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Message 839304 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 19:41:15 UTC - in response to Message 839302.  

more then likely it will give gpu crushers high rca till they make changes then it will norm and then you guys will have a low rca
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Message 839306 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 19:42:31 UTC - in response to Message 839287.  

just to give you guys a hint on the beta cpu time to do one wu on a 260gtx is
gpu 168.5 sec not min or hours
gpu 68 sec not min or hours
gpu 126.5 sec not min or hours

norm time on cpu is 3 hours

=) i like this when well it hit main steam any time frame

ps: given the app uses .o3 cpu well the final ver have more then 2 apps running at the same time given that it only uses 10% of my gpu power on a duel core cpu





Incorrect..

Those are CPU Seconds used in crunching the unit. (Note the work is on the GPU and only uses the cpu to feed them when needed)

I was trying to time them last night.. but the two i did varried.. i dont have any firm data on average times (Using 8800GTS's)

So dont get your hopes of super RAC monsters yet..


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Message 839314 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 19:54:44 UTC - in response to Message 839306.  
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look at this gpu beta ones
CPU time 145.5313
Flopcounter: 27893002619049.543000
Validate state Initial
Claimed credit 68.5024687836731
application version 6.05

CPU time 164.5313
Flopcounter: 27893002618953.543000
Validate state Initial
Claimed credit 68.5024687836731
application version 6.05

CPU time 68.09375
Flopcounter: 8555727561689.327100
Validate state Initial
Claimed credit 21.0205025607512
application version 6.05

those for norm cpu ones

CPU time 15592.39
Flopcounter: 15879586159931.861000
Validate state Initial
Claimed credit 45.4154080963371
application version 6.03

CPU time 13479.3
Flopcounter: 23828833911232.375000
Validate state Initial
Claimed credit 68.874558326038
application version 6.03

so it is by far faster about same flops in a small % of the time
the time listed is from the start of the wu to the end of it i also have a nv 260 oc vcard 196 cores
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Message 839318 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 20:12:53 UTC - in response to Message 839314.  

how long actually did the WU take to crunch?

The two WU's i ran both came back at 68 Seconds..

They surly did not actually take 68 seconds to crunch.. that's what im getting at.


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Message 839325 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 20:35:23 UTC
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This took about half a hour (70% done, exit by result_overflow)

Sent	12 Dec 2008 19:52:20 UTC
Received	12 Dec 2008 20:20:04 UTC
Server state	Over
Outcome	Success
Client state	Done
Exit status	0 (0x0)
Computer ID	36828
Report deadline	6 Jan 2009 9:38:38 UTC
CPU time	149.9063
stderr out	<core_client_version>6.4.5</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
cudaAcc_initializeDevice: Found 1 CUDA device(s):
   Device 1 : GeForce 9800 GT 
cudaAcc_initializeDevice is determiming what CUDA device to use...
   user specified SETI to use CUDA device 1: GeForce 9800 GT
SETI@home using CUDA accelerated device GeForce 9800 GT
setiathome_enhanced 6.02 Visual Studio/Microsoft C++
libboinc: 6.3.22

Work Unit Info:
...............
WU true angle range is :  0.378392
Optimal function choices:
-----------------------------------------------------
name                
-----------------------------------------------------
              v_BaseLineSmooth (no other)
            v_GetPowerSpectrum 0.00022 0.00000 
                   v_ChirpData 0.01422 0.00000 
                  v_Transpose4 0.00522 0.00000 
               FPU opt folding 0.00273 0.00000 
SETI@Home Informational message -9 result_overflow
NOTE: The number of results detected exceeds the storage space allocated.

Flopcounter: 26118198486626.477000

Spike count:    28
Pulse count:    1
Triplet count:  0
Gaussian count: 1
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

By far I'm not very pleased with CUDA. Not to mention some keyboard/graphical lags, my Q6600 with optimized applications processes still faster.

EDIT: and another CUDA MB took 25:11. Not too bad.
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Message 839333 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 21:00:22 UTC
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The S@H-Beta-GPU-app use all Cores of the GPU simultaneously?


Why only Nvidia (CUDA)?
ATI have the AMD Stream SDK (System Developer Kit).


German news show:
http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/5/0,3672,7486885,00.html

Other homepage:
http://www.astronews.com/news/artikel/2008/11/0811-004.shtml


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BTW.
I don't have a SETI@home-Beta account.. so I can't post there..
I'm only little curious and would like to support.. :-)
To now I have only a 6200 in my rig.. ;-)
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Message 839353 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 21:41:22 UTC - in response to Message 839333.  
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SETI@home beta CUDA requires minimum nVidia Geforce 8 series with 256 MB video memory. ATI not supported yet. Don't know why, just so. And yes, I think, it uses all graphical cores (for one task at once) on my GPU, 112 cores that is.
In addition to this info, to join SETI@home Beta Test you need attach to project using http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ in BOINC 6.4.5, provided that you installed CUDA 2.0 drivers before.
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Message 839381 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 23:37:03 UTC - in response to Message 839353.  

ATI not supported yet. Don't know why, just so.

ATI will be supported in a future version of BOINC, their developers are working with the BOINC developers and projects to port applications. This will take several more months though.
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Message 839384 - Posted: 12 Dec 2008, 23:44:06 UTC

Jord, thanks for letting us know.
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Message 839389 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 0:06:41 UTC
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Because we all want the fastest one.. ;-)

In future, the speed of available apps for Nvidia and ATI would be the same?
Compared with the same speed, Cores and RAM of the GPU.

Maybe an AMD CPU-Mobo-GPU-combi would be better (than Intel) because of the better AMD CPU-GPU-performance?


EDIT:
CUDA? What's about PhysX? :-D
[PhysX would run on nVIDIA and ATI..]
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Message 839402 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 0:53:27 UTC

Please could all contributors to this thread read Matt Lebofsky's note in Technical News today (message 839285):

For the record, I have *zero* idea what's going on with the CUDA/SETI@home beta project, except that it now exists and I was just merely pointing out its existence. Please forward all comments/questions to the beta forum, which I assume is being read by the beta developers. Sorry for any confusion.

and act accordingly - i.e. transfer all comments/questions about the Beta Test application to the Beta forums.
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Message 839709 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 22:05:43 UTC


Yes.. O.K. .. I know.. but I don't have a Beta account.. ;-)

I'm little curious about the crunching-time with the GPU.
[The CPU-time is not well to measure the GPU-crunching-time..]

Where I can find posts about this topic?

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Message 839711 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 22:12:07 UTC

last time posting er about this
2.5min to 4.5 min on all wu done so far about 200 in one day but i play games alot
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Message 839715 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 22:18:48 UTC


Because about what I read..
The CPU-time is not for to measure the GPU-crunching-time.
Because the CPU support only the GPU..

So the CPU-time say only how long the support was..

Yes.. or no? ..I don't know.. ;-)

So how you can measure the correct GPU-crunching-time?


BTW.
And you crunch with an idle Core of your CPU?

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Message 839730 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 22:45:52 UTC - in response to Message 839715.  
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Because about what I read..
The CPU-time is not for to measure the GPU-crunching-time.
Because the CPU support only the GPU..

So the CPU-time say only how long the support was..

Yes.. or no? ..I don't know.. ;-)

So how you can measure the correct GPU-crunching-time?


BTW.
And you crunch with an idle Core of your CPU?


Hi, so far the only way I've been able to find out how long the crunch time is would be to check the log for start and completion times of the tasks.

To be able to use the idle core you can check out this message

Also we really need to keep discussion of the Beta apps at the Beta site.
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Message 839733 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 22:51:26 UTC - in response to Message 839730.  

... Also we really need to keep discussion of the Beta apps at the Beta site.

Still interesting for a little advance visibility here... ;-)


Have you got enough testers having a play or could you do with a few more yet?

Happy fast crunchin',
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Message 839736 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 22:56:15 UTC - in response to Message 839733.  

... Also we really need to keep discussion of the Beta apps at the Beta site.

Still interesting for a little advance visibility here... ;-)


Have you got enough testers having a play or could you do with a few more yet?

Happy fast crunchin',
Martin


Give it a go, seems to me they have too many when there's no more work.
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Message 839739 - Posted: 13 Dec 2008, 23:07:17 UTC - in response to Message 839733.  

... Also we really need to keep discussion of the Beta apps at the Beta site.

Still interesting for a little advance visibility here... ;-)


Have you got enough testers having a play or could you do with a few more yet?

Happy fast crunchin',
Martin


The current Beta is Windows only - you'd have to compile your own.......
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Message 840005 - Posted: 14 Dec 2008, 22:16:13 UTC - in response to Message 839739.  

The current Beta is Windows only - you'd have to compile your own.......

... OK...

Is the Windows side debugged enough to be worth adding a whole new rat's nest into the fun?

A help or confused hindrance?

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Message 840032 - Posted: 14 Dec 2008, 23:37:48 UTC - in response to Message 840005.  

The current Beta is Windows only - you'd have to compile your own.......

... OK...

Is the Windows side debugged enough to be worth adding a whole new rat's nest into the fun?

A help or confused hindrance?

Happy fast crunchin',
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