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Al Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1682 Credit: 477,343,364 RAC: 482 |
Oooh.. Didn't know either of those things. Hmm, well, I'll have to rethink some of those settings then, as I don't want it to tip over now.. ;-) And thanks for the heads up on the stdout file, I thought it was MB, not bytes. I swear I learn something new here every day... |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Has anybody here got a GTX 1080 or 1070 active and running BOINC? If so, could you please post the GPU detection line from the startup log - including, specifically, the 'GFLOPs peak' value - I've been asked to check if that's accurate. (and please don't just compare it with what SIV says - it's the author of SIV who's asked me, because both programs use the same formula - they'll either both be right or both be wrong.) |
Al Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1682 Credit: 477,343,364 RAC: 482 |
Well Richard, don't look to me anytime soon, I just got off the phone with EVGA about my new machines video weirdness, so I gave him the order # to check the shipping status, and he said that it would be shipping later in the month. Min a couple weeks, but almost for certain by the end of the month. I asked if there was a way to change the shipping method, because I had thought it would be shipping by the end of this week initially, so I chose 2 day and paid an extra $18 for it, but if it's coming that late, well, who cares about a couple 3 more days? Of course, the only way to change it is to cancel the pre-order, and then there is no chance of re-ordering it at this time. Yippee. So, as I said I'll make a note of it here when I get it installed and running, and maybe use it as a comparison of the Reference version vs. the FTW version, not sure how much difference there will be, but at least the data will be out there for all to see. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I don't have a GTX 1080 but I have downloaded its nVidia driver, 365.19 and it works on my GTX 750 OC. Tullio |
Rasputin42 Send message Joined: 25 Jul 08 Posts: 412 Credit: 5,834,661 RAC: 0 |
Meaning? |
archae86 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 909 Credit: 1,582,816 RAC: 0 |
I don't have a GTX 1080 but I have downloaded its nVidia driver, 365.19 and it works on my GTX 750 OC. Curious, this Nvidia driver download site currently advises using 368.25 for a Windows 10 64-bit 1080 host, and 368.22 for the same host with a 750. |
Al Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1682 Credit: 477,343,364 RAC: 482 |
They are different, and apparently non-compatible drivers as I found out, because I didn't choose the correct OS (needed Win 7-64 bit, but picked the default one which was Win 10). I tried installing it, and it popped up saying Wrong OS, Dummy. lol It lists the Win 10 drivers separately from the Vista, 7 & 8 drivers, not sure what changed in 10 but looks like they had to tweak something for 10 and gave it a different version #, so there you go. |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
Comparing the information for 368.25 on nVidia's download page: Supported Products: GeForce 10 Series: and regular 368.22: Supported Products: GeForce 900 Series: Seems the Pascal branch isn't merged into the mainstream yet. Don't see a 1070 yet either. I wouldn't advise mixing GPU generations with a 1080 until they are (usually happens in another driver release, or a few, after initial) "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
Al Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1682 Credit: 477,343,364 RAC: 482 |
Well, then maybe my card being delayed for a few more weeks isn't necessarily a bad thing, it will allow them to work out some of the driver kinks? Although I hadn't planned initially to do a multi GPU setup with it, I am going to toss it into my 48 core machine and let it run for a month or so to see how well it works. |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
Well, then maybe my card being delayed for a few more weeks isn't necessarily a bad thing, it will allow them to work out some of the driver kinks? Although I hadn't planned initially to do a multi GPU setup with it, I am going to toss it into my 48 core machine and let it run for a month or so to see how well it works. Typically that'll be a shifting target for 3-4 months, after which the drivers settle down. Could be a bit of extra jostling than normal, due to DirectX12, OpenCL(2.1?)/Vulkan, Cuda 8.0, all attempting to mature at the same time. At least there are Raistmer's OpenCL apps, Familiar Cuda ones, and multiple new avenues being explored on all fronts for when we know more about this architecture. One of those times when having plenty of eggs in different baskets could pay off (even if initially there is a few unwanted surprises) "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
archae86 Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 909 Credit: 1,582,816 RAC: 0 |
A thread on the Nvidia forums regarding a widely reported complaint of abnormal fan speed variation on the initial 1080 cards asserts that a driver fix has been found, tested, and scheduled for release in a driver update on June 7, 2016 Checking the Nvidia driver download page, as of a couple of minutes ago, the currently recommended driver for the 1080 and 1070 is 368.39, and unlike the previous 1080 driver this one lists a very large set of supported products, including for example the 750, 980, and a fullish looking list back through the 400 series. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13720 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Checking the Nvidia driver download page, as of a couple of minutes ago, the currently recommended driver for the 1080 and 1070 is 368.39, and unlike the previous 1080 driver this one lists a very large set of supported products, including for example the 750, 980, and a fullish looking list back through the 400 series. Coming so soon after the initial release, if I had a GTX 10xx card i'd probably wait till the next release, or at least let others test it out a while before trying it myself. Grant Darwin NT |
Al Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1682 Credit: 477,343,364 RAC: 482 |
Hmm, so they finally released the specs on the FTW version I am getting, turns out it's an incremental improvement, but nothing earthshattering. Biggest differences is that there are 2 BIOS chips on it, it's 35 watts higher, and it now takes two 8 pin power connectors instead of one. Overall, I think I'd probably go for the step down and do a slight overclock, and get about the same performace and not have to have dual 8 pin power connectors. *edit* Unless of course with the dual 8 pins there is more overclocking headroom... |
Stephen "Heretic" Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 |
Look in the Event Log again. Do you see "This computer has reached a limit of tasks in progress", or words to that effect? . . I tend to agree with that except I was running with 0.9 days cached but the outage last week went over 24 hours and I ended up without work for several hours. I originally was using 0.5 days but maintenance outages persuaded me to go 0.9. I have now succumbed to "insurance measures" and have increased to 1.5 days. That seems to have a reasonable balance but there are still some anomalies that cause under caching. Because I have had so few APs the system keeps telling me they will take 6 days to process and so starves my cache until the one Ap task is completed, which when it comes up takes about 2 hours :( |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Because I have had so few APs the system keeps telling me they will take 6 days to process and so starves my cache until the one Ap task is completed, which when it comes up takes about 2 hours :( That's partly because of so few Astropulse tasks needing to be processed (most of the data in these old tapes has been processed already), and partly because they conditions set for considering an AP task to have a 'normal' runtime, and hence being worth taking into account when deciding the true estimate, have been set quite strictly. Your host 8012534 is showing Number of tasks completed 4 Consecutive valid tasks 7 You need to get that 'completed' line up to 11 before the estimates are corrected: sadly, that probably needs another fifteen or twenty tasks to run. |
Stephen "Heretic" Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 |
The limit is NOT 100 per 24 hours, but 100 tasks reported as "in progress". This has been the case for a few years. . . OK, I had to test that (Don't touch that it's hot! :) ) And when I blew out the setting to 3.5 days it still only cached 200 tasks, so I guess that is 100 for the CPU and 100 for the GPU. As it turns out that is about 1 days work for the GPU and a l.4 for the CPU. Which I guess overrides the the settings in BOINC Manager, making the current setting of 1.5 seem about the limit anyway. |
Stephen "Heretic" Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 |
Thanks! My RAC in the software shows that it has rocketed from 0 to 4600 in those 2 short days. Who knows how high it just might go? :-) . . Should not that formula be 20K*6*0.7*1.5 ?? . . Or is that drop "to" 30% not "of" 30%. . . I am curious to know if the drop has been that large? |
Stephen "Heretic" Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 |
Because I have had so few APs the system keeps telling me they will take 6 days to process and so starves my cache until the one Ap task is completed, which when it comes up takes about 2 hours :( . . That could be 12 months away :) . . It's taken 4 months to get to 4 .... |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Thanks! My RAC in the software shows that it has rocketed from 0 to 4600 in those 2 short days. Who knows how high it just might go? :-) The change from MBv6->MBv7 was a drop of 40-50% for some. I prefer to just use the actual run times to calculate the number of tasks a day & then guesstimate the credit. It looks like their normal AR tasks are running ~2.5 hours. So that gives us ~450 tasks/day. I like to figure 100 credit per task to give a max theoretical RAC value of 45,000. Then I figure 80% of the max for the low end of 36,000. Which would put a RAC of ~40.5K in the middle. The daily credit values for the past few days on their 48 core host are: 34,506 36,640 46,096 62,035 35,202 39,718 35,010 35,898 44,786. Which averages out to 41099 for the past 9 days. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Cruncher-American Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 1513 Credit: 370,893,186 RAC: 340 |
A data point for you: On my 32 core dual E5-2670 (AVX) running 29 CPU threads, a typical WU runs about 2.5 hours, so ~275 there. I also have 2 x GTX 980s running 3/dev, at ~1 hour/WU. So that's another 144 there, for a total of about 420/day, and I am averaging a bit over 40K over the last few days. |
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