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Wedge009 ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 451 Credit: 431,396,357 RAC: 553 ![]() ![]() |
Confirmed, it is per GPU regardless of vendor. Still 100 per CPU - no change. For single CPU hosts, at least. Soli Deo Gloria |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 1 Jun 01 Posts: 1282 Credit: 187,688,550 RAC: 182 ![]() ![]() |
Confirmed, it is per GPU regardless of vendor. That is what I am getting and my GPUs are the same on each of my computers. So 300 tasks per computer for me. ![]() SETI@home classic workunits 4,019 SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 19 May 99 Posts: 211 Credit: 278,575,259 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Finally got my 900 tasks. :-) Tim |
ExchangeMan Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 115 Credit: 157,719,104 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Finally got my 900 tasks. :-) I'm at 853 and still climbing. Not sure if I'll make it to 900 before the cache runs dry. |
Batter Up ![]() Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 ![]() |
The AP reassigning hoarders are going to hate this. ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 ![]() ![]() |
I reenabled Intel GPU work fetch, and got my i5-3210M/GT650M/Intel_Graphics_HD4000 to ask for work, it now has 300 tasks, but they are a mix of CPU and Nvidia tasks, none for the Intel GPU, And with "Use ATI GPU" disabled I'm still getting 300 tasks. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours ![]() |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 ![]() |
I reenabled Intel GPU work fetch, and got my i5-3210M/GT650M/Intel_Graphics_HD4000 to ask for work, it now has 300 tasks, but they are a mix of CPU and Nvidia tasks, none for the Intel GPU, As i am on my i5-3210M/GT650M/Intel_HD_Graphics_4000 with the 'use Intel GPU' setting set to No. Claggy |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13884 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. Now I've got just over half a days worth in my GPU cache, so I can wait a bit longer before panicing the next time things fall over. Grant Darwin NT |
![]() Send message Joined: 22 Jul 99 Posts: 768 Credit: 24,140,697 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. Now I've got just over half a days worth in my GPU cache, so I can wait a bit longer before panicing the next time things fall over. That worry is the main reason ] haven't bought a 2nd GPU, even though I sized my MB & power supply for another. Can't see spending money to buy worries. When this thread opened, I started thinking about it again but Claggy clarified things for me. I don't see any logic in allowing someone with a fairly weak Intel GPU and a GT240 to have 200 GPU tasks but restrict someone with 2 690's to only 100. Another Fred Support SETI@home when you search the Web with GoodSearch or shop online with GoodShop. ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 ![]() ![]() |
I like the way it is now. Those with 4 gtx690's or with 4 gtx780's like me have now a small chance to survive over weekly maintenance periods. Edit: Doing now 478 MB and 22 AP. Boincmgr shows 30 MB GPU, 2 MB CPU, 1 AP GPU. (A lot of slots in use, All running concurrently - Please divide AP task time by four and MB time by 8 when comparing to one task at a time.) -- Petri I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. Now I've got just over half a days worth in my GPU cache, so I can wait a bit longer before panicing the next time things fall over. To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
![]() Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 ![]() ![]() |
Now I'm a bit down. Once upon a time there was a Setiland. All people ware treated equally and there was a feeling of harmony around. One day TheLimit was raised! Most people noticed but nothing... But the evil was lurking around. An AP hoarder amidst us Seitzens. The universe kept on expanding as time passed by. But one day - The AP stopped to appear. That was not evident immediately. Everyones cache was filled with a mixture of MB and AP - so nobody realised that until it was too late. No one got no AP anymore. Their caches were run out of AP. Except for one - there was this evil hoarder. He had set a spell to the magic internet page and made sure that hed'd get no MB. This way he got all the AP in the wolrd! Oh the groaning and moaning every morning, throughout the day and every evening. No greater evil could have hit us - people said! Some went to the extent that they switched to another project - some waited their mouths shut. Time passed by... And there was this one morning when all remaining GPU coolers whirred so beautifully and all the worlds results loked a bit more shiny. Something must have happened said everyone - no one knew what. But the a knight in an Arctic Silver IV shining body came and told every person still in the project that the CPU cooler of the hoarder had caught a fire and caused a meltdown of those horrible AP hoarding GPU cores and that the King of the Setiland had issued a permanent order: NO ONE (Tim) WITH A SETTING THAT SAYS AP ONLY AND NOT ALLOW ANY OTHER TYPE OF WORK SHALL HAVE A LIMIT OF 1 TASK A DAY INSTEAD OF 100 PER GPU AND CPU. The people hoorrared for a total of three days and ..... -- Well - the children are now asleep. Mee too in a an hour or so. I just looked at at the tasks of another top 10 cruncher and was kind of disappointed. When running AP only I could get 240 000 a day - but I do not want to. I have AP as a preference, but atleast I have this "send work from other projects when available" on. How would you explain if You had N hunderd AP only? (N is a big number) To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 ![]() ![]() |
<cut> I'm not 100% what all that was about. Are you asking how they managed to get lots of AP tasks? With how the servers are currently set machine 6716400 would be allowed to download 800 GPU AP tasks. Which would have been an easy things to do given the recent load of AP generated. I have a machine that keep getting AP tasks to stay capped at 100 CPU AP tasks. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours ![]() |
Bill Collins Send message Joined: 5 Nov 05 Posts: 25 Credit: 57,544,918 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Just how does one download lots of AP? I carry an 8 day cache of WUs and if I have more than 15 AP available at any one time I think I'm in fat city. Clearly, I'm not. I don't want to corner the market, but I'd like to pick up some more AP action. Any tips? Thanks. -Bill -Bill |
Batter Up ![]() Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Just how does one download lots of AP? I carry an 8 day cache of WUs and if I have more than 15 AP available at any one time I think I'm in fat city. Clearly, I'm not. I don't want to corner the market, but I'd like to pick up some more AP action. Any tips? Thanks. It depends on how much time one want's to spend watching the servers and their computers. I had to shut down for the summer but when there was an AP feast I would change the settings to AP only. I would change it back when AP dried up. There are other nefarious ways but I only read about them. ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11446 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 ![]() ![]() |
I set a 10 day cache on a couple of slow hosts, never hit the 100 limit and have not run out in over a year. On the real slow one 39 is 10 days. |
Bill Collins Send message Joined: 5 Nov 05 Posts: 25 Credit: 57,544,918 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm not interested in nefarious ways, I'm happy to take them as they come, but I read about the large amount of AP traffic that some people seem to get and I never see these numbers. -Bill -Bill |
Batter Up ![]() Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm not interested in nefarious ways, I'm happy to take them as they come, but I read about the large amount of AP traffic that some people seem to get and I never see these numbers. What happens if you set it to AP only? ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 ![]() ![]() |
Just how does one download lots of AP? I carry an 8 day cache of WUs and if I have more than 15 AP available at any one time I think I'm in fat city. Clearly, I'm not. I don't want to corner the market, but I'd like to pick up some more AP action. Any tips? Thanks. For me it's luck of the draw. Sometimes my machines get lots of AP, like they did this time, & sometimes they get very few. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 ![]() ![]() |
<cut> AP only. And do not allow other work. :'( To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
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