BitCoin Utopia: BOINC 7.4.22 is now recommended for asic users

[myshortpencil]

Try posting the problem in the Bitcoin Utopia forum.

[Maxwell]

Getting plenty of work. The problem is that app_config file no longer allows me to control the amount of simultaneous GPU tassks to run on each GPU or the amount of CPUs to assign to each GPU task. App_config file is recognized. Parameters set in file are ignored.

Can you post your project settings and app_config file? We might see something... If everything looks good, it's likely a project issue they'll have to solve.

[nanoprobe]

Project is E@H. Project settings are to run Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, GPU) and Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Perseus Arm Survey) tasks only. This is a 4 card ATI 270X machine with an i7-3770K. App_config is set to run 2 tasks per card with 1 CPU thread per task.

<app_config>
<app>
<name>einsteinbinary_BRP4G</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
<app>
<name>einsteinbinary_BRP5</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

What actually runs is 4 tasks with .5 CPU threads per task. Fortunately E@H allows you to run more that 1 task per GPU from their project preferences so now I'm actually running 8 GPU tasks with .5 CPU threads per task.

I downgraded to BOINC version 7.2.42 on 1 box to test and the app_config worked fine. Version 7.4.22 is the problem IMHO.

[Maxwell]

I downgraded to BOINC version 7.2.42 on 1 box to test and the app_config worked fine. Version 7.4.22 is the problem IMHO.

I think you're right that 7.4.22 is the problem. Might be a bug that needs to be reported to the developers, but I'm not sure where to do that.

Stupid question - are you allowing any CPU crunching from any project? If not, then you'll have the full 8 threads available to the WUs, regardless of how much CPU the BOINC client thinks it needs.

[nanoprobe]

I think you're right that 7.4.22 is the problem. Might be a bug that needs to be reported to the developers, but I'm not sure where to do that.

Stupid question - are you allowing any CPU crunching from any project? If not, then you'll have the full 8 threads available to the WUs, regardless of how much CPU the BOINC client thinks it needs.

Not running any CPU only tasks ATM. Asked at the BOINC message boards. After last reply there I'll just stick with 7.2.42 for GPU stuff.