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Message 7949 - Posted: 9 Mar 2018, 16:12:52 UTC
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I have a 960 and 950 in a Win 7 system. I was previously only letting BOINC use the 950, this morning I removed that restriction so the 960 could be used. Moo is assigning both GPUs to the same work unit. i.e.

Running (0.2 CPUs + 2 NVIDIA GPUs (devices 0,1))

However if I look at the GPU usage only the 950 (device 1) is actually being used. It is also running these work units much more quickly than before, about 110 seconds each.
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Message 7950 - Posted: 10 Mar 2018, 12:35:32 UTC - in response to Message 7949.  

Copy and paste this into NOTEPAD and then save it as a txt type file with the name cc_config.xml
into the folder c:\programfiles\boinc and exit and then restart Boinc and it should start using both gpu's

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

If you already have a cc_config.xml file just add the lines into the existing file.
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Message 7951 - Posted: 10 Mar 2018, 13:33:49 UTC

Yes I have that in the cc_config already. The system is currently running 2 Enigma GPU tasks at the same time with no issue.
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Message 7952 - Posted: 11 Mar 2018, 12:17:05 UTC - in response to Message 7951.  

Yes I have that in the cc_config already. The system is currently running 2 Enigma GPU tasks at the same time with no issue.


So it works elsewhere but you are saying here 2 units are both running on one gpu? I just checked the settings and they don't mention that at all.
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Message 7953 - Posted: 11 Mar 2018, 14:27:42 UTC - in response to Message 7952.  

No what I am saying is both GPUs are being assigned to a single work unit, something I have never seen before on other projects. So in Boinc manager status it looks like:

Moo! Wrapper Running(0.2 CPUs + 2 NVIDIA GPUs (devices 0, 1))

But again only one of the GPUs is showing any usage. I tried resetting the project but that did not change it. I will remove and re add it next, after I finish the current work units.
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Message 7954 - Posted: 12 Mar 2018, 10:01:44 UTC - in response to Message 7953.  

No what I am saying is both GPUs are being assigned to a single work unit, something I have never seen before on other projects. So in Boinc manager status it looks like:

Moo! Wrapper Running(0.2 CPUs + 2 NVIDIA GPUs (devices 0, 1))

But again only one of the GPUs is showing any usage. I tried resetting the project but that did not change it. I will remove and re add it next, after I finish the current work units.


I didn't think that was possible using current thinking and Boinc. I know gamers do it all the time but not in Boinc.
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