Boinc and multiple projects

[deerslayer]

I'm crunching Rosetta@home on my CPU now that that F@H race is over. It doesn't appear that Rosetta can use my AMD GPU, so can I add another project and use only the GPU on that (PrimeGrid)?

 

[Ken g6]

Absolutely. In your selected project's preferences, you'd check the AMD GPU checkbox at the top, but not the CPU.

What GPU do you have? I hope you'll be willing and able to use it in the race starting Friday.

 

[Assimilator1]

Depending upon on which GPU you have you could crunch F@H, S@H, & MilkyWay@H, to name just the ones I can remember offhand .

Oh & Asteroids@h has just started GPU crunching for Nvidias.

 

[biodoc]

Here's a link for Boinc projects with AMD/ATI GPUs. I think it's pretty much up to date except WCG doesn't have an curently active GPU project.

 

[deerslayer]

Is there another boinc client? Like the CLI client for seti back in the day? I'm not seeing what you described Ken. Oh and I planned to run the prime grid race.

Right now I have this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161402

Sometime next week I should be running this one as well: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...&SID=u00000687

 

[biodoc]

Go to the project home page. Then click on the link to your account. On that page there will be a link to project preferences. Once that opens there are options to use CPU and/or GPUs. Uncheck CPU and check the appropriate GPU that you are using.

 

[deerslayer]

Does 18 hours sound right for "Genefer 2.10 (atiGFN)"? I think this is a Pony Express WU. I hope it is anyway.

Unfortunately I missed some check boxes on my PrimeGrid prefs and I have a bunch of other stuff running on my CPU right now blocking Rosetta from running.

 

[Ken g6]

Does 18 hours sound right for "Genefer 2.10 (atiGFN)"? I think this is a Pony Express WU. I hope it is anyway.

That sounds very wrong. Because my GTX 460 is taking 22.5 hours, and a $100 GPU shouldn't be faster than that.

No, seriously, that sounds very good. But are you taking the number from the BOINC estimate, estimating it yourself from the WU progress and time, or getting the estimate out of the file? The latter two are much more accurate than what BOINC tells you.

Unfortunately I missed some check boxes on my PrimeGrid prefs and I have a bunch of other stuff running on my CPU right now blocking Rosetta from running.

Uncheck the checkbox labeled:

Use CPU
Enforced by version 6.10+

And feel free to abort any unwanted PrimeGrid WUs. Unlike F@H, there are no consequences for a few aborted WUs: they'll just go to someone else, usually quite quickly.

 

[deerslayer]

That sounds very wrong. Because my GTX 460 is taking 22.5 hours, and a $100 GPU shouldn't be faster than that.

No, seriously, that sounds very good. But are you taking the number from the BOINC estimate, estimating it yourself from the WU progress and time, or getting the estimate out of the file? The latter two are much more accurate than what BOINC tells you.

From boinc.

Any idea why my HD 4650 won't pull any work? I thought I saw 4600 series on the list.

http://www.primegrid.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=420109

Oh and I unchecked those boxes. I saw the one at the top, but didn't notice they were checked within the projects. Apparently that top check box won't override the boxes below it.

 

[Ken g6]

The 4600 series only works on PPS Sieve. GFN requires double-precision floating point on the GPU. It's too bad that list doesn't have links to sections; the top three sections are PPS Sieve while the bottom three are GFN.

While there I looked at your GPUs. The 7700 may be only 2/3 as fast as my GTX 460. So you probably shouldn't try the stallion work on it. On the other hand, your 560ti might be able to do two stallion WUs in the race, if you choose to do that.

 

[biodoc]

Just to be safe, also uncheck the box "Send work from any subproject if selected projects have no work".

 

[deerslayer]

Somewhat related, whenever I look at my boinc client there are wus that say "ready to transmit" or something like, that. If I click the rosetta project and hit update it uploads them. How do I get it to upload them when they are done without having to update?

 

[GLeeM]

How do I get it to upload them when they are done without having to update?

Do you mean "ready to report"?
They will automatically report the next time you need more WUs or sooner.
If that is not soon enough, one option would be to shorten your work buffer time, that way it would get fewer WUs but more often thus reporting finished WUs.

There is another option - using a cc_config.xml file. Directions at the following site.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration
<report_results_immediately>0|1</report_results_immediately> If 1, each job will be reported to the project server as soon as it's finished, with an inbuild 60 second delay from completion of result upload. (normally it's deferred for up to a day, so that several jobs can be reported in one request). Using this option increases the load on project servers, and should generally be avoided. This is intended to be used only on computers whose disks are reformatted daily.