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Blurf
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I'll be all Seti after PG's challenge
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Idan
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| Blurf wrote: | | I'll be all Seti after PG's challenge |
likewise 
I'll be on SETI with my GPUs though as they don't help the PG challenge...
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Gemjunkie
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Can someone tell me which file to download and what to do with it? The 'How-tos' link there is only for compiling your own app. 
(1-5770 and 2-5870's, Win7x64)
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Same here.
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Mildew
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I went here: http://lunatics.kwsn.net/12-gpu-crunching/ati-opencl-astropulse-rev516.msg36377.html;topicseen#msg36377
and downloaded the linked file.
Then I put this in a file called app_info.xml in the setiathome Boinc directory:
| Code: | <app>
<name>astropulse_v505</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>ap_5.06_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_ATI_r516.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<file_info>
<name>AstroPulse_Kernels.cl</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name>
<version_num>506</version_num>
<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<avg_ncpus>0.04</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>0.20</max_ncpus>
<plan_class>ati13ati</plan_class>
<cmdline>-instances_per_device 1 -hp -unroll 10 -ffa_block 4096 -ffa_block_fetch 2048</cmdline>
<flops>30987654321</flops>
<file_ref>
<file_name>ap_5.06_win_x86_SSE2_OpenCL_ATI_r516.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
<file_ref>
<file_name>AstroPulse_Kernels.cl</file_name>
<copy_file/>
</file_ref>
<coproc>
<type>ATI</type>
<count>1</count>
</coproc>
</app_version>
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Now Boinc gives me an error message stating that the XML file cannot be parsed.
| stooper101 wrote: | | Mildew wrote: | | Sir Stooper: I'm still getting XML parse error with that app_info. Is there anything else you need to do to get this thing running? |
Just noticed, now that I'm getting WUs again, that I too had a 'no xml file for seti@home' or some such. That's because, my PC was looking for Astropulse. Fixed by going to Seti preferences and de-selecting seti@home. I also looked back at the release notes for their app - http://lunatics.kwsn.net/12-gpu-crunching/astropulse-for-ati-gpus-released.msg31201.html#msg31201 Make sure you meet their requirements:
Requirements:
1), 2):
ATI GPU 4xxx or 5xxx, ATI Stream SDK2.2 installed, CPU with SSE2 and better support, Catalyst 10.7b drivers.
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for some hosts with only HD4xxx GPU installed additional environment variable may be needed: GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=256
To set it go My computer->Properties->Advanced->Environment variables (path can be slightly different in different windows versions). But before setting such variable run application and check stderr.
If you see line:
Global memory size:
with value >128MB - you don't need this environment variable
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You can download SDK here: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/ATIStreamSDK/Pages/default.aspx
That's all I got, hope it helps! |
I'm running Vista64 with a 5750.
I have Catalyst 10.12, and I figure anything above 10.7b should be ok, right?
I also think that not living up to the requirements would give computation errors, not an XML parsing error in the Boinc client...
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Mildew
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Hmmm, perhaps the XML parsing thing doesn't matter, because it looks like it managed to download a WU during the night.
It's been running for 8 hours, and is at 12% complete...
Unless this is some kind of 300,000 point unit, the return on this project is not that great, or there's something wrong with the application.
I think I'll just skip SETI on the ATI shrubber until it's officially supported by the project.
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stooper101
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:26 am Post subject: |
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You're correct, Seti pays very little for gpus (at least ati, couldn't speak to cuda) as compared to other projects. With my 5870, it takes about an hour and I am awarded somewhere between 600 and 900 credits. Never actually calculated what I get for Milky, but it is significantly more. In fact, some poor soul even brought up the topic of credits recently on the seti forums... http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=63651 It seems he got shot down hard and often for just posing the question. People don't seem to want to budge seti credits and would rather see other projects fall in-inline.
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| Consider it like foreign exchange - each SETI point is more valuable than credits from most other projects... |
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Blurf
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msattler
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to my world, friends.
Seti credits are real..hard earned credits.
Now maybe my stats have a bit more meaning to y'all.
Credits at Seti don't flow like water as they do at some other projects.
But it is a worthy endeavor, and I am pleased that the KWSN chose to support it at this time.
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