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Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
You can end up disappearing from the stats for a day whenever you are straddling a page top or bottom like the 599 position. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34872 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
You can end up disappearing from the stats for a day whenever you are straddling a page top or bottom like the 599 position.I'm use to the disappearing act over the years Keith, but I've never seen the being in 2 such different places at once before. Cheers. |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Yes, that is a new symptom I admit I have never seen or heard of before. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
So I have one last machine the, other Dell which has the same MB and PSU as this one. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8731624 I also still have some credit left and the second hand tech store (where I got two of the 750's and the new 1060) What do people suggest as the best mid range GPU's, the 750's are amazing but what about the 950/960 ? Currently the 750's are £50, the 950 £60 and the 960 £65 |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13746 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
What do people suggest as the best mid range GPU's, the 750's are amazing but what about the 950/960 ? For stock cards- 750Ti 60W 950 90W 960 120W 1050Ti 75W The 1050Ti has the same number of CUDA cores as the 950, but less than the 960. However it is the highest clocked of all of them, but only uses a bit more power than the 750Ti I'd see how a 1050Ti compares price wise to the others. I'd probably rule out the 960 myself- it would give better performance than the 750 & 950, but it would be taking a lot more power to do so. Grant Darwin NT |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
I'd see how a 1050Ti compares price wise to the others. Currently the 1050 2GB is £75 and the 1050ti 4GB is £105. £105 is unfortunately too much and I assume the 1050 non ti will not perform as well. Thanks for the info, food for thought!! |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
I agree with Grant's assessment. The 960 would be a power hog compared to the others in your short list. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13746 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Currently the 1050 2GB is £75 and the 1050ti 4GB is £105. A choice between the 950 & the 1050 then IMHO. The 1050 isn't as good as the 1050Ti, but it will perform better than the 950, and use less power. Just a question of whether it's worth that much extra money up front. Grant Darwin NT |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
So a question of pay more up front, or in my monthly power bill!! Thanks for the info. |
Zalster Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 |
I've seen it. Usually corrects itself in a few hours |
Marco Vandebergh ( SETI orphan ) Send message Joined: 27 Aug 10 Posts: 39 Credit: 12,630,994 RAC: 9 |
Well, i went over to Xubuntu too, ( hell why not ) a dual boot Win10, because i need to play my games too :P Thanks Tom for the guide you posted it worked like a charm at once :) Never tried Xubuntu before but its a nice os, been playing around for a while with it now and i like it. But damn those apps are fast... i found the 10.1 cuda app is a bit faster than the 9.0 on my system. ( 1080Ti ) Its doing about all workunits under the minute / under 50 seconds with the -nobs parameter. Keep up the good work guys! |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34872 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
After 6 weeks of running the sauce my 2500K' RAC has settled around 81K and has moved into 63rd spot by RAC while it's now into 10,417th spot by total. And after 25 days my 3570K's RAC has passed 75K and has moved into 75th spot while already being up to 18,570th by total. My total RAC has now passed 160K placing me in 61st spot and 105th by total credit. Not to shabby at all for a collection of some old mid range hardware. Cheers. |
Tom M Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5124 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 |
After 6 weeks of running the sauce my 2500K' RAC has settled around 81K and has moved into 63rd spot by RAC while it's now into 10,417th spot by total. +1 :) A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1853 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
After 6 weeks of running the sauce my 2500K' RAC has settled around 81K and has moved into 63rd spot by RAC while it's now into 10,417th spot by total. Agreed. Amazed that my C2Q (ok, E5450 :) w/4 980s seems to have topped out ~150k. That's about 50k more than I really expected off such a weak CPU. |
Viktor Send message Joined: 27 Sep 01 Posts: 2 Credit: 43,475,391 RAC: 156 |
3x increase in credit per day. Nice! From 25k to ~80k. I am using GPU computation only because a 4U in a Texas garage does not do well in summer. My thanks to contributors, testers, and folks who post about advances. |
Marco Vandebergh ( SETI orphan ) Send message Joined: 27 Aug 10 Posts: 39 Credit: 12,630,994 RAC: 9 |
Does anybody of the linux guru's know why my Astropulse workunits get aborted every time? The MB workunits do fine. I use the all in one archive, you can lookup my machine via my name. I get this error if you look at the WU details: 201 (0x000000C9) EXIT_MISSING_COPROC The App_info is as follows: <app_info> <app> <name>setiathome_v8</name> </app> <file_info> <name>setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda101</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>setiathome_v8</app_name> <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform> <version_num>801</version_num> <plan_class>cuda101</plan_class> <cmdline>-nobs</cmdline> <coproc> <type>NVIDIA</type> <count>1</count> </coproc> <avg_ncpus>0.5</avg_ncpus> <max_ncpus>0.5</max_ncpus> <file_ref> <file_name>setiathome_x41p_V0.98b1_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_cuda101</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> <app> <name>astropulse_v7</name> </app> <file_info> <name>astropulse_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>AstroPulse_Kernels_r2751.cl</name> </file_info> <file_info> <name>ap_cmdline_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100.txt</name> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>astropulse_v7</app_name> <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform> <version_num>708</version_num> <plan_class>opencl_nvidia_100</plan_class> <coproc> <type>NVIDIA</type> <count>1</count> </coproc> <avg_ncpus>0.5</avg_ncpus> <max_ncpus>0.5</max_ncpus> <file_ref> <file_name>astropulse_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>AstroPulse_Kernels_r2751.cl</file_name> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>ap_cmdline_7.08_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_nvidia_100.txt</file_name> <open_name>ap_cmdline.txt</open_name> </file_ref> </app_version> <app> <name>setiathome_v8</name> </app> <file_info> <name>MBv8_8.22r3711_sse41_intel_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>setiathome_v8</app_name> <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform> <version_num>800</version_num> <file_ref> <file_name>MBv8_8.22r3711_sse41_intel_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> <app> <name>astropulse_v7</name> </app> <file_info> <name>ap_7.05r2728_sse3_linux64</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>astropulse_v7</app_name> <version_num>704</version_num> <platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform> <plan_class></plan_class> <file_ref> <file_name>ap_7.05r2728_sse3_linux64</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info> EDIT: Thank you Mr.Kevvy, did not have that installed, lets see what it does :) |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
You can and should do a "sanity check" each time you start BOINC to be sure all the required drivers are installed for the applications. One way of doing that is a quick invocation of clinfo in the Terminal to print out all the detected installed graphics drivers. As long as you see both CUDA and OpenCL drivers listed, you are good to go with crunching both MB and AP tasks as well as any any other projects CUDA or OpenCL applications. sudo apt install clinfo If you do that you won't be surprised by any errored work after an update or other system configuration change. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Marco Vandebergh ( SETI orphan ) Send message Joined: 27 Aug 10 Posts: 39 Credit: 12,630,994 RAC: 9 |
Thanks, learned again :D Do you guys use something like coolbits for the nv x server? How do i add that? Now i have to manually set the powermizer to max performance, weird that it does not remember the settings at a restart. Google does not show me the answers that i need, there are a few variations of coolbits and not all are explained. ( I get errors when in adaptive mode ) |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Thanks, learned again :D I use a command line entry to set the coolbits parameter for each card. It writes to the xorg.conf file. It only needs to be done once. The coolbits is a binary settings. The Coolbits value is the sum of its component bits in the binary numeral system. The component bits are: 1 (bit 0) - Enables overclocking of older (pre-Fermi) cores on the Clock Frequencies page in nvidia-settings. 2 (bit 1) - When this bit is set, the driver will "attempt to initialize SLI when using GPUs with different amounts of video memory". 4 (bit 2) - Enables manual configuration of GPU fan speed on the Thermal Monitor page in nvidia-settings. 8 (bit 3) - Enables overclocking on the PowerMizer page in nvidia-settings. Available since version 337.12 for the Fermi architecture and newer.[2] 16 (bit 4) - Enables overvoltage using nvidia-settings CLI options. Available since version 346.16 for the Fermi architecture and newer.[3] To enable multiple features, add the Coolbits values together. For example, to enable overclocking and overvoltage of Fermi cores, set Option "Coolbits" "24". This is the command line snippet I use. sudo nvidia-xconfig --thermal-configuration-check --cool-bits=28 --enable-all-gpus This explains why adaptive mode does not work. http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/430.14/README/xconfigoptions.html#Coolbits Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
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