Setting up a new machine - need more info on optimised apps

Author	Message
Helsionium Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 24 Dec 06 Posts: 156 Credit: 86,214,817 RAC: 43	Message 1962880 - Posted: 1 Nov 2018, 21:29:41 UTC Last modified: 1 Nov 2018, 21:29:54 UTC Hi there, I just retired my old PC after more than 7 years of near-continuous crunching duty. I want to use my new laptop as its replacement, but first I have a few questions since I haven't been following the project news the past two years or so. I have installed the optimised apps from the Lunatics Installer, version 0.45b6 on my laptop. I selected the OpenCL application version for the Nvidia GPU and don't intend to use the CPU or Intel GPU for crunching. I tried changing the <count> to 0.5, but that significantly slowed down crunching, so I went back to 1. Am I using the most recent optimised app and the best settings to get the most out of my GPU? ID: 1962880 ·

Keith Myers Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873	Message 1962881 - Posted: 1 Nov 2018, 21:32:20 UTC - in response to Message 1962880. Yes. For Windows. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) ID: 1962881 ·

bluestar Send message Joined: 5 Sep 12 Posts: 7015 Credit: 2,084,789 RAC: 3	Message 1962907 - Posted: 2 Nov 2018, 2:26:32 UTC - in response to Message 1962880. You are welcome. ID: 1962907 ·

Tom M Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462	Message 1962923 - Posted: 2 Nov 2018, 5:13:57 UTC - in response to Message 1962880. Hi there, I just retired my old PC after more than 7 years of near-continuous crunching duty. I want to use my new laptop as its replacement, but first I have a few questions since I haven't been following the project news the past two years or so. I have installed the optimised apps from the Lunatics Installer, version 0.45b6 on my laptop. I selected the OpenCL application version for the Nvidia GPU and don't intend to use the CPU or Intel GPU for crunching. I tried changing the <count> to 0.5, but that significantly slowed down crunching, so I went back to 1. Am I using the most recent optimised app and the best settings to get the most out of my GPU? To run more than one gpu task you usually have to get up to north of the gtx 1070 or high end amd video cards apparently do multiple gpu tasks. You can put your laptop on a "cool table" and setup the system so the gpu and/or cpu tasks for seti suspend when you are using the system. So you can have the best of both. A pretty fare amount of processing and yet not have it dedicated to seti crunching. You can have the gpu suspend processing anytime you are on the machine. You can have all boinc processing suspend when you are using non-boinc apps at above say 25% of the system. You can have it simply pause Boinc when you are using specific applications. These options are available in your "local configuration" menu on Boinc Manager as well as some of them via the website. HTH, Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). ID: 1962923 ·

Helsionium Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 24 Dec 06 Posts: 156 Credit: 86,214,817 RAC: 43	Message 1962974 - Posted: 2 Nov 2018, 16:45:25 UTC Last modified: 2 Nov 2018, 16:45:33 UTC Thank you all very much for your opinions! Seems like I'm good to go, then. ID: 1962974 ·

©2024 University of California

SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.