I also saw that the sbs can be set in <cmdline>-instances_per_device 2 -unroll 9 -ffa_block 8192 -ffa_block_fetch 4096 -sbs 256 -hp</cmdline>

default is 128

I saw somewhere that it isn't implemented yet.

But in my stderr it looks like it is set to 256....
Can someone explain this please?

It was no effect on build included into installer. In r560 and later it will check amount of needed memory (based on unroll value) vs limits imposed with this -sbs switch and issue warning if requested memory exceeds imposed limit. Memory will be allocated anyway for now, but user at least will know that app usus more memory for single buffer than he/she thought.

You should increase unroll factor to 10 at least to get better speed on your card.
Also FFA_block and FFA_block_fetch.

It doesn't happen often that someone talks to me in riddles, but now it's happened. :-)

Care to elaborate, please?
Just think I am a newbie. And be gentle with that whip. Nice....

Please look into app_info's <cmdline> tag.
It contains mentioned params with some default values. Increase them as Mike suggested. For more info please look into app's release notes.

Unroll 10 - 12 should work on high end cards.
Some cards can cope with 16.

I use 16 for my HD6950 for few months already w/o issues.
Perhaps bigger possible too but still to test.

Although, it's "set", not "setted".
The verb goes set, set, set. Very easy that one. :P

Thanks for correction. As non-native english speaker I tend to do mistakes :D

I've read somewhere that DATA_CHUNK_UNROLL should be setted to: half of the Max compute number units:

Can anyone confirm this please??

//TRuEQ

Yes, it is supposed to be "set" and not "setted".

I wonder why I didn't see that.
It is often(offen) after I've written something and then click ok to post it I'v(e) need to click on the "edit" button to fix(correct) something I wrote(I've written) incorrectly or just just missed to write something(did I wrote that?)...

I like (to) write stuff in English and then see the errors I make.
It's kinda fun.

It took me several seconds to understand "smth" was actually something.
But I only read that.
:)

Thank you for all the (i)nfo(rmation) here.
It makes sence.

//TRuEQ
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Although, it's "set", not "setted".
The verb goes set, set, set. Very easy that one. :P

Thanks for correction. As non-native english speaker I tend to do mistakes :D

It's in there among cast, cost, cut, hit, hurt, let, set, shut and slit. Possibly some others too. Just check the list.

And here ended my grammar lessons. :)

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Well, I finished one.http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2388692084 Waiting for my wingman to see how I did. Looks okay but I'm a little worried about a message I got. Did I mess up putting everything in place?

INFO: can't open binary kernel file, continue with recompile...
Info : Building Program (source, clBuildProgram):main kernels: OK code 0


INFO: binary kernel file created
WARNING: can't open binary kernel file for oclFFT plan, continue with recompile...

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Well, I finished one.http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2388692084 Waiting for my wingman to see how I did. Looks okay but I'm a little worried about a message I got. Did I mess up putting everything in place?

INFO: can't open binary kernel file, continue with recompile...
Info : Building Program (source, clBuildProgram):main kernels: OK code 0


INFO: binary kernel file created
WARNING: can't open binary kernel file for oclFFT plan, continue with recompile...

The latest app's compile a couple of files the first time they run, you should have similar files to these (But with your GPU or CPU name instead):

AstroPulse_Kernels_r560.cl_GeForce GTX 460.bin_V6

oclFFTplan_GeForce GTX 460_32768_r560.bin

r560_IntelRCoreTMi72600KCPU340GHz.wisdom

Claggy

This system doesn't suffer from excessive CPU usage:
Win7, i5-2500k
GTX 570
296.35 (quadro driver using modded inf)




I think at most its using 20% CPU.

Good to know this!
Now it's interesting to know what caused that, your driver version, your Os version or your GPU version... or smth we even can't imagine ;)

Whats bugling me is that I can't replicate this low cpu usage on my other rig - always settled at 85%.
The good thing is that there's no more sleep bug in this NV driver version.

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What is "CPU affinity ajustment"?

May I suggest the word "ADJUSTMENT"?

Hehe, one more typo noticed, thanks :)

My first one validated this morning, so it is looking good. Thought it interesting that it validated against an ATI 2600 with only 256MByte memory.

Workunit is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=966607530 -- won't be there long.

Glad to see something go right after a rough week having to replace the power supply & Motherboard. Looks like another winner, Raistmer. Hope the Nvidia driver issues get resolved someday soon.

If there are typos here, notify me at autodiscard@trash.com. :=)

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What is "CPU affinity ajustment"?

May I suggest the word "ADJUSTMENT"?

Hehe, one more typo noticed, thanks :)

If that typo is the worst thing you do this week you will have an excellent week!

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My first one validated this morning, so it is looking good. Thought it interesting that it validated against an ATI 2600 with only 256MByte memory.

Workunit is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=966607530 -- won't be there long.

Glad to see something go right after a rough week having to replace the power supply & Motherboard. Looks like another winner, Raistmer. Hope the Nvidia driver issues get resolved someday soon.

If there are typos here, notify me at autodiscard@trash.com. :=)

She is running Brook+ version.

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Hi,

If there were an APV6-executable for NV560ti448 on 64bit linux what kind of performance could I expect from it?

My rig uses CPU for APV6(AVX) and setiathomeEnhanced(ssse3) and GPU for setiathomeEnhanced.

The APV6 with AVX gives this kind of performance (the host 5643864): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=966928760

petri33

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Hi,

If there were an APV6-executable for NV560ti448 on 64bit linux what kind of performance could I expect from it?

My rig uses CPU for APV6(AVX) and setiathomeEnhanced(ssse3) and GPU for setiathomeEnhanced.

The APV6 with AVX gives this kind of performance (the host 5643864): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=966928760

petri33

The GPU performance should not be affected much by what OS the CPU is running, perhaps these valid AP v6 tasks on a 560ti under Windows give a good enough approximation. As you know, the 560ti448 should outperform that regular 560ti somewhat.

                                                                  Joe

I have a question about the NV 560, Process Lasso show this app as having a default affinity to cores 0,1 while all the other tasks running from boinc have the default afinity set to all cores...

Is this on pourpouse? I mean, can I extend the affinity to all cores so it dosnt get restricted? Can this improove (or break) the performance?

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So what's the advantage/disadvantage using that option or not using it?

So what's the advantage/disadvantage using that option or not using it?

If your GPU app is limited to CPUs 0 & 1 which are also running tasks then when you are loading work into the GPU it has to share CPU time with the other process while loading. With very fast GPUs this could add up to a significant amount of time in the long run. Even though it may only be a few seconds per task.

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Correct in principle.

It helps very much on high blanked units.
Since blanking is calculated by CPU its switching between cores while computing.
Blanking sometimes is fragmented so it uses different cores.

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