Posts by Donnie

1) Message boards : Number crunching : ATI 12.2 vs. BOINC (Message 2885) Posted 11 Mar 2012 by Donnie Post: If I may use this thread as I want to ask the following: Can anybody tell me what drivers will recognize the Radeon 7770 graphics card? I put 2 HD7770s in a machine and went to AMDs website for the drivers. As of 03/07/2012, 12.2 was listed as the only driver. I believe the website didn't list it as 12.2, but when I downloaded it, thats what the file neme said.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Moo does not like 7.X.X BOINC (Message 2871) Posted 10 Mar 2012 by Donnie Post: I have come to the conclusion that Moo will not run GPU tasks under any BOINC version above 6.12.34. You can get Moo to run under 7.x.x by using the app_info.xml file in the Moo Project folder. Use the count 1 option as listed below. Be sure to watch the temp on the GPU as this has usually increased the temps on my GPUs upward of 10C. I take it you're using the cc_config.xml file with the exclude GPU statement. <app_info> <app> <name>dnetc</name> <user_friendly_name>Distributed.net Client</user_friendly_name> </app> <file_info> <name>dnetc_wrapper_1.3_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>dnetc518-win32-x86-stream.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <file_info> <name>dnetc-gpu-1.3.ini</name> </file_info> <file_info> <name>job-ati14-1.00.xml</name> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>dnetc</app_name> <version_num>103</version_num> <platform>windows_intelx86</platform> <avg_ncpus>0.15</avg_ncpus> <max_ncpus>1.0</max_ncpus> <plan_class>ati14</plan_class> <flops>1157115231469.729200</flops> <file_ref> <file_name>dnetc_wrapper_1.3_windows_intelx86__ati14.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>dnetc518-win32-x86-stream.exe</file_name> <copy_file/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>dnetc-gpu-1.3.ini</file_name> <open_name>dnetc.ini</open_name> <copy_file/> </file_ref> <file_ref> <file_name>job-ati14-1.00.xml</file_name> <open_name>job.xml</open_name> <copy_file/> </file_ref> <coproc> <type>ATI</type> <count>1.0</count> </coproc> </app_version> </app_info>
3) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2812) Posted 3 Mar 2012 by Donnie Post: That IS EXACTLY what I want, but I use Boinc version 6! I may have to move those multi gpu machines over to version 7, hmmm. Thank you!! No problem. I use BOINC 7.0.18 with the below cc_config file and have no issues with scheduling, receiving or sending completed tasks, and using the 2 different GPUs. I discoverd on one of my dual GPU machines I had to have the use_all_gpus statement to have BOINC use both GPUs. Before I found this, BOINC 7.x.x would recognize both GPUs but only use 1 of them. I don't know if it's 7.0.18 or the reports statement that keeps the cache full, but 7.0.8 didn't (I didn't have the cc_config file then). You can suspend all tasks and set the projects to no new tasks and let the running WUs finish to upgrade. When you go from 6.x.x to 7.x.x, it will not destroy your current WUs on hand. Going from 7.x.x to 6.x.x is a different story. Good luck.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : App_info..xml (Message 2799) Posted 1 Mar 2012 by Donnie Post: I want to put 2 mismatched gpu's in one machine, perhaps an Nvidia and an AMD, perhaps 2 AMD's. In either case they will NOT be the same model I believe the only way to accomplish this task is to use the cc_config.xml file placed in the main BOINC folder. I have the same issue on one of my machines. cc_config.xml: <cc_config> <options> <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus> <exclude_gpu> <url>http://http:/moowrap.net/</url> <device_num>0</device_num> </exclude_gpu> <exclude_gpu> <url>http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/</url> <device_num>1</device_num> </exclude_gpu> <report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately> </options> </cc_config> The only caveat is you have to use BOINC 7.x.x or the exclude statements are not recognized. In the above example, I'm telling BOINC not to use device 0 for moowrap and not to use device 1 for collatz. Hope this helps.