Posts by William Watkins

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Project Priority Question Message 43790 Posted 26 Apr 2012 by William Watkins	[quote] Are you wanting boinc to only run on 1 processor or have all 4 processors running but each with a different project? If the first then set to 25% of multi cpu, if the second then AFAIK it's not possible to enforce - the boinc scheduler decides what and when it will run - so sometimes you will find it running only one project on all 4 processors other times it might be running two, three or four projects - it depends on what the scheduler decides it needs to run. I was wanting to run one project per Processor (using at least 3 of the 4 cores since I am running 3 projects) along with the GPU. Thank you for answering my question... :-) Will Maybe assigning one processor core # to a particular task is "CORE AFFINITY", but not wanting BOINC to run one task per project... 4 projects, 4 CPU's, one project per CPU core... simple... It's called running ONE INSTANCE of a project on one core. Please don't confuse the issues even though you answered his question by saying BOINC decides what to do, not the user... which is and continues to be a problem for many folks. 8-) That is a thought I have not entertained yet. Maybe I will try it.... Thank you.... :-) Will
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Project Priority Question Message 43683 Posted 22 Apr 2012 by William Watkins	That's called processor affinity and is not supported by BOINC. It will not ever be introduced either. You can reach the same sort of thing by just running BOINC, all projects at same resource share. With BOINC 7.0.25, the REC-scheduler will try to run all projects with the same resource share for the same amount of time, even get the same amount of RAC (when combined with CreditNew). So at first you'll see that each project runs alone on all CPUs, but eventually a shift will happen where the projects are equally divided over the available processor cores. Note: With mixed CPU and CPU+GPU projects, BOINC will initially get CPU and GPU work from the CPU+GPU project. A fast GPU drives REC so high, that priority for the CPU goes really low. It will eventually run those tasks when they go into EDF, but unless you micromanage not earlier. It will also not get more CPU tasks, because CPU projects have smaller REC and therefore higher priority. Thank you for the clarificaton.. :-) Will
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Project Priority Question Message 43606 Posted 19 Apr 2012 by William Watkins	[quote] Are you wanting boinc to only run on 1 processor or have all 4 processors running but each with a different project? If the first then set to 25% of multi cpu, if the second then AFAIK it's not possible to enforce - the boinc scheduler decides what and when it will run - so sometimes you will find it running only one project on all 4 processors other times it might be running two, three or four projects - it depends on what the scheduler decides it needs to run. I was wanting to run one project per Processor (using at least 3 of the 4 cores since I am running 3 projects) along with the GPU. Thank you for answering my question... :-) Will
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Project Priority Question Message 43531 Posted 16 Apr 2012 by William Watkins	Hello, I am currently running the following: 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.0.25 for windows_x86_64 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Running under account Will 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Processor: 256.00 KB cache 4/15/2012 8:37:22 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 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Memory: 7.51 GB physical, 15.02 GB virtual 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Disk: 465.66 GB total, 371.77 GB free 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Local time is UTC -6 hours 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 296.10, CUDA version 4.20, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 757MB available, 907 GFLOPS peak) 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 296.10, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 757MB available) 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Config: don't compute while steam.exe is running 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4816521; resource share 100 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| SETI@home \| URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6462036; resource share 100 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| World Community Grid \| URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1919783; resource share 100 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| SETI@home \| General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 09-Apr-2012 23:20:26) 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| SETI@home \| Computer location: home 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| General prefs: using separate prefs for home 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Reading preferences override file 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Preferences: 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 3846.55MB 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 6923.80MB 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| max disk usage: 15.00GB 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| don't use GPU while active 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 45 % 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 4/15/2012 8:37:22 PM \| \| Not using a proxy I have my preferences set to use 100% of Multi-CPU and 100% CPU Time when computing. I also have it set to switch between applications every 120 minutes. I have noticed that World Community Grid seems to always be using all four processors and was to understand that each project would use 33.3% of the CPU time and processors when computing. Is this right or do I hav a setting wrong? Is there a way to make sure each project uses one Processor at a time? Thank you for your time, Will
5) Message boards : GPUs : GPU Setup Question Message 43087 Posted 17 Mar 2012 by William Watkins	I was using the correct driver for my GPU - Thank you again. "driver version 29573" may be correct according to the documentation, but you will find that one of your chosen projects - Einstein@home - will not allow you to process any of their work until you downgrade it - it's one of the buggy ones. Please read Einstein's Technical News. Decided to try the Beta Client and 28562 - So far so good.... 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.0.20 for windows_x86_64 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Running under account Will 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Processor: 256.00 KB cache 3/17/2012 12:38:45 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 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Memory: 7.51 GB physical, 15.02 GB virtual 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Disk: 465.66 GB total, 359.69 GB free 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Local time is UTC -6 hours 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 285.62, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 784MB available, 805 GFLOPS peak) 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 285.62, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 896MB, 784MB available) 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| climateprediction.net \| URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1204267; resource share 100 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4816521; resource share 100 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| SETI@home \| URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6462036; resource share 100 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| World Community Grid \| URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1919783; resource share 100 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| World Community Grid \| General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 14-Mar-2012 09:19:18) 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| World Community Grid \| Host location: none 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| World Community Grid \| General prefs: using your defaults 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Reading preferences override file 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Preferences: 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 3846.56MB 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 6923.81MB 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| max disk usage: 15.00GB 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| don't use GPU while active 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 % 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 3/17/2012 12:38:45 PM \| \| Not using a proxy 3/17/2012 12:38:47 PM \| \| Suspending computation - initial delay
6) Message boards : GPUs : GPU Setup Question Message 43078 Posted 17 Mar 2012 by William Watkins	I am noticing the GPU Missing errors when boinc restarts after a reboot. I will try the downgrade. thank you
7) Message boards : GPUs : GPU Setup Question Message 43066 Posted 16 Mar 2012 by William Watkins	I was using the correct driver for my GPU - Thank you again. I reinstlled boinc disabling the Protected Application Option and it works just fine... Thank you again.. 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Running under account Will 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Processor: 256.00 KB cache 3/16/2012 2:01:42 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 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Memory: 7.51 GB physical, 15.02 GB virtual 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Disk: 465.66 GB total, 365.01 GB free 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Local time is UTC -6 hours 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 260 (driver version 29573, CUDA version 4020, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, 537 GFLOPS peak) 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| climateprediction.net \| URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1204267; resource share 100 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4816521; resource share 100 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| SETI@home \| URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6462036; resource share 100 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| World Community Grid \| URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1919783; resource share 100 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| World Community Grid \| General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 14-Mar-2012 09:19:18) 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| World Community Grid \| Host location: none 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| World Community Grid \| General prefs: using your defaults 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Reading preferences override file 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Preferences: 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| max memory usage when active: 3846.56MB 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 6923.81MB 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| max disk usage: 15.00GB 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 % 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 3/16/2012 2:01:42 PM \| \| Not using a proxy Will
8) Message boards : GPUs : GPU Setup Question Message 43065 Posted 16 Mar 2012 by William Watkins	Awesome... Thank you for the information. For the service, I guess I can disable it and run boinc at startup as a non protected program? Thank you again.... :-) Will
9) Message boards : GPUs : GPU Setup Question Message 43060 Posted 16 Mar 2012 by William Watkins	I am doing work for Seti@Home, World Community Grid, Einstein@Home and Climateprediction.net
10) Message boards : GPUs : GPU Setup Question Message 43059 Posted 16 Mar 2012 by William Watkins	Hello, I am running an Intel i5 Core 2500k which has the Intel Graphics 3000 (secondary) onboard and a dedicated Nvidia GTX 260 216 GPU (primary). Boinc Client 6.12.34 (x64) I am getting the No Usable GPU Found message. Is there a way for the Boinc Client to use either or both of these GPU's? 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Running as a daemon 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Running under account boinc_master 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Processor: 256.00 KB cache 3/15/2012 11:25:57 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 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Memory: 7.51 GB physical, 15.02 GB virtual 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Disk: 465.66 GB total, 363.74 GB free 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| Local time is UTC -6 hours 3/15/2012 11:25:57 AM \| \| No usable GPUs found I am doing work for Seti@Home, World Community Grid, Einstein@Home and Climateprediction.net Thank you for your time... Will

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