Lunatics Windows Installer v0.40 release notes

You mean your Radeon HD6570? Then you should fill in the ATI part of the installer. Or do you want to only run CPU? (Check CPU capabillities like
SS(S)E3(x)4.1/4.2).
Why don't you use your 'spanking new Radeon HD6570', you can run MB
and AstroPulse work which works amazingly effective on an ATI 5000 or higher
series. A runtime of less then 1 hour to a few hours, CPU time is very
depending on % of RADAR-Blanking.

You can run multiple WUs per GPU and crashes are very rare,
AV scans(!) disable them for BOINC also WINDOWs updates are the most common reasons. The rev.390 MB app. and rev.555 app. for AstroPulse are stable and
haven't seen much errors from these. have a look at this
host
an i7-2600 and 2 ATI 5870 GPUs.


I freed up one 'thread', 0.5 core of an i7 and used BOINCs setting:
use 87.50 of CPU, I used your method in my app_info.xml trying
to improve loading of the 2nd ATI 5870 GPU.
But stopped running multiple WUs on a GPU, less effective, easier to compaire
run-times v.s NVidia GPUs. Although GPU load running 1 a GPU are 67% average.
(GPU 0, always has a higher load as GPU 1)![/quote]


I hate to sound dimwitted, but I just want to be clear. SO when I get the Radeon in (new power source just got in the other day), I run the Lunatics Installer, and select GPU. It installs a driver for the GPU. After that I can select for multibeam and astropulse in the SETI control panel, right?

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These are the settings for using AMD CPU + ATI GPU for SETI
(if you have AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 630 Processor, AMD Radeon HD 6570, Windows 7 x64)






P.S.
- The screenshots are from the 32 bit Lunatics Installer, I don't know if the 64 bit looks the same.
(obviously the 'SSE (p3)' and 'SSE2' will not be in the 64 bit Lunatics Installer as these CPUs are not 64 bit)

- There is no file called lunaticswin6440.04.exe
The file (Lunatics Installer 64 bit) is Lunatics_Win64_v0.40_setup.exe
http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php?module=Downloads;catd=9

- The Lunatics Installer does NOT install any driver for the GPU
It just puts some files (.exe, .dll, .xml, ...) in the SETI directory (....\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\)


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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)

OK. I got the card installed, and it's driver loaded up. BOINC recognizes that it is there.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6560195

Everything is running along smoothly, but I am not seeing an increase in benchmark speed. I've been fiddling with allowing astro pulse and other settings, nothing seems to work. Should I just uninstall seti, Reinstall it, and run the lunatics 64 installer and see if that perks it up? If I do, will that lose my progress?


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Ah. I thought that the benchmarks would change because of the additional computing power of the Graphics Processor. In that case, I'll go back, reset the whole thing back to BlBgs settings (big thanks for the screencaps), and give SETI about a week to sort things out.

Once it does, I should start seeing an increase in the User Averages, correct?


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Do you (anybody) see the screenshots now?
It appears for me that the hosting site (prikachi.com) is not working for the moment.
I can repost them using different hosting site.

To see are 'they' running:
in Windows Task Manager (or Process Explorer, ...) - check if any or all of the following processes run:
AK_v8b2_win_SSE3_AMD.exe
ap_6.01r557_SSE2_331_AVX.exe
MB6_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r390.exe
AP6_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_ATI_r555.exe


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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)

AP only:
(...)
-unroll 4 Optimal at half the number of Compute Units of the GPU. Lower values also reduce VRAM use. Decrease if you experience lags.

Thank you for the link to the lunatics forum, which helped. Just a short report, how it worked so far: Using the lunatics v0.40 installer and editing the app_info file afterwards I run now two instances on my mobile 7970M (each using one core of a quadcore w/ SMT) and four instances on my desktop 7950 (each using 1/2 core of a quadcore w/ CMT). This runs fine. Did no synthetic tests, however, since I am in the middle of a challenge. Here's what I changed:

7970M / multibeam

7970M / astropulse

<avg_ncpus>0.50</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>0.50</max_ncpus>
<platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<plan_class>ati13ati</plan_class>
<cmdline>-instances_per_device 4 -unroll 14 -ffa_block 4096 -ffa_block_fetch 2048 -sbs 128</cmdline>
<coproc>
<type>ATI</type>
<count>0.25</count>