Message boards : News : CUDA upgrade notice
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By beginning of next year, we would like to remove the cuda3.1 applications. | |
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Please do. Due to their inefficiency, the sooner the better, IMHO. | |
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Pretty please, for the benefit of those of us who know not what CUDA 3.1 and CUDA 4.2 are, all we need to know is what BOINC and Nvidia drivers we should be using (I think...). | |
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In the last hour I've aborted four NATHANs for killing my PC performance. This is getting ridiculous!! | |
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nathan WU should have no difference from the others if not that they are large systems. | |
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Pretty please, for the benefit of those of us who know not what CUDA 3.1 and CUDA 4.2 are, all we need to know is what BOINC and Nvidia drivers we should be using (I think...). Fermi cards can run CUDA 4.2 tasks. This includes the GTX 460. Older cards (GeForce 200 series and below) may not be capable of running CUDA 4.3 and would not perform well. ____________ FAQ's HOW TO: - Opt out of Beta Tests - Ask for Help | |
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Yes when 31 get killed we can all throgh out our 2xx cards :/ but im happy that you let them actived until today. Im sure i have a other project in reserve for the 285 gtx when you do the final change ^^ i think yo will inform us a week before change? Perhaps i have enough money to buy a new nvidia card then after christmas ^^ | |
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We might be able to keep the old application for cuda3.1, but at least one of the two queues must be with just the new app. | |
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We might be able to keep the old application for cuda3.1, but at least one of the two queues must be with just the new app. please make the long run queue only 4.2+ ____________ XtremeSystems.org - #1 Team in GPUGrid | |
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We might be able to keep the old application for cuda3.1, but at least one of the two queues must be with just the new app. I thought the original plan was to use cuda40 and cuda42. If we're going to keep cuda31 around then limit it to the short queue, with the beta and long queues using cuda42. Is there any advantage to using cuda50 at this point or would it be too much development effort? ____________ BOINC blog | |
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for cuda5 there is no point, no speed advantage. The problem of cuda4.0 is that it seems buggy. | |
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For now could you place, | |
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nathan WU should have no difference from the others if not that they are large systems. Hello GDF. I shall be delighted to tell you EXACTLY what the problems are despite the fact that they have produced no solutions in this thread. I can tell you EXACTLY which NATANs kill my PC performance, and which don't. If you're listening, I'm ready... Tom ____________ | |
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You only have 6GB of memory with Windows 7 no less, it's amazing you can run any GPU wu's at all. You're getting alot of reads and writes to you're scratch file, that would make it diffacult for any computer to respond quickly. Anyway, just a thought with RAM so cheap these days. | |
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6GB is normally enough - even for W7. | |
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You only have 6GB of memory with Windows 7 no less, it's amazing you can run any GPU wu's at all. You're getting alot of reads and writes to you're scratch file, that would make it diffacult for any computer to respond quickly. Anyway, just a thought with RAM so cheap these days. Lol then i must have massive problems on my 2gb ram machine with win7 ;) *ironic* 6gb is way enough O.o ____________ DSKAG Austria Research Team: http://www.research.dskag.at | |
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Anyway, none of this has anything to do with this thread, 'CUDA upgrade notice'. You're absolutely right and I apologize, but I figured that this thread was started by someone on the development team who might, perhaps, bring my problem to the attention of their colleague who does NATHANs... ____________ | |
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I got a big problem. I can't complete any task on my computer. | |
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I updated drivers for my GTX 260 yesterday, and cuda42 work units apparently started crashing. | |
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yes because the 2xx series (i wrote too in this thread) is not good for cuda42..so get your driver back down in 2xx Range. Run it until end of the year and when it changes switch fully to short WUs where it seems perhaps to continue with 31 when i read the thread correct. Or buy a new card for gpugrid. The only chance is to downclock core (-50Mhz?) and memory (-100Mhz) from the graphiccard and look if it perhaps helps. but this tip is more for some fermi cards (like my 560TI) who produce cuda42 errors from time to time too. | |
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I recommend to use driver 285 for 2xx cards | |
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Thanks guys, rolling back to 295.73 for my GTX 260 was surprising easy! (just a few clicks, no reboot) and GPUGrid is happily warming my toes once again. | |
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I have fixed the problem. HCC and GPUGRD can't work together. I got a big problem. I can't complete any task on my computer. | |
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Is there a possibility to switch earlier? ^^ or are there more changes needed before that needs time? | |
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we want to wait as long as possible such many people will be already using the new drivers. | |
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From my experience, 3.1 apps tend to take substantially more time to run than the same type of WU running with the 4.2 app. | |
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In theory the BOINC server looks at the driver and decide what to send you. | |
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From my experience, 3.1 apps tend to take substantially more time to run than the same type of WU running with the 4.2 app. You can use my workaround to fix this problem on your side. | |
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From my experience, 3.1 apps tend to take substantially more time to run than the same type of WU running with the 4.2 app. Thanks. I had not checked this thread in a while, however, if I get another 3.1 app on my machine, I will try this. 3.1 apps are especially slow for my 460. Most often, it is unable to crunch a 3.1 WU within 24 hours. However, my 460 is able to complete most 4.2 WUs in something like 12 hours. 3.1 v 4.2 on the 460 makes a substantial difference. It is almost as if I had bought another card. :) ____________ | |
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In theory the BOINC server looks at the driver and decide what to send you. The last few days, 15% of tasks sent to me have been 3.1. Not what I'd call rarely. Any update on bringing the new app into production. | |
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We can remove already 3.1 apps on the long queue, but we will not upgrade the application until new year. | |
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+1 | |
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I tried the suggestion above, and it seemed to work once. However, the same machine just got another Cuda31 job, and by estimating the time that it will take from the current progress, it looks like it is again running Cuda31 rather than Cuda42. According to progress vs run time, this will finish in roughly 48 hours on my machine. After applying the work-around, is this supposed to run all subsequent 31 tasks as 42 tasks? Noeilla's usually run in about 23 hours on my 460 with 42 rather than what looks like 48 for this 31 job. | |
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