Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Boinc 6.3.11 Windows released
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[boinc.at] Nowi Send message Joined: 4 Sep 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 3,685,033 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications     | |
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Not working on Quadcore. Still 4 simultaneous WUs (3x Spinhenge, 1x Ps3grid). | |
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 Venturini Dario[VENETO]Send message Joined: 26 Jul 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 4,832,360 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications  | |
Not working on Quadcore. Still 4 simultaneous WUs (3x Spinhenge, 1x Ps3grid). As far as I'm concerned, I didn't experience ANY slowdown. Check my WUs, the last 4-5 ones were done with the NCPU+1 option enabled | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications  | |
Not working on Quadcore. Still 4 simultaneous WUs (3x Spinhenge, 1x Ps3grid). You had a 10% slowdown from 71ms to 77ms. Considering the different performance of the GPU vs CPU, it is more rewarding to have 1 CPU unused (used to control the CPU) and top GPU speed. As I said we will soon make use of the CPU for a part of the calculation which is suitable for the CPU. In the meanwhile you are free to use ncpus to override it if you think that it is more convenient. I don't think that it is. GDF | |
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[boinc.at] Nowi Send message Joined: 4 Sep 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 3,685,033 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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6.3.11 is no working for four hours without any change on the cc_config.xml. | |
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localizer Send message Joined: 17 Apr 08 Posts: 113 Credit: 1,656,514,857 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications  | |
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.... Just joined the GPU effort with one host - I can only get 4 tasks in total running on my Quad. | |
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Venturini Dario[VENETO] Send message Joined: 26 Jul 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 4,832,360 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
A) That slowdown happened BEFORE I switched the option on. My times are: Without NCPUS+1 = 71.040; 70.454; 70.112; 73.247; 75.679; 79.532; 76.774; 91.687 (strange one, but I switched to NCPUS+1 DURING this WU) With NCPUS+1 = 80.055; 77.799; 77.203; 78.304; As you can see, the last ones WITHOUT NCPUS+1 are 75-79-76. The ones WITH NCPUS+1 are 80-77-77-78. I wouldn't say a 10% decrease, more likely a 3%. B) Was it 10% or 3%, it still pales down before the full load of a core which would otherwise be unused. When the Linux one will be available, I'll try the 6.3.11 version of BOINC and see if there is any change. And when GPUGRID will be able to use my CPU as well, I will decide if I want to give its power to the project. Until then, my CPU is better used for others. | |
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Krunchin-Keith [USA] Send message Joined: 17 May 07 Posts: 512 Credit: 111,288,061 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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I see no immediate change with 6.3.11. It is NOT running 2 CPU tasks + 1 GPU task, only 1 CPU task and 1 GPU task, same as6.3.10. Same on both identical hosts. | |
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DoctorNow   Send message Joined: 18 Aug 07 Posts: 83 Credit: 122,995,082 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
Hello, Are you sure about that, Nowi? I wonder if this is with or without ncpus+1. All here (including me) see no effect with the 6.3.11, it still is the same like with 6.3.10 and doesn't work without the ncpus-variable. I wonder what the developers changed on that version now... ____________ Member of BOINC@Heidelberg and ATA!  | |
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[XTBA>XTC] ZeuZ Send message Joined: 15 Jul 08 Posts: 60 Credit: 108,384 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications  | |
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My result on 6.3.10 | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
My result on 6.3.10 This is expected. The 6.3.11 improves GPU performance when running 5 tasks on a 4 cores. It is up to the server (so us) to request or not the extra CPU. So far, we are requesting it until we see that there is no difference in GPU performance, a slower GPU could cause to reduce instead to increase the number of credit/day of your machine even summing up the extra credits coming from the CPU core. gdf | |
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[boinc.at] Nowi Send message Joined: 4 Sep 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 3,685,033 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
Hello, My ncpus value is 0 in the configfile. Now I´m crunching five tasks on a dual-core. When I installed and started 6.3.11 only three tasks were active as shown above. After about 30 minutes the two additional parts followed resulting in processing five tasks. I tried a boinc-restart but the processing of five tasks still remains. To make it sure: I never dealed with the ncpus-option in the configfile. At time I have no completion time for my GPUGrid-WU, but it seems that it works slower with five tasks active because the GPU-Coretemp decreased. | |
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STE\/E Send message Joined: 18 Sep 08 Posts: 368 Credit: 4,173,502,885 RAC: 27,150,888 Level  Scientific publications | |
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BOINC View works like it's supposed to now with the GPU Clients, so that was a Fix ... :) | |
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I tested some other things regarding the ncpus question | |
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STE\/E Send message Joined: 18 Sep 08 Posts: 368 Credit: 4,173,502,885 RAC: 27,150,888 Level Scientific publications | |
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I'm going back to 6.3.10, I have as many as 20 Wu's running @ once with the 6.3.11, unless your actually runing a ps3grid wu the v6.3.11 client wants to run every wu in your cache from the other projects. | |
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[boinc.at] Nowi Send message Joined: 4 Sep 08 Posts: 44 Credit: 3,685,033 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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I also switched back to 6.3.10. Maybe a further release will work in a way I can understand.... ;-) | |
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I'm going back to 6.3.10, I have as many as 20 Wu's running @ once with the 6.3.11, unless your actually runing a ps3grid wu the v6.3.11 client wants to run every wu in your cache from the other projects. Yes, I have the same. 6.3.11 is usefull only if you have run PS3GRID. I think they didn't any testing with the new versiom. It is a big bug. | |
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DoctorNow Send message Joined: 18 Aug 07 Posts: 83 Credit: 122,995,082 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
My result on 6.3.10 That is a bit strange. I have the same card processor and with the 6.3.10 I did run several WUs in about 22 hours with the ncpus+1. But now with the 6.3.11 I detected a time of 26h for the first WU... I'm going back to the 6.3.10, too, I have the feeling, that the client slows down the processing. ____________ Member of BOINC@Heidelberg and ATA! | |
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[SETI.USA]Tank_Master Send message Joined: 8 Jul 07 Posts: 85 Credit: 67,463,387 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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so far I like the new version. At least on server 2008 x64with the 64bit version of BOINC. Memory usage for boincmgr.exe is 6mb, down from 150-250 v10 took. Starting up is far quicker, and the lag when moving windows around is reduced on my 800gts512. I dont know yet about the speed, I will run a few WUs before deciding. I do now have ncpus at 5, and don't see any problems yet. I also don't see some of the screen anomalies I had, like it incorrectly organizing things. I see it still flickers on occasion as it updates itself, but the old one did that to. I have gpugrid set to a priority of 10,000, so it is not likely to not run this project. | |
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Rabinovitch  Send message Joined: 25 Aug 08 Posts: 143 Credit: 64,937,578 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Is it crazy? | |
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[SETI.USA]Tank_Master Send message Joined: 8 Jul 07 Posts: 85 Credit: 67,463,387 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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still not seeing any issues here... | |
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The Gas Giant Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 54 Credit: 607,157 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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No issues here either. Mind you, every time I put ncpus to 5, once I start running boinc it goes back to 4.....I know I'm a newbie here, but I'm scratching me head on that one (yes, yes I stop boinc manager and stop the service before I edit client_state.xml). | |
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[SETI.USA]Tank_Master Send message Joined: 8 Jul 07 Posts: 85 Credit: 67,463,387 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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ok, now that it has been running for a while, I see that progress indicator on the gpu grid hasn't changed, while other projects are. so I set the ncps to 4, and then restarted BOINC. Thats when it decided to run 20 work units at once!. Stopped BOINC and then reset the npus back to 5, and it no longer ran 20, but instead just 5. Now, however, it is running Ramsey in high priority, but didn't stop running the other projects. Strange. I am thinking of going back to 6.3.10... | |
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Thamir Ghaslan Send message Joined: 26 Aug 08 Posts: 55 Credit: 1,475,857 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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I was hoping the developers added a function to benchmark the GPU! | |
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[AF>HFR>RR] Jim PROFIT Send message Joined: 3 Jun 07 Posts: 107 Credit: 31,331,137 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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For me, 6.3.11 have some improvements! | |
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[SETI.USA]Tank_Master Send message Joined: 8 Jul 07 Posts: 85 Credit: 67,463,387 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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well, downgrading to .10 was a disaster. I lost EVERYTHING! all work, all projects... man am I peeved now. | |
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STE\/E Send message Joined: 18 Sep 08 Posts: 368 Credit: 4,173,502,885 RAC: 27,150,888 Level Scientific publications | |
well, downgrading to .10 was a disaster. I lost EVERYTHING! all work, all projects... man am I peeved now. I lost 2 Complete Directories even though I had Backups for them, going to 6.3.11 & back to 6.3.10 neither 1 would recognize I had Work in the Directories even using the Backups so I had to start from scratch again on those 2 Box's ... | |
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[SETI.USA]Tank_Master Send message Joined: 8 Jul 07 Posts: 85 Credit: 67,463,387 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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I later found what happened. for some reason, when I uninstalled v11, it moved all the files data directory to the old boinc folder I used when I was running 5.10.45.... but when I reinstalled 10, it knew where it had been before and just created the data directory as though it was a fresh install. Really messed up. At least I figured out how to get all my work back and am no running on v10 again. | |
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GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1957 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
I later found what happened. for some reason, when I uninstalled v11, it moved all the files data directory to the old boinc folder I used when I was running 5.10.45.... but when I reinstalled 10, it knew where it had been before and just created the data directory as though it was a fresh install. Really messed up. At least I figured out how to get all my work back and am no running on v10 again. Usually, before suggesting a new release of BOINC, we test it over here. There are plenty of things that can go wrong and some releases might even not work at all. If you want to be safe, stick to the BOINC version number that is on our home page, for now, I am afraid it is 6.3.10. GDF | |
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should have tested 6.3.12. wow that version was a masterpiece of programming! Cuda runs fine, but no other tasks are startet - hilarious... | |
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Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Boinc 6.3.11 Windows released
