online preference. It just takes some time until the change gets visible to all.

Your computers are visible now.

Gruß,
Gundolf
ID: 993861 · Report as offensive
Profile skildude
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 4 Oct 00
Posts: 9541
Credit: 50,759,529
RAC: 60
Yemen
Message 993867 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 20:12:27 UTC - in response to Message 993861.  

do you have windows 7 Aero turned off?


In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope
ID: 993867 · Report as offensive
Numanoid
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 13 Aug 99
Posts: 42
Credit: 4,119,139
RAC: 0
United States
Message 993876 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 20:50:17 UTC - in response to Message 993867.  

Not to my knowledge. Is this a prerequisite for running? I can do that when I get home and see if it makes a difference.

But my GPU is waiting for work.
ID: 993876 · Report as offensive
Profile Jord
Volunteer tester
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 9 Jun 99
Posts: 15184
Credit: 4,362,181
RAC: 3
Netherlands
Message 993878 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 21:06:43 UTC

First off, the BOINC client you use doesn't correctly recognize Fermi cards, which your GTX 480 is. For the moment you'll have to wait for the next recommended version to be released as the previous one that did recognize it correctly was pulled due to a big bug with hanging GPUs and it continuing to request work for the GPU that would never get done.

The second problem is that the Seti CUDA application isn't using all of the stream processors in Fermi cards either, as it doesn't know about most of them. This can amount in further errors.

A beta test with the newest science application is underway at Seti Beta. But that application isn't available yet on this project. See this thread in Number Crunching for more information.

Windows Vista's and Windows 7's Aero desktop takes up a lot of GPU memory that you would like to use for other things. Nice as it may be, if you want to run tasks as fast as possible with as little errors as possible, you turn off all they eye-candy that'll slow down the rendering of your desktop. This isn't just Aero, it's all those "smooth movement" options for all the windows and icons as well. They all take up normal RAM and GPU RAM.
ID: 993878 · Report as offensive
Profile skildude
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 4 Oct 00
Posts: 9541
Credit: 50,759,529
RAC: 60
Yemen
Message 993881 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 21:20:44 UTC - in response to Message 993878.  

Good info Jord. I didnt read about the 4XX series having that problem.


In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope
ID: 993881 · Report as offensive
Numanoid
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 13 Aug 99
Posts: 42
Credit: 4,119,139
RAC: 0
United States
Message 993925 - Posted: 4 May 2010, 0:59:06 UTC

Thanks for the info. I'll disable GPU crunching for now and wait for the next version of BOINC!


ID: 993925 · Report as offensive
Profile skildude
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 4 Oct 00
Posts: 9541
Credit: 50,759,529
RAC: 60
Yemen
Message 993955 - Posted: 4 May 2010, 3:39:15 UTC - in response to Message 993925.  

a new version of boinc won't help. it will be a new version of the seti CUDA app. this may take some time since the original app was created by nvidia and it doesn't appear that they are making the same effort for the new Cards


In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope
ID: 993955 · Report as offensive
Profile Sutaru Tsureku
Volunteer tester

Send message
Joined: 6 Apr 07
Posts: 7105
Credit: 147,663,825
RAC: 5
Germany
Message 995505 - Posted: 11 May 2010, 3:26:59 UTC - in response to Message 993955.  
Last modified: 11 May 2010, 3:35:17 UTC

a new version of boinc won't help. it will be a new version of the seti CUDA app. this may take some time since the original app was created by nvidia and it doesn't appear that they are making the same effort for the new Cards


nVIDIA wouldn't cut into one's own meat* if they don't make a new CUDA app for their GTX4xx series GPUs?

Hey, maybe ATI could jump in and make an app for their own GPUs!

[* german phrase, maybe not well translated ;-)]
ID: 995505 · Report as offensive

Questions and Answers : GPU applications : CUDA erros with GTX480


 
©2024 University of California
 
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.