New SETI gauntlet Sept 25-Oct16

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
Stats time soon - in less than 2 hours.
I almost can't wait ...

I can't wait either!

I moved my last linux box over to windows to get my 3rd video card into action (3 days ago). All 3 of my quads are running windows so linux is on the shelf for now.🙁 Now I know I'm a stats junkie.:laugh:

 

[Neurodog]

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
Stats time soon - in less than 2 hours.
I almost can't wait ...

I can't wait either!

I moved my last linux box over to windows to get my 3rd video card into action (3 days ago). All 3 of my quads are running windows so linux is on the shelf for now.🙁 Now I know I'm a stats junkie.:laugh:

Me too!

I just passed 300k and made it to the first page 😀

 

[Philippart]

we're losing ground... we dropped to #4 🙁

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Philippart
we're losing ground... we dropped to #4 🙁

I'm maxed out in power at my place... i can't add anything more otherwise i'm playing musical chairs with circuit breakers :shocked:

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Philippart
we're losing ground... we dropped to #4 🙁

We've been #4 since the first release of the race stats, but we're in striking distance of 3rd and maybe even 2nd place. Seti.USA just blasted right out of the gates with a massive amount of points. They must have held back on 75% of their hardware until a day or 2 before the start.:shocked:

Hang in there!🙂

 

[petrusbroder]

I am still not maxed out --- but soon!
As Biodoc said: Hang in there! 🙂

 

[biodoc]

Stats are out!!

We're only ~650 points from 3rd place!!!:beer::thumbsup:

"The Others" should have moved up a spot today but they're listed as 15th place. They have more points than the 14th place team! Maybe the stats are still updating?

 

[petrusbroder]

Looks good - now get up and assimilate more computers, change to the optimized clients and produce ...

... more, More, MOre, MORe, MORE and even MORE

 

[Neurodog]

Nice numbers Peter!

I think I'm pretty much maxed out now.

 

[Jalapeno]

What's up with Rudy Toody?

 

[bryanW1995]

go team!

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Jalapeno
What's up with Rudy Toody?

maybe he was captured by the enemy?!!? :Q.. or maybe he was captured by aliens cause he found them out :shocked:

 

[Rudy Toody]

Hey, guys! Wait for me!

I have 2 quads at 100% SETI, now.

One will be intermittant because I have to suspend for my sieving project. My 3rd one is doa until I get the mobo RMA'd.

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
Hey, guys! Wait for me!

I have 2 quads at 100% SETI, now.

One will be intermittant because I have to suspend for my sieving project. My 3rd one is doa until I get the mobo RMA'd.

Welcome to the race RT!! Awesome!!:thumbsup:

 

[Wiz]

So I'm looking at my machine that I had CUDA running on but it (CUDA) hasn't been working in a week.
It had an RAC of about 11,200 and now after many days running without CUDA it's at 11,138.

Why so little difference? It dipped down to about 10,500 but is back up to 11,138 this morning.
I would think CUDA would add a lot more than that.

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Wiz
So I'm looking at my machine that I had CUDA running on but it (CUDA) hasn't been working in a week.
It had an RAC of about 11,200 and now after many days running without CUDA it's at 11,138.

Why so little difference? It dipped down to about 10,500 but is back up to 11,138 this morning.
I would think CUDA would add a lot more than that.

I'm assuming that it's this machine.
by those stats I would think that you would be getting higher numbers... something doesn't seem right.. well... is this computer being used for anything else?

 

[Wiz]

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: Wiz
So I'm looking at my machine that I had CUDA running on but it (CUDA) hasn't been working in a week.
It had an RAC of about 11,200 and now after many days running without CUDA it's at 11,138.

Why so little difference? It dipped down to about 10,500 but is back up to 11,138 this morning.
I would think CUDA would add a lot more than that.

I'm assuming that it's this machine.
by those stats I would think that you would be getting higher numbers... something doesn't seem right.. well... is this computer being used for anything else?

Yes, that's the one.
Maybe it's the OS. Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM.
Maybe it's doing something "special".
It really isn't doing any work, I don't think it ever goes to sleep or hibernating or doing anything other than Seti. I don't understand it, and I don't understand why it wont load CUDA for Seti. Even so, considering the lackluster performance it doesn't seem to be worth the time to try and "fix" it.

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Wiz

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: Wiz
So I'm looking at my machine that I had CUDA running on but it (CUDA) hasn't been working in a week.
It had an RAC of about 11,200 and now after many days running without CUDA it's at 11,138.

Why so little difference? It dipped down to about 10,500 but is back up to 11,138 this morning.
I would think CUDA would add a lot more than that.

I'm assuming that it's this machine.
by those stats I would think that you would be getting higher numbers... something doesn't seem right.. well... is this computer being used for anything else?

Yes, that's the one.
Maybe it's the OS. Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM.
Maybe it's doing something "special".
It really isn't doing any work, I don't think it ever goes to sleep or hibernating or doing anything other than Seti. I don't understand it, and I don't understand why it wont load CUDA for Seti. Even so, considering the lackluster performance it doesn't seem to be worth the time to try and "fix" it.

power saving features can be a killer. I go in my bios and disable any and all sleep/powersaving modes. then i go in the control panel and makes sure that the monitor and hard drive never shut down. then I disable any screen savers. and I set my system up for performance mode, all eye candy shut off.
also... you can't remote login into a cuda system.. that automatically kills all cuda wu, until you can locally log in again.... there's a way around it, i just haven't had the time to work on it... some of the more heavy duty crunchers in f@h forums talk about it... something about doing a virtual machine.. blah blah blah...
I can't seem to get past the "blah blah blah" part

 

[Wiz]

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: Wiz

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: Wiz
So I'm looking at my machine that I had CUDA running on but it (CUDA) hasn't been working in a week.
It had an RAC of about 11,200 and now after many days running without CUDA it's at 11,138.

Why so little difference? It dipped down to about 10,500 but is back up to 11,138 this morning.
I would think CUDA would add a lot more than that.

I'm assuming that it's this machine.
by those stats I would think that you would be getting higher numbers... something doesn't seem right.. well... is this computer being used for anything else?

Yes, that's the one.
Maybe it's the OS. Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM.
Maybe it's doing something "special".
It really isn't doing any work, I don't think it ever goes to sleep or hibernating or doing anything other than Seti. I don't understand it, and I don't understand why it wont load CUDA for Seti. Even so, considering the lackluster performance it doesn't seem to be worth the time to try and "fix" it.

power saving features can be a killer. I go in my bios and disable any and all sleep/powersaving modes. then i go in the control panel and makes sure that the monitor and hard drive never shut down. then I disable any screen savers. and I set my system up for performance mode, all eye candy shut off.
also... you can't remote login into a cuda system.. that automatically kills all cuda wu, until you can locally log in again.... there's a way around it, i just haven't had the time to work on it... some of the more heavy duty crunchers in f@h forums talk about it... something about doing a virtual machine.. blah blah blah...
I can't seem to get past the "blah blah blah" part

AhHah - maybe that's it. I do most stuff by remote in RDP sessions.
But I was at the console when I was setting up the video drivers and BOINC so that doesn't explain the failure to get CUDA going at all.

I'll check on the other settings, thanks!

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Wiz

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: Wiz

Originally posted by: dajeepster

Originally posted by: Wiz
So I'm looking at my machine that I had CUDA running on but it (CUDA) hasn't been working in a week.
It had an RAC of about 11,200 and now after many days running without CUDA it's at 11,138.

Why so little difference? It dipped down to about 10,500 but is back up to 11,138 this morning.
I would think CUDA would add a lot more than that.

I'm assuming that it's this machine.
by those stats I would think that you would be getting higher numbers... something doesn't seem right.. well... is this computer being used for anything else?

Yes, that's the one.
Maybe it's the OS. Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM.
Maybe it's doing something "special".
It really isn't doing any work, I don't think it ever goes to sleep or hibernating or doing anything other than Seti. I don't understand it, and I don't understand why it wont load CUDA for Seti. Even so, considering the lackluster performance it doesn't seem to be worth the time to try and "fix" it.

power saving features can be a killer. I go in my bios and disable any and all sleep/powersaving modes. then i go in the control panel and makes sure that the monitor and hard drive never shut down. then I disable any screen savers. and I set my system up for performance mode, all eye candy shut off.
also... you can't remote login into a cuda system.. that automatically kills all cuda wu, until you can locally log in again.... there's a way around it, i just haven't had the time to work on it... some of the more heavy duty crunchers in f@h forums talk about it... something about doing a virtual machine.. blah blah blah...
I can't seem to get past the "blah blah blah" part

AhHah - maybe that's it. I do most stuff by remote in RDP sessions.
But I was at the console when I was setting up the video drivers and BOINC so that doesn't explain the failure to get CUDA going at all.

I'll check on the other settings, thanks!

you can install video drivers with no problem remotely... it's just boinc doesn't see the video card when you remote log in.
with my fleet, i had to get KVMs so that I can run them all using either CUDA or CAL (to help reduce the amount of monitors I needed.. love the models with multiple inputs)... if i'm just running seti or some other program that doesn't use the gpu, and just uses the cpu, then you can remote login without any problems... you just can't remote login when you are running wu for the GPU.

 

[dajeepster]

bah... the tuesday bug has struck again 🙁
(and by bug i mean... HURRY UP WITH THE FREAKIN MAINTENANCE .. I NEED MY STATS FIX... it's been 5 minutes already... arghh)

 

[Wiz]

Guess what?
As if by some magic CUDA has decided to start working on the machine.
I logged onto the console and started looking around for answers, one of the links in the video control panel was for CUDA. I clicked it, went to the CUDA site, downloaded a driver.

I DID NOT INSTALL ANYTHING!!

I shut down BOINC then restarted it and got this:

9/29/2009 12:03:17 PM CUDA device: Quadro NVS 295 (driver version 19038, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, est. 4GFLOPS)
9/29/2009 12:03:17 PM SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MB_6.08_CUDA_V12_VLARKill_FPLim2048.exe not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/cudart.dll not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/cufft.dll not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of MB_6.08_CUDA_V12_VLARKill_FPLim2048.exe
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of cudart.dll
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of cufft.dll
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll
9/29/2009 12:10:36 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of cudart.dll
9/29/2009 12:10:36 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of cufft.dll
9/29/2009 12:10:36 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll

 

[Wiz]

I'm concerned about this:

"compute capability 1.1, 256MB, est. 4GFLOPS"

Isn't that kind of low?

Another question, why does it delete those four files then complain that it can't find them and then try to download them?

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Wiz
Guess what?
As if by some magic CUDA has decided to start working on the machine.
I logged onto the console and started looking around for answers, one of the links in the video control panel was for CUDA. I clicked it, went to the CUDA site, downloaded a driver.

I DID NOT INSTALL ANYTHING!!

I shut down BOINC then restarted it and got this:

9/29/2009 12:03:17 PM CUDA device: Quadro NVS 295 (driver version 19038, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, est. 4GFLOPS)
9/29/2009 12:03:17 PM SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/MB_6.08_CUDA_V12_VLARKill_FPLim2048.exe not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/cudart.dll not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/cufft.dll not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM file projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll not found
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of MB_6.08_CUDA_V12_VLARKill_FPLim2048.exe
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of cudart.dll
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of cufft.dll
9/29/2009 12:03:21 PM [error] No URL for file transfer of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll
9/29/2009 12:10:36 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of cudart.dll
9/29/2009 12:10:36 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of cufft.dll
9/29/2009 12:10:36 PM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on download of libfftw3f-3-1-1a_upx.dll

run the ap installer again... that will take care of that... remember.. check box for 4.1 and check box for cuda

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Wiz
I'm concerned about this:

"compute capability 1.1, 256MB, est. 4GFLOPS"

Isn't that kind of low?

Another question, why does it delete those four files then complain that it can't find them and then try to download them?

that does seem low... my GTX 260(stock) does 96GFLOPS


you need to make sure that boinc isn't running when you install the video drivers, ... stop boinc first (in some cases, i've had to uninstall boinc before installing new video drivers... it happen back during one of the pre 190 driver versions) and then install the video drivers, otherwise you get that error... because when you go to install the video drivers, it first uninstalls the older drivers (which boinc is still using, hence you start getting errors and then it wipes them... its wierd)... i've seen it a couple times before i figured out what the problem was.

short version... just run the unified installer again.