World Community Grid: OpenPandemics - COVID-19 Now Running on Machines with Graphics

[MindCrime]

Thanks zombie this is good info but Al pretty much got it for what i was meaning to ask. but now that you mention it i might run some other wcg projects on CPU and only open pandemics on gpu.

[MindCrime]

After seeing the "Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them" over and over trying to get gpu tasks I finally got around to turning on and getting the igpu working in boinc again. I was able to turn it on in bios and see all three display devices in windows device manager but boinc only saw the 2x 7970s. Had to do a little cable rodeo and plug in another monitor to the mobo hdmi and now I got all three gpus showing in boinc.

But now that I've finally got boinc asking for amd/ati and intel WUs it says no tasks available... of course it does.

edit: haven't seen an igpu WU yet

Also I got tired of BOINC holding off on GPU WUs because of the higher claimed CPU usage so I figured i'd make an App_config, i guessed what the app would be called because it'll tell you the known ones when you get it wrong. I guessed right the first time..

<app_config>
<app>
<name>opng</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1.0</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.20</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

[MindCrime]

30,000 gpu batches released to stress the system. I haven't been paying attention enough to know how big that is. but i have multiple machines with 100wus, might be a limit per host.
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/f...43386_offset,0

edit: limit maybe is 50wu's per gpu.

[Al]

Uploads/downloads are slow.
Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable

[scole of TSBT]

If you want to earn those hours, load up your GPUs with as many WUs that will run without erroring out. The longer they run the better....

<app_config>
<project_max_concurrent>0</project_max_concurrent>
<app>
<name>opng</name>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.5</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

[zombie67]

Put something like this in your updater script for each machine. It will prevent the crazy long backoffs for up/downloads.

"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinccmd" --host 192.168.7.248 --passwd password --network_available

[MindCrime]

upload/downloads seem to have cleared up, not sure if they made some fixes or if everyone is now loaded up.

I'm now getting WUs that are taking 3-5x longer than the previous ones that were just a few minutes. They're paying better but not scaling 3-5x, more like 2-3x. Still great credit relative to WCG. I switched this machine to 2x concurrency for the hours, maybe there will be a little net credit improvement too since these WUs are up and down on GPU loads.

[Dave gpu]

Just looked at my GPU with MSI afterburner, and it shows o% utilization .

[Dave gpu]

Just looked at my GPU with MSI afterburner, and it shows o% utilization .

Well now it seems like they are working again.

[Al]

Just looked at my GPU with MSI afterburner, and it shows o% utilization .

I'm running 8 wus on a GTX 1650 with all 8 cpu threads free. It took that many to get gpu utilization up to 99% at least part of the time. CPU is maxed out at 100%. These gpu wus are, in reality, cpu wus that use a little gpu. Can't bitch about the credits though.