Posts by S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc

81) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1276607)
Posted 28 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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EDIT: I can't get 41z to work. I'm sure I'm just doing something dumb, but I'm too tired to see it.

In 1.1 look in config.xml.
There is a data entry for the 41z commented out.

So add the extra <data> </data>.
This allows testing for both. You can select them in the dropbox.
82) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1276557)
Posted 28 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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A new version 1.1, to solve some bug and to add all the requests.

http://www.efmer.eu/forum_tt/index.php?topic=974.msg5946#msg5946
83) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1276314)
Posted 27 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Thanks Fred! Runs great with _g. Won't run with _z. Program failed to start on slot: 0

V 1.2 will be out very soon, tested with z.
84) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1276313)
Posted 27 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Weird thing... my gtx680 seems to be slower than others, even OC'ed... And nothing else running on the host other than MSI afterburner and Process Laso to set the apps at normal priority...

Yep seems to be on the low side.
NVIDIA 3d setting->power management->max performance.

What I've seen so far is that the 6xx series is slower than the 4xx and 5xx series.
Probably something to do with optimizing.
85) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1276223)
Posted 27 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Another suggestion is to anchor the controls so they get resized/relocated when the users resizes the main window... Its just cosmetics anyway... (And I know that while this it's easy on .NET, it may be a lot of work if you are using the native SDK and C++)

I see, the resize is still on.
Will move the buttons to the top, that makes the text resizable.

You could move the buttons around as well, but very easy for something to mess things up.

And on 125% and 150% this cause other problems.
86) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1276222)
Posted 27 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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I´m not shure but i think i see in some forum some special build for the 295 with x41z, maybe you could ask Jason about that.

About the table, ok i could see lower is better, but what those number realy means? Just curiosity.


There is, a cuda 3.2 version, but it errors out -9 overflow on one of them.
87) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1276220)
Posted 27 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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The list so far, I hope there is no typo.

As you can see the 590 still leads.
But with Jason working on the 6xx, this will change soon.

x41g

460 158 Sec / Wu Oc
560 150 Sec / Wu
295 130 Sec / Wu
670 129 Sec / Wu
680 107 Sec / Wu
480 100 Sec / Wu
690 58 Sec / Wu
590 53 Sec / Wu

x41z

295 Not running stable
480 89 Sec / Wu
680 75 Sec / Wu cuda 5
590 53 Sec / Wu
690 44 Sec / Wu
88) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275843)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Under some conditions, the program may generate a virus scanner warning.
I did sign the programs, if I didn't sign it, the program was shut down by my scanner almost at once.
89) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275840)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Hi this is what you need?

Yep, just go the 41z running on a 590 as wel, I see a 4% increase.

Your last reading is highly suspicious, I expect the card to error out.

In 1.1 almost ready, I added an error check on the result.

You could check the count 3 and if you see the same difference investigate the stderr.txt to see if there is an overflow error.
90) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275742)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Any clue?

Set devices to 2 and try again.
It's one board but with 2 devices.

For comparison I like to see the automatic test log.
I have a 590 on a Win 7 system.
91) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275716)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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So I'm going to try 4 wu's each on my GPU's (no HT, 2 core's)

0.5 should be the best.


Hi

I´m a x41z user, your build works ok in some hosts but when i try to use in this host: 6690764 (with just one 590 EVGA) its give me 100 sec in all measures (1, 2 or 3 WU), and shows just 1 device (the 2 GPUs on the 590 works OK with Boinc processing 2x2WU at a time XP32 and no OC). Do you know anythink that could cause this?

You can take a look in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\eFMer\SetiPerformance

The applications are in slotx, but are removed after you press cancel.
In the slot, check the application log for an error
92) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275682)
Posted 26 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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So ... what am I not doing correctly? (Yes, I stopped BOINC Manager before executing the performance utility).

V 1.1 will have a lot more diagnostics.

The files are copied
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\eFMer\SetiPerformance\slotx

In that location the exe is started. Is it there? (You have to press start first to copy the files.)
93) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275494)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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So I'm going to try 4 wu's each on my GPU's (no HT, 2 core's)

0.5 should be the best.
94) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275437)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Or more than 1 app or multiple versions of the dll files.

I could add a dropdown box to select different tests to copy.

Adding e.g. 3 entries into the config.xml

Like
x40g
x41
x42

And maps data, data1, data2 .....
95) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275434)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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1) Why is 130 seconds better than 129? :=)

2) Using the automatic option and a count of .25, it did not test for 4 at a time. I ran that test separately and got:

Device: 0, device count: 4, average time / count: 485, average time on device: 121 Seconds (2 Minutes, 1 Seconds)

So I guess I'll stay with 4 at a time.

1) Because the extra instance causes more overhead, I subtract 1 second. Not worth the extra CPU.

2) The auto option doesn't use count, only the devices.
The value is used when you press the button below it.
96) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275433)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Any chance of adding 5 & 6 ?

You can do that manually. (manual button)
On auto mode the program tens to hang after 4 for sure. Probably out of memory, but doesn't exit.

I could add a max in the config.xml.
97) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275430)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Hi Fred,

Cool tool :) can you make it cope with either command line parameters for the exe, or not die if a mbcuda.cfg (x41z) configuration file is present ? (it dies when trying to copy into the slot for some reason, but it does put the file there). It would be handy for finding good settings, for which x41z has a few that the best setting could depend on the count.

Jason

Easy, the parameter is now --device x to set the right device.
I can make a field where you can put additional.

Like -- devices x additional

PS can you give me the x41z for testing?
98) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275380)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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Nice little app! Automatic test's result was: count 0.5 fastest.

GTX 690, Devices 2, Count 0.50


With the 41g the 690 is actually a bit slower than the 590.
The 41z is quite a bit better.
99) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimize your GPU. Find the value the easy way. (Message 1275375)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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EVGA GTX 560:
Running one at a time the GPU load was in the low 60s, two at a time was low 90s, three at a time was high 90s. Four at a time was low 50s with screen lag. Is this normal (the low 51-54 GPU%)? I ended up cancelling the four at a time test because it was still running after 35 minutes.

The program stops at 4 programs / device.
But cuda tasks may run into problems and get stuck. Probably a memory problem in the card.
But in your case the CPU may not be able to keep up.

The cancel button, kills the running cuda tasks and clears up the disk.

4 is too much for some cards and the overhead of the CPU increases, but that depends on the CPU.

As you can see the gain from 2 -> 3 is already low.
100) Message boards : Number crunching : Graphics problem. (Message 1275355)
Posted 25 Aug 2012 by Profile S@NL - eFMer - efmer.com/boinc
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I had to stop using my graphics card. I don't know if anything here changed, but my display started acting up. My best description of the problem is that my video streaming stops and starts, like it's buffering and the same thing happens with my tv tuner running. I shut off using my graphics card and my display acts normally.
Any suggestions?

In that case you best set BOINC to not use the GPU when you are using the computer.
You can also suspend it when a specific program starts.
That way you can crunch with the GPU and still use your computer.


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