Posts by SongBird

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7-7700. Any point in installing Lunatics? (Message 1879501)
Posted 21 Jul 2017 by Profile SongBird
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Thanks!
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7-7700. Any point in installing Lunatics? (Message 1879433)
Posted 21 Jul 2017 by Profile SongBird
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I have a new Intel I7-7700 CPU. Is there any point in installing Lunatics optimized apps? Thanks!
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Bought an RX 550, what app to install? (Message 1866600)
Posted 10 May 2017 by Profile SongBird
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Thanks!
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Bought an RX 550, what app to install? (Message 1866574)
Posted 10 May 2017 by Profile SongBird
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I just bought a RX 550. Using the latest lunatics installer. What app should I choose? For GPU only that is.

Thanks!

[edit] Here are the available options:
5) Message boards : Number crunching : How much RAC from a RX480? (Message 1852128)
Posted 1 Mar 2017 by Profile SongBird
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I'm looking for a pure GPU number, surely 20-25k includes the CPU, right? If not that would be an amazing RAC :)

Thanks!
6) Message boards : Number crunching : How much RAC from a RX480? (Message 1852125)
Posted 1 Mar 2017 by Profile SongBird
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I'm thinking of buying a RX480 GPU for the sole purpose of raising my RAC. Do you know what RAC can be expected from such a card? Bonus question, would 8GB of VRAM make difference as opposed to the 4GB versions?

Thanks!
7) Message boards : Number crunching : RX480 GPU vs GTX 1060 (Message 1824209)
Posted 14 Oct 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Is AMD better for crunching SETI? Obviously it is all in the details, hence the similarly priced latest generation GPUs in the thread's title, but I seem to recall seeing something on the subject of AMD being better in general. Something about its architecture being better suited for the SETI tasks...

Any thoughts?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again) (Message 1815691)
Posted 8 Sep 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Hi Songbird,

. . May I ask what you are running?? Stock? Lunatics? And CUDA or S0G? There are tweaks to release the CPU from the monopolistic grip of SoG if you want to.

. . For the GTX970 if you are running SoG, in the command line file in your BOINC data directory "Projects/Seti@Home" called "mb_cmdline_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV.txt" (there may be _S0G after the NV if you are running r3500) [you can edit it with a text editor like Notepad] add "-high_prec_timer -use_sleep" you will then find your CPUs are no longer wholly monopolised.

Stephen

I'm running lunatics 0.45 beta for SoG.(MB8_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV_SoG_r3500.exe). I did the command line thing. CPU dropped significantly. It's better but still nothing like the CUDA apps from before.

Thanks!
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again) (Message 1815514)
Posted 7 Sep 2016 by Profile SongBird
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I have a question. Is there an ETA on when this silliness with the 100% CPU usage (when crunching on GPU) is going to end? I have a GTX 970 specially bought to crunch, instead of the CPU and now my brain hurts every time I see the full CPU core when crunching on GPU.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again) (Message 1814277)
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Hi,

May I ask what does "Signal on GPU" mean? We've been testing signals on GPUs for years, haven't we? What changed?

Regards,
Georgi
11) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1810318)
Posted 19 Aug 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Just passed 100M total credit. Yay!
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again) (Message 1791997)
Posted 30 May 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Can I ask here what SoG is?
13) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Have the Chinese been approached about FAST? (Message 1766260)
Posted 19 Feb 2016 by Profile SongBird
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China Telescope to Displace 9,000 Villagers in Hunt for Extraterrestrials
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/world/asia/china-fast-telescope-guizhou-relocation.html


It's in the New York Times. I'm putting the answer to my question as a definite maybe!
14) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX (Message 1763615)
Posted 9 Feb 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Just passed 90M credits :)
15) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1756372)
Posted 14 Jan 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Couldn't post it to the beta forums so let me use this one.

I just started crunching with the cuda50 app on beta, do i need to do anything else regarding the testing (taking notes, reporting stuff) or you get your info from some BOINC logging facilities? If I want to be useful that is...
16) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1756199)
Posted 14 Jan 2016 by Profile SongBird
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And here is Richards release post for CUDA on Beta:
https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/forum_thread.php?id=2266&postid=55789#55789

Notice that he says:

"First availability of Windows SETI MB v8 CUDA applications for NVidia cards.

These are for use on the BETA SITE ONLY".
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But then of course, should one want to do it anyhow, hiding ones computers would be the first step....
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=198885

Hmm, Science of RAC, Science or RAC....:-)
Nuff said about that....

I hadn't seen that. I don't really have a problem not using the cuda app on main - I just was not aware of the constraints...

I tried using the OpenCL app for NV but it was just not working for me. I'll just wait for it to go to main.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1756084)
Posted 13 Jan 2016 by Profile SongBird
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It is highly recommended that Beta apps stay on beta.

I think RIchard posted something about consequences if you are caught.

So best to leave testing apps on the testing site.

I think it was about V7 app being used for V8 workunits. I've already used beta apps openly (the OpenCL one) and nobody said I should not.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1756080)
Posted 13 Jan 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Could I use the Cuda App from beta on main? If so, can someone link me to it?
19) Message boards : Number crunching : New app? (Message 1754940)
Posted 8 Jan 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Tried 3314 again OpenCL NV on a GTX970. Not workable for me. Waiting for cuda :)
20) Message boards : Number crunching : No more GPU Units? (Message 1754342)
Posted 6 Jan 2016 by Profile SongBird
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Yeah, I'm at least 50k RAC down since V8 was introduced. About 17k because of a GPU only cruncher and a bunch other machines that have lunatics installed on them.


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