Posts by Bob Harris

1) Message boards : News : monitor suspend/resume bug in 295/296 drivers (Message 24203) Posted 1 Apr 2012 by Bob Harris Post: Do what? GPUGrid has to rely on the system to deal with these issues. Users that continuously fail tasks will stop getting tasks. If you ban users with specific drivers, unless the drivers universally fail, you will be banning users that complete tasks successfully too. Has anyone investigated why the tasks fail with some drivers? On a global scale, Nvidia will not change their drivers to pander to a relatively small group. Therefore, shouldn't GPUGRID be looking at re-writing the code required to untertake the tasks under the newer drivers? UPDATE: I have just done a casual check on some of the top performers on GPUGRID, and note that the majority of them are experiencing multiple failures of tasks. Even some of those with 285.xx drivers. Maybe there is something else wrong here? I am also active with Seti@home, and, with one unrelated exception, have no failures on those tasks...
2) Message boards : News : monitor suspend/resume bug in 295/296 drivers (Message 24202) Posted 1 Apr 2012 by Bob Harris Post: Do what? GPUGrid has to rely on the system to deal with these issues. Users that continuously fail tasks will stop getting tasks. If you ban users with specific drivers, unless the drivers universally fail, you will be banning users that complete tasks successfully too. Has anyone investigated why the tasks fail with some drivers? On a global scale, Nvidia will not change their drivers to pander to a relatively small group. Therefore, shouldn't GPUGRID be looking at re-writing the code required to untertake the tasks under the newer drivers?
3) Message boards : News : monitor suspend/resume bug in 295/296 drivers (Message 24200) Posted 1 Apr 2012 by Bob Harris Post: There are many many people out there with the 295.73 driver, and must be causing thousands of errors on the GPUGRID projects. People in general, will be reluctant to role back drivers to earlier versions, because GPUGRID is not the primary reason to own or use a computer. GPUGRID is wasting valuable data at this moment, because of many thousands of errors. Therefore, shouldn't the GPUGRID team do something themselves, instead of asking every member to change drivers?
4) Message boards : News : Server upgrade imminent (Message 22706) Posted 15 Dec 2011 by Bob Harris Post: Dears, just another reminder that we'll soon be upgrading the server software. There will be some down-time. Even though we planned the transition carefully, we can't anticipate exactly how long will it last (hopefully in the order of hours). Feel free to increase the work cache. T How can I increase the work cache? As far as I was aware, GPU Grid would only provide 1 wu per GPU, and not release another one until the first was complete. Adjusting the "Additional Work Buffer" in BOINC Tools to any other number of days, makes no difference whatsoever; I still only get 1 wu per GPU. I am interested in alternate ways to get more wu's.