8-3-2010 10:32:55 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.36 for windows_intelx86
8-3-2010 10:32:55 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
8-3-2010 10:32:55 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
8-3-2010 10:32:55 Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
8-3-2010 10:32:55 Running under account ton
8-3-2010 10:32:59 Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
8-3-2010 10:32:59 Processor: 6.00 MB cache
8-3-2010 10:32:59 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe
8-3-2010 10:32:59 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
8-3-2010 10:32:59 Memory: 3.00 GB physical, 5.84 GB virtual
8-3-2010 10:32:59 Disk: 232.87 GB total, 198.75 GB free
8-3-2010 10:32:59 Local time is UTC +1 hours
8-3-2010 10:32:59 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 19634, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 596 GFLOPS peak)
8-3-2010 10:32:59 NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 19634, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 596 GFLOPS peak)

Another machine!

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Processor: 6.00 MB cache
Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
OS: Linux: 2.6.31-14-generic
Memory: 1.96 GB physical, 5.75 GB virtual
Disk: 581.16 GB total, 547.52 GB free
Local time is UTC +1 hours
NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.3, 895MB, 607 GFLOPS peak)

This one is a factory OC'ed XFX GeForce® 260 GTX 896MB DDR3 Black Edition (GX-260N-ADBF) running Mint Linux 8 64 bit.

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8-3-2010 12:02:28 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.36 for windows_intelx86
8-3-2010 12:02:28 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
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8-3-2010 12:02:28 Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
8-3-2010 12:02:28 Running under account christa
8-3-2010 12:02:34 Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
8-3-2010 12:02:34 Processor: 6.00 MB cache
8-3-2010 12:02:34 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe
8-3-2010 12:02:34 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
8-3-2010 12:02:34 Memory: 1.98 GB physical, 3.82 GB virtual
8-3-2010 12:02:34 Disk: 232.87 GB total, 215.08 GB free
8-3-2010 12:02:34 Local time is UTC +1 hours
8-3-2010 12:02:38 NVIDIA GPU 0: Quadro FX 1700 (driver version 19187, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 59 GFLOPS peak)

I do not use this card for gpugrid. To slow.
WU - Collatz - gtx 295 - 30 min. fx 1700 - 4.3 hours.

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

9-3-2010 16:26:54 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.36 for windows_intelx86
9-3-2010 16:26:54 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Running under account Administrator
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Processor: 6.00 MB cache
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe
9-3-2010 16:26:54 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 6.34 GB virtual
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Disk: 232.88 GB total, 205.44 GB free
9-3-2010 16:26:54 Local time is UTC +1 hours
9-3-2010 16:26:54 NVIDIA GPU 0: Quadro FX 570 (driver version 19187, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, 29 GFLOPS peak)

I do not use this card for gpugrid. Too slow!!

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

10-3-2010 15:12:58 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.36 for windows_intelx86
10-3-2010 15:12:59 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
10-3-2010 15:12:59 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
10-3-2010 15:12:59 Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
10-3-2010 15:12:59 Running under account Administrator
10-3-2010 15:13:11 Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
10-3-2010 15:13:11 Processor: 6.00 MB cache
10-3-2010 15:13:11 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe
10-3-2010 15:13:11 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
10-3-2010 15:13:11 Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 6.34 GB virtual
10-3-2010 15:13:11 Disk: 232.88 GB total, 205.13 GB free
10-3-2010 15:13:11 Local time is UTC +1 hours
10-3-2010 15:13:14 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTS 250 (driver version 19621, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 1024MB, 470 GFLOPS peak)

Just replaced card quadro fx 570 into gts 250

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

Starting BOINC client version 6.10.36 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Libraries: libcurl/7.19.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15
Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13]
Processor: 1.00 MB cache
Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm la
OS: Linux: 2.6.31-20-generic
Memory: 1.95 GB physical, 5.70 GB virtual
Disk: 223.62 GB total, 206.62 GB free
Local time is UTC +1 hours
NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8800 GT (driver version unknown, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 255MB, 336 GFLOPS peak)

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Boinc GFlops Peak

People should note that the calculated Boinc GFlops Peak is not always a fair reflection of a cards performance. It is a rough guide only.
For example, I have a GT240 in a system with a Q6600 overclocked to 3GHz. It has a GFlops rating of 299 but takes longer to complete a similar task as one completed on another GT240 that has a lesser GFlops rating of 288 on a natively clocked 2.2GHz quad opteron system. Despite having a more highly overclocked GPU, shaders, CPU and even a bigger fan, the card with a rating of 299GFlops is actually 16% slower (at best) than the 288GFlops rated card.
Why? Because the 288 card has DDR5 RAM ;)

Comparison as far as it goes.
These cards both did the same WU. That's the only information I have.


# There is 1 device supporting CUDA
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 285"
# Clock rate: 1.48 GHz
# Total amount of global memory: 2147155968 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 30
# Number of cores: 240
# Time per step: 23.829 ms
# Approximate elapsed time for entire WU: 20254.498 s


Above card on this system:

GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
Number of processors 2
Coprocessors NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 (2047MB) driver: 19562
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.02.3790.00)
BOINC client version 6.10.36
Memory 4094.2 MB
Cache 6144 KB
Measured floating point speed 3934.24 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 11620.4 million ops/sec
Average upload rate 24.79 KB/sec
Average download rate 139.59 KB/sec
Average turnaround time 0.99 days
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# There is 1 device supporting CUDA
# Device 0: "GeForce GT 240"
# Clock rate: 1.46 GHz
# Total amount of global memory: 1073741824 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 12
# Number of cores: 96
# Time per step: 64.259 ms
# Approximate elapsed time for entire WU: 54620.303 s


Above card on this system:


GenuineIntel
Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6300 @ 2.80GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Number of processors 2
Coprocessors NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (1024MB) driver: 19621
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7
Enterprise x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
BOINC client version 6.10.18
Memory 4095.18 MB
Cache 2048 KB
Swap space 8188.51 MB
Total disk space 540.88 GB
Free Disk Space 489.41 GB
Measured floating point speed 3165.21 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 9662.96 million ops/sec
Average upload rate 29.66 KB/sec
Average download rate 198.21 KB/sec
Average turnaround time 0.82 days

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13-4-2010 9:58:53 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.45 for windows_intelx86
13-4-2010 9:58:53 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
13-4-2010 9:58:53 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
13-4-2010 9:58:53 Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
13-4-2010 9:58:54 Running under account ton
13-4-2010 9:58:55 Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
13-4-2010 9:58:55 Processor: 6.00 MB cache
13-4-2010 9:58:55 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe
13-4-2010 9:58:55 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
13-4-2010 9:58:55 Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 6.34 GB virtual
13-4-2010 9:58:55 Disk: 232.87 GB total, 193.59 GB free
13-4-2010 9:58:55 Local time is UTC +2 hours
13-4-2010 9:58:55 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 480 (driver version 19741, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 2.0, 1536MB, 1345 GFLOPS peak)

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

15-4-2010 15:47:35 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.45 for windows_intelx86
15-4-2010 15:47:35 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Running under account Administrator
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Processor: 6.00 MB cache
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe
15-4-2010 15:47:35 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 6.34 GB virtual
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Disk: 232.88 GB total, 204.28 GB free
15-4-2010 15:47:35 Local time is UTC +2 hours
15-4-2010 15:47:35 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 470 (driver version 19741, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 2.0, 1280MB, 1089 GFLOPS peak)
15-4-2010 15:47:36 Version change (6.10.43 -> 6.10.45)

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

Thanks Ton,
The GTX480 appears to be 23.5% faster than the GTX470 (just going by the reported GFlops peak rating).
The GTX480 costs about 40% more, so in terms of purchase value for money the GTX470 would seem to be a better choice.
In terms of running costs, longevity, overclocking and real task completion rates, we will have to wait and see.

Kev,

The prices in Holland are for the GTX480 - Euro 549,-- and for the GTX470 the price is Euro 399,-- including 19% VAT.
Monday i will sending over to Barcelona 1 GTX 480 and 1 GTX 470, so the guys can develop!!!

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

This is nicked from another GPUGrid thread, but it is relevant here too.

tomba reported GT 220 specs:
GPU 1336MHz
GPU RAM 789MHz
GPU Graphics 618MHz
With 48 Shaders, 1024MB, est. 23GFLOPS

Wait for it, Compute Capable 1.2.
I did not even think that existed!

First there was 1.0, then there was 1.1, then 1.3 and now there is 1.2.
What strange number system you have, Mr. Wolf - Sort of like your GPU names.
Aaahhh bite me.

Funnies aside, it appears to respond to present work units similar to CC 1.3 cards, getting through work units relitively faster than CC1.1 Cards. In this case I guess it is about 23*1.3% faster. So it gets through 30% extra.

So it has an effective Boinc GFlop value of about 30GFlops – not bad for a low end card and it just about scrapes in there as a card worth adding to the GPUGrid, if the system is on quite frequently and you don’t get lumbered with a 120h task!

The letter box was open, but this one was snuck under the door all the same!

I am running a GT220 under Ubuntu 10.04 - 64-bit
Went I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04, I finally got a newer NVIDIA driver than 185.x.x. It upgraded to 195.36.15. Now I do not get computational errors with Collatz, but have not been able to get any work, yet, for GPUGrid.

The BOINC Manager shows:
Mon 03 May 2010 02:05:32 PM EDT
NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 220 (driver version unknown, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.2, 1023MB, 131 GFLOPS peak)
for the card's info. I am told I needed 1.3 to run Milkyway, so that is out.
I just wonder how well it will run GG tasks. I also wonder why the
"driver version unknown" is shown. I think it did show 185.x.x before the
upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04.

Well above it shows a listing for 23 GFLOPS "est.".
The manager shows 131 GFLOPS peak. So what is going on with the difference?

Also I say a thread showing a GT9500 or 9400 doing GG. I have several PCI-only
computers, like a P4 server, that can only use a 9500/9400. I know that they
are SLOW cards, but are they too slow to do the work GPU work? Even a card
like 9400/9500 would crunch faster than the P4 does via CPU only.

Well, I am new to GPU, since my first successful GPU task ran a few days ago,
when I upgraded to the Ubuntu 10.04. So, I do not know the ins-and-outs of
GPU and what projects run what cards. I got the GT220 due to a budget that had
to be kept to when buying my 4-core system [Phenom 9650]. It came down to
PSU and drive size vs. GPU card size. This is my main computer and default
video editing one. So I needed the drive size, and got a 600W PSU for later
upgrades.

So any help/advice about GPU projects and tasks, would be helpful.

Welcome to the club.

So you can run seti@home, collatz, dnetc. These are gpu related jobs.

Succes.

Just saw that you already run the jobs.

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Ton (ftpd) Netherlands

Hi all,
what card would you recommend for a mobile device?
GTX285M? Does this one have CC 1.1 or 1.3?
Is there any potential for OCing with mobile versions?
Greetings and thanks in advance!

It is generally not recommended to use a laptop GPU for crunching with; they tend to overheat and stop working!

The GeForce GTX 285M was released at the end of January this year. It uses a 55nm G92b core (CC1.3), has 1024MB DDR3 at 2040MHz, the 16GPU cores are clocked at 576MHz, and the 128 shaders at 1500MHz. It has a Manufacturer GFlops rating of 576 (not Boinc rating). The TDP is about 80W.

If you are determined to get a laptop with a GPU for crunching you might want to consider this alternative card:

GeForce GTS 260M GT215 40nm (CC1.2), 1024MB DDR5 at 3600MHz, 8 GPU cores 550MHz, 96 Shaders 1375MHz, 57.6 GDDR5 128. Manufacturer GFlops rating of 396.
The TDP is only 38W so it is less likely to overheat (40nm core, DDR5).

Thanks for the many useful information, skgiven!
I need to a buy a new notebook anyway (surely with i7 CPU and ~6GB RAM), so the idea was to take one with a GPU that is suitable for GPU crunching.
I did not know that the power consumption - and therefore temperature issues - is that differently between the GTX285M and GTS260M.
Thanks again :-)

The power consumption of the GTS260M (similar specs to a GT240) is half that of the GTX285M:
The GTX285M also uses a 55nm core design and DDR3, while the GTX260M uses a 40nm core design and DDR5 (so the GTS260M produces less heat).

Although the GTX285M is more powerful, it would be more likely to run hot and cause problems to the laptop; it might be able to run at 90deg C but the rest of the laptop would probably not be, especially for hours at a time.

It is just my opinion (and I have no real world experience of either card) but I would opt on the safer side and get the GTX260M, if I wanted to crunch on a laptop, which I don’t. It is probably much cheaper too; the GTX285M is really NVidias top laptop gaming card, so its going to cost. It's also 2 year old technology revamped.

Most of us buy a laptop to last several years. Although I would not let it stop me buying a laptop now, I would expect some form of Fermi to show up in a laptop within a year.

I'm guessing you want an i7 laptop to crunch CPU tasks!
Not sure that its a good idea to crunch both GPU and CPU tasks on a laptop - thats a lot of heat to try to get rid of. If you do try to crunch both, get a cooling tray to set it on.

Didn't check the mobile GPU specs, but if SK isn't totally wrong (which would be unusual) I'd strongly suggest the GTS260M. Apart from what has been said the 3 years old G92 (a or b) chip is CUDA compatibility level 1.1, so the new 40 nm is considerably faster at GPU-Grid due to CUDA compatibility level 1.2. This will make up for more than the 25% disadvantage in raw FLOPS, hence the card will be faster, cheaper and cooler!

MrS

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Sorry, stupid mistake. GTX285M is as you say MrS CC1.1 (must have got GTX285 stuck in my head), went off on a tangent with that too!

Just one Important thing to watch out for.

There is a GTX260 55nm G92 core (CC1.1) - avoid at all costs,

and there is the GTS260 40nm G215 core (CC1.2) - the one to get, should you decide to GPU crunch on the laptop.