All,
I need a little help here. I have a Intel i7-980x (6 cores, 12 threads)with 18GB RAM with an AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series video card with the latest drivers. The other day I was watching the BOINC Manager and noticed that the GPU thread was spinning through work. It turns out that it starts running a work unit with 0.403 CPU's and 1 ATI GPU. It says the remaining time is about 2:40:00 and it will go for around 20-25 secs, get up to 0.015 - 0.020% and then say it is complete and uploads the result of the work unit. And it can blow through 40-50 units an hour. That can't be right. Does anyone have any idea what is going on and how we can make the GPU work and not just failing (that is what I suspect is happening) the work units? BTW, all non-GPU packets process in the normal expect time frames of between 2 and 30 hours. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Norm Hill

If you want to check what your results are doing click on "ACCOUNT" in the top bar, that will take you to your account page, about half way down you will see "Tasks" with a clickable "View" link, if you click this you will see your GPU has 300+ "Invalid" tasks.

I am not an expert on AMD GPU, hopefully someone will be along to help you out.

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First try restarting the PC,

then try suspending GPU usage, deleting the compilations the app made, similar to (depends on your app version, CPU model and GPU model):

MultiBeam_Kernels_r1843.clHD5_Capeverde.bin_V7

MB_clFFTplan_Capeverde_8_r1843.bin

MB_clFFTplan_Capeverde_16_r1843.bin

MB_clFFTplan_Capeverde_32_r1843.bin

all the way up to

MB_clFFTplan_Capeverde_524288_r1843.bin

r1843_IntelRCoreTMi72600KCPU340GHz.wisdom

The compilations will be redone when the app starts again.

Claggy

But since the AMD OpenCL AP app is also producing inconclusives/invalids I'd try downgrading to the last driver, in combination with deleting the compilations of both the MB apps, and the AP apps,
otherwise it'll likely be a weak PSU or a malfunctioning GPU, amongst other possible causes.

Claggy

I tried all the suggestions but to of no avail. All GPU bound packets bomb out after less than a full percentage point completed. Any ideas?

Check GPU memory.
Maybe downclock GPU memory/GPU shaders.
Looks like hardware malfunction.

Also, 9 December you had many crashes on GPU binary generation. That's imply broken driver or some issues with system (not GPU but CPU) memory.
Try to check system memory too, try to run other GPU projects, check clinfo output, repair driver installation.

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Check to make sure that the card is not getting clogged up with dust and do you have the fan speed turned up?

Cheers.

What's your PSU like? I just had the same problem with a GTX480 which was working perfectly fine on a Corsair 750 but would do the same thing when I moved it to a different system with a Corsair 650.

Because the card is verified fine, everything is up to date, and the problem went away when I dialed everything down to minimum (GPU and memory clocks as low as possible) it looks like the PSU... it's possible if it can't put out the power the GPU requires it may go flaky and error out.

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It "used" to work fine until the last few revisions of the BOINC/Seti Software. Hopefully the folks (Matt et.al) might peruse this forum and see this and have a fix for it.

OP you are streaming invades.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=5851927

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OP you are streaming invades.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=5851927

A polite PM to the OP informing them of their situation task wise would be far more effective than dragging a nearly two month old thread back to the front page.

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Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club.

A polite PM to the OP informing them of their situation task wise would be far more effective than dragging a nearly two month old thread back to the front page.

It was a knee jerk reaction after checking my "Validation inconclusive" WUs. PMs are creepy anyway.

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A polite PM to the OP informing them of their situation task wise would be far more effective than dragging a nearly two month old thread back to the front page.

It was a knee jerk reaction after checking my "Validation inconclusive" WUs. PMs are creepy anyway.

Actually I find a post with someone asking "Are you streaming invalids" BEFORE trying to contact me would be a lot more "creepy"

If it was me I would want to know about it via PM BEFORE someone resorted to posting the fact that I was having a problem for everyone to see.

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Actually I find a post with someone asking "Are you streaming invalids" BEFORE trying to contact me would be a lot more "creepy"

If it was me I would want to know about it via PM BEFORE someone resorted to posting the fact that I was having a problem for everyone to see.

But then a lot do not respond to PM's (or anything else) at all I've found out over the years. :-(

Cheers.

Actually I find a post with someone asking "Are you streaming invalids" BEFORE trying to contact me would be a lot more "creepy"

If it was me I would want to know about it via PM BEFORE someone resorted to posting the fact that I was having a problem for everyone to see.

But then a lot do not respond to PM's (or anything else) at all I've found out over the years. :-(

Cheers.

Indeed, but it doesn't hurt to try a PM first.

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Isn't the OP still having the same problem he started this thread about? I don't know what the problem is so I couldn't help with a PM.

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