Posts by Copycat-Digital for WCG*

1) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2677) Posted 16 Feb 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: It seems to be. I'll try to take a look and hopefully fix it this weekend. I started a new day job at the start of Feb and that's eating away my free time. :( -w Thanks Teemu Received the first "Huge" WUs
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Any HD 6970 users out there? (Message 2641) Posted 14 Feb 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: I had a Sapphire HD6950 OCd to 840 MHz that gave me +- 300k / day running 24/7 Using Sapphire's TRIXXS * before the bad fragmented WUs that started early in Dec, Running @ 840 I used build in utility to regulate the temp. to be below 70 deg Fan speed @ between 55 to 65% with 98% GPU usage Then V1.03 started I upp'ed the GPU performance with the app-info running 2x WUs to get better run times & recover my RAC because I was getting only the "normal" 192 WUs With the same fan settings the GPU temp jumped to 78deg + Fan speed @ 80% + R.I.P The one cooling fan ( this card got 2 fans) said "bye for now" after only 4 months! Supplier said I abused it and don't want to replace it :( $$$$ down the drain
3) Message boards : Number crunching : using app_info is causing me to get the "normal" 192 wu's (Message 2589) Posted 9 Feb 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: My points are going down a bit What can I do to get back to "huge" wu's Same here I tried to change the app_info <flops> parameter as Teemu suggested but with no joy A single HD5950 running 2 wus averages about 10 standard (192) wu's / hour I also noticed that there are more fragmented wus (many takes 3x times longer)in the 192 range compared to the "huge"768 range I used to receive before the v1.03 update. Any news on the user selecting what wu size option Teemu? Even with the increased GPU usage & power consumption my RAC is still dropping :(
4) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2458) Posted 31 Jan 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: It could be the flops setting in the app-info file that affects this This is the value in the app-info for for the 6950 running duel tasks <flops>1157115231469.729200</flops> Any suggestion what it should be?
5) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2438) Posted 29 Jan 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: I might also tweak the actual size of these work as I aim for one task to take around 1-2h to crunch. A project pref to set the size preference is not out of the question either. Except that pref probably needs to be host specific, somehow.. -w After 6 days I'm still receiving normal (192s) on the 6950 & 6850. Could it be something in the app-info file causing this. They take about 15 min each average where a normal non fragmented task takes about 8 to 10 minutes each when running 2 tasks on a single GPU. I noticed some very bad ones running up to 38 min With the large tasks (768s) I get much better performance It will be appreciated if you can make this option available when you get a break. Thanks again for the support we all received in the past
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Runtimes with 1.3 version (Message 2396) Posted 24 Jan 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: Overnight the results on the HD5850 are run times @ 1200 seconds (was 2,300) and credit 1750, was @6.5K to 7.0K. Weider and weirder. My experience so far I looked at the run time Iâ€™m getting with a sayâ€192â€ task on a HD6950 running 2 WU together using the app-info. It varies between 625 & more than double 1435 seconds. All of then gave 1766 credits This makes it impossible to fine-tune a box by looking at the run times . The priority change from 4 to 9 should affect only those running the CPU hungry ATI 11.7 up if the box is running CPU apps on all the cores. Iâ€™m running 11.4 it shows a peak usage of 0.1 CPU x 2 in task manager. I did try 11.8 & the 11.9 but with zero performance increase. All I got was the CPU usage jumping to 1 causing the GPU to wait for CPU time. I read somewhere that this bug should be fixed when they release 12.1
7) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2368) Posted 22 Jan 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: The modifications Teemu made stopped the HTTP error with 0.5 for 2 tasks OCd to 840 Mhz core the GPUs are running cool below 70deg @ 99% usage with memory clock dropped to 700 Mhz The graphs showed a nice upswing in performance on a single 6950 in one box & a 5850 in another running 2 WUs together. But now Moo sees it as slower cards due to the increased run-time & start sending me "tiny" 190s WUs. Result - performance lower than before :( Back to square one
8) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2338) Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: I'll see if I can fix that so that you can use such interesting setup. Tks Teemu In the meantime I have "no new tasks " on while running 2 WUs together
9) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2329) Posted 20 Jan 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: Thanx Zydor! That did the thing I testing it on a XP box with a single HD5950 With <count>0.5</count> it's running 2 WUs using 99% GPU power but HTTP error when Moo request new tasks now the funny part: When I stop boinc mgr & change it 1.0 count, restart boinc then it reports the completed tasks without an error & get new work. I stopped/start changing the setting twice today to get new work All the WUs passed without an error Run times / WU is now between 58 and 65 minutes when it is running 2 together giving me about the same time of 29 - 32 min / WU with a single WU running I used to get that before the bad WUs started early in Dec. One change I plan to do in the appinfo is to change the max cpu back to 1 cause I'm running CAL 11.4 that does not hog the cpu
10) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2314) Posted 19 Jan 2012 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: We need an updated app_info for the 1.3 application. Agree Someone please XML is above me I was left behind when BASIC faded out with DOS
11) Message boards : Number crunching : ATI 12.1 - Preview (Message 1981) Posted 29 Dec 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: Downloaded & installed the preview of 12.1 from your url It's running now for 24 hrs on a XP pro box with a HD5850 CPU down to 0.1 & no errors but no performance increase compared to 11.4
12) Message boards : News : Happy Holidays! (Message 1955) Posted 28 Dec 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: Was away for a few days & got a big surprise. Thanks Teemu! It helps to get back what we lost the past 2 weeks The funny bit is: even though my personal credits roughly doubled the last days Strange that before he/she's credits doubled @ Moo 90% of the credits came from PG & Collatz & a tiny 0.1% from WCG Let's respect other's choice where to crunch before pointing a finger
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Faulty WUs (Message 1859) Posted 21 Dec 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: All ATI drivers 11.5 up hogs the CPU & use a full CPU core to feed the GPU I'm running a 5850 & a 6950 both OCd to 860 but the Mem clock dropped to 650 with driver 11.4. The CPU usage is down to 1% If I use any driver from 11.6 & up the CPU usage jumps to 24% on a quad This is nearly a full CPU core of the quad I get very few failures just a lot of inconsistent run-times with the latest batch of WUs Even that it is mid summer here with very little aircon & the heavy OC the GPU temps are below 78c deg I told Teemu about this because DNETC was running fine with 11.5 up He replied that he dont understand this cause Moo & DNETC was on the same software supplied by Dist Net It seems that there is somewhere a big communication gap
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Faulty WUs (Message 1813) Posted 19 Dec 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: Hi Teemu well these will hopefully pass soon It's now almost 10 days & no changes Like I said before this affects different cards in different ways My slower HD4870 runs almost the same times as before with the shorter WUs On the other side the HD5850 still runs 30% longer. I can do better @ Collatz You have to do something to fix this because we are losing a lot of credits Surely this is not a nice Xmas present
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Faulty WUs (Message 1768) Posted 16 Dec 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: The increase in time vary from card to card. On my HD6950 it is about 10 - 15% longer but on the older HD5850 that is normally 5% slower than the 6950 the time increased to about 30 - 35%. Both cards are optimized to run on the fastest GPU core with a free CPU core available on both PCs My personal RAC dropped from 835k (on the 10th) to currently 775k & is still falling rapidly I checked my failed WUs & found only 4 so this can't be the reason
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Faulty WUs (Message 1762) Posted 16 Dec 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: I'm having the same longer crunch times A 768 used to take about 30 minutes on a 5850 / 6950 Now it is up to 38 minutes
17) Message boards : Number crunching : MILESTONES (Message 1169) Posted 11 Oct 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: My 1st 100 mil here!
18) Message boards : Number crunching : High CPU usage on Win GPU app (Message 1145) Posted 3 Oct 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: Update to catalyst 11.9... that one fixed the high cpu load issue for me. I tried 11.99 on 3 PCs in different locations - but no improvement - still 25% usage. My GPU's run cool @ 65 - 70 deg C and what core they use on your system to achieve that Normally the default core setting -1 for core 0 is the fastest for me. I even experimented to force the normally slowest cores 1 & 2 but with no effect on the CPU usage I think the answer is at ATI/AMD & find out what they changed in release 11.6 >
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Huge WUs crunching time on an HD5850 (Message 1104) Posted 28 Sep 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: My HD5850 is OC'd to GPU 855MHz / Mem 1180MHz Another thing I forgot to mention is the ATI/AMD's CAL version I found with Win 32 bit anything over CAL 11.5 runs at a very high CPU (25%) where it should run at only 2% I use CAL 11.4 on all my PCs This happens only here at Moo! DNETC is OK with the later CAL releases Keep in mind WU size vary - look at the last 5 digets of the WU name
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Huge WUs crunching time on an HD5850 (Message 1095) Posted 26 Sep 2011 by Copycat-Digital for WCG* Post: Try to up the Processor Usage priority from 4 to 9 in "dnetc-1.00.ini" (in the Moo folder) CPU hogging projects starve Moo and it is not getting CPU power to do it's GPU thing Also look for screen savers etc Look at my PC "Floor" with an OC'd 5850 It's doing about 300k / day Hope it helps

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