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Message 1753415 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 0:13:19 UTC - in response to Message 1753407.  

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.
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Message 1753426 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 0:50:04 UTC - in response to Message 1753415.  

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.
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Message 1753452 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 3:47:44 UTC - in response to Message 1753380.  

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Message 1753459 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 4:33:08 UTC - in response to Message 1753415.  
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I currently have 15 GPU's crunching for SETI. 13 of them were purchased specifically for that purpose.


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...
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Message 1753476 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 6:09:14 UTC

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.
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Message 1753485 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 6:39:46 UTC - in response to Message 1753476.  

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.
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Message 1753486 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 6:39:57 UTC - in response to Message 1753404.  

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.
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Message 1753494 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 7:12:45 UTC

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.
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Message 1753495 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 7:19:10 UTC - in response to Message 1753486.  

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.

If you've got a million or 2 dollars to donate I'm sure that would help significantly.
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Message 1753496 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 7:24:14 UTC - in response to Message 1753486.  

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.

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?

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Message 1753525 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 9:35:43 UTC
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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
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Message 1753532 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 10:09:21 UTC

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.
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Message 1753557 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 12:28:10 UTC

I'm also doing GPU Einstein work.
They analyse the same data as Seti, from the arecibo telescope.
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Message 1753562 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 12:59:38 UTC
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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.
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Message 1753566 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 13:28:31 UTC

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.
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Message 1753576 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 14:02:59 UTC - in response to Message 1753566.  

Thank You, Raistmer, for the information.
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Message 1753593 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 15:44:09 UTC - in response to Message 1753415.  

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.


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...
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Message 1753595 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 15:59:08 UTC - in response to Message 1753593.  

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.


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...


It is.


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Message 1753597 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 16:12:36 UTC
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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.
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Message 1753599 - Posted: 3 Jan 2016, 16:15:42 UTC - in response to Message 1753597.  
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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.


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.


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