Running Wu's on ATI or NVIDIA ?

[STE\/E]

Don't know what the Hell happened in the WCG Challenge, I moved up to 2'nd place fairly quickly & was closing in on 1'st & now I'm completely gone, haven't been listed in the Stats for several Hr's now. I'm still on the Team China Team according to My Grid at WCG soooooooo

EDIT: I'm back in the Challenge Stats again ...

[Al]

Yeah, I found the 7970 to be about 2x a 580, so I use my nvidia GPUs elsewhere. I am running 8 at a time on my 7970 with .75 CPU thread per task. At first they are all on the same pattern, all needing the CPU at the same time, and then all needing the GPU at the same time. Let it run over night, and by morning, they will have spread out, keeping a pretty steady load on both the CPU and GPU.

In a mixed system, is there a way to specify in the app_config to only use the ati gpus? Mine is using both ati and nvidia. Not a huge problem, but I'd prefer to put the nvidia's somewhere else.

[STE\/E]

There may be one but I don't know about it ...

[Al]

There may be one but I don't know about it ...

I can't find anything in the app_config that addresses this, but I did find a work around that is working, at least for now.

I suspended WCG and aborted all nvidia tasks and set to NNW. I lowered the number Max concurrent in the app_config. I started accepting work from Primegrid (nvidia only) and got a cache full and let them start. I then shut down BM and restarted with the adjusted app_config. WCG started (returned to accepting new work) on the ati's only since the nvidia was busy already. I'll have to wait to see if WCG will continue to send nvidia work units. If it does, I'll be curious to see if they actually start because I also set resource share on PG higher.

[nanoprobe]

In a mixed system, is there a way to specify in the app_config to only use the ati gpus? Mine is using both ati and nvidia. Not a huge problem, but I'd prefer to put the nvidia's somewhere else.

Are you talking about WCG? If so add this code to your cc_config.xml file which is in the BOINC folder, not the project folder.
<exclude_gpu>
<url>project_www.worldcommunitygrid.org</url>
<device_num>N</device_num>
<type>nvidia</type>
</exclude_gpu>

Device N is which ever the nvidia gpu is, 0 or 1.

If you don't have a cc_config.xml file already in the BOINC folder then just copy the code below into notepad, rename it cc_config.xml and add it to the BOINC folder. Just remember to give the N tag a number for your nvidia card. You'll have to shut down and restart BOINC for the changes to take effect.

<cc_config>
<options>
<exclude_gpu>
<url>project_www.worldcommunitygrid.org</url>
<device_num>N</device_num>
<type>nvidia</type>
</exclude_gpu>
</options>
</cc_config>

[Al]

Are you talking about WCG? If so add this code to your cc_config.xml file which is in the BOINC folder, not the project folder.
<exclude_gpu>
<url>project_www.worldcommunitygrid.org</url>
<device_num>N</device_num>
<type>nvidia</type>
</exclude_gpu>

Device N is which ever the nvidia gpu is, 0 or 1.

If you don't have a cc_config.xml file already in the BOINC folder then just copy the code below into notepad, rename it cc_config.xml and add it to the BOINC folder. Just remember to give the N tag a number for your nvidia card. You'll have to shut down and restart BOINC for the changes to take effect.

<cc_config>
<options>
<exclude_gpu>
<url>project_www.worldcommunitygrid.org</url>
<device_num>N</device_num>
<type>nvidia</type>
</exclude_gpu>
</options>
</cc_config>

Thanks nanoprobe...while looking so hard for an answer inside the app_config, I totally forgot about the exclude in the cc_config.

[STE\/E]

lol, I just figured out that I had 357k in Pending Credits at the WCG Project, that's a lot of Pendings for a low paying project ...

[nanoprobe]

lol, I just figured out that I had 357k in Pending Credits at the WCG Project, that's a lot of Pendings for a low paying project ...

I always wondered why all the stats sites only give 1 credit for every 7 WCG points. Large amounts of PV are pretty common at WCG, especially with the GPU app. I usually average around 300 pages of PVs @ 15 per page.

[Bok]

WCG have retained their points scoring system from the pre-BOINC days which they display on their site, but they use the BOINC credit system in the back-end which is what is exported out to the stats sites. There is a 7:1 ratio between the two.

[nanoprobe]

WCG have retained their points scoring system from the pre-BOINC days which they display on their site, but they use the BOINC credit system in the back-end which is what is exported out to the stats sites. There is a 7:1 ratio between the two.

Too bad that can't be fixed. I personally care far more about results than points but I know many of the points hounds won't run WCG because of the credit system they use. Sad.