In case anyone is wondering what these WUs are, we are running some extra simulations on the Barnase Barstar system (previously called BARNA: http://gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3709#36142 ) to answer some questions of the reviewers. If the results get us through the review process this will be a major publication :)

Fingers crossed, knock on wood... ;-)

We hope so...

Thanks Stefan

Always good to answer the questions up front!

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How long are these supposed to take? My 680s have been crunching on it for about 27 hours and they're at 98% and my 980ti is at 9 hours and 70%

1060 3GB: 55% done so far at a rate of 6.12% per hour, so my first BNBS should complete in ~16.3 hours...

On my GTX 960 running under Linux, at 2 hours 10 minutes it is 7.965% complete, or 22.45 hours total. So it will get in just under the wire, considering the usual hangs at download.

Windows on GTX 970: task 15850957

Run time 66,657.64 seconds (18.5 hours)
Credit 492,000.00

Have had 2 finish so far. One on a 1060 in 71,824 seconds and another on a 670 in 100,793 seconds. These are not going to finish on the slower GPUs and should be in a separate 3rd queue. 14 of my 750Ti GPUs have them and it looks like about 40 hours completion (which is acceptable). There are a whole lot of GPUs on the project that are WAY slower (and less efficient) than the 750Ti.

I managed to get my first 2 of these tasks done.

Name ARG59ALA_S5F7_C2-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND4466_0
Workunit 12214546
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 10:38:53 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 10:40:06 UTC
Received 22 Dec 2016 | 0:57:29 UTC
Server state Over
Outcome Success
Client state Done
Exit status 0 (0x0)
Computer ID 30790
Report deadline 26 Dec 2016 | 10:40:06 UTC
Run time 40,101.94
CPU time 37,868.64
Validate state Valid
Credit 492,000.00
Application version Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v8.48 (cuda65)

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15852421


On my windows xp, GPU usage is 97%, power usage is 91%, and over 11 hours to finish.

On my windows 10, GPU usage is 92%, power usage is 89% and 11 hours to finish.

Name ARG59ALA_S0F6_C2-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND1278_0
Workunit 12214024
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 10:23:47 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 10:23:54 UTC
Received 22 Dec 2016 | 1:00:49 UTC
Server state Over
Outcome Success
Client state Done
Exit status 0 (0x0)
Computer ID 263612
Report deadline 26 Dec 2016 | 10:23:54 UTC
Run time 39,596.54
CPU time 39,512.66
Validate state Valid
Credit 492,000.00
Application version Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card) v8.48 (cuda65)

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15851889


These are good! Give us more of these tasks.

14 of my 750Ti GPUs have them and it looks like about 40 hours completion (which is acceptable).

same experience here. 40 hours is a rather long time, though.

I can't get new tasks on my Linux host (with a GTX 1080), while there's a plenty of workunits in the queue.
It seems that the scheduler is lying about the number of available workunits in the long queue:

2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:10 CET | GPUGRID | Sending scheduler request: Requested by project.
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:10 CET | GPUGRID | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:12 CET | GPUGRID | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:12 CET | GPUGRID | No tasks sent
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:12 CET | GPUGRID | No tasks are available for Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card)

("csütörtök"= thursday)

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I can't get new tasks on my Linux host (with a GTX 1080), while there's a plenty of workunits in the queue.
It seems that the scheduler is lying about the number of available workunits in the long queue:

2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:10 CET | GPUGRID | Sending scheduler request: Requested by project.
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:10 CET | GPUGRID | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:12 CET | GPUGRID | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:12 CET | GPUGRID | No tasks sent
2016. dec. 22., csütörtök, 09:50:12 CET | GPUGRID | No tasks are available for Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card)

("csütörtök"= thursday)

same here

Here are some data points for my BNBS results, see below.

Note: I run GPUGrid 2-tasks-per-GPU, alongside a full boat of CPU tasks, on Windows 10 x64. My main rig has 2 GTX 980 Ti GPUs, but only runs GPUGrid part of the time. My secondary rig has 1 GTX 970 and 2 GTX 660 Ti GPUs, and runs GPUGrid at all times.

I did have 1 "Validate error" that I cannot explain:

Validate error
ARG59ALA_S8F6_C2-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND0619_0
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15852757
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Validate state Invalid

But I did have several successful runs, with healthy GPU usage, fans a-blazing! :)

ARG59ALA_S14F6_C3-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND6925_1
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15854987
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 11:56:24 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 12:06:08 UTC
Received 24 Dec 2016 | 9:57:30 UTC
Run time 83,311.57
CPU time 12,704.97
Credit 328,000.00

ARG59ALA_S3F20_C0-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND0205_1
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15854167
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 11:33:32 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 12:06:08 UTC
Received 24 Dec 2016 | 9:44:08 UTC
Run time 82,628.58
CPU time 13,144.57
Credit 328,000.00

GLU73ALA_S0F12_C0-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND8050_0
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15853511
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 11:14:40 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 12:06:08 UTC
Received 24 Dec 2016 | 10:00:43 UTC
Run time 83,428.28
CPU time 12,700.48
Credit 328,000.00

ARG59ALA_S10F18_C2-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND2903_0
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15852984
GeForce GTX 970
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 10:54:59 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 11:12:43 UTC
Received 22 Dec 2016 | 23:49:16 UTC
Run time 126,085.77
CPU time 14,746.36
Credit 410,000.00

ARG59ALA_S12F12_C1-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND1879_0
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15853182
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 11:00:20 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 11:12:43 UTC
Received 24 Dec 2016 | 4:28:13 UTC
Run time 226,766.66
CPU time 14,399.27
Credit 328,000.00

ARG59ALA_S10F15_C3-SDOERR_BNBS-0-4-RND3170_0
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15852977
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Created 21 Dec 2016 | 10:54:44 UTC
Sent 21 Dec 2016 | 11:12:43 UTC
Received 24 Dec 2016 | 4:12:56 UTC
Run time 226,686.38
CPU time 14,523.08
Credit 328,000.00

Here is my result for a BNBS Project

Took about 2 days on a gtx 960 with windows xp.

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15854803

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Here is my result for a BNBS Project

Took about 2 days on a gtx 960 with windows xp.

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15854803

It would be much shorter if you would have a PCIe3.0 capable MB/CPU pair (at least a 3rd gen i5, or a 4th gen i3, Pentium or Celeron CPU)

Here is my result for a BNBS Project

Took about 2 days on a gtx 960 with windows xp.

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15854803

It would be much shorter if you would have a PCIe3.0 capable MB/CPU pair (at least a 3rd gen i5, or a 4th gen i3, Pentium or Celeron CPU)

How much faster do you think it would be? If you aren't sure, I understand. I also understand what you mean about the pcie 3.0. I just don't have enough guts to go out and buy a couple hundred dollar PC at the moment when my current works just fine. Just ran a test and no issues, as well as I've cleaned it with new thermal paste.

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Here is my result for a BNBS Project

Took about 2 days on a gtx 960 with windows xp.

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=15854803

It would be much shorter if you would have a PCIe3.0 capable MB/CPU pair (at least a 3rd gen i5, or a 4th gen i3, Pentium or Celeron CPU)

Or an AMD FM2+ system if on a budget. If you're looking for a high end system wait a couple months and look into the AMD Ryzen:

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-ryzen-first-cpu-benchmarks-surface/

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_ryzen_cpu_benchmarks_emerge/1#.WF6Ow5ghhtk.reddit

These tasks are less dependent on fast PCIE and CPU than most tasks are, but there are other WU's about too. Even if I wanted another i5 or whatever supports PCIE3x16 I would still wait for the next round of Intel releases and AMD's next generation (both Q1 2017) as these will be more competitive and drive more people to update & sell on their old systems. On the GPU front AMD/ATI are expected to release another series soon. For the same reasons (competition & cheaper second hand sales expected in Q1 2017) I'm not considering buying any more new GPU's ATM.

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