ASUS GeForce STRIX-GTX 1060-6G-GAMING

Points/day is around 400.000, utilization is 88-92%.

Same question as in previous post. Could you use HWinfo64 to report some numbers? I'd like to find out how you get the %usage so high, I can't get mine to go over 65%.

I've finally purchased a Gainward Phoenix GLH as Retvari. I've installed it in an ubuntu 16.04.1 host substituting a 750Ti with a dual e5 2690 v1 CPU configuration (boost 3.3 GHz). I've left two threads unused out of 32 to make GPU crunching smoother, rest left cruching WCG now.

So far the card uses to boost to around 2 GHz if card temperature is below 60ºC, which does not occur with the default fan profile setting. Set coolbits=12 to get only fan control, now set about 65%, driver 367.57 does not allow overclocking.

Maximum GPU clock I've seen is 2042Mhz with a temperature of 40ºC. NVIDIA control panel shows the card in Performance Level 2 that puts the memory in 9524MHz, below default setting I think.

The average ppd seems to be around 950Kppd except the 63750 points wu that gives much less.

A co-worker got me into compute crunching after I splurged on a Titan X Pascal, pretty cool stuff.

The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. I Macgyver'd a closed-loop watercooler onto it, so clock speeds stay well into the upper 1800 MHz's and temps hover around 50C. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

I am running

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EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW HYBRID GAMING, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, All-In-One Watercooling with 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) 08G-P4-6288-KR

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EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW HYBRID GAMING, 8GB GDDR5, RGB LED, All-In-One Watercooling with 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) 08G-P4-6278-KR

Both units are plug and play hybrid cooling, they run ~ 40-45 degrees under full load.

I see the best results running 2 work units per card under GPUGRID.

A co-worker got me into compute crunching after I splurged on a Titan X Pascal, pretty cool stuff.

The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. I Macgyver'd a closed-loop watercooler onto it, so clock speeds stay well into the upper 1800 MHz's and temps hover around 50C. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

Make sure those VRMs and MOSFETs are cool, those are the things that kill the card typically if left hot. Also make sure the ram chips are cool

Make sure those VRMs and MOSFETs are cool, those are the things that kill the card typically if left hot. Also make sure the ram chips are cool

I wondered about that too; I left the stock blower on and took off the heatsink (per Gamers Nexus):



The blower cools the baseplate which sinks heat from the VRM and transistors. Previously the stock heatsink cooled the RAM chips around the GPU, but apparently GDDR5X uses much less voltage than chips of the past and doesn't get very hot. The plate is just cool enough to touch under full load, i'd say around 60C.

Your/anyone's thoughts?

... on a Titan X Pascal ... The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

Well, these BNBS WU's are the most GPU utilizing tasks here at GPUGrid (I see 99% GPU usage on my GTX980Tis under Windows XP & SWAN_SYNC). You can optimize your system to such high-end card by applying the SWAN_SYNC environmental value to make the GPUGrid app to use a full CPU thread to feed the GPU. It is also recommended to crunch CPU tasks only on one CPU thread, or not crunch CPU tasks at all.

To apply the swan_sync environmental value:
Copy systempropertiesadvanced to your clipboard
Click on the Start button, paste and press [enter].
Click on [Environmental Variables]
Look for the lower section called "System Variables", click on the [New] button below the list of System Variables.
Type swan_sync in the name field
Type 1 in the Value field
Click [OK] 3 times.
Exit BOINC manager with stopping scientific applications.
Start BOINC manager.

... on a Titan X Pascal ... The BNBS WU's i'm doing now take about 6-7 hours depending on ambient temperatures, averaging about 1.2 M credits per day. Usage is pretty much a constant 85%, so I imagine these runs aren't entirely Pascal-optimized yet.

Well, these BNBS WU's are the most GPU utilizing tasks here at GPUGrid (I see 99% GPU usage on my GTX980Tis under Windows XP & SWAN_SYNC). You can optimize your system to such high-end card by applying the SWAN_SYNC environmental value to make the GPUGrid app to use a full CPU thread to feed the GPU. It is also recommended to crunch CPU tasks only on one CPU thread, or not crunch CPU tasks at all.

To apply the swan_sync environmental value:
Copy systempropertiesadvanced to your clipboard
Click on the Start button, paste and press [enter].
Click on [Environmental Variables]
Look for the lower section called "System Variables", click on the [New] button below the list of System Variables.
Type swan_sync in the name field
Type 1 in the Value field
Click [OK] 3 times.
Exit BOINC manager with stopping scientific applications.
Start BOINC manager.

Zoltan, how did windows XP work with your gtx 1080?

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Cruncher/Learner in progress.

Zoltan, how did windows XP work with your gtx 1080?

The GPUGrid app v9.14 does not work under Windows XP, even if I hack the latest Windows XP driver to have my GTX 1080 installed under Windows XP. However I successfully used it under Windows XP with other projects (Einstein@home and SETI@home if I recall it correctly). While I'm using the x64 edition of Windows XP, it seems that the app thinks it's not an x64 OS, or it simply checks the version of the OS, and exits if it's under v6.x.

[To apply the swan_sync environmental value]

Awesome, thanks for the tip. Saw a ~10% increase with that.

One issue though, it seems the app won't use a full thread, at least not consistently. It'll very occasionally (for .5 secs every 2 mins. or so) spike to 91% on a single thread, but it hovers at 20-40% across ALL cores the vast majority of the time. Not sure if it's related, but my GPU still isn't fully utilized at 90% (although it is more so than before).

How would I get it to run full-speed on one thread?

[To apply the swan_sync environmental value]

Awesome, thanks for the tip. Saw a ~10% increase with that.

You're welcome.

One issue though, it seems the app won't use a full thread, at least not consistently. It'll very occasionally (for .5 secs every 2 mins. or so) spike to 91% on a single thread, but it hovers at 20-40% across ALL cores the vast majority of the time.

This is how every modern OS distribute the workload across all available cores/threads. It has some risks to use only one core (thread) all the time, as that core will be hotter than the others, and in the long term it could reduce the lifetime of the CPU chip.

Not sure if it's related, but my GPU still isn't fully utilized at 90% (although it is more so than before).

It's related to the Windows Display Driver Model, which could not be turned off. The Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU has very advanced techniques to make the thread change of a process as "seamless" as possible.

How would I get it to run full-speed on one thread?

It's easy:
Start task manager by right click on the taskbar and then click on "task manager". Click on "more details" at the bottom if you haven't already done that. Click on the "details" tab, and look for the acemd.914-80.exe, right click on that and select "Set affinity". Then select as many threads as you want (an even-odd pair of threads resides on the same, single "core").

Have few weeks GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition. I started testing gpugrid apps.. first ADRIA_FOLDGREED90_crystal_ss_contacts_100_ubiquitin_
Crystal_SS_ 8.88 timestamp 1080 ti looks very interesting..))

Been running my Titan X for a couple of nights now and am a little surprised it's been up to 1.8GHz when it boosts. Pretty impressive for the blower cooler on such a massive chip.

Haven't seen too many WUs crunched within the 5 - 7hrs timeframe yet, but at least it's contributing to scientific achievements.

Just replaced two Maxwell EVGA Titan X Hybrids with two EVGA 1080Ti SC + Hybrid kits. Works like a charm. The PC is in a closet, yet the GPUs don't exceed 50C for GPUGRID and 70C for PrimeGrid CUDA apps. Using 382.05 drivers.

Speaking of which, there is a significant usage difference between GPUGRID and PrimeGrid. I have my cards set to 120% max clock and 85C max temp (using MSIAfterBurner), whichever comes first, and turns out, they are not the limiting factor.

In the few workunits I was able to watch with MSIAfterBurner displaying what is going on, GPUGRID is at about 65-75% GPU usage, at about 1920-1940Mhz, with 68-72% of power, temps at 45-55C. I am using swan_sync, by the way. Currently running tasks are:

e95s25_e87s22p0f184-PABLO_Q15004_0_IDP-0-1-RND4080
e71s59_e51s11p0f22-PABLO_P01106_0_IDP-0-1-RND9004

But PrimeGrid consistently occupies the GPUs at about 96-99% GPU usage, at about 1925-1950Mhz, with 110-115% of power, temps at 65-70C. In other words, PrimeGrid is getting much more bang for my buck...

Should someone know about this at GPUGRID? Or is there a better forum to post this at?

Tuna

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Rion Family wrote:

I see the best results running 2 work units per card under GPUGRID.

Iiiiinteresting... Care to share your app_config.xml?

Tuna

You can find it here.

You can find it here.

You are awesome!

Just added an EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3. The host is here.

Very happy with it so far.

I was previously running an EVGA GTX 1080 SC in that box but moved it to this host. The CPU is a slightly slower and I think my run times have consequently gotten a little longer.