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TennesseeTony said:
...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. 😉
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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...
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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crashtech said:
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.
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Sure. Create a new profile and turn off CPU work in preferences -> project (I think.) I'm not running CPU work at all.
 
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.
 
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!
 
iwajabitw said:
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.
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I think you can stop and restart the client to enforce the changes.
 
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. 😀
 
crashtech said:
I think you can stop and restart the client to enforce the changes.
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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.
 
TennesseeTony said:
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. 😀
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Whats funny is I only know about that while doing all that DP vs SP research last week. Finally paid off!
 
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. 🙁
 
crashtech said:
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. 🙁
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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.
 
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iwajabitw said:
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.
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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.
 
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
 
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Ken g6 said:
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.
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Yeah, that's a good idea, I rarely do CPU tasks so I leave it defaults or generic.
 
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.
 
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