Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450

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Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19783 Credit: 21,915,174 RAC: 29,323	Message 1204735 - Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 22:26:46 UTC - in response to Message 1204714.
	This is on my daughters PC and I have only just installed the card but it is registered there. Here is the link to here PC http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=9431135 Hmm it runs OpenCL,r390 with a card which have a Max work group size of 128. According to the release documents that should not work, but this completed WU says it does work: Task 2344581713 Someone more knowledgeable than me should comment on this. I thought it strange too, perhaps the latest drivers fix this problem? Claggy I imagine it was only a problem with 3x and 4x cards. I have seen more than one 5450 running OpenCL apps. Also with older drivers. ____________
	ID: 1204735 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,464,263 RAC: 59,367	Message 1204742 - Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 22:43:37 UTC - in response to Message 1204714.
	This is on my daughters PC and I have only just installed the card but it is registered there. Here is the link to here PC http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=9431135 Hmm it runs OpenCL,r390 with a card which have a Max work group size of 128. According to the release documents that should not work, but this completed WU says it does work: Task 2344581713 Someone more knowledgeable than me should comment on this. I thought it strange too, perhaps the latest drivers fix this problem? Claggy Maybe the new APP or both the app and driver. This is certainly interesting news. Maybe I'll see if this works on the HD6370 in my notebook as well. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
	ID: 1204742 ·

Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 19783 Credit: 21,915,174 RAC: 29,323	Message 1204745 - Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 23:09:29 UTC
	Sure not the apps. We tested special versions with suboptimal success at Lunatics. ____________
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HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,464,263 RAC: 59,367	Message 1204754 - Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 23:43:08 UTC - in response to Message 1204745.
	Sure not the apps. We tested special versions with suboptimal success at Lunatics. I went ahead and fired it up on my notebook and it seems to be moving right along. I'm pretty sure I trashed the first one, but that was my fault. So we can see how the next 3 do. I have since set NNT. As the notebook doesn't have any thermal monitoring for the GPU nor is there a separate cooling fan. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
	ID: 1204754 ·

Emily Cook Send message Joined: 20 Feb 11 Posts: 1 Credit: 72,273 RAC: 0	Message 1204852 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 9:48:22 UTC - in response to Message 1204754. Last modified: 11 Mar 2012, 10:00:36 UTC
	The overnight news is once the PC was shutdown for it's overnight rest it's seemed to lose OpenCL I don't see any reason for it and I am 100% certain it's not a BOINC issue but a driver issue! I will seaarch out some older drivers and try those! Oops just noticed I am on my daughters account! Peter
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Peter Cook Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 3,726,895 RAC: 4,243	Message 1204867 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 12:18:17 UTC - in response to Message 1204852.
	I have been looking through the web and found that people do have a problem with this happening. So I ran a program that removes the install information (after un-installation) to remove any pointers to corrupt files and settings! This seemed to do the trick! I am now testing the PC again for any further defective drivers and OPenCL problems! I did notice that ATI have released an openCL update which is on the Lunatics website so if this fails again I will try using that version instead. Incidentally, I am running Lunatics as mentioned in my earlier posts, which should not work but does as using any other settings fail. I am keeping everything I can cross crossed! ____________
	ID: 1204867 ·

Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2762 Credit: 8,386,371 RAC: 24,592	Message 1204868 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 12:25:06 UTC - in response to Message 1204867.
	I have been looking through the web and found that people do have a problem with this happening. So I ran a program that removes the install information (after un-installation) to remove any pointers to corrupt files and settings! This seemed to do the trick! I am now testing the PC again for any further defective drivers and OPenCL problems! I did notice that ATI have released an openCL update which is on the Lunatics website so if this fails again I will try using that version instead. Incidentally, I am running Lunatics as mentioned in my earlier posts, which should not work but does as using any other settings fail. I am keeping everything I can cross crossed! So, you have now installed the drivers again, and shutdown and restarted the computer a couple of times, and the GPU still works and is running an ATI OpenCL work unit? It may not be enough to reboot it, a cold restart may sometimes be needed to find out if it still drops the drivers. ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
	ID: 1204868 ·

Peter Cook Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 3,726,895 RAC: 4,243	Message 1204869 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 12:36:48 UTC - in response to Message 1204868.
	I have cold rebooted a few times with no loss, so hopefully this will work! The major test is an overnight shutdown. ____________
	ID: 1204869 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,464,263 RAC: 59,367	Message 1204870 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 12:40:55 UTC - in response to Message 1204867. Last modified: 11 Mar 2012, 12:42:20 UTC
	I have been looking through the web and found that people do have a problem with this happening. So I ran a program that removes the install information (after un-installation) to remove any pointers to corrupt files and settings! This seemed to do the trick! I am now testing the PC again for any further defective drivers and OPenCL problems! I did notice that ATI have released an openCL update which is on the Lunatics website so if this fails again I will try using that version instead. Incidentally, I am running Lunatics as mentioned in my earlier posts, which should not work but does as using any other settings fail. I am keeping everything I can cross crossed! When you say it loses OpenCL what do you mean? Does the GPU just not show up in BOINC or does OpenCL stop working in some way? When you say there is an OpenCL update what are you referring to? I don't see any mention of it on the amd or lunatics websites. In other news the four I did are complete. One validated against a Nvidia GPU where we both got -9. So hopefully that is actually a noisy one. One of the two that ran for 4-5 hours is paired with a machine is only has about a 7% valid rate. So that one will probably take a while to confirm. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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Sten-Arne Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Nov 08 Posts: 2762 Credit: 8,386,371 RAC: 24,592	Message 1204872 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 12:47:07 UTC - in response to Message 1204869.
	I have cold rebooted a few times with no loss, so hopefully this will work! The major test is an overnight shutdown. Well, it does look as if you nailed it then. A longer shutdown like over the night really should not make any difference is it works with a shutdown, and then a restart. Preliminary congratulations I'd say :-) ____________ /The grumpy old Swede. "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"
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Peter Cook Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 3,726,895 RAC: 4,243	Message 1204874 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 12:52:20 UTC - in response to Message 1204872.
	Thanks Sten but I am not 100% confident in the AMD card as they seem to lack a little something and AMD seem to always mess up their drivers! Nvidia don't seem to have a problem like AMD does. I of course may change my mind upon the results etc. ____________
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HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,464,263 RAC: 59,367	Message 1204875 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 12:53:54 UTC - in response to Message 1204874.
	Thanks Sten but I am not 100% confident in the AMD card as they seem to lack a little something and AMD seem to always mess up their drivers! Nvidia don't seem to have a problem like AMD does. I of course may change my mind upon the results etc. I've been using ATI cards since the first Radeon. I like to refer to these "problems" as a tradition. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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Peter Cook Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 3,726,895 RAC: 4,243	Message 1204878 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 13:02:07 UTC - in response to Message 1204875.
	HAL lol, you're a bit of an AMD/ATI dinosaur then :) Seems strange that they cannot get their act together like Nvidia! Especially as they are now made by AMD. ____________
	ID: 1204878 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,464,263 RAC: 59,367	Message 1204880 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 13:13:11 UTC - in response to Message 1204878.
	HAL lol, you're a bit of an AMD/ATI dinosaur then :) Seems strange that they cannot get their act together like Nvidia! Especially as they are now made by AMD. Nvidia isn't so innocent either. I have had their cards in other machines or work boxes over the years. Once of the most amusing things they did was release a driver that trashed the system when you installed it. I had that across multiple machines with different cards in different OS's when setting up test machines at work. IIRC it was around the 154.xx driver release time frame. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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Peter Cook Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 3,726,895 RAC: 4,243	Message 1204886 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 13:32:54 UTC - in response to Message 1204880.
	I do remember that one lol, so many people went mad over that one! ____________
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Michel448a Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 27 Oct 00 Posts: 1144 Credit: 2,873,612 RAC: 330	Message 1204894 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 14:23:28 UTC
	it was a test : know what ATI fell like ^^ ____________
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BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 2089 Credit: 3,270,235 RAC: 8,264	Message 1204985 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 19:55:08 UTC - in response to Message 1204867.
	Incidentally, I am running Lunatics as mentioned in my earlier posts, which should not work but does as using any other settings fail. I am keeping everything I can cross crossed! I have Private message from Raistmer (the programmer of OpenCL apps) I think this message is not secret so I share it: BilBg: Subject: OpenCL_r390 + Max work group size 128 - seems to work OK You can see the clues here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=67202&nowrap=true#1204712 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2344581713 Raistmer: Hi. The problems only with HD4xxx GPUs and some weird lockups our testers see time to time. In general it should work indeed. ____________ - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
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Peter Cook Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Jul 99 Posts: 78 Credit: 3,726,895 RAC: 4,243	Message 1205031 - Posted: 11 Mar 2012, 22:26:43 UTC - in response to Message 1204985.
	Ah so it looks like I have the correct configuration now! lets see what happens when the PC goes off later! ____________
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HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,464,263 RAC: 59,367	Message 1205194 - Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 17:36:39 UTC - in response to Message 1205031.
	Ah so it looks like I have the correct configuration now! lets see what happens when the PC goes off later! Luckily I am not seeing any issue like that. I just have the problem of once windows disables the display the GPU clocks down. Since this is in a notebook I'm not leaving the display on 24/7. Once I get all of the GPU tasks out my lappy wont be running it anymore, but good to see it works. Hopefully they will update the release notes with the next installer release. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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LadyL Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 1	Message 1205211 - Posted: 12 Mar 2012, 18:25:09 UTC - in response to Message 1205194.
	Ah so it looks like I have the correct configuration now! lets see what happens when the PC goes off later! Luckily I am not seeing any issue like that. I just have the problem of once windows disables the display the GPU clocks down. Since this is in a notebook I'm not leaving the display on 24/7. Once I get all of the GPU tasks out my lappy wont be running it anymore, but good to see it works. Hopefully they will update the release notes with the next installer release. If somebody could fill me in into what exactly needs to be updated? I'm not omniscient and I don't run ATI so I don't have first hand knowledge of the traps. If nobody tells me what needs updating and with what, updates don't happen. ____________ I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra!
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