Posts by cliff west

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Volta or Tesla? (Message 1867487)
Posted 15 May 2017 by Profile cliff west
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so I was reading Tom's and they say this is not for gaming, but deep learning. Okay so what does that mean. Will this be something that will go in a desktop machine or server? Will Seti be able to get the most out of a GPU like this
2) Message boards : News : New SETI@home donation project on Bitcoin Utopia (Message 1842921)
Posted 18 Jan 2017 by Profile cliff west
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I down loaded this to my system, but I did not get anything for a week. I can not afford to buy what I think is a hardware computer add on so I removed it. if it can not be run on "normal" computers why push this?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Choosing a new GPU (Message 1689286)
Posted 8 Jun 2015 by Profile cliff west
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i would wait a few months if you can. the GTX 980Ti is coming out, when it does i would expect all the less powerful cards to drop in price.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1677798)
Posted 10 May 2015 by Profile cliff west
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just hit 14 years supporting SETI can not believe 2001 was that long ago.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : how to find bottlenecks? (Message 1677280)
Posted 9 May 2015 by Profile cliff west
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I just upgraded my SLI 570's to a single GTX980, till I can afford a second one. the problem I'm having in that I'm now running 3 WU on my GPU but it is not producing the RAC I think it should taking 20 minutes sometimes to do one WU. so how do I find the bottleneck? I was "told" that my 980 was working about 85% of max. if I drop it to only 2 WU it would only be working at 50% or so of max. is that right? HELP!!!!
6) Message boards : Number crunching : whats up with the badges (Message 1662460)
Posted 8 Apr 2015 by Profile cliff west
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I have been gone from the boards for a while and when I came back there are some badges 1%,5% and 25%. did i miss signing up for this?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : having issues with my new GTX980 (Message 1661792)
Posted 5 Apr 2015 by Profile cliff west
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Zalster, that was perfect!!! thanks.. system is starting to work. now just have to work out a way to it to do the same for the other two projects I'm working on.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : having issues with my new GTX980 (Message 1661326)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile cliff west
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Put my 980 in tonight. wanted to maximize the card but so far it is only working on one work unit.

Help please.


4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.4.36 for windows_x86_64
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Running under account Cliff
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 980 (driver version 347.88, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 3876MB available, 5599 GFLOPS peak)
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 980 (driver version 347.88, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 4096MB, 3876MB available, 5599 GFLOPS peak)
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Host name: Cliff-PC
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Processor: 6 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor [Family 16 Model 10 Stepping 0]
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 popcnt syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Memory: 8.00 GB physical, 16.00 GB virtual
4/3/2015 10:46:58 PM | | Disk: 465.66 GB total, 216.04 GB free
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9) Message boards : Number crunching : GTX 970 about as fast as a 670 for crunching (Message 1657899)
Posted 27 Mar 2015 by Profile cliff west
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thanks... ordered my GTX 980 today to replace my SLIed 570s. will go back to SLI when i have saved enough money to get the second 980.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : GTX 970 about as fast as a 670 for crunching (Message 1657424)
Posted 26 Mar 2015 by Profile cliff west
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can any post a smile "how to" to have your gpu work on more than one work unit at a time.

thanks
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia Titan X (Message 1655045)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Profile cliff west
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SETI@home uses single precision only.



does any group use duel precision? if so who? thanks
12) Message boards : Number crunching : thinking about upgrading GPU's (Message 1654937)
Posted 20 Mar 2015 by Profile cliff west
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The other main angle of attack is to consolidate about a squillion tiny transfers into single ones, which will reduce total overheads.

So ideally when a WU starts being processed it is transferred to the GPU which does all the processing, then the result data is transferred back to be returned.
The only other transfers during processing would be back to the CPU to update the elapsed time in the BOINC manager.


That's right. A little lightweight synchronisation, say 30 times a second or less often, is OK. So there's a scaling issue where the GPUs keep getting faster each year compared to CPUs, which at some point you need to say 'make data bigger, do more before telling me about it'. For small v7 tasks, not far off We'll probably need that promised CPU on the boards to run a queue of [less chatty] tasks, Or just figure a way to make the existing Boinc client field a bunch of tasks to one process (via stubs calling services or similar)



i just found this on another thread it seems like there should button on a tool bar that lets you pull mulit GPUs items

you should find a file named app_config.xml in a directory like this ...

C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu


Use NOTEPAD to edit it!

try putting this in it ...




<app_config>

<app>
<name>setiathome_v7</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.4</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>

<app>
<name>astropulse_v7</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.4</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>

</app_config>



it should kick your GPU to 2 workunits at a time ... and yea, restart BOINC when you make a change.




or am i off base?
13) Message boards : Number crunching : thinking about upgrading GPU's (Message 1652504)
Posted 13 Mar 2015 by Profile cliff west
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[quote]The biggest challenge I have, as developer for the Cuda multibeam side, is finding a way to actually 'fill' the 980 monster (to a lesser extent the smaller variants of Maxwell.)

this might be dumb but why can't there be something like the old Hyperthreading code that was on cpus. it you have the room why not run two or more data runs on a GPU at the same time?
14) Message boards : Number crunching : thinking about upgrading GPU's (Message 1651788)
Posted 11 Mar 2015 by Profile cliff west
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Okay i have been running GTX 570 in SLI for a few years now. I was thinking about moving up to the GTx 980 but one at time (might do SLI again later in the year).

so the Q: is the 980 that much better than the old 570's i have now.

thanks
15) Message boards : Number crunching : not getting new work (Message 1381305)
Posted 14 Jun 2013 by Profile cliff west
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I get the notice

your app_info.xml file does not have a usable version of AstroPulse v6

and

your app_info.xml file does not have a usable version of AstroPulse v7

I have not been able to down load new work help please
16) Message boards : Number crunching : some info ref the Green Banks Tel. (Message 1107822)
Posted 20 May 2011 by Profile cliff west
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I copied this from the news area....all that data...hmmmm time to upgrade again...the wife is going to kill me :) they will collect 170 days worth of data in 24 hours.... HOOLY FRAK...(BSG).... any ideas how we will cut this down to size :)

I asked in another thread if S@H will continue to piggyback on the telescope after the Kepler reobservations are complete but nobody was able to give me an answer. Would you be able to speak on the matter? Is this a one-time thing or is S@H permanently at GBT? Thanks!


We'll just have the 24 hours of total observing time for now (no plans in the near term for more observations beyond that), but we will have collected the same amount of data during these 24 hours as SETI@home collects in 170 days (and which is roughly what the ATA took 2000 days to collect). So that's *plenty* for the time being!

- Matt
17) Message boards : News : Here's the press release for current GBT observations: (Message 1107404)
Posted 18 May 2011 by Profile cliff west
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Great news!!!!! so Seti will be pulling 60 TB a day? if so how many days? Can we get a count down clock to when we "might" be getting the data to crunch.... i will clear my all other projects out so i can put my full power to this. and again great work guys.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Need some help picking a Optimized app (Message 1090182)
Posted 25 Mar 2011 by Profile cliff west
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I need some help please. I have been gone or at least not active posting. I had to rebuild my hard drive and did some upgrade to software and hard ware. What I would like/need is an easy Optimized APP, something a dummy can do quickly. I ran CPU-Z and I have MX, SSE (1,2,3s), Em64T, and vtx. I also have twin GTX 570’s. What would work best for me? Any ideas and links would be great.

thanks
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 10 year club (Message 1068336)
Posted 19 Jan 2011 by Profile cliff west
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congrates to all you old timers
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (27) Server problems (Message 959131)
Posted 29 Dec 2009 by Profile cliff west
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okay, i'm out of cuda, i have MB but that is it. someone posted a way to move MB to cuda any help.

thanks


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