I seem to have an unusual situation where by my new gaming rig isn't being taxed by Boinc tasks. I run Seti and Rosetta and have a 6core i7 5930k with HT and a Nvidia 980 graphics card.

That gives me 1 GPU task (which only runs the GPU at 40%) and 12 CPU tasks which once again doesnt load up the CPU to 100% (bad example below as there are no gpu tasks at present).




08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.4.42 for windows_x86_64
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Running under account vivfx_000
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 980 (driver version 347.88, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 3704MB available, 5599 GFLOPS peak)
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 980 (driver version 347.88, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3704MB available, 5599 GFLOPS peak)
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Host name: ManCave
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz [Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2]
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 vmx tm2 dca pbe fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1: Professional x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00)
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Memory: 15.91 GB physical, 31.91 GB virtual
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Disk: 931.19 GB total, 808.42 GB free
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Local time is UTC +1 hours
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | rosetta@home | URL http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID 2256288; resource share 100
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7534739; resource share 100
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | rosetta@home | General prefs: from rosetta@home (last modified 06-Apr-2015 11:00:04)
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | rosetta@home | Computer location: home
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | rosetta@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Reading preferences override file
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Preferences:
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | max memory usage when active: 8143.43MB
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | max memory usage when idle: 14658.18MB
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | max disk usage: 100.00GB
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Not using a proxy
08/04/2015 21:49:08 | rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
08/04/2015 21:49:08 | rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
08/04/2015 21:49:20 | rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 12 new tasks
08/04/2015 21:49:22 | rosetta@home | Started download of tj_lp_1_12_X11_1_15_2_ct1_fc_fragments_fold_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:22 | rosetta@home | Started download of gr032315_nods_eehee_rank407_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:25 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
08/04/2015 21:49:25 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
08/04/2015 21:49:26 | rosetta@home | Finished download of gr032315_nods_eehee_rank407_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:26 | rosetta@home | Started download of tj_lp_4_12_X18_4_12_2_ct0_fd_fragments_fold_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:26 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
08/04/2015 21:49:26 | SETI@home | Project has no tasks available
08/04/2015 21:49:27 | rosetta@home | Finished download of tj_lp_1_12_X11_1_15_2_ct1_fc_fragments_fold_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:27 | rosetta@home | Started download of gr032315_nods_eehee_rank1394_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:32 | rosetta@home | Finished download of gr032315_nods_eehee_rank1394_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:32 | rosetta@home | Started download of EEEH_1028_vegf.pdb.gz
08/04/2015 21:49:34 | rosetta@home | Finished download of EEEH_1028_vegf.pdb.gz
08/04/2015 21:49:34 | rosetta@home | Started download of EEEH_1028_vegf.patchdock
08/04/2015 21:49:35 | rosetta@home | Finished download of tj_lp_4_12_X18_4_12_2_ct0_fd_fragments_fold_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:35 | rosetta@home | Finished download of EEEH_1028_vegf.patchdock
08/04/2015 21:49:35 | rosetta@home | Started download of fold_and_dock_zibochen.helix.control49_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:35 | rosetta@home | Started download of zibochen.helix.control49_fold_and_dock_flags
08/04/2015 21:49:37 | rosetta@home | Finished download of zibochen.helix.control49_fold_and_dock_flags
08/04/2015 21:49:37 | rosetta@home | Started download of FFF_1cc9def190909e78abcbd787c2f36f56_TrkA1_Wed_Apr__8_01_55_12_PDT_2015.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:39 | rosetta@home | Finished download of fold_and_dock_zibochen.helix.control49_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:49:39 | rosetta@home | Finished download of FFF_1cc9def190909e78abcbd787c2f36f56_TrkA1_Wed_Apr__8_01_55_12_PDT_2015.zip
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08/04/2015 21:49:44 | rosetta@home | Started download of rb_04_08_54711_100161_ab_stage0_h001___robetta_FLAGS
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08/04/2015 21:50:09 | rosetta@home | Finished download of gr032315_nods_eehee_rank2454_data.zip
08/04/2015 21:53:38 | rosetta@home | Task rb_04_06_54115_100134_ab_stage0_t000___robetta_cstwt_3.0_IGNORE_THE_REST_03_09_259803_107_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
08/04/2015 21:53:38 | rosetta@home | If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
08/04/2015 21:55:32 | rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
08/04/2015 21:55:32 | rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
08/04/2015 21:55:35 | rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
08/04/2015 21:56:01 | rosetta@home | Task gr032315_nods_eehee_rank1716_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_256802_191_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
08/04/2015 21:56:01 | rosetta@home | If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.

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If you want to utilize more of your card, then you would need to run more than 1 instance of work units on it.

If you check in "COMMUNITY" and then select number crunching, you can search the thread on how to do this

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=77049&postid=1661436

this will give you a general idea about how to go about it.


Hope this helps.

Zalster

If you want to utilize more of your card, then you would need to run more than 1 instance of work units on it.

If you check in "COMMUNITY" and then select number crunching, you can search the thread on how to do this

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=77049&postid=1661436

this will give you a general idea about how to go about it.


Hope this helps.

Zalster

Thanks for the reply. I'll give that thread a read regarding the GPU. Any thoughts on the CPU cores not being maxed out. Is it just an inefficiency of the computation by the application on the latest generation of processor. I had previously thought the work unit would just be done quicker.

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I don't think it has anything to do with an inefficiency in the science application. I note in the screenshot you provide that at the time you were running all Rosetta applications. I also note in the logs you provide that you are getting errors in the output files. I'm thinking the application is spending more time in I/O error than CPU processing. Just my best guess at this point.

Have you tried resetting the project as the messages suggest? If so, have you tried detaching and re-attaching to the project? Also, does the same thing happen when running SETI workunits? Are they SETI CPU or GPU workunits that are running?

[Edit] Another thought I just had is that these high end Intel CPUs have automatic overclocking (Intel Turbo Boost), and they also run very hot, which can trigger/conflict with Intel's automatic downclocking (Intel Speedstep) during overheating.

Have you turned off Intel Speedstep and/or all C-states?

08/04/2015 21:49:07 | | Reading preferences override file

You use Local preferences - so check on "Processor usage" tab what is the value of "Use at most X % CPU time"
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Local_preferences#Processor_usage

Do you use TThrottle ?
(if you set too low temperature in TThrottle this may be the case)

On Windows Task Manager you may also show the 'Processes' tab

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Quick update as I found the fix. Anything in preferences that says "0" equals no restriction change it to "100". I.e. "on multiprocessor systems use at most" 100.00% and "use at most" 100% of CPU time even though they bother say (0 means no restriction)

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... even though they bother say (0 means no restriction)

Where did you see this 'say'?

No mention of '0 means no restriction' for these 2 Settings on both web and Local preferences:
Computing preferences
Local preferences

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I'm having the same issue with only 40% of CPU being used. I've tried setting the limits to 0 but it doesn't make any difference.

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Which 'limits'?
And where you "tried setting" them?
And why "to 0"?

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In processor usage I've set the last 2 options, multi processor usage and processor usage time to 0 as it says that means no restrictions.

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"Where" means:
- in Computing preferences
- or in Local preferences

As you say "processor usage" this means Local preferences (so what you set must 'take' imediately)


Set both to 100

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Wahooooo!!!

Thanks, changed to 100% and had a huge surge in tasks being performed!!
Now running 9 tasks instead of my previous 3.

Thanks very much!!!

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You also have very few tasks 'In progress' ('In progress' = still not reported as finished)):
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=7467930&offset=0&show_names=0&state=1&appid=

So You may want to:

Check/set the Local preferences for e.g.:
Minimum work buffer 3 days
Max additional work buffer 0.1 days

(don't use more than 0.1 days for the second value, big value will make BOINC ask for work much less often)

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