The official CUDA2.0 is out. We are going to update the compilers when the driver installed by Linux installers (as yum for Fedora) are higher than 177.67.

gdf

The 177.35 driver for win is CUDA 2.0 beta2, so this should be only a minor update? Is 177.35 still the recommended driver for win?

MrS

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The 177.35 driver for win is CUDA 2.0 beta2, so this should be only a minor update? Is 177.35 still the recommended driver for win?

MrS

On http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.htm the CUDA drivers are out of beta, they are now at 177.84

Yet for me the only Windows driver that would work was the CUDA 1.1 drivers (169.21)

Shame as the 177.84 drivers are a better set of drivers (for me) than the 169.21 version.

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The 177.35 driver for win is CUDA 2.0 beta2, so this should be only a minor update? Is 177.35 still the recommended driver for win?

MrS

On http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.htm the CUDA drivers are out of beta, they are now at 177.84

Yet for me the only Windows driver that would work was the CUDA 1.1 drivers (169.21)

Shame as the 177.84 drivers are a better set of drivers (for me) than the 169.21 version.

Same here I'm still using 169.21. I now remember why I never upgraded. During testing when there was no work, I found folding@home had a NVIDIA app, I had to install some 17X series driver they said it needed. I downloaded from NVIDIA site and when tried to install it told me I had no hardware it supported (???). I gave up and never went any further.

Same here I'm still using 169.21. I now remember why I never upgraded. During testing when there was no work, I found folding@home had a NVIDIA app, I had to install some 17X series driver they said it needed. I downloaded from NVIDIA site and when tried to install it told me I had no hardware it supported (???). I gave up and never went any further.

The 177.35 drivers only supported a few GPU's
"GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 260
nForce 780a SLI
nForce 750a SLI"

You could install them if you used a modified .inf file.
Now on Windows I cannot get PS3GRID to run with any CUDA driver :(

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177.35 work well with any GF8/GF9 and GTX260/280 without any modification of the .ini file ;)

Things looking good:

- I couldn't install 177.35 on my 9800GTX+, it said "no compatible hardware found"
- the .inf-modified driver did install and can be found here:
http://forums.hardwarelogic.com/f13/nvidia-forceware-177-35-a-14176.html

- now it works for me! Well, too early to shout "success", but it did get past the first minute, which was not possible with 177.79
(see http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=304 )

MrS

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So, we have found out several issues with the drivers and anomalies between cuda1.1 and recent drivers.

We were using driver 173.x thanks to the nvidia-installer --update which does not seem to update to anything recent. Our machines were all on old drivers which worked quite well with the cuda1.1 toolkit which was used to compile. All of you were on newer drivers. Our fault, we did not realize that nvidia-installer does not work as expected.

Although, they had told us that from 1.1 to 2.0 there would be back compatibility this is not the case. This was the problem with the Windows 64 boinc client.

Upgrading our machines to the latest drivers we could finally reproduce the errors, which means that we can now solve them.

In a way it seems that driver-toolkit version need to match to work properly, but there is not specification of which driver work with which compiler.

NEXT

I am expecting that everything will be much better with cuda2.0.
Finally cuda2.0 is out, so we will upgrade as soon as possible to the 2.0 toolkit and will test on the newest drivers.

gdf

So CUDA 2.0 drivers re NOT compatible with CUDA 1.1 apps?
Bit daft of Nvidia if that's the case :(

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That's not exactly what he's saying. I'd imagine it's more a matter of how the different compilers tolerate inaccuracies in the syntax etc. And of course bugs in the compilers :p

MrS

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That's not exactly what he's saying. I'd imagine it's more a matter of how the different compilers tolerate inaccuracies in the syntax etc. And of course bugs in the compilers :p

MrS

New Windows boinc client are out 6.3.10. Please test if the client works (report the correct coprocessors). The application will come out soon.

Soon, I am going to upload a new Linux 64 application for CUDA2.0.
This is running fine on our machines with drivers 176.x.
Some restrictions:
1) This application works only for >=1.1 computing capable cards (some of the 8xxx, all the 9xxx series and 2xx). You can check on wikipedia if your card is at least 1.1.
2) The application is 20% slower at the moment compiled with CUDA2. We are looking into it, but for now this is the case.

gdf

New Windows boinc client are out 6.3.10. Please test if the client works (report the correct coprocessors). The application will come out soon.
gdf

:) I am trying :) with 177.84 drivers from nvidia www...

2008-08-23 23:46:51||Coprocessor: GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (1)

so report is correct

23/08/2008 23:49:52||Starting BOINC client version 6.3.10 for windows_x86_64
23/08/2008 23:49:52||Coprocessor: GeForce 9600 GT (1)
23/08/2008 23:49:52||Version change (6.2.18 -> 6.3.10)

Fine, on vista64 :p

I'm waiting for the new application for win64 :p

here with cuda 2.0 177.84 drivers and boinc 6.3.8 on WinXP 32 bits

PS3grid cuda 6.39 app crashes for all WUs :(

here with cuda 2.0 177.84 drivers and boinc 6.3.8 on WinXP 32 bits

PS3grid cuda 6.39 app crashes for all WUs :(

Sorry, still testing on it.

gdf

here with cuda 2.0 177.84 drivers and boinc 6.3.8 on WinXP 32 bits

PS3grid cuda 6.39 app crashes for all WUs :(

Sorry, still testing on it.

gdf

My Mistake it's still app 6.30

i believed i saw 6.39 and updated to drivers 177.84 !

I must sleep a little i think :)

For me the 177.35 work fine with app 6.30, BOINC 6.3.9 and Win XP 32 - maybe you should give them a try instead of the 177.84?

MrS

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For me the 177.35 work fine with app 6.30, BOINC 6.3.9 and Win XP 32 - maybe you should give them a try instead of the 177.84?

MrS

I was with 177.35, app 6.30 and boinc 6.3.8 and all units crashed before too :/

8800 GTS 320 WinXP Pro 32

For me the 177.35 work fine with app 6.30, BOINC 6.3.9 and Win XP 32 - maybe you should give them a try instead of the 177.84?

MrS

I was with 177.35, app 6.30 and boinc 6.3.8 and all units crashed before too :/

8800 GTS 320 WinXP Pro 32

http://www.ps3grid.net/result.php?resultid=46486

177.84, 6.3.10, 6.30, errors... as usual :(

If all the "older" 88xxer GPUs who only have CUDA 1.0 support cannot crunch any more,is it possible to send two different applications? one for the older cards and the other for the rest?
It schould be easily done with an appl.info.xml file in the ps3grid directory.
There are a lot of the 88xxer cards around who could not participate otherwise.