Running 2 Parkes PMPS XT units simultaneously picked up about 15% net RAC on my windows 10 computer with 980ti cards the last time I ran them, a little bit less on windows xp computer with the 980ti card, with the Arecibo units the pick up was insignificant for both computers.

After the first results showing insignificant PPD gain, I've returned to run only 1 wu at a time.

I see that you got the card running on windows xp computer, did you have to use any kind of trick to do that?

I did just the "usual" trick, but the lines to insert should look like this:

%NVIDIA_DEV.1B80%           = Section008, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1B80

and

NVIDIA_DEV.1B80 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080"

Out of curiosity I've installed Folding@home on my host with the GTX 1080, and it shows ~1.060.000 PPD while crunching a fah core 0x18 workunit. The total crunching time of this wu is about 2 hours.
GPU usage: 94%
FB usage: 16-17%
GPU temp: 54°C
GPU clock: 2025MHz
MEM clock: 5006MHz

In the UK GTX1080 prices have fallen from between £700 and £800 to around £600. Many factors have contributed to the price fall:
The arrival of bespoke (non-founder) editions of the GTX1080,
Increased GTX1080 availability,
The arrival of the GTX1070,
Competition from AMD - despite the 480 only being a mid-range card when playing games it's 'competitive' in cross-fire against a single Pascal. There is also the effect of promotions (not everyone knows what they are doing) and an AMD fan base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVVJPbFRDEc
Then there is the forthcoming GTX1060 which is clearly designed to compete (and presumably outperform) an RX480. When released they will drag down the GTX1070 prices and that in turn will drag down the 1080 price a bit. Even the speculation of the card means that many are waiting for it. To sell to those potential customers now the 1070 prices would need to be more attractive.

Note that IMO two RX480's isn't a good option for gamers, but it's an option and because they are better at some games than others, some people will buy them.

PS. Einstein's Arecibo is CUDA3.2, only the Parkes PMPS XT is CUDA5.5.

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So I've joined the club of the "participants requesting a new app".

Same here. I have a 1080 which should be arriving this week and which will be replacing my 980Ti. I have also sold my 970 (1070 should be shipping to me soon), so until GPUGrid gets a new app for Pascal, I'm down to a 960 (which is also up for sale) participating here.

In the UK GTX1080 prices have fallen from between £700 and £800 to around £600. Many factors have contributed to the price fall:
The arrival of bespoke (non-founder) editions of the GTX1080,
Increased GTX1080 availability,
The arrival of the GTX1070,
Competition from AMD - despite the 480 only being a mid-range card when playing games it's 'competitive' in cross-fire against a single Pascal. There is also the effect of promotions (not everyone knows what they are doing) and an AMD fan base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVVJPbFRDEc
Then there is the forthcoming GTX1060 which is clearly designed to compete (and presumably outperform) an RX480. When released they will drag down the GTX1070 prices and that in turn will drag down the 1080 price a bit. Even the speculation of the card means that many are waiting for it. To sell to those potential customers now the 1070 prices would need to be more attractive.

Note that IMO two RX480's isn't a good option for gamers, but it's an option and because they are better at some games than others, some people will buy them.

Entertaining video. It's good to see closer competition returning to the GPU scene. Regardless of what a few seem to maintain, competition in the GPU arena has always driven prices down. Here's another RX480 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQZkWdWCkwM

Also true of the CPU. Judging from the information on the AMD Zen CPUs it appears that thankfully Intel will once again be under price/performance pressure. Remember even the not that distant past: if it wasn't for AMD we'd all most likely still be running $1000 nasty P4 CPUs with 100MHz yearly speed increases. Whether we're AMD or Intel fans or brand neutral, we should all send AMD a thank-you Xmas card for saving us a lot of money while stimulating increased performance in both the GPU and CPU areas.

OT. Zen should be very interesting for crunchers, especially GPU crunchers.
It's guestimated they will be ~7% slower than Intel's latest and greatest processors, but that is competitive enough and what interests me is the support for many PCIE3 lanes (possibly 64 for some desktops and twice that on servers)... Having a 5 or 10% faster CPU isn't as important as supporting more PCIE lanes and most people buy a reasonably fast CPU, not the fastest at any cost. If you can add a 3rd or 4th GPU to a mid-range or high end system and not suffer any PCIE loss then that's going to shuffle things up a lot for high end builds, and that's exactly what we need. The presently extreme end Intel based system come with extreme prices and don't have much competition.
The Zen processors are also thought to have very high amounts of cache and might support up to 1TB DDR4. Basically they are designed to facilitate high end 4K/8K gaming and rendering which is where the high end market is/will be. It would also make sense to scale that down to mid-range systems where the majority of gamers exist. So it might soon be possible to support 3 or 4 GTX1080's at PCIE3 without any PCIE loss.
With some high end NV GPU's only using 145W to 180W we might be able to build reasonably high end GPU systems with otherwise medium-high end kit; standard motherboard (just with more PCIE slots) and a med-high end but not extreme end PSU (600 to 750W). Presently most Intel processors (even high end: i7-6700K) only support one card at PCIE3 X16. As soon as you add a second GPU the performance is PCIE3 X8, and a 3rd GPU means one operating at PCIE2X8 and two operating at PCIE2 X4, at which point you start to experience some PCIE related loss, increasing the higher end the GPU's are.
Even Intel's extreme end processors (Haswell-E) only facilitate 40 PCIE lanes at PCIE3. Effectively that means two GPU's at PCIE3x16 or up to 4 GPU's at half X8. While that is good enough for Maxwell's it might not be good enough for Pascals (and we've not seen the best of Pascal yet). Such processors cost a lot($1000), as do the boards and if you are using Titan/GTX980Ti cards then you need a very high end PSU.
We might also be better able to build crunching systems on the cheap; with more GPU's rather than a 'bigger' and more high end system. It might prove to be the case for example that a 3GB GTX1060 is the best crunching GPU in terms of performance/Watt or performance/purchase price or performance/(purchase+running price) and if there are enough PCIE x16 slots or even PCIE3 X4 slots dropping those into a case 'might' be worth looking at, or not...

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So I've joined the club of the "participants requesting a new app".

Same here. I have a 1080 which should be arriving this week and which will be replacing my 980Ti. I have also sold my 970 (1070 should be shipping to me soon), so until GPUGrid gets a new app for Pascal, I'm down to a 960 (which is also up for sale) participating here.

Just sold my last 960, leaving me with no cards to work on GPUGrid until Pascal support is added.

Has anyone donated any of these Pascal cards to the research team yet or are we waiting on the budget on this project to handle that completely? I am willing to donate towards that if needed. I am sure donating towards hardware is cheaper than shipping it from the USA to Spain.

Support is coming "soon": link
(how soon that is depends on nVidia)

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They have Pascal's to test with. We're waiting on bug free drivers and the public release of CUDA 8 dev kit - required to recompile the app.

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Any update on 1080 support? I have 2 just idling while I'm at work.

Any update on 1080 support? I have 2 just idling while I'm at work.

There is no update on ANYTHING during summer months. This team needs to address a number of issues including but notwithstanding, Pascal support, errors, timeouts, amount of WU's/GPU, deadline, etc.

Check this thread for updates.

MrS

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