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littlepeaks
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 748 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have an ATI Radeon HD5670 / 1 GB GDDR5. Think that might meet the criteria for GPU crunching. Even though I configured WCG to receive GPU betas, I didn't get any. How can I tell if this was due to the sparseness of the betas, or my Graphics Card. I read WCG was supposed to test you system's capabilities before giving you GPU work. If you systems fails, do you receive a message (like your graphics card stinks), or do you just go on in the dark, hopelessly believing you will receive GPU Wus, which will never happen?
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Former Member
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I continue getting Betas, about 60 WU received up to now but all of the CPU type. It seems my GTX 580 GPU's do not receive any. Hypernova, I did check all the necessary parameters. ... Maybe I am missing something.  Is your BOINC installed as a service? For Windows GPU work, you need to have it installed as an application instead (something that I need to address too  ).I have BOINC installed as a service and GPU tasks for collatz and milky way ran ok. Is this just a WCG limitation as I have had no Beta GPU yet? |
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KWSN - A Shrubbery
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Scribe, it's a Windows 7 and Vista limitation (undecided if it affects XP) . Windows won't allow the hardware to talk directly to a service as a security measure. You'll have to have someone more knowledgeable than me explain it in detail.
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Former Member
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Well I have Windows 7 and BOINC installed as a service and have done Collatz and Milkyway GPU without a problem.....just not got any WCGGPU and not know if it is because of shortage or because of service....
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Former Member
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Scribe, does your BOINC Messages log ever say "World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU" or "World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU"? If not, you're probably not going to receive any
 . If it does say it's requesting them, then your Win7/service install seems to be magic.See the Nvidia CUDA & ATI Stream (CAL) FAQ, near the bottom: When I ran BOINC in XP as a service, it would detect the GPU. Now I have Windows Vista or Windows 7, when BOINC is installed as a service it won't detect the GPU. When will you fix that? It is not something for BOINC to fix. This is a Microsoft security feature, where it stops your user account from running in the same session as your drivers and services are run from. If it has to be fixed, it will have to come from Microsoft, or the GPU driver manufacturers have to find a way to run their drivers without using them as a service installation. |
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Former Member
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Yes it does request them, and the Win 7 is an upgrade from Vista, not a clean install. Also I have now re-installed BOINC as an Application and it is still the same. From what you say, it appears Vista with a service install WILL run GPU(Collatz & Milky). Upgrade from Vista to Win 7, service install, will also run GPU, but a clean/fresh Win 7 will not run as a service install.......?
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have an ATI Radeon HD5670 / 1 GB GDDR5. Think that might meet the criteria for GPU crunching. Even though I configured WCG to receive GPU betas, I didn't get any. How can I tell if this was due to the sparseness of the betas, or my Graphics Card. I read WCG was supposed to test you system's capabilities before giving you GPU work. If you systems fails, do you receive a message (like your graphics card stinks), or do you just go on in the dark, hopelessly believing you will receive GPU Wus, which will never happen? Go to messages in boinc, scroll to the top and look for around the 13th line where boinc recognizes your card. Should show what CAL version along with other info of your card. If it show 1.4 or higher, it should be working. Been deciding if I should install my 5670 in my other cruncher. If and when you do get one, can you post time crunched?
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Former Member
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My Message log states -
17/03/2012 06:02:52 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 430 (driver version 28562, CUDA version 4010, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 179 GFLOPS peak) |
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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It looks like I have the same video card as Scribe.
----------------------------------------3/16/2012 5:22:40 PM | | NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GT 430 (driver version 290.53, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 966MB available, 269 GFLOPS peak) There are no requests for GPU work units in the log, though I am not running as a service. But it has just been installed for 12 hours, and I am wondering whether it is the same problem that Bearcat sees. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...ead,32827_offset,0#369270 Shouldn't it ask for GPU work units even if the server doesn't have them? EDIT: I previously had BOINC (7.0.20, 64-bit) installed as a service, before uninstalling/reinstalling it. Maybe I should reset the project? [Edit 1 times, last edit by Jim1348 at Mar 17, 2012 10:03:46 AM] |
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Former Member
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Jim, your driver seems later than mine. When I upgraded to the latest driver all my GPU tasks on Collatz and Milkyway errored out, so I had to drop back to the earlier version for them to work.
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