Posts by SongBird
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Number crunching :
NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units
(Message 2015335)
Posted 13 Oct 2019 by  SongBird
Post: I rolled the drivers back. Crunched a couple of tasks already. Will keep in touch if it happens again. Regarding the GPU idling I'm still curious if this is the case. Apropos of nothing, I'm old enough to remember when crunching on GPU did not take up a full CPU core... Just looked at this shit and got mad again: Run time 19 min 17 sec |
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Number crunching :
NVidia 436.xx and later drivers can cause very long compute times especially on Arecibo VHAR work units
(Message 2015327)
Posted 13 Oct 2019 by SongBird
Post: I believe I may have the same problem. What is not discussed in this thread, though is the part where it is not that the workunits take too long to finish but rather, that the GPU is not working at all. Can someone verify that indeed the GPU is idling on these units? |
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Number crunching :
SoG custom application stuck on 1660Ti
(Message 2015310)
Posted 13 Oct 2019 by SongBird
Post: Will do. Thank you all! |
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Number crunching :
SoG custom application stuck on 1660Ti
(Message 2015306)
Posted 13 Oct 2019 by SongBird
Post: This is the computer in question. I should reiterate that I successfully calculated multiple work units with both r3557 (e.g. this task) and r3584 (e.g. this task) SoG apps. It is just that they got stuck after a relatively short while. [edit]rob smith, I just got into the thread you linked to and this very much feels like what I'm experiencing. I'll try to roll back my drivers and see what happens. Thanks! |
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Number crunching :
SoG custom application stuck on 1660Ti
(Message 2015293)
Posted 13 Oct 2019 by SongBird
Post: Yesterday I installed a new Nvidia 1660TI GPU. I installed MB8_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_NV_SoG_r3557 app using the  Lunatics Win64 v0.45 beta6 installer. It all went well and the gpu started crunching. Cut to a couple of hour later when opened GPU-Z to look at the temperatures when I noticed that the CPU clock is down and GPU utilization is down to 0%. When I opened BOINC it looked like it was working ok, but the estimated time left on the current units was in the days - 4 or five, or something. I killed everything and switched to r3584 app from Mikes world. Not sure if workunits were flushed. Cut to a couple of hours later and the GPU was again at 0% and the units were estimated at 95 days. Switched to CUDA50 and have been crunching for more than 20h without issues. Drivers are latest Game ready drivers from Nvidia. Is this behavior familiar to anyone? Is there a point in trying to diagnose this? I would not even know where to start. |
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Optimized applications question
(Message 2013984)
Posted 2 Oct 2019 by SongBird
Post: Linux is out of the question as the machine has other duties as well. There is something I don't understand though. When you say "SoG app will be your best with your RX550 " what do you mean? When I start the Lunatics installer I do not see any SoG app for ATI cards. Here is what I see when I start the installer:  Do I need to install it in some other way? |
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Number crunching :
Optimized applications question
(Message 2013952)
Posted 2 Oct 2019 by SongBird
Post: Hi, I have an AMD Radeon RX 550 and Nvidia GTX 1660 TI video cards I want to put to use for SETI. I'll be installing SETI optimized apps using the Lunatics 0.45 installer. Which app should I select/is most suitable/ for each card for maximum performance? Bonus question: how much tasks per GPU would you think will be most efficient (I'm leaning towards 2)? Thanks! Regards, Georgi |
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Number crunching :
Intel I7-7700. Any point in installing Lunatics?
(Message 1879501)
Posted 21 Jul 2017 by SongBird
Post: Thanks! |
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Number crunching :
Intel I7-7700. Any point in installing Lunatics?
(Message 1879433)
Posted 21 Jul 2017 by SongBird
Post: I have a new Intel I7-7700 CPU. Is there any point in installing Lunatics optimized apps? Thanks! |
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Number crunching :
Bought an RX 550, what app to install?
(Message 1866600)
Posted 10 May 2017 by SongBird
Post: Thanks! |
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Number crunching :
Bought an RX 550, what app to install?
(Message 1866574)
Posted 10 May 2017 by SongBird
Post: 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: 
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Number crunching :
How much RAC from a RX480?
(Message 1852128)
Posted 1 Mar 2017 by SongBird
Post: I'm looking for a pure GPU number, surely 20-25k includes the CPU, right? If not that would be an amazing RAC :) Thanks! |
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Number crunching :
How much RAC from a RX480?
(Message 1852125)
Posted 1 Mar 2017 by SongBird
Post: 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! |
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Number crunching :
RX480 GPU vs GTX 1060
(Message 1824209)
Posted 14 Oct 2016 by SongBird
Post: 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? |
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Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again)
(Message 1815691)
Posted 8 Sep 2016 by SongBird
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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! |
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Number crunching :
Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again)
(Message 1815514)
Posted 7 Sep 2016 by SongBird
Post: 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. |
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Number crunching :
Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again)
(Message 1814277)
Posted 1 Sep 2016 by SongBird
Post: 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 |
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SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXIX
(Message 1810318)
Posted 19 Aug 2016 by SongBird
Post: Just passed 100M total credit. Yay! |
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Number crunching :
Open Beta test: SoG for NVidia, Lunatics v0.45 - Beta6 (RC again)
(Message 1791997)
Posted 30 May 2016 by SongBird
Post: Can I ask here what SoG is? |
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SETI@home Science :
Have the Chinese been approached about FAST?
(Message 1766260)
Posted 19 Feb 2016 by SongBird
Post: 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! |
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