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biini
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 334 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'd hope to see increase in GPU WUs to a point I could actually see one "live" :-)
----------------------------------------. Had to check the logs if I'd had any GPU work units.. and during four days, I had received four :-) Took 2 mins to complete each of them. |
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TLD
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Post Count: 810 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have a ATI Radeon 5770 that is doing GPU WUs right now. While this card is old and slow it is opencl 1.2 capable and recognized by Boinc as so. Are you running this card under Linux or Windows? If it's Linux I'm interested in how you got it working. We could discuss this in a separate thread, if you like. Under Windows 10  |
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nanoprobe
Master Cruncher Classified Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Post Count: 2998 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There is no work for NVIDIA GPUs. 10-Apr-2021 14:34:31 [World Community Grid] Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 10-Apr-2021 14:34:31 [World Community Grid] Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU 10-Apr-2021 14:34:32 [World Community Grid] Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 10-Apr-2021 14:34:32 [World Community Grid] No tasks sent 10-Apr-2021 14:34:32 [World Community Grid] No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID 19 10-Apr-2021 14:34:32 [World Community Grid] No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID-19 - GPU 10-Apr-2021 14:34:32 [World Community Grid] Tasks for CPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them 10-Apr-2021 14:34:32 [World Community Grid] Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them 10-Apr-2021 14:34:32 [World Community Grid] Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them There is work for all GPU platforms. You're seeing the work available for ATI/Intel because they are not selected to receive work in your profile settings. It's a quirk of the BOINC client and doesn't necessarily mean there is work available for those GPUs at the time you saw that message. It's very much hit and miss.
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kittyman
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 14, 2020 Post Count: 140 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, between such little production and the script suckers at work, the kitties' GPU is still running cold.
----------------------------------------The kitties are not greedy, they would just like a little bit here and there. Maybe the project should limit GPU tasks sent per work request to 5 or so, to keep the script suckers at bay and give others more of a chance to get a little bit too. Meowsigh.  [Edit 2 times, last edit by kittyman at Apr 10, 2021 5:59:10 PM] |
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2196 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I agree Kittyman. I've stopped trying to get anything for my GTX980/iGPU HD4600 computer, and just shut it down.
Now only running an old(ish) Laptop, ASUS G75VW ROG, with a very weak GTX660M. It has only 2 Compute Units (from coproc_info.xml <max_compute_units>2</max_compute_units>), so it takes around, or sometimes over an hour, to crunch one task. But then, I'm retired and in no hurry.  So far, it's been able though, to get new tasks when needed, and even build a small cache. |
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Ian-n-Steve C.
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: May 15, 2020 Post Count: 180 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, between such little production and the script suckers at work, the kitties' GPU is still running cold. The kitties are not greedy, they would just like a little bit here and there. Maybe the project should limit GPU tasks sent per work request to 5 or so, to keep the script suckers at bay and give others more of a chance to get a little bit too. Meowsigh. the "script suckers" are in the same exact situation. I only have 5 hosts. in the current situation more hosts would actually be more beneficial to snagging more tasks than using a single command line to fix BOINC's broken request behavior if you want to maximize the amount of requests you can do per unit time, you need more hosts. so be angry with people with lots of hosts. I only get 1-10 tasks whenever a work request is filled. it's not like anyone is getting much more than that I can almost guarantee it. I only get a successful request every 1-2hrs or so on each system, even with them asking every 2mins, which is the project defined minimum request cooldown period. there are far fewer tasks available than you are imagining, and far more people making requests than you are imagining. I get work every 1-2 hours, spend a few mins on them, then back to Einstein until more show up.  EPYC 7V12 / [5] RTX A4000 EPYC 7B12 / [5] RTX 3080Ti + [2] RTX 2080Ti EPYC 7B12 / [6] RTX 3070Ti + [2] RTX 3060 [2] EPYC 7642 / [2] RTX 2080Ti |
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kittyman
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 14, 2020 Post Count: 140 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Oh, I am well aware of the limited amount of work being generated and the large number of users here on this project.
----------------------------------------But I can assure you that 99.99999999% of them are not rigging their computers to get around Boinc's normal work request operation. |
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goben_2003
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jun 16, 2006 Post Count: 145 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, between such little production and the script suckers at work, the kitties' GPU is still running cold. The kitties are not greedy, they would just like a little bit here and there. Maybe the project should limit GPU tasks sent per work request to 5 or so, to keep the script suckers at bay and give others more of a chance to get a little bit too. Meowsigh. There is no need for your GPU to run cold! Just run a different gpu project in between. Personally, I run folding@home on my gpu(you can select COVID-19 as the cause) as I have for a long time now. I plan on switching it off if OPNG ever has enough work to fully utilize it. In the mean time OPNG runs 1 unit at a time(when I am lucky enough to get one) and shares the GPU with folding@home. It takes about 3 minutes to complete that way. I would put a a cat emoji, but we only have a pig, cow, monkey, and chicken.   |
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kittyman
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I could do that if I was only interested in keeping my GPU busy.
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kittyman
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Well, a couple of hours ago the kitties did manage to claw in one batch of 20 OPNG tasks and happily crunched them up. Probably be a day or more until they can snag some more. But it did give the GPU something to do for about an hour.
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