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Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
And what about CPU time consumption? And do you run sleep enabled or disabled? SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
I run without the -use_sleep as these are pure crunchers and large CPU chip Sorry I have not checked CPU time consumption, I would need to go back and look at that but it wasn't something that I was concerned with. |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
I run without the -use_sleep as these are pure crunchers and large CPU chip Well, it's the question of balance between overall performance, CPU consumption, usability for both high-, mid- and low-end devices. Since 8.12 no single GPU kernel was changed. Only way they enqueued. There are different approaches as you could see. Some dont' care about CPU consumption, some care only about CPU consumption no matter how good overall throughput is... SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
no matter how good overall throughput is... Remember to draw a distinction between overall throughput and SETI throughput... |
Stephen "Heretic" Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 |
I run without the -use_sleep as these are pure crunchers and large CPU chip . . On that thought, does -use_sleep_ex 0 mean turn off use sleep or use less than a value of 1? I am considering trying the latest version on the 970's to see how they behave with it. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Raistmer, Just going to throw this out there. I know you are concentrating on getting the newer SoG to work with the lower end GPUs, but I find r3430 faster on the higher end GPUs. The only issue is that sanity check that is causing errors with that version. Any chance of a patch for r3430 so we can eliminate those errors? |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22204 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
From a very simplistic and unscientific observation of three of my crunchers - The error rate appears to increase as the period of time from last re-boot increases. Normally I would associate this with a memory leak, or memory not being cleared/released properly, but I'm not sure if this applies to GPU systems. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Stubbles Send message Joined: 29 Nov 99 Posts: 358 Credit: 5,909,255 RAC: 0 |
On one of my two almost-identical rigs (HP Z400 with Xeon W3550 and GTX 750 Ti), I am running Lunatics v0.45 beta3 with SoG (MB8_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV_SoG_r3472.exe) and crunching 1 WU/GPU. With BoinStats, I noticed a few tasks are not fully utilizing the dedicated CPU core to support the GPU. Surprisingly, those tasks are finishing much more quickly (in almost half the time). "CPU %" = ~15% (as per BoincStats) SETI@home 8.12 setiathome_v8 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) 21au10ah.4470.3343.9.36.177_0 00:08:47 (00:01:17) 2016-Jul-04 8:45:38 AM 2016-Jul-04 9:44:14 AM 14.61 SETI@home 8.12 setiathome_v8 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) 21au10ah.4470.3343.9.36.186_1 00:08:46 (00:01:16) 2016-Jul-04 8:53:41 AM 2016-Jul-04 9:44:14 AM 14.45 SETI@home 8.12 setiathome_v8 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) 21au10ah.4470.3343.9.36.183_0 00:08:47 (00:01:18) 2016-Jul-04 9:02:46 AM 2016-Jul-04 9:44:14 AM 14.80 SETI@home 8.12 setiathome_v8 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) 21au10ah.4470.3343.9.36.220_0 00:08:47 (00:01:18) 2016-Jul-04 9:29:35 AM 2016-Jul-04 9:44:14 AM 14.80 usual CPU % activity SETI@home 8.12 setiathome_v8 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) 21au10ah.507.36467.10.37.65_0 00:16:44 (00:16:36) 2016-Jul-04 10:09:19 AM 2016-Jul-04 10:24:42 AM 99.20 SETI@home 8.12 setiathome_v8 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) 21au10ah.507.36467.10.37.25_0 00:16:36 (00:16:31) 2016-Jul-04 10:24:20 AM 2016-Jul-04 10:24:42 AM 99.50 SETI@home 8.12 setiathome_v8 (opencl_nvidia_SoG) 21ap10af.4505.9065.12.39.164_0 00:16:33 (00:16:39) 2016-Jul-04 9:47:14 AM 2016-Jul-04 9:59:40 AM 100.00Is there a reason for this? Fyi#1, I've been moving non-vlars from CPU to GPU but I haven't kept track of the ones that I did move...but I could figure that out for future one by comparing them to the: "In progress" list before BoincStats reports them. Fyi#2, during the last week, I inserting supplied parameters into app_config.XML and mb_cmdline_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV.txt using Brent Norman's suggestion. If there's any testing I could do, let me know the parameters. Rob :-} |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Rob, I can't speak for Raistmer, but I can speak from my understanding on this. When the new work units from Green Bank were released, the work units were much longer (taking the appearance of VLAR) and as such were relegated to the CPUs. Newer cuda apps (v8) were needed to handle this new data. Eventually we got those but found the times were extremely long compared to the previous work units.(but less than CPU times) Also, the amount of credit for these work units decreased. This movement to take work units from the GPU back to CPU is a response to that change.(credit wise) SoG and Sah were created to find a faster way to analyze the new data. And despite what you hear, it does just that. In short what I'm saying is, if you want to help with results, you would need to leave those work units assigned to the GPU to remain there and run them on these apps. Otherwise, you won't be helping by reassigning work units. Sorry if I sound like I'm harping but since very few have volunteered their machines to help him figure out the issues, it's not surprising that his apps work better for those who lent their machine than those that sat on the sidelines. Help is always welcome. |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
8.15 will be released soon. I expect back to full speed for high-end devices. Will see. SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
From a very simplistic and unscientific observation of three of my crunchers - The error rate appears to increase as the period of time from last re-boot increases. About what error rate you talk? What app's flavor? ATi, NV, iGPU ? Flase positive on overflow with many high-power autocorr has nothing to do with any leak or app bug. It's safeguard measure against bad-behaving GPU devices. With new data its threshold exceeded for genuine operation too hence false positive. It's data-driven, not machine state. SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
On one of my two almost-identical rigs (HP Z400 with Xeon W3550 and GTX 750 Ti), I am running Lunatics v0.45 beta3 with SoG (MB8_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV_SoG_r3472.exe) and crunching 1 WU/GPU. What issue here? SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
J. Mileski Send message Joined: 9 Jun 02 Posts: 632 Credit: 172,116,532 RAC: 572 |
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Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
I'm willing to move a machine or 2 to beta. What kind of hardware are you looking for? I've got GTX550ti, GTX750ti GT240, 9500GT, and 9400GT Currently beta tests new data format so any will go. For testing OpenCL NV apps smth with CC 2.0+ (FERMI and up) will go. SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
Stubbles Send message Joined: 29 Nov 99 Posts: 358 Credit: 5,909,255 RAC: 0 |
There isn't an issue; just an observation.On one of my two almost-identical rigs (HP Z400 with Xeon W3550 and GTX 750 Ti), I am running Lunatics v0.45 beta3 with SoG (MB8_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV_SoG_r3472.exe) and crunching 1 WU/GPU.What issue here? I asked: Is there a reason for this?... 1) diff in CPU support times, and 2) why does ~15% CPU support on SoG (instead of ~100%) make the task run in half the time. |
J. Mileski Send message Joined: 9 Jun 02 Posts: 632 Credit: 172,116,532 RAC: 572 |
I'm willing to move a machine or 2 to beta. What kind of hardware are you looking for? I've got GTX550ti, GTX750ti GT240, 9500GT, and 9400GT For the Open CL NV apps, are they being tested here or over at beta? |
Stubbles Send message Joined: 29 Nov 99 Posts: 358 Credit: 5,909,255 RAC: 0 |
In short what I'm saying is, if you want to help with results, you would need to leave those work units assigned to the GPU to remain there and run them on these apps. Otherwise, you won't be helping by reassigning work units. Thanks for the direct feedback. In the 2 months that I have spent learning from the S@H forums, I have learned a lot! I only just started reassigning tasks during the last few days while waiting for Beta4. Also, it's only today from my own digging that I realized how few are actually using Lunatics optimized apps. I assumed most of the top 5,000 computers were! If I understand correctly (correct me if I'm wrong), there's 2 types of "volunteer testers": 1. those who simply crunch tasks for the "S@H Beta Test" project with the stock apps in the same way that anyone does for the regular S@H project; and 2. those who test the latest Lunatic apps on the regular: S@H project. Also, is there a newer app floating somewhere other than SoG_r3472.exe that I can run the guppis on? If so, how many WU on a GTX 750 Ti? 1 or 2 in parallel I'll need to have command line parameters supplied to me if there are any specific ones to test...as I haven't started to learn anything yet about the diff options...but I feel I'm somewhat ready to learn & willing! Happy 4th Zalster |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
Hey Rob, Actually, they would have preferred all testing to have been done on Beta. The fact that some of us are running the test apps on Main is being allowed by Raistmer to see how they work with the data. On the beta site, while some people do use commandlines and app_config, it is preferable that applications be run as is, without any modifications so they can review the results and see where they need to improve the apps. Some people, and I include myself here, do add commmadlines and app_config but only after running a large amount of work units under stock conditions to make sure we have a baseline. I use 100 validated results, not inconclusive, not pending. So that might take a while. I add commandlines to try and spend up the times to complete as well as find the best ratio for my machines. Now, that doesn't always translate into a direct swap from beta to main as I pointed out above and asked about. I'm sure Rasitmer can give you more guidelines in what he wants in testing his apps. Happy 1st of July to you as well. Zalster |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22204 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
All three of my current PCs are NV based. Each of the PCs has a pair of GPU, one with GTX780, one with GTX960 and one with GTX980s It would appear that in the first few hours of running after a reboot I get no errors, then one in the next few hours, and progressively get more per hour (actually fewer hours between errors). Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
There isn't an issue; just an observation.On one of my two almost-identical rigs (HP Z400 with Xeon W3550 and GTX 750 Ti), I am running Lunatics v0.45 beta3 with SoG (MB8_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV_SoG_r3472.exe) and crunching 1 WU/GPU.What issue here? Did you check AR values for tasks in comparison? Different AR means different set of searches used so different performance and behavior. SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
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