I just converted a machine with an ATI HD7950 and HD7870 GPUs over to BOINC but am not receiving any GPU work units. I checked and both are DP-capable so that's not it. I've checked my Seti computing prefs and everything looks fine. The machine in question is M6400T.

The machine is happily crunching E@H GPU WU's so it's not a question of BOINC not seeing the GPUs. I've tried a re-set but it didn't make a difference.

All of my other machines are NVIDIA and are doing fine.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards,
Steve

I just converted a machine with an ATI HD7950 and HD7870 GPUs over to BOINC but am not receiving any GPU work units. I checked and both are DP-capable so that's not it. I've checked my Seti computing prefs and everything looks fine. The machine in question is M6400T.

The machine is happily crunching E@H GPU WU's so it's not a question of BOINC not seeing the GPUs. I've tried a re-set but it didn't make a difference.

All of my other machines are NVIDIA and are doing fine.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards,
Steve

SETI@home only uses SP so DP isn't ever an issue an issue here.
Have you checked your SETI@home preferences and made sure Use ATI GPU is set to Yes for the venue the machine is in?

EDIT:
Looking at the errors on your host 7481448 it does show that you did at one point have 2 GPU tasks on the 19th, but they were Abandoned. Most likely when you reset the project.

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SETI@home only uses SP so DP isn't ever an issue an issue here.
Have you checked your SETI@home preferences and made sure Use ATI GPU is set to Yes for the venue the machine is in?

EDIT:
Looking at the errors on your host 7481448 it does show that you did at one point have 2 GPU tasks on the 19th, but they were Abandoned. Most likely when you reset the project.[/quote]

Yes, that was one of the first things I checked.

FWIW, here's the app_config.xml that I'm using.

<app_config>
<app>
<name>setiathome_v7.01</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>setiathome_v7.04</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>astropulse_v7.04</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>astropulse_v7.1</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

Thanks,
Steve

The only thing I really see wrong with your app_config.xml is that there is no astropulse_v7.1 application. You wouldn't really need an entry for the MB CPU 7.01 app either, but I would not expect any app_config.xml entries to effect downloaded work. Incorrect entries would just be ignored I would image, or more so that you should bee seeing an error in the start up of BOINC.

In the Event Log are the work fetch requests displaying "Requesting new tasks for CPU & ATI" or just "Requesting new tasks for CPU"?
If the machine is busy working on Einstein GPU work it may be requesting SETI GPU work.

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FWIW, here's the app_config.xml that I'm using.

<app_config>
<app>
<name>setiathome_v7.01</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>setiathome_v7.04</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>astropulse_v7.04</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>astropulse_v7.1</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.2</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

Well the app_config.xml is non-standard, and has wrong names in it for the work types, they should be astropulse_v7 and setiathome_v7,
It should be in the following format, If you want to specify different settings for different app_version's, then you need to add <app_version> sections:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

<app_config>
   [<app>
      <name>uppercase</name>
      <max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
      [<fraction_done_exact/>]
      <gpu_versions>
          <gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
          <cpu_usage>.4</cpu_usage>
      </gpu_versions>
    </app>]
   ...
   [<app_version>
       <app_name>uppercase</app_name>
       [<plan_class>mt</plan_class>]
       [<avg_ncpus>x</avg_ncpus>]
       [<ngpus>x</ngpus>]
       [<cmdline>--nthreads 7</cmdline>]
   </app_version>]
   ...
   [<project_max_concurrent>N</project_max_concurrent>]
</app_config>

Claggy

Hal/Claggy,

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll follow-up on them tonight.

Regards,
Steve