Posts by Peter Cook

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1) Message boards : News : Servers are back on line after Monday's outage (Message 1323633)
Posted 136 days ago by

I wish people would stop bitching about no work units being available over the maintenance period. Without volunteers and volunteer or corporate funding the project would not exist. The volunteers at the centre do a great job and are to be commended for their dedication. We all know we have to maintain servers and equipment to progress and as SETI@Home is such a huge project the servers and equipment need lots of constant attention.

Well done all..

2) Message boards : Team Recruitment Center : Liverpool Seti Web - Looking for new team members (Message 1281430)
Posted 252 days ago by

Liverpool Seti Web are looking for new team members to help crunch data for SETI@Home. Even though we are listed as a local team, anyone from around the world can join us and help the SETI@Home cause. We have a Facebook page as well as a small developing website. If you want to join a small friendly team and you also enjoy astronomy in general, come and join us.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Liverpool-Seti-Web/143969849027081

http://www.lswuk.co.uk

I look forward to welcoming you.
Peter

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1205256)
Posted 432 days ago by

Once I started up the PC this morning all worked ok, so the issue I had was originally with the first install whereby once updated automatically it caused a problem with any re-install of the drivers and OpenCL, where it disabled it on any future restart! I cured this by deleting the current driver then running the app Msicuu2 which basically removes any corrupt installations totally from the system. Once this has been done reinstall the required driver and there you go all up and running without any issues!

I hope that helps anyone else having a similar issue! Unfortunately I cannot remember where I downloaded the file from but you can get it here http://www.filecluster.com/downloads/Windows-Installer-CleanUp-Utility.html If I come up against anymore issues like this with this card I will post it here!

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1205031)
Posted 433 days ago by

Ah so it looks like I have the correct configuration now! lets see what happens when the PC goes off later!

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204886)
Posted 433 days ago by

I do remember that one lol, so many people went mad over that one!

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204878)
Posted 433 days ago by

HAL lol, you're a bit of an AMD/ATI dinosaur then :) Seems strange that they cannot get their act together like Nvidia! Especially as they are now made by AMD.

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204874)
Posted 433 days ago by

Thanks Sten but I am not 100% confident in the AMD card as they seem to lack a little something and AMD seem to always mess up their drivers! Nvidia don't seem to have a problem like AMD does. I of course may change my mind upon the results etc.

8) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204869)
Posted 433 days ago by

I have cold rebooted a few times with no loss, so hopefully this will work! The major test is an overnight shutdown.

9) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204867)
Posted 433 days ago by

I have been looking through the web and found that people do have a problem with this happening. So I ran a program that removes the install information (after un-installation) to remove any pointers to corrupt files and settings! This seemed to do the trick! I am now testing the PC again for any further defective drivers and OPenCL problems! I did notice that ATI have released an openCL update which is on the Lunatics website so if this fails again I will try using that version instead.

Incidentally, I am running Lunatics as mentioned in my earlier posts, which should not work but does as using any other settings fail. I am keeping everything I can cross crossed!

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204729)
Posted 434 days ago by

I guess once setup it was OK but I bet it was a pain initially to get it to work properly?

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204722)
Posted 434 days ago by

Claggy

I have just noticed that you seem to be running 2 different GPU's in your system! http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=35858 Do they work ok together or are you just running one unit and the other was an older card?

12) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204716)
Posted 434 days ago by

I find it a strange one, if it continues to report successes and the other settings fail I will reset it to work in this manner.

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204705)
Posted 434 days ago by

This is on my daughters PC and I have only just installed the card but it is registered there. Here is the link to here PC http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=9431135

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204702)
Posted 434 days ago by

If the result come back as corrupt then I will try the other settings again!

15) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204698)
Posted 434 days ago by

I'll see what happens at the end of the work unit and see if it returns an error if it does I'll try another setting and wait!

16) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204586)
Posted 434 days ago by

Looking through clinfo the card's work units are 128 but if I use the settings you suggest for <256 Boinc doesn't register a GPU, but using on the settings in the image works! I will leave it to run and see how it goes from here!

I would like to thank you all for your input.

17) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204536)
Posted 434 days ago by

Great got OpenCl active now! So the last question for the HD5450 which Astropulse and Multibeam setting should I use for the Lunatics install?

18) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204527)
Posted 434 days ago by

Thanks for the links, now the driver is sorted what about the install settings? As her PC is a core2 Duo running the HD5450 which settings should I use!

19) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204523)
Posted 434 days ago by

Should I download this package? http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct Lunatic's Settings for AMD HD5450 (Message 1204522)
Posted 434 days ago by

Looking through the event log it does say no usable GPU's found!

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