FormulaBOINC

[crashtech]

...edit: The advantage to doing it the way I do, is that when running CPU tasks also, I have found that sometimes if you set a high CPU usage for a GPU task, the GPU task will quit, in favor of letting a CPU task run. Obviously that is not optimal.

I never realized that might be happening! It's frustrating to be stuck at work with only minimal time to tweak the configs. I'll be feverishly at it tonoght...

 

[iwajabitw]

@crashtech @TennesseeTony I am running 2 tasks on each card, but I did it in the project preferences on the Einstein website. Just changed the 1.00 to 0.5. Does it matter that its not the app_config, more options or something?

 

[iwajabitw]

On the GTX980's I am doing 2 in 15 minutes and change according to Boinc Manger.

EDIT: Scratch that, the Nvidia's haven't updated to the 2 tasks per card yet.

All of these I have bunkered may run single until I flush and it updates.

But the R9 280x's are taking a little over 18 minutes running 2 per card.

 

[crashtech]

My results so far:

R9 290: 3 tasks, ~20:00 each.
R9 280x 3 tasks, ~30:00 each.
R9 Fury: 2 tasks, ~30:00 each.
GTX 1060 6GB #1: 2 tasks, ~28:00 each (Haswell Pentium)
GTX 1060 6GB #2: 2 tasks, ~30:00 each (Haswell i3 in use as office machine))
GTX 1060 6GB #3: 2 tasks, ~44:00 ~29:00! each (Sandy Celeron) (i3-2100)
HD 5870: 1 task, ~43:00 each.

 

[Ken g6]

Is it possible to stop CPU-only WUs from running on the dual core machines? They really don't have it in them to do both.

Sure. Create a new profile and turn off CPU work in preferences -> project (I think.) I'm not running CPU work at all.

 

[crashtech]

Well, I don't mind CPU tasks on at least one of the 12-core machines, and two others would probably be happy if I could feed them CPU-only work. Maybe I can't have it both ways.

 

[iwajabitw]

Sure. Create a new profile and turn off CPU work in preferences -> project (I think.) I'm not running CPU work at all.

Yeah I always uncheck the cpu tasks box in most gpu projects.

 

[crashtech]

This is prefs on the website you are talking about, right? I might play with different groupings (work, home) that can have different settings as was suggested for M@H. Haven't had the time!

 

[crashtech]

On the GTX980's I am doing 2 in 15 minutes and change according to Boinc Manger.

EDIT: Scratch that, the Nvidia's haven't updated to the 2 tasks per card yet.

All of these I have bunkered may run single until I flush and it updates.

But the R9 280x's are taking a little over 18 minutes running 2 per card.

I think you can stop and restart the client to enforce the changes.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Account/Preferences/Project is where you can create new profiles, and turn on/off CPU or GPU usage. Einstein's "modern" BOINC interface is hard to use in my opinion, compared to the old normal one.

@iwajabitw: never crossed my mind to touch these "GPU utilization factor of BRP apps: DANGEROUS! Only touch this if you are absolutely sure of what you are doing!
Wrong setting might even damage your computer!" Glad someone explained what the heck that did exactly anyway.

 

[iwajabitw]

I think you can stop and restart the client to enforce the changes.

I tried to but it didn't work. According to the forums it has to come in on the Update feature for new tasks, so unless I flush my cache out to get new tasks I think I will be stuck just for now. When I dump tomorrow the new tasks should be for 2 task.

 

[iwajabitw]

Account/Preferences/Project is where you can create new profiles, and turn on/off CPU or GPU usage. Einstein's "modern" BOINC interface is hard to use in my opinion, compared to the old normal one.

@iwajabitw: never crossed my mind to touch these "GPU utilization factor of BRP apps: DANGEROUS! Only touch this if you are absolutely sure of what you are doing!
Wrong setting might even damage your computer!" Glad someone explained what the heck that did exactly anyway.

Whats funny is I only know about that while doing all that DP vs SP research last week. Finally paid off!

 

[iwajabitw]

Is it time to flush?

 

[Ken g6]

Is it time to flush?

The race says it starts at 04/06/2017 16:00 (UTC). PrimeGrid says it's currently 2017-04-06 16:12:20. So, yes.

 

[iwajabitw]

All systems flushing. GTX980's updated to 2 tasks per card as expected!

 

[crashtech]

I guess I don't understand how to exclude the CPU WUs that are clogging up my dual cores, last night I was busy getting another GPU in service and now I'm back at work again.

 

[iwajabitw]

I guess I don't understand how to exclude the CPU WUs that are clogging up my dual cores, last night I was busy getting another GPU in service and now I'm back at work again.

hang on Ill get you a screen shot.

Ok doing this prom my phone. Einstein Homepage/Account/Preferences/ Project, it's should look like this.

 

[Ken g6]

hang on Ill get you a screen shot.

Ok doing this prom my phone. Einstein Homepage/Account/Preferences/ Project, it's should look like this.

You might want to set a different "Preference set" before you change that. Then go to your main account ("dashboard") page, click a computer, and change its "location" to that "Preference set" with the CPU off.

 

[crashtech]

Oh, good grief, I was looking under the "Computing" tab, where I intuitively just knew it had to be, lol. Thanks!

Edit: I think I pissed off Einstein, it's petulantly exclaiming that there is only CPU work available, but I don't want any, so nothing for me! lol

 

[iwajabitw]

You might want to set a different "Preference set" before you change that. Then go to your main account ("dashboard") page, click a computer, and change its "location" to that "Preference set" with the CPU off.

Yeah, that's a good idea, I rarely do CPU tasks so I leave it defaults or generic.

 

[iwajabitw]

Awesome start 1.9million, 1st Place for us!

Edit looks like we have 1st out of all leagues!

 

[crashtech]

Awesome start 1.9million, 1st Place for us!

Edit looks like we have 1st out of all leagues!

GO TeAm!!!!!!!!!

http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?sprint=2&lang=en&year=2017

 

[iwajabitw]

Looks like my dual GTX980's have settled in at 26-27 minutes running 2 Einstein tasks.

 

[crashtech]

My 290 looks like the best performer so far, 3 concurrent tasks at ~1230 seconds each (20:30)

 

[uallas5]

I've got 3 280X's going. One in a T7600 (2 x E5-2609's) which I was able to get bunkering last night. The other 2 are in a system which I didn't get on till early this morning so only had a few hours worth. Yesterday I brought home another "retired" T7600 from work which I got Windows installed on only just before the race began so no bunkering there but at least I got it online for the start of the race. It's got 2 Quadro K2000's which are actually doing 2 tasks at once in about 9 minutes each it looks like. I don't normally run E@H so I just edited the general preferences on the website. I was more concerned about having 2 tasks per 280X with a dedicated core each but it seems to be working with a good mix of CPU's and GPU's.