I recently joined after doing work on World Community Grid for year and realized my GPU was not being used. I installed F@H and I wasn't getting any work units.

I then went into BOINC manager on my PC and realized that GPUGRID was meant for GPU usage.

I really think F@H needs to work in BOINC so that way if units are not being sent out you can do other work.

I discovered BOINC in June and joined WCG in July. Have been running it since then. I tried to run GPU GRID and F@H, but it seemed like the GPU was overheating my tiny T490 way too much.
Due to Covid 19, I revised the situation and found out that I can get my GPU to run reliably with GPU GRID while throttled to ca 60%. And so I am here, running the work units with my tiny GPU. F@H does not have enough work units and it seems like it often fails for some reason. GPU GRID WUs feel much more "stable".

I do not mind staying here, but it seems like it is almost impossible to figure out what is the current research used for. I do not mind working on other causes than COVID 19, but it has to be something useful, right?

> closing of seti@home, or a consequence of folding at home’s covid effort.

You have guessed the 2 reasons I joined.

I recently doubled up on GPUs in my 2 puny hosts, does that count?

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I recently doubled up on GPUs in my 2 puny hosts, does that count?

Sarcastic humor aside, congratulations to Toni and the staff on the uptick in available hosts. It shows that this is an undertaking very worthy of the support of the global crunching community.

Distributed computing is a way everyone can participate in prevention and cure, no matter what the current biological villain might be. Yet, medicine is only one of the many applications of distributed computing. Long live DC and its spirit of volunteerism!

Appologies for the multiple posts. I am having extreme delays in posting.

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I have had a few PCs on gpugrid for some time. With the ending of the SETI workload I have started adding gpugrid to all my GPU systems. The point about the Covid-19 virus work is added incentive. Some older or lower end cards that would do SETI work do not get gpugrid work allocated to them. So some upgrades will be needed in the future, probably post recession...

I have had a few PCs on gpugrid for some time. With the ending of the SETI workload I have started adding gpugrid to all my GPU systems. The point about the Covid-19 virus work is added incentive. Some older or lower end cards that would do SETI work do not get gpugrid work allocated to them. So some upgrades will be needed in the future, probably post recession...

Updated FAQ for GPU requirements can be found at this link:
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5002

I've actually been joined to this project for some time, but yes, I am primarily a FAH participant. Since their influx has actually ended up pushing a lot of mid-upper range rigs out of the pool, I came back here. I have to admit, part of the reason I didn't stay initially was because the configs are a little cumbersome, until you take the time to get accustomed to synchronizing between web and local.

I used BOINC many years back under a different name, but for some reason I never installed it on this Gaming Rig.

After SpiceWorks announced the Covid-19 F@H effort I signed up to F@H, but due to lack of units I came back home to BOINC and GPUGRD/Rosetta/WCG.

So here I am.

I receive maybe 1 or 2 units per MONTH. What are these new workunits you speak of?

Reacting to some comments above, in case neither folding nor GPUGrid have work for GPU at the moment there are several other boinc projects with GPU work to be done, but I think none in the biomed area, but you have

Mathematics :

Moo! Wrapper
PrimeGrid
Collatz
Amicable
NumberFields (but I think not more efficient than their CPU app, but still)


Astronomy :

MilkyWay
Einstein
Asteroid

Be careful with those having OpenCL apps, they often require one full CPU core to be able to feed the GPU app with work (means that other CPU boinc app running at the same time will have one core less for them, but still).

Team,

My laptops, were crunching for S@H with their small GPU (no power loss) but they are not getting GPUGrid tasks...

Any plan to catch up and grab this computing power as well for the Grid ?

Thanks
Oli

Team,

My laptops, were crunching for S@H with their small GPU (no power loss) but they are not getting GPUGrid tasks...

Any plan to catch up and grab this computing power as well for the Grid ?

Thanks
Oli

Read the FAQ.
https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5002

Pay attention to this part.

I get errors, and the output includes "CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN (999)"

You may have a notebook (or older) graphic card. They are not really suited to sustain hard-core computations (thanks anyway).

Laptop iGPUs don't have the power or enough memory to crunch the new acemd3 application.

I just join the project and it is to fight against the COVID-19 :)

I really think F@H needs to work in BOINC so that way if units are not being sent out you can do other work.

Those Stanford guys are too arrogant to use BOINC. I've been telling them that for years. It's hopeless.

Thx for the reply and pointing me to the right article.

Seems the laptops will stay very cool... :(
Unless someone has a trick ?? ;)

Thx
Oli