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Message 1662 - Posted: 23 Aug 2008 | 22:00:29 UTC
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So far so good. Been running about an hour now.

Added to 1 host, Windows XP, NVIDIA 169.21 cuda 1.1 drivers.

Reports 1 GPU correctly and resumed work.
8/23/2008 4:43:45 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
8/23/2008 4:43:46 PM||CUDA devices found
8/23/2008 4:43:46 PM||Coprocessor: GeForce 8800 GT (1)
8/23/2008 4:43:46 PM||Version change (6.3.9 -> 6.3.10)
8/23/2008 4:44:18 PM|PS3GRID|Restarting task Pm28726-GPUTEST2-1-10-acemd_3 using acemd version 630


The bug for communication with BOINCview is fixed changeset 15920. 6.3.10 clients now remain shown as active. Tested with two versions of BV 1.5.b8 and 1.2.6.

I will test on other hosts on Monday.
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Message 1663 - Posted: 23 Aug 2008 | 22:06:21 UTC

23/08/2008 23:49:52||Starting BOINC client version 6.3.10 for windows_x86_64
23/08/2008 23:49:52||Coprocessor: GeForce 9600 GT (1)
23/08/2008 23:49:52||Version change (6.2.18 -> 6.3.10)

Run fine here too on a vista64, I'm wainting for the new application based on CUDA2.0 to restart the gpu computing; I'm impatient

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Message 1665 - Posted: 23 Aug 2008 | 22:53:03 UTC - in response to Message 1663.
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It run fine on XP x64 for me, detects the cards ok.
CUDA devices found
Coprocessor: GeForce 8800 GT (2)

It's now busy crunching away on Both 8800GT's :)
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Message 1706 - Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | 13:28:10 UTC - in response to Message 1662.
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The bug for communication with BOINCview is fixed changeset 15920. 6.3.10 clients now remain shown as active. Tested with two versions of BV 1.5.b8 and 1.2.6.

I will test on other hosts on Monday.


But when you try to update the client, there is an error.
No communication possible for those client!
So there is still a bug.

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Message 1733 - Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | 19:52:46 UTC

Seems to be running fine with Win XP 32 & 9800GTX+

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Message 1743 - Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | 22:07:32 UTC

Looks like I found a minor bug:

When I want to switch between "host total", "host average" etc in the statistics tab, the 6.3.10 BOINC does not refresh the actual content of the window until I minimize/maximize or switch to a different tab and back. Suspending GPU-Grid doesn't solve the problem.

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Message 1745 - Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | 23:20:32 UTC - in response to Message 1743.

Looks like I found a minor bug:

When I want to switch between "host total", "host average" etc in the statistics tab, the 6.3.10 BOINC does not refresh the actual content of the window until I minimize/maximize or switch to a different tab and back. Suspending GPU-Grid doesn't solve the problem.

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Yeah I get that problem too, also when attatching to a new project, it does not show up the new project in the Projects tab.
And also when connecting to my other computers, via boinc manager it always brings up the attach to project thing.
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Message 2063 - Posted: 3 Sep 2008 | 13:52:58 UTC
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Same problem here in the 32bit XP and 64bit Vista version. Also the 6.3.10 is a memory pig. After a runtime of one day or a little bit more the BOINC manager needs up to 1 GB RAM while running multiple projects. A restart helps, but this is not the fine method, I prefer systems running without baby sitting.
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Message 2077 - Posted: 4 Sep 2008 | 0:29:00 UTC - in response to Message 2063.

Same problem here in the 32bit XP and 64bit Vista version. Also the 6.3.10 is a memory pig. After a runtime of one day or a little bit more the BOINC manager needs up to 1 GB RAM while running multiple projects. A restart helps, but this is not the fine method, I prefer systems running without baby sitting.


I have not noticed Boinc Manager using a lot of memory.
I am running XP x64 both computers have been running for nearly 3 days and boincmgr.exe is using about 3MB on each one.
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Message 2078 - Posted: 4 Sep 2008 | 7:11:36 UTC

Just checked again my both Vista 64 bit machines. On the Phenom 9950 BE with the GTX280 the BOINCMGR.EXE use 1,460,524 K, after the restart 5,308 K. On my Phenom 9850 BE with the 8800GT they use 856,912 K, after the restart 4,740 K. On my XP 64 bit machine BOINCMGR.EXE only use 26,408 K.

Looks here like the big problem only exist on Vista 64 bit machines.


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Message 2086 - Posted: 4 Sep 2008 | 17:17:24 UTC - in response to Message 2078.

Just checked again my both Vista 64 bit machines. On the Phenom 9950 BE with the GTX280 the BOINCMGR.EXE use 1,460,524 K, after the restart 5,308 K. On my Phenom 9850 BE with the 8800GT they use 856,912 K, after the restart 4,740 K. On my XP 64 bit machine BOINCMGR.EXE only use 26,408 K.

Looks here like the big problem only exist on Vista 64 bit machines.



How long does it usually take before it shows such a high memory usage?
I installed Vista x64 +SP1 +updates last night, it's been running for just over 13 hours and boincmgr.exe shows 5,572K, this is on an Intel Q6600 with a 8800GT.
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Message 2089 - Posted: 4 Sep 2008 | 18:41:19 UTC - in response to Message 2086.
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How long does it usually take before it shows such a high memory usage?
I installed Vista x64 +SP1 +updates last night, it's been running for just over 13 hours and boincmgr.exe shows 5,572K, this is on an Intel Q6600 with a 8800GT.


I've checked it again and have watched it on the taskmanager. When the boincmanager is open, they grow in memory constantly. When I close the manager, the memory consumption stagnate. When I reopen the boincmanager with double click, the consumption start again constantly. While I had the boincmanager always open, they grow over night up to 1,5 GB in memory.
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Message 2091 - Posted: 4 Sep 2008 | 19:21:39 UTC

That should be helpful information for the Devs, thanks!

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Message 2094 - Posted: 5 Sep 2008 | 6:20:02 UTC

my memory usage for boincmgr.exe has only grown 1 MB in the past 2 days, from 117mb to 118mb. And no, I have not closed it or restarted BOINC or the comp.

Server 2008 x64 with BOINC 6.3.10 x64

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Message 2095 - Posted: 5 Sep 2008 | 6:56:52 UTC

Well, on XP32 it's 4.4 MB, according to task manager.

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Message 2183 - Posted: 7 Sep 2008 | 22:43:51 UTC - in response to Message 1706.

The bug for communication with BOINCview is fixed changeset 15920. 6.3.10 clients now remain shown as active. Tested with two versions of BV 1.5.b8 and 1.2.6.

But when you try to update the client, there is an error.
No communication possible for those client!
So there is still a bug.

Yes, (as Keith already reported elsewhere) it was finally fixed in changeset 15942. I've successfully tested the both patches on 6.3.8 and BOINCview was extremely happy with such client ;-) (although not me, knowing how inefficiently BoincView communicates, but that's another story).

To be expected in BOINC 6.3.11, just Rom Walton is on holiday AFAIK, thus no ETA.

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Message 2239 - Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | 22:37:47 UTC

I'm running two GTX 280's on BOINC 6.3.10 and it says it is only finding one. Anyone have some suggestions to test if the computer is recognizing both cards? I'm pretty new to all this, so, any input is greatly appreciated.

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Message 2240 - Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | 22:53:27 UTC

Hello,

To run multiple cards with BOINC, you need to disable SLI, otherwise only one card will be recognized.

To check your cards you can use GPUZ.

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Message 2241 - Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | 23:48:02 UTC - in response to Message 2240.

Hello,

To run multiple cards with BOINC, you need to disable SLI, otherwise only one card will be recognized.

To check your cards you can use GPUZ.



When I run that GPU-Z it says that the SLI is disabled. It does not give me the option to enable it either...?

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Message 2242 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 0:06:36 UTC - in response to Message 2241.

Hello,

To run multiple cards with BOINC, you need to disable SLI, otherwise only one card will be recognized.

To check your cards you can use GPUZ.



When I run that GPU-Z it says that the SLI is disabled. It does not give me the option to enable it either...?



!UPDATE! Even when I disconnected that SLI bridge, it still said there was only one...what else can I try?

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Message 2243 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 0:17:28 UTC

Sorry, I can't help much further, as I neither have SLI nor Windows...

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Message 2251 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 4:50:00 UTC
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I think I read somewhere that if you are running Vista, you need a monitor hooked to both cards for vista to detect both. Not sure on this though.

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Message 2259 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 12:35:01 UTC - in response to Message 2239.

I'm running two GTX 280's on BOINC 6.3.10 and it says it is only finding one. Anyone have some suggestions to test if the computer is recognizing both cards?

Might the changeset 15915 apply to this problem? Did previous BOINC versions say that you do have two cards? (You can read more about in the [boinc_alpha] BOINC 6.3.10 XP x64 archive thread).

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Message 2265 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 16:41:25 UTC
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I just installed it on my XP64 system. The Projects tab is blank. And that's a problem, because I cannot go to the projects tab, to allow other projects to resume getting work.

Edit: After finally downloading a PS3GRID task and starting to crunch, all the projects on the project tab re-appeared. Go figure.
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Message 2268 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 17:54:10 UTC - in response to Message 2265.

Edit: After finally downloading a PS3GRID task and starting to crunch, all the projects on the project tab re-appeared. Go figure.


Sounds like the refreshing issue discussed earlier.

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Message 2269 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 17:59:48 UTC - in response to Message 2268.

Edit: After finally downloading a PS3GRID task and starting to crunch, all the projects on the project tab re-appeared. Go figure.


Sounds like the refreshing issue discussed earlier.

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Maybe, but I don't think so. I tried switching tabs, quitting/restarting. No joy until it started a task.
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Message 2270 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 18:05:32 UTC

finally got it to work on my xp64, grand :)

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Message 2271 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 18:15:45 UTC - in response to Message 2270.

finally got it to work on my xp64, grand :)

Well done !!

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Message 2276 - Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | 19:07:19 UTC - in response to Message 2269.

Maybe, but I don't think so. I tried switching tabs, quitting/restarting. No joy until it started a task.


Oh, then I take everything back and claim the opposite.

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Message 2343 - Posted: 14 Sep 2008 | 23:02:09 UTC - in response to Message 2251.

I think I read somewhere that if you are running Vista, you need a monitor hooked to both cards for vista to detect both. Not sure on this though.

I saw this in the cuda forum.

- To use multiple GPUs, under Vista each additional GPU must have a desktop extended onto it. This means for now Tesla is not available under Vista, only GeForce and Quadro cards. XP will still work fine on Tesla C870 and D870.

I do not have VISTA, but someone with may be able to figure this out and get 2 GPUs working.

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Message 2543 - Posted: 23 Sep 2008 | 9:27:59 UTC - in response to Message 2183.

The bug for communication with BOINCview is fixed changeset 15920. 6.3.10 clients now remain shown as active. Tested with two versions of BV 1.5.b8 and 1.2.6.

But when you try to update the client, there is an error.
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So there is still a bug.

Yes, (as Keith already reported elsewhere) it was finally fixed in changeset 15942. I've successfully tested the both patches on 6.3.8 and BOINCview was extremely happy with such client ;-).

To be expected in BOINC 6.3.11.

6.3.11 is out, someone to try? (I'll need at least few more hours until I can check it and report.)

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