Expressing my displeasure

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Bigred Send message Joined: 24 Nov 08 Posts: 10 Credit: 25,447,456 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10734 - Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 20:17:55 UTC I came home from work last night and later found out that there is now a minimum driver version requirement. I checked my account and sure enough 7 of my 8 Cuda machines don't meet this requirement. I checked tasks and they all still had work. OK, maybe it was just a warning. I check tonight and those 7 machines with 9 GTX260s are all idle. I won't be able to get at them until Monday morning. Would it have been so difficult to give people advance warning that things were going to change? I'm not a person that constantly updates things just to have the latest. I believe if it ain't broke, don't fix it. ID: 10734 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

ExtraTerrestrial Apes Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10735 - Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 21:57:06 UTC - in response to Message 10734. Agreed: a warning about 1 week in advance would have been nice. MrS Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 ID: 10735 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jeremy Send message Joined: 15 Feb 09 Posts: 55 Credit: 3,542,733 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10737 - Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 0:50:05 UTC - in response to Message 10735. So, what is the current minimum driver version required? ID: 10737 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

zpm Send message Joined: 2 Mar 09 Posts: 159 Credit: 13,639,818 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10738 - Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 4:00:25 UTC - in response to Message 10737. 180.xx and up. ID: 10738 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1958 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10766 - Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 20:35:28 UTC - in response to Message 10738. Last modified: 21 Jun 2009, 20:35:40 UTC I am sorry if you had these problems. 180.xx has been the suggested version for gpugrid for the past few months. The reason why we started to enforce 180.xx is that on our machine with 178 the new application is not working. If it is necessary I can change it back for a week or so. gdf ID: 10766 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Hydropower Send message Joined: 3 Apr 09 Posts: 70 Credit: 6,003,024 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10767 - Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 20:42:33 UTC - in response to Message 10766. Hi Gianni, I too run the old drivers because otherwise I cannot run the 8 GPUs in one box. I would welcome a more stable driver from NVIDIA to cope with this issue. My complaint with ASrock never got an answer. Do I understand correctly that you now have built the new machine and it is working with newer drivers ? Join team Bletchley Park, the innovators. ID: 10767 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1958 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10768 - Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 20:44:39 UTC - in response to Message 10767. No, we did not built it. Nvidia never delivered the kit. gdf ID: 10768 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Hydropower Send message Joined: 3 Apr 09 Posts: 70 Credit: 6,003,024 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10775 - Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 7:40:36 UTC - in response to Message 10768. Do I notice correctly that the change has been rolled back ? I am still running 178.13 and it seems to work. Join team Bletchley Park, the innovators. ID: 10775 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TomaszPawel Send message Joined: 18 Aug 08 Posts: 121 Credit: 59,836,411 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10777 - Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 7:53:02 UTC - in response to Message 10775. When You plan to introduce app compatible with cuda 2.2 (185.85 and higher)? POLISH NATIONAL TEAM - Join! Crunch! Win! ID: 10777 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1958 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10778 - Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 9:28:18 UTC - in response to Message 10777. This was one of the point. Application compiled with 2.2 seem to have problems on older driver. I think that we might even go to 2.3 if the test prove to be faster. We would like to support always the newest graphics driver. gdf ID: 10778 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

TomaszPawel Send message Joined: 18 Aug 08 Posts: 121 Credit: 59,836,411 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10780 - Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 10:31:22 UTC - in response to Message 10778. Nice.... so the question is when nVidia will relase Cuda 2.3 driver... BTW i crunch on 182.50 and all seams to work ok... POLISH NATIONAL TEAM - Join! Crunch! Win! ID: 10780 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

MarkJ Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 24 Dec 08 Posts: 738 Credit: 200,909,904 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10783 - Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 13:20:50 UTC - in response to Message 10780. so the question is when nVidia will relase Cuda 2.3 driver... See this message thread. BOINC blog ID: 10783 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Bigred Send message Joined: 24 Nov 08 Posts: 10 Credit: 25,447,456 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10790 - Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 20:49:29 UTC - in response to Message 10783. I updated all the drivers this morning and nearly every WU ends in a compute error. Never had that with the old drivers. Once again it'll be 2 days before I can get back to the machines, so expect lots of errors. ID: 10790 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

popandbob Send message Joined: 18 Jul 07 Posts: 67 Credit: 43,351,724 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10791 - Posted: 22 Jun 2009, 21:37:46 UTC - in response to Message 10790. I updated all the drivers this morning and nearly every WU ends in a compute error. Never had that with the old drivers. Once again it'll be 2 days before I can get back to the machines, so expect lots of errors. Sounds like a bad Driver install... Try installing them again in safe mode. Bob ID: 10791 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Scott Brown Send message Joined: 21 Oct 08 Posts: 144 Credit: 2,973,555 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	Message 10800 - Posted: 23 Jun 2009, 15:37:10 UTC - in response to Message 10775. Do I notice correctly that the change has been rolled back ? I am still running 178.13 and it seems to work. I am also using an older driver, 178.24, on at least one machine with no problems reporting and validated. Could this be because I am using BOINC 6.5.0 which does not report the dirver version, and therefore, is not subject to driver version enforcement? ID: 10800 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote