Is it possible to switch task from GPU to CPU?

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Message 84826 - Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 2:26:36 UTC

Following describes my situation:
1. There is only one task running on GPU (CUDA nvidia)
2. Multiple task are waiting for GPU (not running).
3. There are no task running on CPU
4. There are no downloaded tasks for CPU (sometimes none is available).

I want to switch tasks that have not started on GPU ( waiting for GPU) to make them run on CPU which is basically idle.

Is it possible?

Or may be it is possible to increase the CPU part of the computation? Because now it shows using 0.0373CPUs+1GPU

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Message 84827 - Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 3:21:14 UTC

No, they are completely different applications. The CPU component is what's required to "feed" the GPU and handle trasnfers to/from storage.
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Message 84833 - Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 5:19:16 UTC - in response to Message 84827.  

No, they are completely different applications. The CPU component is what's required to "feed" the GPU and handle trasnfers to/from storage.


Why is that the CPU % varies on different systems for the same GPU app?
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Message 84839 - Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 15:36:59 UTC - in response to Message 84827.  

Thank you for clarification!
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Message 84841 - Posted: 19 Feb 2018, 16:14:18 UTC

There is however a user made rescheduler with which you can move GUPPI tasks to CPU. See this thread on the Seti forums.
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