GPUgrid WU Feeder

[vaughan]

GPU grid has been running without a hitch on two of my systems for the last few days. It gets work OK, even has a cache of 4 tasks.

Seti Beta had some issues with no work messages but has settled down recently. I grabbed a cache of about 20 tasks the other day and its happily crunching them on the GPU card while I run Wieferich on all the CPU cores.

[Brucifer]

Have you tried the regular seti? I read that it was on the gpu's now too. Are you running all these on windows or linux? I looked at the folding@home and it appears to be only windows for cuda.

What boinc version are you running for gpugrid?

[sentient_life]

I thought I'd give GPUGrid a try on my 8500GT. Not gonna happen. The workunit runs, but it would've taken - if my calculations were correct - six days to finish. With the deadline at four days, I wouldn't have received credit. I even turned off a core on my Q6600 to allow more overhead to the GPU to no avail. She's just not fast enough. I'll come back to it later when finances improve to upgrade.

[Brucifer]

I definitely don't blame you on that. Seems rather stupid of the project to put out cuda work units that the lowest common denominator for cuda enabled hardware can't crunch within the time limit. #1 it is just a total waste of the contributor's time and equipment, and #2 makes one wonder about the rationality of the project managers.... even Homer Simpson could figure that one out.

[vaughan]

Have you tried the regular seti?

No.

I read that it was on the gpu's now too. Are you running all these on windows or linux?

Seti Beta on Windows XP 64 SP2 using BOINC 6.4.5 on a Q9550 @ 3.485GHz with 4GB Corsair Dominator RAM on an ASUS Rampage Formula mobo and an Inno3D 9800GTX+ 512MB GPU. Running RivaTuner 2.21. Seti Beta tasks take anywhere from 1min50sec to 2 hrs 50mins. The cache is several pages long in Boinc Manager Concurrently running 3 Wieferich clients.

GPUGrid on BOINC 6.4.5 using Windows XP Pro SP3 32bit on a Q6600 @ stock 2.40GHz on an ASUS Striker II Formula mobo with 4GB Corsair Dominator RAM (but due to Win 32 shows 3.25GB) and running an XFX GTX260(not +) 896MB GPU. Concurrently running 3 Wieferich, 1 Dimes and 4 eOn clients. GPUGrid full atom tasks take about 5 to 6 hours each. I have a cache of 3 tasks plus the one in progress.

I looked at the folding@home and it appears to be only windows for cuda.

What boinc version are you running for gpugrid?