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Fawkesguy Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 108 Credit: 188,578,766 RAC: 0 |
I bought mine first to be able to see something on my monitors, second to be able to run DirectX 11 games at high/very high/ultra settings. Isn't that what most people think about when they buy a graphics card? Most people? Probably. People here in the SETI forums might be a bit different. ;-) I currently have 15 GPU's crunching for SETI. 13 of them were purchased specifically for that purpose. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I am running 5 CERN projects. They don't use GPUs. Climateprediction.net neither. The only 2 projects I am running that use GPUs are SETI@home and Einstein@home. So to put graphics boards on my computers would be a waste of electricity. I use mostly onboard graphics. Tullio |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
I don't like you, either The Feeling's mutual I'm shore typical septic tank |
KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 3187 Credit: 57,163,290 RAC: 0 |
I don't have quite that many, but a lot of them are currently cold, as they don't have any work... And now they aren't splitting V7 work anymore, as far as I can see... . Hello, from Albany, CA!... |
Starman Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 81,351,915 RAC: 25 |
So, not only no v8 tasks for GPU, and no v7 tasks at all or Astopulse, but V8 tasks are limited to only 25 tasks per core! So my main cruncher with a quad core i7-6700 hyper threaded and two AMD GPU's has a max of 100 CPU tasks in its cache. Gee I hope the servers don't run out of work for more than a few hours, because that is about the limit of my cache. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Actually it's always been 100 per GPU, 100 total for any CPU chip no matter how many cores. I have an 8 core hyperthreaded to 16 and only have 100 total CPU work units. |
ace_quaker Send message Joined: 12 Oct 01 Posts: 17 Credit: 33,678,474 RAC: 1 |
It's very obvious that keeping GPU's optimized and busy is about the lowest priority that anyone in the project administration has. Relying on volunteers for everything, no stable work, no reasonable work cache to buffer yourself against no stable work. For something that probably has the largest impact on the total amount of computing power of this project, its remarkably given little weight and concern. |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
If you would think before you type, With a new way of processing Scientific data, you have to first establish a baseline before you inject what may be unreliable results. CPU tasks are more reliable than GPU. So it makes perfect sense for them to have a reliable match for GPU apps to compare to. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13720 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
It's very obvious that keeping GPU's optimized and busy is about the lowest priority that anyone in the project administration has. Relying on volunteers for everything, no stable work, no reasonable work cache to buffer yourself against no stable work. If you've got a million or 2 dollars to donate I'm sure that would help significantly. Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It's very obvious that keeping GPU's optimized and busy is about the lowest priority that anyone in the project administration has. Relying on volunteers for everything, no stable work, no reasonable work cache to buffer yourself against no stable work. It's times like these when a backup project or 3 helps a great deal. ;-) Why whinge about something that is out of our hands? Cheers. |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
Simultaneous release of all the platforms involved ( I think some 20+ platforms+versions ? ) would basically cripple the infrastructure instantly. (so be highly irresponsible) Take a chill pill people :D "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
Dr Grey Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 154 Credit: 104,147,344 RAC: 21 |
As always, it's good to have a back up project. At times like these they must really benefit from the extra computing power released from seti - albeit temporarily. My CPU cores are working steadily on v8 but I'm sure Einstein@home will be happy that my pair of 980s have been working on their issues overnight and will be until seti releases their v8 GPU app. Just remember to uncheck 'use CPU' under your account preferences on the Einstein website and also uncheck 'Gamma Ray Pulsar search #4' too because that's CPU only. You might also want to reduce your cache size too otherwise you'll get filled up with weeks of work. But this way you can supply Seti with the cpu cycles they need and give another worthy project a much needed boost until seti is ready for the enormous crunching power of your GPUs. |
Filipe Send message Joined: 12 Aug 00 Posts: 218 Credit: 21,281,677 RAC: 20 |
I'm also doing GPU Einstein work. They analyse the same data as Seti, from the arecibo telescope. |
TRuEQ & TuVaLu Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 505 Credit: 69,523,653 RAC: 10 |
The seti V8 check box ought to be checked when new users start to run seti for the first time. People join and won't be able to get any work with the v8 box unchecked. In preferences that is. |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
1) ATi GPU app already available at Mike's website (HD5 flavor). 2) NV and iGPU OpenCL apps ready and in final alpha testing result analyse phase. For those who able to construct app_info I'll make them available for public beta testing soon. 3) ATi HD5 GPU app already available as stock for beta testing on SETI beta site. Soon we will have 2 other GPU vendors presented there too. |
Piotr Kunkel Send message Joined: 7 Apr 00 Posts: 18 Credit: 19,385,083 RAC: 0 |
Thank You, Raistmer, for the information. |
Louis Loria II Send message Joined: 20 Oct 03 Posts: 259 Credit: 9,208,040 RAC: 24 |
I bought mine first to be able to see something on my monitors, second to be able to run DirectX 11 games at high/very high/ultra settings. Isn't that what most people think about when they buy a graphics card? Got to agree with you Fawkesguy, I bought my first R9 280x for gaming (Hawken)and my second for SETI. I very rarely play games any more, so my PC should be allowed to do something productive... |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I bought mine first to be able to see something on my monitors, second to be able to run DirectX 11 games at high/very high/ultra settings. Isn't that what most people think about when they buy a graphics card? It is. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768 |
I was looking over the Inconclusive results on my GPU Apps and noticed something a bit strange with this result, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=2025127412 Seems someone is running a Version 7 App as Version 8. Looking at the info you see; Application version SETI@home v8 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU) Then; setiathome enhanced x41zc, Cuda 6.00 Detected setiathome_enhanced_v7 task. ...and yes, it didn't give the same results as My Real v8 GPU App. So, who's going to be first to post a Version 8 GPU App? My Three Apps seem to be working just fine. |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34253 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I was looking over the Inconclusive results on my GPU Apps and noticed something a bit strange with this result, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=2025127412 Thats just a notice it is a V7 task. Of course it should have the gaussian correction if made correctly from V8 source. V8 tasks are named guppy at the beginning. Nothing wrong to me. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
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