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Message 1469370 - Posted: 27 Jan 2014, 3:00:57 UTC - in response to Message 1469369.  
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I´m not sure about stock apps, but check if you have the file, if yes just change it will work too. Actualy the MB stocks apps comes from the Lunatics team also.

About Compute Units you could read an explanation on: http://sa09.idav.ucdavis.edu/docs/SA09_NVIDIA_IHV_talk.pdf
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Message 1469369 - Posted: 27 Jan 2014, 2:57:02 UTC - in response to Message 1469360.  
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LEt´s see if i could help you with my bad english.

One at a time. Since there is no AP WU avaiable let start with MB (I asume you use the lunatics apps)

One must never ass/u/me. I use the standard apps and wish to continue using them. Your English is way better than my Portuguese. The only Portuguese I know is the pet name the Brazilian women in the Ironbound section of Newark call me; Safado.
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Message 1469366 - Posted: 27 Jan 2014, 2:52:06 UTC
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Juan has provided good information.

This thread also has instructions regarding the same topic. The user named rob smith begins the explanation about half way down.

If you do it right, wait for a few tasks to complete. Then, you can look at them. Recently I set mine to "normal" priority. Therefore, when I open up the information about tasks my computer crunches, I see this line:

Priority of process set to NORMAL successfully

I'm not sure however, if you need to be running the lunatics applications for this to work. I run lunatics.

As for the second part of your question, sorry I'm unfamiliar with that.
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Message 1469360 - Posted: 27 Jan 2014, 2:36:04 UTC
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LEt´s see if i could help you with my bad english.

One at a time. Since there is no AP WU avaiable let start with MB (I asume you use the lunatics apps)

On your SETI project directory (mine is D:\Boinc\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu) you must have this file: mbcuda.cfg

Open it with notepath and read it, there are all instructions to do what you ask for.

To rise the priority you just need to add this line (actualy just take out the ;;; in the begining of the line)

processpriority = abovenormal

Then close the file and the next MB WU started will run in the new priority. To make it work instantaneusly your need to compleately stop boinc (not just the manager) and restart.

Becareful 'abovenormal', or 'high' must be used only on crunchers only hosts or you will be experience video lag and other wierds efects.
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Message 1469358 - Posted: 27 Jan 2014, 2:24:34 UTC - in response to Message 1469357.  

About the priority

For AP read you could use the -hp switch in your command line, read the description on the readme file suplied with the build.

For Mb you need to edit the file mbcuda.cfg the instructions how to do are in the file itself.

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Message 1469357 - Posted: 27 Jan 2014, 2:03:38 UTC - in response to Message 1469354.  
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About the priority

For AP read you could use the -hp switch in your command line, read the description on the readme file suplied with the build.

For Mb you need to edit the file mbcuda.cfg the instructions how to do are in the file itself.
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Message 1469354 - Posted: 27 Jan 2014, 1:48:04 UTC
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How do I run GPU with high priority? I run the standard apps and have created and successfully used cc_config.xml and app_config.xml. I know very little about the codes and don't want to melt my machine. I can copy and paste very well though.

One other question, in Stderr output I have this;
OpenCL Platform Name:	 NVIDIA CUDA
Number of devices:	 8
Max compute units:	 8
I assume the number of devices, 8, is the 8 physical GPUs and max compute units, 8, is the number of WU they are to crunch. I have app_config.xml running 2 WU on each GPU, 16 total and it works great but why doesn't is show as 16 in Stderr and does it make a difference?
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