GPU Load

Questions and Answers : GPU applications : GPU Load

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chromespringer Send message Joined: 3 Dec 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 7,751,961 RAC: 13,852	Message 1265191 - Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 13:29:53 UTC
	Greetings, GPU= Radeon 7970 Driver = 12.6 win7 64bit BOINC version 6.10.58 optimized GPU will not run more than a 20% load on a consistent basis (averaging 10% load). What am i missing to increase GPU performance. Thanks ____________
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 8944 Credit: 36,789,279 RAC: 60,720	Message 1265251 - Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 17:35:15 UTC - in response to Message 1265191. Last modified: 28 Jul 2012, 17:38:51 UTC
	check out this thread You know you can edit the app_info to run 3 WU's at a time on your 7970. just change the <count> to 0.33 and number of iterations to 3 Just make sure you allow 2 CPU cores to run and load the apps. That is the simple solution also upgrade BOINC to 7.0.28 BOINC 7.X.XX recognizes and IIRC supports open_cl your GPU natively ____________ Proud member of TSWB. End terrorism by building a school
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chromespringer Send message Joined: 3 Dec 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 7,751,961 RAC: 13,852	Message 1265364 - Posted: 28 Jul 2012, 23:06:16 UTC
	Thanks Skildude No, I was not aware of that. I will implement your suggestions. Thanks again ____________
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chromespringer Send message Joined: 3 Dec 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 7,751,961 RAC: 13,852	Message 1269311 - Posted: 9 Aug 2012, 2:31:03 UTC
	hi skildude I set all <count> from 1 to .33 and iterations from 20 to 3 in app_info and changed # of processors from 4 to 2 in preferences. In BOINC Manager, Tasks tab shows 4 processes (cpu) running and 3 processes running with .05 cpu (gpu) Although 3 gpu tasks show running only one shows continued progress .. the other 2 show 0.00 percent progress and remain in that state .. which i expect those two tasks to time out and report an error. The current GPU driver i'm using is 12.6. Am I missing something here or just need to tweek on it until I get it right. Thanks Kevin ____________
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skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 8944 Credit: 36,789,279 RAC: 60,720	Message 1269313 - Posted: 9 Aug 2012, 2:36:07 UTC - in response to Message 1269311. Last modified: 9 Aug 2012, 2:37:09 UTC
	sorry I misspoke its not the iterations use these in your cmdline -period_iterations_num 20 -instances_per_device 3 -no_cpu_lock that should get everything working correctly ____________ Proud member of TSWB. End terrorism by building a school
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chromespringer Send message Joined: 3 Dec 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 7,751,961 RAC: 13,852	Message 1269315 - Posted: 9 Aug 2012, 2:43:25 UTC
	Awesome Thanks skildude .. I appreciate your quick response ____________
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BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 2023 Credit: 3,048,410 RAC: 6,604	Message 1269331 - Posted: 9 Aug 2012, 4:36:21 UTC - in response to Message 1269311. Last modified: 9 Aug 2012, 5:02:03 UTC
	... and changed # of processors from 4 to 2 in preferences. In BOINC Manager, Tasks tab shows 4 processes (cpu) running That's not the way to do it ("On multiprocessors, use at most XX processors" is used only by very old BOINC versions) Use: On multiprocessors, use at most ZZ% of the processors You may first try to free 1 core to see is this enough: On multiprocessors, use at most 99% of the processors (99% will free 1 core on any CPU with up to 100 cores. On your CPU anything 75% ... 99% will free 1 core) To free 2 cores (on AMD Phenom II X4) On multiprocessors, use at most 50% of the processors (On your CPU anything 50% ... 74% will free 2 cores) P.S. 'cores' is not the exact term but it suits your case. (More proper is # of Logical/Virtual CPUs as seen by OS/BOINC) ____________ - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11642 Credit: 2,011,394 RAC: 4,135	Message 1269425 - Posted: 9 Aug 2012, 10:51:12 UTC - in response to Message 1269331. Last modified: 9 Aug 2012, 10:56:07 UTC
	That's not the way to do it ("On multiprocessors, use at most XX processors" is used only by very old BOINC versions) No it isn't, it's still used by present day BOINC versions to set the minimum amount of processors that BOINC should use at any time. E.g., you set this value to 2 on a 4 core CPU and then change "On multiprocessors, use at most ZZ% of the processors" to 0% (zero), it'll give you two processors to work with. Even with BOINC 6.12 and 7.0 09/08/2012 12:50:20 \| \| Number of usable CPUs has changed from 3 to 2. 09/08/2012 12:50:20 \| \| max CPUs used: 2 Set it to 1% (one), and the amount of CPUs available will change to 1. 09/08/2012 12:55:15 \| \| Number of usable CPUs has changed from 3 to 1. 09/08/2012 12:55:15 \| \| max CPUs used: 1 ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
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chromespringer Send message Joined: 3 Dec 05 Posts: 247 Credit: 7,751,961 RAC: 13,852	Message 1269788 - Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 2:27:55 UTC
	ouch, 73 errors attributed to the gpu .. i apologize to all the"wing-persons" this effected.i do believe that i am stable again and would like to thank everyone that shared there knowledge, expertise and suggestions to my ongoing quest. i appreciate it. ____________
	ID: 1269788 ·

BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 2023 Credit: 3,048,410 RAC: 6,604	Message 1269921 - Posted: 10 Aug 2012, 9:47:14 UTC - in response to Message 1269425.
	So if I understand your example correctly: The # of CPUs is used only when the % value is set to 0% In all other cases (1% ... 100%) the '% of the processors' value is used (ignoring the preference '# of CPUs')? ____________ - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
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