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Unixchick
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It is great to see some of my seti friends on the boards. Thanks to the team that made gpu processing possible. I'm enjoying trying them out on my machine.
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sam6861
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To get opng jobs and run a specific other wcg CPU project (only it)? In website device profile,- Turn on "If there is no work available for the project(s) I have selected above, please send me work from another project." - Turn off OpenPandemics and turn on other projects. - Turn on some or all of: Use AMD / NVidia / intel graphics card. - Make sure project limits is very high or unlimited. (scroll down to the bottom) - If you want to, BOINC project preference, store 0.5 days or less. CPU can always do the selected projects as long as selected projects have some CPU work available. GPU will check if other projects have GPU work, nothing there, then with "please send me work from another project." on, can send GPU tasks from OpenPandemics. There appear to be very little amount of OpenPandemic GPU work so it may take a while to grab any GPU tasks. |
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gibbcorp
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Thank you for this. Looking forward to improving my output.
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nanoprobe
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To get opng jobs and run a specific other wcg CPU project (only it)? In website device profile,- Turn on "If there is no work available for the project(s) I have selected above, please send me work from another project." - Turn off OpenPandemics and turn on other projects. - Turn on some or all of: Use AMD / NVidia / intel graphics card. - Make sure project limits is very high or unlimited. (scroll down to the bottom) - If you want to, BOINC project preference, store 0.5 days or less. CPU can always do the selected projects as long as selected projects have some CPU work available. GPU will check if other projects have GPU work, nothing there, then with "please send me work from another project." on, can send GPU tasks from OpenPandemics. There appear to be very little amount of OpenPandemic GPU work so it may take a while to grab any GPU tasks. Im pretty sure this will not work if he’s using the OPNG profile that has send work for CPU set to no even if he turns off OPNG and enables other projects. He will have to set send CPU work back to yes. Much easier to use 2 distinct profiles and just switch back and forth between them IMHO.
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Michael Goetz
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To get opng jobs and run a specific other wcg CPU project (only it)? I can't find it. The workaround doesn't work so good, so I'm asking. That was asked for earlier (by me, among others). Apparently it requires some high-level discussion and re-configuring at WCG. I haven't heard back about it since. It is an obvious thing to want, but as long as they have enough GPUs to support the project, I doubt they will make it a high priority. YES, there is a way to make this work. It's a little more complicated than setting a few options on a webpage, however. 1) Create TWO BOINC installations on your computer. You will need to set a special BOINC option to make this work. Include <allow_multiple_clients>1</allow_multiple_clients> in the <options> section of cc_config.xml, and then install two copies of BOINC in different directories with different data directories. Failure to properly set <allow_multiple_clients> will usually result in the server declaring most of your tasks as errors. 2) Create two venues at WCG -- one set up to run only GPU tasks, and one set up to run only CPU tasks. 3) Attach both BOINC installations to WCG, and assign one to the first venue and the other to the second venue. Alternate method: 1) Create two venues, as before. One for the CPU apps, one for the GPU apps. 2) Attach your BOINC installation to the WCG and use the GPU venue. 3) Create a VM on your computer, and inside the VM install BOINC. Attach this copy of BOINC to WCG and have it use the CPU venue. The host machine's BOINC will run the GPU tasks, and the BOINC inside the VM will run the CPU tasks. Note that you can not reverse the venues; GPU apps can't run inside the VM. This second option only makes sense if you already have a VM running on the computer. For example, a few of my Windows machines have Linux VMs so I can run Linux-only when needed. |
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kittyman
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This all seems like a lot of manipulations for incredibly little return. Unless the rate of GPU work creation increases significantly, the odds at this point of any single user getting much GPU work to speak of are practically nil.
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Grumpy Swede
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This all seems like a lot of manipulations for incredibly little return. Unless the rate of GPU work creation increases significantly, the odds at this point of any single user getting much GPU work to speak of are practically nil. Yep, more than 12 hours now since I've seen any GPU work, and that was 2 iGPU tasks. 21 hours since I last finished any Nvidia tasks. Only 81600 WU's/day means that there's a much bigger chance to win a million in the lottery, than getting any GPU work. But to end this post on a positive note: There's spring in the air.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Grumpy Swede at Apr 7, 2021 4:52:16 PM] |
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adict2jane
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Uplinger said it would be a slow roll out. The work will come, give it time.
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spRocket
Senior Cruncher Joined: Mar 25, 2020 Post Count: 280 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm figuring these work units are going to be a bit sporadic. For me, a bunch went by in my sleep early this morning, but I haven't seen any in about eight hours since then. I do at least keep my queue fairly short on the Ryzen/GTX 960 box.
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Crystal Pellet
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Only 81600 WU's/day means that there's a much bigger chance to win a million in the lottery, than getting any GPU work. Then I need a lottery ticket. On my AMD Radeon HD 7770 I got 101 so far.On my Intel iGPU HD Graphics 4400 I got 'only' 3 and that's now almost 1 day ago and all three still pending validation. |
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