PS3Grid Clients etc...

[Bender10]

I hope this help's out future users. I have to keep wading through the scattered posts on the site

http://www.ps3grid.net/

looking for information on how safe are the drivers and stuff.



Latest GPU enabled Boinc (all) Windows Client is: 6.4.5

Latest GPU enabled Boinc Linux32 Client is: 6.4.5

Latest GPU enabled Boinc Linux64 Client is: 6.4.5

(the Client files are not the same for Win and *nix...)

Nvidia Driver: >= 177.67

PS3 Linux Client: 5.10.6 This is the version I am running. Not sure what is current.
PS3 Client is Here: http://www.ps3grid.net/live.php

Here are some links that should help....

Recommended GPU's Link:
http://www.ps3grid.net/forum_thread.php?id=316

Boinc Clients: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

Boinc Client repository: http://boincdl.ssl.berkeley.edu/dl/

If this helps, I will keep it up to date....and add more info.

[Bender10]

New information above.

[vaughan]

Thanks Bender10.

I couldn't get work today, then updated BOINC from 6.3.14 to 6.3.19 and it connected.

[Bender10]

The 6.3.19 client is still not quite right. It is not letting the GPU and CPU's to play well together. This might be a Windoze only problem. My Linux64 box seems to be running fine with 4 CPU + 1 GPU tasks running, with the GPU using only 1-2% of CPU time....

I have to check my Win64 box this afternoon.

And it might be a 32bit OS problem...?

[AMDave]

Hmm. Not so sure on that.

I'm running on Ibex 64-bit with the 177.80 driver with a 9600 GT
You are right about the CPU vs GPU balance.
My PC turned into a sloth for a day.
Towards the end of the day I suspended the CPU wus and the GPU progress was much faster.

I have paused the GPU work for the moment because I need to use my GPU workstation over the weekend.

[Bender10]

New (ALPHA) Clients are out. See 1st post. No Linux64 yet.

This client is supposed to (again) be better, and they have cleaned up the code a bit also.

Here are the changes:

* client: /proc/N/stat has () around the command name. Remove these.
* client: the preemptability order was wrong
* client: cleaned up CPU scheduler logic somewhat
* client: include precompiled header in rr_sim.cpp so memory leak detection will work.
* MGR: Have the BaseFrame call a function to determine if the selection list should be saved instead of traversing the application pointer. Each view just overrides the function returning a true/false value. We don't have to worry about null pointers and the like.
* MGR: BOINCGUIApp should never need to know how either the views work or the document. Move the code that determines which RPCs should be fired into each of the views. Have the document look for it there.
* MGR: Reduce duplicate code for hiding and showing an application
* MGR: Move some Windows and Mac specific code into functions and streamline the application startup and shutdown rountines.
* MGR: Move the event processing that was in BOINCGUIApp into the BaseFrame.
* MGR: General cleanup.
* MGR: Doxygen comments.
* MGR: Cleanup some warnings
* MGR: Fix show / hide on Mac broken by previous changes
* Rebuild libcurl x86 and x64 (turn off async DNS) for Windows only
* client: revise round-robin simulation to take variable avg_ncpus into account
* Mac SCR: fix some real and potential crash bugs

[mitchellds]

Ah, Finally hit a million with my ps3's. Man that took a long time....................

Lets me appreciate the effort Bender has put into this project with his almost 3 Million.

I've been watching the threads on the cpu/gpu contention thing with the grid boinc client. I'm thinking on buying this monster GPU shortly to add to the fray.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130402

[Bender10]

Yikes!!!...

[vaughan]

I read somewhere that the 9800GX2's are very hot and noisy. Might be a powerful GPU for crunching tho'

[Bender10]

All clients are now at version 6.3.21...

I'm running XP 64 and Ubuntu(64) 8.10 boxes. Both seem to be fine running 6.3.21.

XP 64 still has a memory problem (it locks up memory and will 'error out' wu's after a few days. You must re-boot every other day to avoid this).