It can be a good challenge for overclockers to show off!
Has anybody already beaten the 62,354.91 seconds time?

My teammate Ian beat that time already on two tasks.
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32507258 60,151.89
and
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32507259 62,129.12

I picked up tasks on two machines this morning, so I'll throw my hat in the ring eventually.

I completed two tasks so far.

https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32507920 45,575.86

https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32507873 53,855.16

somehow amusing - these huge tasks now cause quite a competition between the users as to who's GPU crunches them in the shortest possible time :-)))

Fact is, that now one of my other machines with a GTX750ti inside has downloaded such a tasks, and the BOINC manager indicates a runtime of about 6 days. So all I can do is to abort the task, since the maximum completion time set by the project is 5 days.

It is too bad that the GPUGRID people now preclude hosts with older cards :-(
All they would have needed to do is to extend the time from 5 days to say 7 or 8 days.

So, for the time being, I have no other choice than switching back to Folding@home. In a way, this makes me sad, having been a permanent GPUGRID cruncher with 4 hosts for some 5 years.

The best time I'm getting so far is 62,103.88 and that is on a Titan Xp.

https://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=27022470

I noted that the CPU time is very closely tracking the Run time.
Looks like these tasks rely heavily on CPU performance.

My system has E7-4890 v2 @ 2.80GHz processors but it's decent.

Keith's system is running a RTX 2070 with the AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor so that seems to make a significant difference on the run times.

Actually that system has a 2080, 1080Ti and two 2070's in it.

Boinc just identifies the newest card as what the host contains.

Though in the case of https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32507970 the card used actually was the 1080Ti in the beginning and then finished up on one of the 2070's.

Which is surprising since every previous task has always failed whenever restarted on a different device.

I have the switch between tasks set at 360 minutes previously since no previous tasks have ever run longer than 6 hours in any of my hosts.

I will need to bump that up to cover the 2070 times.

[Edit] This task got switched out and restarted on a different device and failed as they always have in the past.
https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32509275

My PC system has an NVidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. It downloaded 2 tasks Feb 10th with an estimated Remaining task time of about 5 hours.

The first task has run for 26 hours, but it has 2 days (48 hours) Remaining! So my second task will not finish in time.

So please do limit the tasks that can be downloaded or increase the Deadline.

Is there a way to limit the number of tasks in Settings?

My PC system has an NVidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. It downloaded 2 tasks Feb 10th with an estimated Remaining task time of about 5 hours.

The first task has run for 26 hours, but it has 2 days (48 hours) Remaining! So my second task will not finish in time.

So please do limit the tasks that can be downloaded or increase the Deadline.

Is there a way to limit the number of tasks in Settings?

if you reduce the cache size in your compute preferences, that should prevent it from downloading too many. try 1-2 days.

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Running two tasks in parallel on one 1050Ti.
Had an app_config.xml for use with at 980Ti in place.
While one task supposedly will finish after about three days, those two parallel ones might finish within five days.

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Greetings, Jens

My 1st ADRIA_D3RBandit (batch2) finished in 34,758s (9h 39m 18s) on an RTX 2080Ti / Linux

My 1st ADRIA_D3RBandit (batch2) finished in 34,758s (9h 39m 18s) on an RTX 2080Ti / Linux

Unless I missed something, that's the best time so far

Mr. Kevvy @ 34,476s, 2080ti

https://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32510013

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Thank you Jans et al.

Definitely only running one one GPUGrid task on the GPU. That specific GPU 1050 Ti may have limitations related to memory or other resource.

I tried mucking with the config files more than a year ago and likely broke something. I do see some Warnings related to two .inc files, but did not find a root directory on my PC above /home/ps3grid/projects/PS3GRID mentioned in the warnings.

I do not see any online account Preferences related to number of tasks or cache for GPUGrid.

I can edit XML or HTML files pretty well, but should I do a full uninstall of BOINC, manually remove directories, and reinstall? Ughh, I use many BOINC projects. Any links to helpful reading info?

The project folder is called www.gpugrid.net, not ps3grid. It is at:

Windows
C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\www.gpugrid.net

Linux
/var/lib/boinc/projects

You can just remove the project if you want instead of all of BOINC.

My 1st ADRIA_D3RBandit (batch2) finished in 34,758s (9h 39m 18s) on an RTX 2080Ti / Linux

Thanks, it looks like my GTX 1650s will need around 45 hrs to complete one and my GTX 1060 3GB cards will need 40. My "supercooled" GTX 750ti has a predicted completion at around 100 hrs.

I aborted my spare WU from my job cache when I realized that it would expire before finishing. Many older cards won't make the 120 hr deadline and cause further delay, wasting GPU time and power.

WUs this large should be given more time, IMHO.

mmonnin said:

The project folder is called www.gpugrid.net, not ps3grid. It is at:

The warning message has the ps3grid path for some reason. It appears when I view GPUgrid preferences. All the more reason to remove GPUGRID once that task finishes!

You can just remove the project if you want instead of all of BOINC.

Yes mmonnin, good catch. I will try to just remove GPUGrid first. And maybe manually remove its root directory contents before I reinstall it.

Also I found some info about BOINC GPU info on the wiki here and downloaded the GPU-Z tool: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing

Pop Piasa said:

WUs this large should be given more time, IMHO.

I agree 100%! I just aborted my second task.

Maybe also consider increasing the estimated time by a factor of 10.

Task #32518256

34,274.07 seconds on a GTX 2080 Ti under Linux OS, owned by Retvari Zoltan

The best time I'm getting so far is 62,103.88 and that is on a Titan Xp.

https://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=27022470

I noted that the CPU time is very closely tracking the Run time.
Looks like these tasks rely heavily on CPU performance.

My system has E7-4890 v2 @ 2.80GHz processors but it's decent.

Keith's system is running a RTX 2070 with the AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor so that seems to make a significant difference on the run times.

Run time: 54,221s (15h 3m 41s)
GPU: Titan Xp driver: 460.39
OS: Linux Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS [5.4.0-65]
CPU: Intel Core i3-4360 CPU @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3 1866MHz

34,035s, by my 2080ti.

http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=32518148

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