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| 41) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60838 Posted 11 Mar 2015 by l008com |
And I just chcked the event log. It does seem to see both of my GPUs in there. The AMD ones, not the integrated (which is fine). But why am I still getting "GPU Missing" errors from Milkyway@Home and Collatz? I am running AMD driver updates right now just in case that is the problem. But somehow, I doubt it. And for what it's worth, my litecoin miner had no problems using both GPUs for a year. |
| 42) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60837 Posted 11 Mar 2015 by l008com |
7.4.36 BOINC Manager running on Windows 7, btw. |
| 43) Message boards : GPUs : GPUs Working?
Message 60836 Posted 11 Mar 2015 by l008com |
I have a question that is very basic. How can I tell if BOINC is even seeing my GPUs? So far, I'm not seeing any GPU work units. I am repurposing an old bitcoin mining rig. It has some lame built in graphics, and then two very nice AMD GPUs. I have enabled GPU use all the time, but how do I know it's working? And if I do see GPU work units, how do I know which GPUs are being used? I'd like to be able to specifically tell it use both AMDs, and don't use the integrated. |
| 44) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU Work Units Only
Message 47080 Posted 6 Jan 2013 by l008com |
The error seems to be with <ncpus>0</ncpus> I am getting GPU units just fine, but I'm still getting CPU units. Since my cc_config.xml file is tiny, here's it's full text: <cc_config> <options> <ncpus>0</ncpus> </options> </cc_config> This file is located at /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/cc_config.xml[/code] |
| 45) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU Work Units Only
Message 46952 Posted 31 Dec 2012 by l008com |
Oh and the machine in question is a Mac mini, 10.6.8, with BOINC 7.0.31. |
| 46) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU Work Units Only
Message 46951 Posted 31 Dec 2012 by l008com |
I'm trying to set up a client on my home server, to use GPU only. It has a 9400m GPU, and no monitor attached. So if BOINC uses the GPU, it should be able to do some fast processing, while the CPUs remain unused for me to use, doing server-y things. I googled around and found that making a cc_config.xml file and putting the following data in there is supposed to make it work. But I did this, restarted my BOINC manager, but its still requesting and processing CPU work units. <cc_config> <options> <ncpus>0</ncpus> </options> </cc_config> Am I doing something wrong? Is there something else I need to do to make this work properly. Right now I have one GPU Collatz work unit going on my GPU, and a SETI work unit going on my CPU. Booo. |
| 47) Message boards : Questions and problems : (Don't) Switch Between Applications
Message 32127 Posted 12 Apr 2010 by l008com |
Right, but most of the time I run BOINC, I run it as a stress test for Macs I've fixed. On my own machine, I do not run it religiously. So all these partially done work units either expire, or disappear all together when I reboot (netbooting is read-only, nothing survives a reboot). I've wasted so much work because BOINC decides it will do a little bit of everything, rather than trying to get as many units done as it can. |
| 48) Message boards : Questions and problems : (Don't) Switch Between Applications
Message 32113 Posted 11 Apr 2010 by l008com |
You know... I set it to 50000 minutes, and it switches a lot less. But it's still switching. For me it's an annoyance, but for the projects, it means wasted work. |
| 49) Message boards : Questions and problems : (Don't) Switch Between Applications
Message 31947 Posted 4 Apr 2010 by l008com |
6.10.21 But I just set it to 50000 and it DID take it. Before I was probably setting it to 99999 or possibly a few more 9s, and that was bouncing down to 999. |
| 50) Message boards : Questions and problems : (Don't) Switch Between Applications
Message 31945 Posted 4 Apr 2010 by l008com |
Did you set it in the GUI or did you edit the xml file directly? I've tried many times on many machine to set it much higher than 999 minutes, and it always reverts to 999 when you set it higher. |
| 51) Message boards : Questions and problems : (Don't) Switch Between Applications
Message 31935 Posted 4 Apr 2010 by l008com |
OK but what if I want to do work for a bunch of projects, but I just don't want it to switch? This seems like a pretty basic setting. But what I'm noticing about BOINC is that it really isn't into letting you making big changes, it likes to only let you modify amounts. |
| 52) Message boards : Questions and problems : (Don't) Switch Between Applications
Message 31933 Posted 4 Apr 2010 by l008com |
Any time I set it above 999 minutes, it defaults to 999 minutes. Thats only about 16 2/3 hours. |
| 53) Message boards : Questions and problems : (Don't) Switch Between Applications
Message 31931 Posted 4 Apr 2010 by l008com |
Is there a way to completely disable switching? In other words, once boinc starts a work unit, or a pair of work units, it won't switch up, it will keep running through those two until they are finished, and only then will it move on to another? The way it works now, so much potential work goes to waste. Any time I don't run BOINC for a while, most of my in-progress work expires. There would be no in-progress work if it wasn't switching. Well, there would be the active work unit(s), but not 10 other partial work units. And I have a netboot image with BOINC installed on it, that I use for "stress testing" machines. This netboot only runs for a day or so, so it almost never returns any results. It keeps switching between all the projects, and once I reboot, everything is gone. (Netboot is read-only). |
| 54) Message boards : Questions and problems : Running on Read-Only Volume (Deleting Work Units)
Message 23863 Posted 23 Mar 2009 by l008com |
(MAY BE UNSTABLE - USE ONLY FOR TESTING) |
| 55) Message boards : Questions and problems : Running on Read-Only Volume (Deleting Work Units)
Message 23861 Posted 23 Mar 2009 by l008com |
Sadly the newest version for OS X is 6.2 |
| 56) Message boards : Questions and problems : Running on Read-Only Volume (Deleting Work Units)
Message 23857 Posted 23 Mar 2009 by l008com |
The image should NOT have BOINC running. A script that runs on each machine at boot time should start BOINC. Huh? Note that I'm not doing this to set up full time machines that I own. I'm doing this so that when I do get an extra computer around, whether it be one I'm selling myself or something I'm repairing for someone else, I can boot this image and run boinc without having to actually install (and then uninstall) anything on the hard drive of the machine. I was actually able to reset all the projects and quickly quit and it seems to have left the Boinc manager in just the state I want it to be in. I tried setting the time for each project to 999 minutes but it seems to ignore that value and switch after just a few minutes . . . I'm not sure how many exactly, less than an hour. |
| 57) Message boards : Questions and problems : Running on Read-Only Volume (Deleting Work Units)
Message 23854 Posted 23 Mar 2009 by l008com |
Also, a second question related to running off a read-only volume. To get the most of of the time spent crunching (considering the fact that when you reboot, any partial result will be lost), is there a way I can make BOINC never switch to a new project mid-work-unit? I have 6 projects and I want them to mix up which it does, but once it gets started on one unit, I want it to stick with it until it's done (or many if it's doing multiple at once) |
| 58) Message boards : Questions and problems : Running on Read-Only Volume (Deleting Work Units)
Message 23853 Posted 22 Mar 2009 by l008com |
Hi I'm setting up a read-only netboot volume, that will let me boot up any machine to a pre-configured system that has BOINC running. I have everything set up the way I want it. But the next step before I turn this volume into a netboot image, is to delete all current in progress, downloading, and completely work units. That way, when a computer boots this system, it will be starting clean. Otherwise every time I boot a computer, its going to spend hours crunching the same old expired work units before it goes and downloads more. |
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