Posts by HAL9000

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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems running wus on AMD R9 380. Suddenly Moo crashes card. (Message 7810)
Posted 22 Nov 2017 by HAL9000
Post:
I was about to share a link for a post where someone found an issue with the Intel OpenCL drive causing their R9 380 not to work on Moo.
Which also turned out to be the issues preventing my R9390X from working on Moo, and only Moo.
However that post was actually from you... so I guess it wouldn't be very helpful to you now.
I am using driver 15.12 which crashes every so often, but it fairs better than any 16.x driver on my system.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD RX 480 (Message 7591)
Posted 1 Feb 2017 by HAL9000
Post:
You could always try to download the newer version at distributed.net and use it instead.
dnet is running version 5.21 which moowrap has not updated to yet.
Just download it and rename it to the same name as the moowrap version.
programdata/boinc/projects/moowrap.net and replace the .exe

I'll have to give that a try sometimes to see if I can get my R9 390X to actually complete tasks without trashing them.
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Using All Nvidia GPUs - BOINC Exclusions are Ignored (Message 7502)
Posted 24 Nov 2016 by HAL9000
Post:
You can create an app_config.xml that should give you the desired results that you want.
4) Message boards : News : We have badges! (Message 7167)
Posted 5 May 2016 by HAL9000
Post:
However, don't you believe it would be nicer to have applications working properly on all GPU's (i.e. without app_info etc for 7950,7970, R9, ...)rather than badges ?


That's indeed "nicer", that's why the badges are the stock ones as they were easy to just enable. :) Even if changing badges and implementing new/different ones is not top priority, it's good to have recommendations/suggestions bouncing around.

At the moment I'm working on getting the wrapper refreshed so I can deploy the newer Dnet Clients that should fix various problems. Including getting an OpenCL app out that should work much better on newer cards. At least stability wise, if not necessarily performance.

-w

So 8 or 9 months of patient waiting later and still no badges!
Some of us little dogs need a bone throwing our way. :-)

I don't think anyone has been minding the store for several months.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : new build (Message 7046)
Posted 23 Mar 2016 by HAL9000
Post:
cant get it to work,so guess i really dont need it

What could you not get to work? Doing a copy/post into notepad, saving the as app_info.xml in the project folder, and restarting BOINC should be all that is needed.

The only reason I can think of as to why you might want to use app_info.xml is to increase the number of task on the GPU. However to do that you would really want to use app_config.xml instead.
6) Questions and Answers : Preferences : OpenCL won't download automatically for dual AMD GPU rig on Win 10, AMD16.3.1 driver (Message 7040)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by HAL9000
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So we really, really need to have the ability to specify our application preferences. The current Win 10 build with the new 16.3.1 drivers (well, any driver since launch) won't give me the OpenCL application to run. It just keeps throwing out Computation Errors all day (all week!) and keeps giving me only the Stream app.

I'd like to be able to use this rig as a gaming PC but newer games don't like me using the 14.11 drivers which used to somehow barely work with the Stream app before I nuked and started clean about a week ago. The inability to force OpenCL is killing me since I have to babysit the dnet client and can't use Moowrap.

I asked about that back in June, http://moowrap.net/forum_thread.php?id=413#6592, but it doesn't look like it has happened yet. So you have to go with an app_info.xml until then.

Also using Cat 15.7 or newer on my HD 6870 results in the OpenCL app not working. So I have to use the stream app for it.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : new build (Message 7028)
Posted 17 Mar 2016 by HAL9000
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still looking for that app info file if anyone has one thatll work with this thing

Not sure why you want an app_info.xml, but this is the one I use.
<app_info>
	<app>
		<name>dnetc</name>
		<user_friendly_name>Moo! Wrapper</user_friendly_name>
	</app>
	<file_info>
		<name>dnetc_wrapper_1.4_windows_intelx86__opencl_ati_101.exe</name>
		<executable/>
	</file_info>
	<file_info>
		<name>dnetc520-win32-x86-opencl.exe</name>
		<executable/>
	</file_info>
	<file_info>
		<name>dnetc-gpu-1.4.ini</name>
	</file_info>
	<file_info>
		<name>job-win32-opencl-520.1.xml</name>
	</file_info>
	<app_version>
		<app_name>dnetc</app_name>
		<version_num>104</version_num>
		<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
		<plan_class>opencl_ati</plan_class>
		<file_ref>
			<file_name>dnetc_wrapper_1.4_windows_intelx86__opencl_ati_101.exe</file_name>
			<main_program/>
		</file_ref>
		<file_ref>
			<file_name>dnetc520-win32-x86-opencl.exe</file_name>
			<copy_file/>
		</file_ref>
		<file_ref>
			<file_name>dnetc-gpu-1.4.ini</file_name>
			<open_name>dnetc.ini</open_name>
			<copy_file/>
		</file_ref>
		<file_ref>
			<file_name>job-win32-opencl-520.1.xml</file_name>
			<open_name>job.xml</open_name>
			<copy_file/>
		</file_ref>
		<coproc>
			<type>ATI</type>
			<count>1</count>
		</coproc>
	</app_version>
</app_info>
8) Message boards : Number crunching : new build (Message 6996)
Posted 26 Feb 2016 by HAL9000
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Thanks. The 16.x driver are still Beta. Once a 16.x driver moves to release I I'll give Moo another chance with the 390.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : new build (Message 6989)
Posted 23 Feb 2016 by HAL9000
Post:
Which driver are you using? I can see your OpenCL version is 1912.5 but that could be 15.11 or 15.12.

With Cat 15.7.1 on my R9 390x I'm getting:

[Feb 23 14:40:52 UTC] Unable to initialize OpenCL.
[Feb 23 14:40:52 UTC] *Break* Shutting down...
09:40:53 (3412): dnetc520-win32-x86-opencl.exe exited; CPU time 0.000000
09:40:53 (3412): input buffer 12 packets (2144 bytes), checkpoint file 0 packets (0 bytes), output buffer 0 packets (0 bytes)
09:40:53 (3412): premature exit detected, app exit status: 0xfffffffd
09:40:53 (3412): wrapper: running dnetc520-win32-x86-opencl.exe (-ini dnetc.ini -runoffline -multiok=1) - attempt 2/10
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Stream & OpenCL selectable for ATI? (Message 6595)
Posted 17 Jun 2015 by HAL9000
Post:
On my older notebook I'm only using the Radeon HD 6370m for crunching. Having run both the ati14 & opencl_ati_101 apps. I found the ati14 to be better for the system. As the extra CPU usage of the OpenCL app causes it to run just enough warmer to get to hot. So I would prefer to only run the ati14 app.
Not seeing any project options for this I was thinking <exclude_gpu> in the cc_config.xml. However it seems both apps look the same to BOINC.
======== Application versions ========
1) -----------
   application: dnetc
   version: 1.04
   project: Moo! Wrapper
2) -----------
   application: dnetc
   version: 1.04
   project: Moo! Wrapper

Is the only solution an app_info.xml?

EDIT: The Average processing rate for the ati14 was higher until recently when it dropped suddenly & I started getting OpenCL tasks again.


<exclude_gpu> means to exclude it from a project, not an application, so yes an app_info.xml file is your only way.

<exclude_gpu> does have the function to exclude down to the app level
<exclude_gpu>
   <url>project_URL</url>
   [<device_num>N</device_num>]
   [<type>NVIDIA|ATI|intel_gpu</type>]
   [<app>appname</app>]
</exclude_gpu>

So if they app names were something like dnetc_ati14 & dnetc_opencl_ati it would work. However I expected app_info was going to be the way to go. I just wasn't sure if someone had figured out something that wasn't clear to me.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Stream & OpenCL selectable for ATI? (Message 6592)
Posted 16 Jun 2015 by HAL9000
Post:
On my older notebook I'm only using the Radeon HD 6370m for crunching. Having run both the ati14 & opencl_ati_101 apps. I found the ati14 to be better for the system. As the extra CPU usage of the OpenCL app causes it to run just enough warmer to get to hot. So I would prefer to only run the ati14 app.
Not seeing any project options for this I was thinking <exclude_gpu> in the cc_config.xml. However it seems both apps look the same to BOINC.
======== Application versions ========
1) -----------
   application: dnetc
   version: 1.04
   project: Moo! Wrapper
2) -----------
   application: dnetc
   version: 1.04
   project: Moo! Wrapper

Is the only solution an app_info.xml?

EDIT: The Average processing rate for the ati14 was higher until recently when it dropped suddenly & I started getting OpenCL tasks again.





 
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