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Former Member
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I am putting together an 'old' rig as a cruncher ... and looking for my best WCG results. The COVID-19 Project would be great BUT, are there other suitable project(s) that best utilize my 'talents' ??
2x Sapphire Radeon Nitro R9 Fury 4GB HBM "Fiji PRO CB - Pirate Islands" (215-0862046) OpenCL: 2.0 Win 7-64 Radeon Adrenalin 20.4.2 - testing on the 'Gaming' set-up and will bench on the 'Compute' set-up to see how she rolls. My understanding is that 'AMD Radeon Pro for Enterprise' is good-to-go on the rig, and I am not adverse to modding the dual BIOS on those GPUs. FX-6350 6-core @ 4.5GHz/1.3v - Thermal margin is ridiculously low. 4.8GHz at 1.35v is 'toasty' but within margins - 5GHz+ is doable @ 1.41v with the AC on 'high' and a fan pointed at those GB FETs  Any help? |
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Former Member
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For what it is worth, Techpowerup says ...
FP32 (float): 7.526 TFLOPS FP64 (double): 470.4 GFLOPS (1:16) |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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OPN1 will indeed support GPU's. WCG received the code just last week.
----------------------------------------There are several projects out here with support for AMD GPU's. Milkyway@home and Einstein@home, for example. Always reserve at least 1 core for each GPU (or even 1 core for each GPU task running, you can run more than 1 task per GPU) Medical projects using GPU's, well, I can only think of Folding@home. It's not BOINC based though. As for the rest, can't really help.  - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Reserving 1 CPU core for each GPU is the norm but Einstein have one sub-project (BRP4) which only needs nominal half thread,leaving 8 threads for WCG. I am doing that with my GPU (Intel) and it doesn't seem to slow down WCG work on that thread. I have an 4-core/8-thread machine and it shows 9 slots in use (0-8).
I suspect it is only using the thread for downloading and uploading. Mike |
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mgpointner
Advanced Cruncher Argentina Joined: Nov 16, 2009 Post Count: 55 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have a laptop with 8 threads and GPU Geforce GTX1050ti. For GPU I run Folding at home using one thread to feed it and for CPU I run OpenPandemics (8 threads) and it doesn't seem to slow down WCG work on that thread
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My Einstein@Home states 0.5 CPUs + 1 Intel GPU when running GRP4 (Gravitational Radio Pulsar) so I presume your Folding is similar.
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hiimebm
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 19, 2014 Post Count: 305 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I remember seeing the (Forli? Spelling?) Lab mentioning GPU support on Twitter? Is that really coming soon?
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hwierzbicki
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 1, 2016 Post Count: 55 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Supposedly coming soon for both OPN and FAH.
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duanebong
Advanced Cruncher Singapore Joined: Apr 25, 2009 Post Count: 134 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thinking of purchasing a new graphics card to prepare for this project - should I get NVIDIA or AMD? Currently I have a GTX960, which is several years old and may not be the best way to spend electricity.
----------------------------------------In many other GPU computing projects (FAH / GPUGrid) I experienced that NVIDIA is usually better supported due to the maturity CUDA. But seems OPN1 will be using OpenCL? Which will architecture is better for this?  |
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Maxxina
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jan 5, 2008 Post Count: 137 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Wait for september when nvidia will show ampere stuff . These cards will be interesting ones
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