Not sure if I did something wrong, but I am not getting anymore GPU work since Seti 8.
Thank you

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(Almost) only V8 tasks available at the moment but there are no official V8 GPU-apps yet.

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Yeah, I'm at least 50k RAC down since V8 was introduced. About 17k because of a GPU only cruncher and a bunch other machines that have lunatics installed on them.

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Do you think GPU units will become available soon?

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Do you think GPU units will become available soon?

There is no such thing as a GPU unit, work can be sent to any suitable application.

Claggy

I guess he means AP/V7 tasks. Looks like V7 started splitting, so those may soon be available to GPU-crunchers.

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I guess he means AP/V7 tasks. Looks like V7 started splitting, so those may soon be available to GPU-crunchers.

More likely he means MB/v8/GPU applications. I think I wrote an answer about that somewhere hereabouts. Too busy to look for it now.

I guess he means AP/V7 tasks. Looks like V7 started splitting, so those may soon be available to GPU-crunchers.

Well it should be interesting but I got an AP 7.703 unit on my dual processor machine with no GPU and it says it will take 7 days 20 hours and 40 min. and 53 seconds to complete. Isn't that a little excessive??....grin

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I would guess that this is about the first AstroPulse unit that PC has run. That being the case the estimate will be wildly pessimistic. The final run time is likely to be in the region of one to two days.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I would guess that this is about the first AstroPulse unit that PC has run. That being the case the estimate will be wildly pessimistic. The final run time is likely to be in the region of one to two days.

Thanks for the optimistic comment. I sure hope it runs faster than 7 days.
I have one AP on a quad that is running with the gpu and it says it will be done in 3:45:00, but it is only 50% done. With that kind of math it's hard to trust any of this stuff.....grin

I suspect it will take about 4.5 hours to run, not bad compared to 2 - 7 days.

BTW, is all that is available to run on gpu only AP's?

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Just thought I would throw this out there, I just completed 2 V8 WU's with my CUDA GPU.
It's on my GT 730 machine. Is this a fluke or isn't this possible?

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Just thought I would throw this out there, I just completed 2 V8 WU's with my CUDA GPU.
It's on my GT 730 machine. Is this a fluke or isn't this possible?

I think there is something wrong with the naming of these APs as the STDERR output shows: "Detected setiathome_enhanced_v7 task."

I am guessing that it is a V7 task that is somehow in the conversion to V8 is mislabeled.

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SETI@home classic workunits 4,019
SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours

Just thought I would throw this out there, I just completed 2 V8 WU's with my CUDA GPU.
It's on my GT 730 machine. Is this a fluke or isn't this possible?

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=7795393&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=29

Example:

01au15ab.29349.10292.12.39.222_0
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=4652136646


Application version SETI@home v8
Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)
Stderr output

<core_client_version>6.10.60</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
setiathome_CUDA: Found 1 CUDA device(s):
  Device 1: GeForce GT 730, 2048 MiB, regsPerBlock 65536
     computeCap 3.5, multiProcs 2 
     pciBusID = 1, pciSlotID = 0
In cudaAcc_initializeDevice(): Boinc passed DevPref 1
setiathome_CUDA: CUDA Device 1 specified, checking...
   Device 1: GeForce GT 730 is okay
SETI@home using CUDA accelerated device GeForce GT 730
pulsefind: blocks per SM 4 (Fermi or newer default)
pulsefind: periods per launch 100 (default)
Priority of process set to BELOW_NORMAL (default) successfully
Priority of worker thread set successfully

setiathome enhanced x41zc, Cuda 5.00

Detected setiathome_enhanced_v7 task. Autocorrelations enabled, size 128k elements.
Work Unit Info:
...............
WU true angle range is :  4.502677

Kepler GPU current clockRate = 901 MHz

re-using dev_GaussFitResults array for dev_AutoCorrIn, 4194304 bytes
re-using dev_GaussFitResults+524288x8 array for dev_AutoCorrOut, 4194304 bytes
Thread call stack limit is: 1k
cudaAcc_free() called...
cudaAcc_free() running...
cudaAcc_free() PulseFind freed...
cudaAcc_free() Gaussfit freed...
cudaAcc_free() AutoCorrelation freed...
cudaAcc_free() DONE.

Flopcounter: 16046330731653.082000

Spike count:    9
Autocorr count: 0
Pulse count:    0
Triplet count:  3
Gaussian count: 0
Worker preemptively acknowledging a normal exit.->
called boinc_finish
Exit Status: 0
boinc_exit(): requesting safe worker shutdown ->
boinc_exit(): received safe worker shutdown acknowledge ->
Cuda threadsafe ExitProcess() initiated, rval 0

</stderr_txt>
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You played around with your app_info.xml file?

This app can't calculate SETIv8 tasks.

AFAIK, currently nowhere is a SAHv8 CUDA app available for download.

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Just thought I would throw this out there, I just completed 2 V8 WU's with my CUDA GPU.
It's on my GT 730 machine. Is this a fluke or isn't this possible?

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=7795393&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=29

Example:

01au15ab.29349.10292.12.39.222_0
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=4652136646

Application version SETI@home v8

setiathome enhanced x41zc, Cuda 5.00

Detected setiathome_enhanced_v7 task.

Thanks for digging that out, Dirk.

AllenIN, Don't do that, please.

Read Eric's original announcement again:

We've also made small changed to our science code to improve the Gaussian fitting routines. This means version 8 results are not compatible with version 7.

I, and others, are beginning to test a new CUDA application at Beta, where they belong. You will see several inconclusive validations, which confirms they aren't ready for use yet. But you will also see:

setiathome enhanced x41zf (baseline v8), Cuda 4.20

setiathome_v8 task detected

If I see anyone else damaging the main science database by running v8 tasks using a v7 application, I will have no hesitation in asking Eric to prevent their computer downloading any new work.

My rac is gone down like crazy because of no GPUs. I had to add more CPUs.

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My rac is gone down like crazy because of no GPUs. I had to add more CPUs.

My RAC has crashed badly as well.
As I say, meowsigh.

Better times are coming. Dunno what v8 brings to the table as far as creds VS v7, does not really matter, it will all settle out where it does.

Hope is, that between Eric maybe releasing some stock GPU apps this week, and the Lunatics crew hot on his trail with whatever their optimizing wizards have come up with, most of us should be crunching hot and hard with our GPUs again very soon.

At least, that is what the kitties are hoping for....LOL.

Meow.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

When will they bring the GPU version?

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When will they bring the GPU version?

According to Eric.....sometime today some versions shall be released here.
Some are still in testing.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

When will they bring the GPU version?

Search and read forums before asking: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=78860#1757876

When will they bring the GPU version?

Search and read forums before asking: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=78860#1757876

I think it's fair to assume that the question would be asked in a thread with the title "No more GPU Units?"...after probably searching the forums and finding that title.

Who made you Lord of the S@H Forums, WezH? Get over yourself.

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