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How to Exclude GPU (Solved)

I know this is not exactly the right place to ask
but I thought someone here might help...

So I am running MilkyWay (GPU only) along side WCG (CPU only)
and I want to exclude all but one GPU.

From searching I found http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration#Options

I added the <ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>
<ignore_cuda_dev>2</ignore_cuda_dev>
to the cc_config.xml between <options> </options>
but no effect.... still uses all 3 GPUs

Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

Here is what I have

1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_x86_64
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Running under account Silver
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Processor: 256.00 KB cache
1/8/2011 8:34:17 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 pbe
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Memory: 12.00 GB physical, 24.00 GB virtual
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Disk: 279.36 GB total, 114.28 GB free
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Local time is UTC -5 hours
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 285 (driver version 26099, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 1.3, 998MB, 708 GFLOPS peak)
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 26099, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 1.3, 869MB, 596 GFLOPS peak)
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 26099, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 1.3, 869MB, 596 GFLOPS peak)
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Milkyway@home URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID #####; resource share 100
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM World Community Grid URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID #####; resource share 100
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 07-Jan-2011 21:41:02)
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM World Community Grid Computer location: school
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM General prefs: using separate prefs for school
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Reading preferences override file
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM Preferences:
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM max memory usage when active: 9214.87MB
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM max memory usage when idle: 11057.84MB
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM max disk usage: 20.00GB
1/8/2011 8:34:17 AM max CPUs used: 7

Thanks in advance.....

Tomas T

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[Jan 8, 2011 3:42:33 PM]

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Re: How to Exclude GPU

Hi Tomas T
Did you restart BOINC or do a "Read config file" after changing cc_config.xml? If so you should see a message like:
1/8/2011 10:12:12 AM Config: ignoring NVIDIA GPU 0
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Bill P

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[Jan 8, 2011 4:23:58 PM]

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Re: How to Exclude GPU

Yes I did both and also reboot the computer...
No change... :-(

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<client_version_check_url>http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/download.ph...ent_version_check_url>
<client_download_url>http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/download.php</client_download_url>
<network_test_url>http://www.ibm.com/</network_test_url>
<start_delay>60</start_delay>
<ignore_cuda_dev>1</ignore_cuda_dev>
<ignore_cuda_dev>2</ignore_cuda_dev>
</options>
</cc_config>

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Re: How to Exclude GPU

If your cc_config.xml is working correctly, there should be an entry in the messages just a few lines after the "max CPUs used: 7" line listed above. It should like the following since you have the start_delay enabled.

08-Jan-2011 12:58:06 [---] Suspending computation - initial delay

If you don't have a line like that then the cc_config.xml isn't being read. This can be due to a naming problem. You may have to make file extensions visible in Win7 to see exactly what the file is named. It could be that it is actually named cc_config.xml.txt which will not be recognized by the boinc client.

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Re: How to Exclude GPU

Edit your cc_config.xml file. Add this,

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>0</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

This will use the first GPU only; PCIE slot 0.

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[Jan 8, 2011 8:22:16 PM]

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Re: How to Exclude GPU (Solved)

I think I figured it out

The cc_config.xml was originally installed in
C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC

but the startup messages from Boinc said
C:\ProgramData\BOINC ( a hidden folder in Win7 x64 )

So , I copied the .xml to C:\ProgramData\BOINC

now I get
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Memory: 12.00 GB physical, 24.00 GB virtual
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Disk: 279.36 GB total, 114.27 GB free
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Local time is UTC -5 hours
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 285 (driver version 26099, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 1.3, 998MB, 708 GFLOPS peak)
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM NVIDIA GPU 1 (ignored by config): GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 26099, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 1.3, 869MB, 596 GFLOPS peak)
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM NVIDIA GPU 2 (ignored by config): GeForce GTX 295 (driver version 26099, CUDA version 3020, compute capability 1.3, 869MB, 596 GFLOPS peak)
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Milkyway@home URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID ######; resource share 100
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM World Community Grid URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID ######; resource share 100
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 07-Jan-2011 21:41:02)
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM World Community Grid Computer location: school
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM General prefs: using separate prefs for school
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Reading preferences override file
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Preferences:
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM max memory usage when active: 9214.87MB
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM max memory usage when idle: 11057.84MB
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM max disk usage: 20.00GB
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM max CPUs used: 7
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Not using a proxy
1/8/2011 4:27:51 PM Suspending computation - initial delay

It is working perfect now...
Thanks for the assist guys !

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