ThX ....100 percent occupancy))) fermi n cpu are never cooler))) room is very heatly, with my new love:D...How can I change GPU Occupancy?..I need more work to gpu n cpu is only prepair station for streamprocessorcity...How can I change this situation?...gpu is very lonely...only 57 Celsius...bud when I start furmark gpu temperature growth up 90C n ventilation on heatpipecooler transmute to turbine))....boinc dont warmth graphic?

Hi Senna, your computer failed too many tasks. So the server stopped sending tasks. After 24h you will be able to pick up new tasks.

Looking at your last failed task, you are/were using a very old version of Boinc (ver 6.4.5). Probably too old for GPU crunching.

IF you have not already done what liveonc suggested,

Uninstall Boinc and Restart computer.
Install Boinc 6.10.58, restart computer

If you need to, install NVidia driver 25896.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-32bit-258.96-whql-driver-all.html
Restart computer, and try crunching again.

Good luck,

Sorry I've been absent for so long. Had trouble with a few systems and got frustrated.

The current version of FatDog64 is 511 and it seems to work pretty darn good. I had trouble with 500 so I was running RC3 till just lately (progression has been RC3, 500, 510 and 511)

FatDog-511 can be found here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/iso/

An easy to install "PET" of newer 260 series nVidia drivers (nvidia-260.19.21-for-510-only.pet) can be found here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/pets/500/

Note that "510 only" means 510 or newer (works fine with 511).

I'll be editing this info into the first post ASAP.

It should be noted that I'm by far not an expert on all this. In fact I've got my system running in a weird hybrid mode because I couldn't figure out how to properly configure the GRUB boot loader. When trying to boot straight from the HD the system displays "error 15".

It would be nice to get this ironed out but in the mean time the system boots fine by starting from the CD and at some point (fairly early on) switching over to the information stored on the HD.

EDIT:

Got it all sorted out! System now boots straight from HD without a need for a CD to get it started. The issue was that the GRUB installer needs the HD to be UNMOUNTED in order to work properly. An incorrect error message was giving me fits.

Installing to a HD is similar to installing to USB but GRUB must be installed and configured in a separate step after the Universal Installer has finished.

If you are attempting to install FD64-511 to a HD make sure to save a copy of the GRUB configuration instructions that pop up. I think GRUB auto configures for a FULL HD install and must be modified for a FRUGAL HD install.

A new version of FatDog-64 is out. I'm still using 5.11 with the 260 series nVidia drivers but at some point I'll check out the new 5.21 FatDog with the new 280 series drivers. If someone else beats me to it please post here.

So I've been checking out the newest FatDog-64 and have decided to install it on my GTX-570 system as soon as I get the chance.

The newest FatDog-64 has monitoring software that checks to see if your internet connection is working and attempts to connect if it is not. This could be a good thing if it works on wireless. When the older versions drop off the wireless network they need to be connected manually (AFAIK) which can result in downtime. If the new version work as I suspect, this issue will be fixed!

Does this BOINC-on-a-stick run instead of or alongside BOINC on my hard drive?

The idea is that you can use your existing setup as it is now, and when you want to run Boinc (say overnight or at the weekends) boot to the USB stick which contains the Linux operating system and Boinc with GPUGrid, and whatever else you crunch for.

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Does this BOINC-on-a-stick run instead of or alongside BOINC on my hard drive?

"Instead of" in that you can only boot from one or the other. Both will not run at the same time.

"Alongside" in that both can exist ready to go on the for the same computer. This is especially handy if you have Windows on your hard drive and don't want to load Linux on your hard drive. In such case you boot from your hard drive if you want Windows and you boot off the USB stick if you want FatDog64/BOINC.

GPUGRID on a stick is also ideal for setting up a new crunch box sans hard drive. With the high price of hard drives these days that could be a significant savings!

GPUGRID on a stick is also ideal for setting up a new crunch box sans hard drive. With the high price of hard drives these days that could be a significant savings!

This is not strictly true:

A 2011 study by Intel on the use of 45,000 SSDs reported an annualized failure rate of 0.61% for SSDs, compared to 4.85% for HDDs. "Validating the Reliability of Intel® Solid-State Drives". Intel. July 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.

Other studies say their failure are similar http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/213442/solid_state_drives_no_better_than_others_survey_says.html

BUT. Memory Stick! Original flash memory designs had very limited estimated lifetimes. You can check this everywhere.

From wikipedia: "Original flash memory designs had very limited estimated lifetimes. The failure mechanism for flash memory cells is analogous to a metal fatigue mode; the device fails by refusing to write new data to specific cells that have been subject to many read-write cycles over the device's lifetime. Premature failure of a "live USB" could be circumvented by using a flash drive with a write-lock switch as a WORM device, identically to a live CD. Originally, this potential failure mode limited the use of "live USB" system to special purpose applications or temporary tasks"

So if you do a stick reading and writing it will last very very little time and you will start have errors very soon.

Ahh, but the beauty of FatDog-64 is that it so small it will run completely in RAM. In fact neither a hard drive or a memory stick is strictly needed at all. The only thing the memory stick does is save your spot in the case of a power failure or crash. One could easily remaster FatDog-64 to include BOINC and the nVidia drivers and run in pure RAM mode with no permanent storage what so ever.

Optionally you could run on a memory stick at least until hard drive prices come back down.

FatDog64-521 comes with the "Frisbee" network manager. Frisbee automatically checks the network to insure that it is up which is a big improvement over the previous network manager. Once the old network dropped out you were done till you manually reset the network connection. With the new Frisbee network manager the network should reset itself.

Trouble is I've not been able to get Frisbee working with my wireless card. Been doing a little reading and plan to tackle this problem soon.

FatDog64-600 is in the works now...

I am really thinking about using Linux on one of my dedicated crunchers. It has 2 EVGA GTX 580s in it and both are overclocked.

What overclocking tools are available for Linux? It looks like the EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner tools are Windows only.

Before I go down the Linux path, I want to make sure I have all of my tools figured out.

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Thx - Paul

Note: Please don't use driver version 295 or 296! Recommended versions are 266 - 285.

Nvidia has not enabled OC'ing the Fermi cards under Linux. The only option is to flash the bios with your desired settings.

How do I flash the BIOS with custom settings?

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Thx - Paul

Note: Please don't use driver version 295 or 296! Recommended versions are 266 - 285.

How to build a custom BIOS.

I found a thread on this on another site. I hope it is OK to post it here. I need more details before I commit a custom BIOS to one of my cards.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1211151/flashing-nvidia-bios-within-windows

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Thx - Paul

Note: Please don't use driver version 295 or 296! Recommended versions are 266 - 285.

Hardware:
Q6600
GTX470
4GB USB stick

OS:
Fatdog 521 x64

Software:
NVidia 280.13 drivers
BOINC 6.10.58 (can't get 6.12 or 7.0.25 to work, after extracting the BOINC dirs, the "boincmgr" gives an error and won't start, but 6.10 doesn't have this problem)

eOn2, PrimeGrid and GPUGRID al three run fine.

I've also made a guide in Dutch on our forum http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1505511, I hope that is oke with you.
Moreover I've made screenshots of almost the entire installation, which can be downloaded and viewed Guide_FatDog_521_64bit.ppt

How do I flash the BIOS with custom settings?

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=336117

I used FBE to change the BIOS of my GTX460 cards and it works fine.
In XP I used Afterburner to control some things a bit more but in Linux I still have to find a substitute.

Also installed Fatdog and it runs but still some problems (computation errors).
eOn2 runs reasonably OK but got a few errors:

http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/results.php?hostid=27344&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5

Seems some mem problems.

And Collatz is " not available for my type of computer" ?????

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=5500505 is running but remaining time is increasing the whole time so no idea how long (19:30hrs atm) this one will take on a Asrock 870 Extreme 3 / Phenom II X4 945 / GTX460FTW / 8GB DDR3 combo.

Bytheay : Is there no way to save the files/data, the Xdialog box shows every few minutes, automatically ?

31zx192-MJHARVEY_MJH120523-2-5-RND2804_1

Anybody any idea how long this one should take ?

Atm it looks like it will take 22hrs instead of the 19:30 hrs I posted below.
I expected with Linux it would finish within 24hrs.