1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34635) Posted 12 Sep 2010 by carl Post: Everything is working fine now. Thanks so much for the advice!

2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34600) Posted 10 Sep 2010 by carl Post: Just for my own future reference, which cards handle double precision? From some research on my side it looks like the more workstation geared cards like Quadro FX5800. In general, are the CAD type of workstation cards like the Quadro FX5800 better for BOINC type projects than a GeForce type gaming card?

3) Message boards : Questions and problems : New computer build specifically for BOINC projects (Message 34588) Posted 9 Sep 2010 by carl Post: I'm very interested in contributing more to these projects. With that said, instead of hammering my current desktop workstation I was kicking around the idea of buying/building a dedicated server for BOINC projects. There are a number of great deals on the dell factory outlet that would be great for a dedicated BOINC box, but here is my question: What would be a better choice for processors? Going with something like a dual 4/8 core xeon system or with a single high end multi-core processor like the i7? Or to even make it more simple of a question, would a Xeon be better or worse than something like an i7? Also, would a SSD drive make any difference over a regular SATA drive? It does not seem like these projects use a ton of ram (I'm currently running 6GB and I never see more than 2-3GB used with any of these projects. So would the lower latency of a SSD make any difference? If you had the chance to build a dedicated BOINC server what would you choose and why? Thanks!

4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34576) Posted 8 Sep 2010 by carl Post: Yea, I checked the settings before I posted here and the GPU setting was enabled. I'll keep an eye on it over time to see if they start using the GPU. Thanks.

5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34567) Posted 7 Sep 2010 by carl Post: Well, it looks like I won't be able to work on any SETI stuff until their servers are back up. In the precess of trying to fix the GPU issue and after doing the reinstall I must have deleted any projects/data I had stored on my machine. I guess I'll work on another project until their servers are back up on Friday, unless any of you know how I can get a new data packet to work on. (i.e. Manually download a work packet from their website and place it into the data folder or something like that) BTW...Thanks so much for all the help so far. I can't wait to see how SETI works with both GPUs and the 4 core processor at the same time. EDIT: One more thing, I noticed with SETI that it would run all 4 cores of my processor at 100% along with my GPU at 100%. It seems that when I run projects like Milkyway that it used all 4 cores of the processor at 100% but it is not using the GPU's at all. Is there something I can put in my cc_config file to tell all projects I work on to use all 4 cores of my processor and my two GPU's at 100%? Do I need to change a setting somewhere in the Milkyway preferences to use the GPU's? I didn't remember seeing anything on the site.

6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34559) Posted 7 Sep 2010 by carl Post: I updated the file and did a full reboot and it still will not communicate with SETI and download any work. (But it see's both GPUs so that's a good thing :) Do you know how long they stay offline for? Maybe that is still the problem. Here again is my log file: 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_x86_64 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Config: use all coprocessors 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC\data 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Running under account lupo 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Processor: 4.00 MB cache 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Memory: 6.00 GB physical, 6.00 GB virtual 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Disk: 297.97 GB total, 177.79 GB free 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Local time is UTC -4 hours 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 470 (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 2.0, 1248MB, 726 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce 8800 GTX (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 1.0, 735MB, 346 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Reading preferences override file 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Preferences: 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM max memory usage when active: 3070.67MB 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM max memory usage when idle: 5527.21MB 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM max disk usage: 10.00GB 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 9/7/2010 3:14:58 PM Not using a proxy 9/7/2010 3:15:58 PM SETI@home update requested by user 9/7/2010 3:15:59 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 9/7/2010 3:15:59 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU 9/7/2010 3:16:01 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/7/2010 3:16:01 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 9/7/2010 3:16:02 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/7/2010 3:17:02 PM SETI@home Fetching scheduler list 9/7/2010 3:17:03 PM SETI@home Master file download succeeded 9/7/2010 3:17:08 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 9/7/2010 3:17:08 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU 9/7/2010 3:17:10 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/7/2010 3:17:10 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 9/7/2010 3:17:11 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/7/2010 3:18:10 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 9/7/2010 3:18:10 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU 9/7/2010 3:18:13 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/7/2010 3:18:13 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 9/7/2010 3:18:14 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. Thanks!

7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34555) Posted 7 Sep 2010 by carl Post: OK. I think I got the config file working, but now I can't attach to SETI do download new files. I keep getting "Communication deferred" errors over and over. But at least it looks like it is using both GPU's. Any thoughts why I can't connect to download new work files? 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_x86_64 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Config: use all coprocessors 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC\data 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Running under account lupo 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Processor: 4.00 MB cache 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Memory: 6.00 GB physical, 6.00 GB virtual 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Disk: 297.97 GB total, 178.11 GB free 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Local time is UTC -4 hours 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 470 (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 2.0, 1248MB, 726 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce 8800 GTX (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 1.0, 735MB, 346 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID not assigned yet; resource share 100 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Reading preferences override file 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Preferences: 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM max memory usage when active: 3070.67MB 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM max memory usage when idle: 5527.21MB 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM max disk usage: 10.00GB 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM Not using a proxy 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 9/7/2010 12:06:46 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU 9/7/2010 12:06:48 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 9/7/2010 12:07:16 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/7/2010 12:07:17 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 9/7/2010 12:07:48 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 9/7/2010 12:07:48 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU 9/7/2010 12:07:50 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 9/7/2010 12:07:50 PM SETI@home Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server 9/7/2010 12:07:51 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. Thanks again for all of your help.

8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34548) Posted 7 Sep 2010 by carl Post: The only folder I could find is the C:\Program Files\BOINC. I didn't see any dir in there called data. Where is the data dir in windows 7 64x? EDIT: If I go into advanced and choose "read config" I see something different at the bottom. Does this mean it can read the config? Maybe it just is not reading it on the start up, only when forced. 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_x86_64 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Running under account lupo 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Processor: 4.00 MB cache 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Memory: 6.00 GB physical, 6.00 GB virtual 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Disk: 297.97 GB total, 177.72 GB free 9/7/2010 11:02:58 AM Local time is UTC -4 hours 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 470 (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 2.0, 1248MB, 726 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce 8800 GTX (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 1.0, 735MB, 346 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5513259; resource share 100 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 07-Sep-2010 02:08:07) 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Host location: none 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home General prefs: using your defaults 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM Reading preferences override file 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM Preferences: 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM max memory usage when active: 1535.33MB 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM max memory usage when idle: 5527.21MB 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM max disk usage: 100.00GB 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM Not using a proxy 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Started upload of 02jn10ab.24520.22562.4.10.189_1_0 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Started upload of 06ja10ae.24521.16018.16.10.123_2_0 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_12mr07aa_B0_P0_00148_20100905_14982.wu_1 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_12mr07aa_B2_P1_00187_20100905_30099.wu_1 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_12mr07aa_B6_P1_00187_20100906_28084.wu_1 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_08se06aa_B5_P0_00711_20100906_31509.wu_0 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 11:02:59 AM SETI@home Restarting task 30ja10aa.18798.45386.14.10.83_2 using setiathome_enhanced version 610 9/7/2010 11:03:02 AM SETI@home Temporarily failed upload of 02jn10ab.24520.22562.4.10.189_1_0: connect() failed 9/7/2010 11:03:02 AM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 02jn10ab.24520.22562.4.10.189_1_0 9/7/2010 11:03:02 AM SETI@home Temporarily failed upload of 06ja10ae.24521.16018.16.10.123_2_0: connect() failed 9/7/2010 11:03:02 AM SETI@home Backing off 1 min 0 sec on upload of 06ja10ae.24521.16018.16.10.123_2_0 9/7/2010 11:03:03 AM Re-reading cc_config.xml 9/7/2010 11:03:03 AM Re-read config file 9/7/2010 11:03:03 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task

9) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can't get both GPU's working with SETI (Message 34542) Posted 7 Sep 2010 by carl Post: I have searched all over this board and tried following the directions for the cc_config file but still no luck. I have a Q6600 4 core proc and a GTX 470 and a 8800 GTX. I had everything working fine with the Q6600 and the 470. I added the older 8800 and now when I run the boinc client I get the following error: 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 470 (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 2.0, 1248MB, 726 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce 8800 GTX (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 1.0, 735MB, 346 GFLOPS peak) No matter what I try I can't get the second GPU working. I tried creating the cc_config file with the option to enable he second GPU but still no luck. I reinstalled the drivers for both nvidia cards. I reinstalled the boinc software, and it still will not work. I have the second card driving a second monitor and I can see all the settings in the nvidia control panel. The card is working fine, I just cant get the client to use it. Can someone please help me? What am I doing wrong? I would like ti set up so the processor continues to use all 4 cores and both GPU's work. Here is the full list of messages on start up: 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_x86_64 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Running under account lupo 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Processor: 4.00 MB cache 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Memory: 6.00 GB physical, 6.00 GB virtual 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Disk: 297.97 GB total, 177.82 GB free 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Local time is UTC -4 hours 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 470 (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 2.0, 1248MB, 726 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce 8800 GTX (driver version 25896, CUDA version 3010, compute capability 1.0, 735MB, 346 GFLOPS peak) 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5513259; resource share 100 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 06-Sep-2010 00:10:08) 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home Host location: none 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home General prefs: using your defaults 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Reading preferences override file 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Preferences: 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM max memory usage when active: 1535.33MB 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM max memory usage when idle: 5527.21MB 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM max disk usage: 100.00GB 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM Not using a proxy 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_12mr07aa_B0_P0_00148_20100905_14982.wu_1 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_12mr07aa_B2_P1_00187_20100905_30099.wu_1 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_12mr07aa_B6_P1_00187_20100906_28084.wu_1 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 2:13:29 AM SETI@home Restarting task ap_08se06aa_B5_P0_00711_20100906_31509.wu_0 using astropulse_v505 version 505 9/7/2010 2:13:30 AM SETI@home Restarting task 29mr10ac.10940.21749.7.10.3_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 610

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