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Message 34766 - Posted: 22 Jan 2014 | 16:08:57 UTC

good day.

awhile ago i wanted to help more here, so i upgraded my gtx650s to 2 titians. but even the slower ans smaller packages takes 6 hours, when it says the fast card should do it in 3. what am i doin wrong as i thnk the gtx650s were doing better...

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Message 34768 - Posted: 22 Jan 2014 | 16:34:44 UTC

First, plz unhidden your computers.. ;)
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Message 34770 - Posted: 22 Jan 2014 | 18:27:26 UTC - in response to Message 34768.

ok, done did that

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Message 34772 - Posted: 22 Jan 2014 | 19:28:13 UTC - in response to Message 34766.

Are those Titans doing other BOINC project as well at the same time?
Have you a CPU core free? The GPUGRID WU's use a half to almost a whole CPU as well.
Currently you don't have finished WU's so we can not see how long they took to complete.
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Message 34789 - Posted: 23 Jan 2014 | 16:07:49 UTC

ok, ill set it to gpugrid only, as i do many other projects.
ill advise when a project completes, and thanks so mucj for your time.

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Message 34804 - Posted: 24 Jan 2014 | 14:15:02 UTC - in response to Message 34789.

ok, last night it shoulda finished a couple of grids...
now what?

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Message 34806 - Posted: 24 Jan 2014 | 20:48:19 UTC - in response to Message 34804.
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Now scroll up to the top of this page and find the link that consists of your name underlined. Click that link to get to your account page where you will click the Tasks View link in the Computing and credit section. Then you will see a list of the tasks (not grids) your computer completed successfully recently. At the moment I see 4 completed: 2 successful and 2 unsuccessful.

Click and of the task numbers in the Task column to see the "error report" for that task. The error report is the report your computer sends to the project server regarding the task. It may contain errors or it may not (no errors is good, of course). It may also contain other info that helps determine how things proceeded with that task. The 2 unsuccessful tasks reported finishing with Exit status: 80 (0x50) Unknown error number which I suspect denotes an OS crash?

In all 4 reports you'll see repeatedly...

# BOINC suspending at user request (thread suspend)
# BOINC resuming at user request (thread suspend)

...which is interesting

Having prepped the bodies (sorry if you already know how to do all that), I'll now to turn you over to Richard and Jacob or one of the more skilled mortician/pathologists for a more in depth analysis.
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Message 34808 - Posted: 24 Jan 2014 | 22:28:52 UTC - in response to Message 34806.

# BOINC suspending at user request (thread suspend)
# BOINC resuming at user request (thread suspend)

You've really got a ton of those. I suppoe you either have set BOINC to stop GPU work when the computer is in use or some other throtteling mechanism. When ever GPU work is stopped it has to continue from the last check point (can't leave it in memory like for CPUs), so everytime this happens you have to repeat some calculations on the GPU. This is probably why your runtimes are so bad.

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Message 34828 - Posted: 26 Jan 2014 | 20:04:21 UTC - in response to Message 34808.
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Definitely looks like this stems from a Boinc Configuration/Project Configuration or personal setting issue.

As MrS suggested, start by looking at your Boinc Preferences. Try the FAQ - Best configurations for GPUGRID

Use at most 100% of the CPU is recommended (If you have it set to less, that could well be the issue in this case). I think there was an issue with that setting for some Boinc versions including 7.0.64, which has subsequently been remedied. So try the latest BOINC version.
With 2 Titan GPU's I suggest you limit your CPU core use to less than 100% in Boinc (Try, 'on multiprocessor systems use at most' 83% or 75%).

Other possibilities,
As well as the 'suspend if system in use setting', you should make sure your anti-virus application isn't actively scanning the Boinc folders, defrag isn't running, and Windows Search isn't going mad.
There is also the 'Processor usage preference, While Processor Usage is Less than x %. If this is set too low, say 3%, when other apps start Boinc stops.

As a general note (not aimed at you as you seem to be GPU only there) MilkyWay@home use mt apps. When these start GPU WU's may stop as the mt app will use all the CPU threads its allocated.
On the GPU side of MW@H. When using the Titan you should have double precision on. For here is should be off.
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Message 34838 - Posted: 28 Jan 2014 | 16:24:03 UTC - in response to Message 34806.
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thanx for your time m8s,
just updated and am working on the other suggestions, will keep u posted, and thanx again!

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hey ther, so i was only able to do the update.
went to bionic and got the update, then installed over the old one.
but now it says i dont have a gpu,
now im totally flustered, and this happens to me almost every time i update this bionic. and y i once i get it running i dont update and have to bother u guys (and more) with this, as my attempts to fix usally go the wrong way and i make things worse.

please advise..
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Message 34875 - Posted: 2 Feb 2014 | 22:45:39 UTC

I have only 70% GPU load on Noelia WU on my Titan, is this normal?
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Message 34887 - Posted: 3 Feb 2014 | 19:52:01 UTC - in response to Message 34875.

I have only 70% GPU load on Noelia WU on my Titan, is this normal?

Yes, it's normal for that type of Work Unit.
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Message 34970 - Posted: 10 Feb 2014 | 22:12:29 UTC - in response to Message 34838.

hey ther, so i was only able to do the update.
went to bionic and got the update, then installed over the old one.
but now it says i dont have a gpu,
now im totally flustered, and this happens to me almost every time i update this bionic. and y i once i get it running i dont update and have to bother u guys (and more) with this, as my attempts to fix usally go the wrong way and i make things worse.

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Message 34981 - Posted: 11 Feb 2014 | 16:45:22 UTC - in response to Message 34970.

Try to reinstall the latest WHQL NVidia drivers.
Suggest you do an advanced/clean install, and only select the top and bottom options (none of the auto-update, 3d and sound driver nonsense that you probably don't need).
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