RegisterRegister 
 
SETI Beta - Nvidia GPU

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    UK BOINC Team Forum Forum Index -> SETI@home and SETI BETA

Author: Reply with quote
BenOffline
Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Total posts: 1273

Posts per day: 1.28
PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:05 am    Post subject: SETI Beta - Nvidia GPU
 
At long last here it is  Cool

I've just started a WU on the GPU and boy is it flying  Razz I've selected to only do the classic for now though. Any other takers?  Smile

URL ---> http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
UBT - MikeeOffline
Elite rating: Deadly / Cheerleader (Spinhenge) / Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Total posts: 2856
Location: 53 05 46N 2 59 22W
Age: 50
Gender: Male

Posts per day: 1.74
PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:34 am    Post subject:
 
Nice find!

Haven't done SETI for months - will see how it goes. Would be nice to have the option to select GPU only in the preferences though.
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
UBT - MikeeOffline
Elite rating: Deadly / Cheerleader (Spinhenge) / Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Total posts: 2856
Location: 53 05 46N 2 59 22W
Age: 50
Gender: Male

Posts per day: 1.74
PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:05 pm    Post subject:
 
Or maybe not! Sad

Didn't have time this morning to nurse the new CUDA driver so left it to it. Came back tonight and it was still showing as installing! Obviously locked up. Rebooted. Windows complained and apologised for the inconvenience how would I like to restart? Keyboard wouldn't work! Switched off and plugged in a PS2 keyboard - windows complained but at least I restarted into last known good configuration.

All worked except BOINC! Reinstalled 6.4.5 no, uninstalled and reinstalled - no.

Something to do with the CUDA drivers? Tried to reinstall the new version - installed this time but still no BOINC.

Plan B then!

System restore back to yesterday. Restart OK! No BOINC at all now!
Installed BOINC 6.4.5 - yippee!

All the projects have gone but at least it started!

Attached to SETI to see if a GPU WU would download but it didn't.

Seems my system doesn't like CUDA version 2.1 (180.60) Sad
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
BenOffline
Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Total posts: 1273

Posts per day: 1.28
PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:17 pm    Post subject:
 
UBT - Mikee wrote:
Or maybe not! Sad

Didn't have time this morning to nurse the new CUDA driver so left it to it. Came back tonight and it was still showing as installing! Obviously locked up. Rebooted. Windows complained and apologised for the inconvenience how would I like to restart? Keyboard wouldn't work! Switched off and plugged in a PS2 keyboard - windows complained but at least I restarted into last known good configuration.

All worked except BOINC! Reinstalled 6.4.5 no, uninstalled and reinstalled - no.

Something to do with the CUDA drivers? Tried to reinstall the new version - installed this time but still no BOINC.

Plan B then!

System restore back to yesterday. Restart OK! No BOINC at all now!
Installed BOINC 6.4.5 - yippee!

All the projects have gone but at least it started!

Attached to SETI to see if a GPU WU would download but it didn't.

Seems my system doesn't like CUDA version 2.1 (180.60) Sad



Ahhh noooo mikeeee! Only use 'CUDA 2' and not CUDA 2.1 BETA (our 8800GT's don't support it i don't think?). But CUDA 2 works fine  Very Happy
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
UBT - MikeeOffline
Elite rating: Deadly / Cheerleader (Spinhenge) / Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Total posts: 2856
Location: 53 05 46N 2 59 22W
Age: 50
Gender: Male

Posts per day: 1.74
PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:43 pm    Post subject:
 
Duh! Best I scroll down the list then! Embarassed
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
BenOffline
Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Total posts: 1273

Posts per day: 1.28
PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:13 am    Post subject:
 
UBT - Mikee wrote:
Duh! Best I scroll down the list then! Embarassed


It's an easy mistake to make. Had all sorts of problems with GPU Grid before i managed to get a stable set of drivers + the right CUDA drivers  Embarassed
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
UBT - MikeeOffline
Elite rating: Deadly / Cheerleader (Spinhenge) / Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Total posts: 2856
Location: 53 05 46N 2 59 22W
Age: 50
Gender: Male

Posts per day: 1.74
PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:30 am    Post subject:
 
Given up on this for now!

Have had to go back to previous versions of CUDA and BOINC manager. BOINC would not do more than 3WUs + GPU WU - SETI wouldn't start at all!
GPU credits dropped to 2435 each from 3232 each as well  Sad
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
BenOffline
Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Total posts: 1273

Posts per day: 1.28
PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:25 pm    Post subject:
 
UBT - Mikee wrote:
Given up on this for now!

Have had to go back to previous versions of CUDA and BOINC manager. BOINC would not do more than 3WUs + GPU WU - SETI wouldn't start at all!
GPU credits dropped to 2435 each from 3232 each as well  Sad



Yeah i noticed with the newest version of the boinc manager it wouldn't let me do the usual 4wu's + a cuda project like seti or gpugrid. However, i also have stopped breifly with seti as it was giving me BSOD  Confused

As for gpugrid, the credits are still the same BUT, there are some test wu's out where they complete 30% quicker and therefore you get less credit from what i understand from their forums.
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
BenOffline
Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 19 Dec 2007
Total posts: 1273

Posts per day: 1.28
PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:17 am    Post subject:
 
The new version for the SETI Beta CUDA app has been released and now doesn't leave 'snow' on your screen and crash your drivers, hurrah!
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
SiborgOffline
Elite rating: Harmless
Avatar

Joined: 20 Dec 2009
Total posts: 14
Gender: Unknown

Posts per day: 0.05
PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:49 pm    Post subject:
 
Do GPU wu's work on ATI cards too? I don't know anything about CUDA but I've just ordered a new 4870 ATI card. It would be nice if I could do extra wu's.
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 

Author: Reply with quote
TemujinOffline
Crunch Leader / Wolfpack
Avatar

Joined: 13 Mar 2006
Total posts: 2027

Posts per day: 1.24
PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:06 pm    Post subject:
 
Siborg wrote:
..... but I've just ordered a new 4870 ATI card. It would be nice if I could do extra wu's.
Now your talking Very Happy

You will be amazed at how well a HD4870 does.
I don't think they can run seti/beta but they can definately run Milkyway and Collatz conjecture

A HD4870 running the milkyway project will produce something like 95,000 credits a day Shocked
Or about 50,000 a day running collatz

Milkyway needs some "tinkering" to get it running but collatz should work straight away if you have a recent version of boinc (like 6.10.17 or newer)
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website 

Author: Reply with quote
SiborgOffline
Elite rating: Harmless
Avatar

Joined: 20 Dec 2009
Total posts: 14
Gender: Unknown

Posts per day: 0.05
PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:50 pm    Post subject:
 
Well that's good news, it means I can run one project on each processor and one on the GPU, nice  Very Happy
_________________
Back to top
View user's profile 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    UK BOINC Team Forum Forum Index -> SETI@home and SETI BETA
Page 1 of 1

Choose Display Order
Display posts from previous:   
User Permissions
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

 
Jump to:  
Setup one of our rss feeds

Remove cookies set by this forum
Copyright © UK BOINC Team 2006
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group
Get a UBT Signature