You can end up disappearing from the stats for a day whenever you are straddling a page top or bottom like the 599 position.

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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.

Yes, that is a new symptom I admit I have never seen or heard of before.

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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

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.

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Grant
Darwin NT

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!!

I agree with Grant's assessment. The 960 would be a power hog compared to the others in your short list.

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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.

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.

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Grant
Darwin NT

So a question of pay more up front, or in my monthly power bill!!

Thanks for the info.

I've seen it. Usually corrects itself in a few hours

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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!

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

+1

:)

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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.

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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.

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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.

+1

:)

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.

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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.

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 :)

AP work units require OpenCL... try installing it via:

sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1 

or just find "ocl-icd-libopencl1" in the package manager ie "Software" or "Synaptic Package Manager".

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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.

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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 )

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 )

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

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