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Sir Tux
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 Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:27 am Post subject: To cuda or not to cuda, that's the question. |
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Co-Knights,
My question:
I would lik to add a gforce 9600 to my system.
However, my system already has a on-board vga interface recognized by boinc as a cuda device but incredibely slow.
Can i add the new gpu to the system and somhow select which one to use in boinc. This would enable me to keep using the on-board gpa for my monitor. Or do i have to disable the on-board gpu?
I'm sure you knights shall give me a hasty reply!
Li,
Erland.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:31 am Post subject: |
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These lou-knees do nothing hasty. 
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Sir Papa Smurph
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Your on board will not do Cuda your 9600 should be able to run it.
You should disable your onboard graphics in Bios, and just suspend GpuGrid when you do something graphics intensive....
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=867#7753
This is a list of compatible cards and chips.....
Remember that a 9600 will also be "slow". I run 2-8800's and 3-9800's they have 112 to 128 stream processors.
a 9600 has between 48 and 96 stream processors, you may want to get at least a 9800 if you haven't yet purchased it....
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Sir Tux
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:32 am Post subject: |
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I haven't bought anything yet.
I shall certainly look into the 9800, only hope my psu is strong anough.
Li,
Erland.
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Sir Papa Smurph
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| Sir Tux wrote: | I haven't bought anything yet.
I shall certainly look into the 9800, only hope my psu is strong anough.
Li,
Erland. |
When I got my cards I smoked 2 Psu's in 6 hours....
I got a Antec Earthwatts 650 for the box with the 9850 black with 2 9800GTX+ cards in it.
The ones I fried were Coolmax 500 watt Psu's.
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Adam Alexander
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Try to get a GTX 260 instead if you can. On the PSU issue, I've been running my i7 with a Corsair 650W and it handles two 260's and a 9600 just fine.
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Sir Tux
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Well, i got a 9800GT and .....
All my wu's drop out with computation errors.
GPU grid:
| Code: | core_client_version>6.5.0</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 1 (0x1, -255)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce 9800 GT"
# Clock rate: 1.35 GHz
# Total amount of global memory: 1073414144 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 14
# Number of cores: 112
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce 9800 GT"
# Clock rate: 1.35 GHz
# Total amount of global memory: 1073414144 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 14
# Number of cores: 112
Cuda error: Kernel [RandomGPU] failed in file 'MersenneTwister.cu' in line 66 : unspecified launch failure.
</stderr_txt>
]]>
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Aqua:
| Code: | </stderr_out>
<ready_to_report/>
<completed_time>1249474910.476882</completed_time>
<wu_name>31jul09-32-2M-64-a_167_3</wu_name>
<report_deadline>1252065144.000000</report_deadline>
<file_ref>
<file_name>31jul09-32-2M-64-a_167_3_0_0</file_name>
<open_name>output_file_</open_name>
<copy_file/>
</file_ref>
</result>
<result>
<name>31jul09-32-2M-64-a_166_17_0</name>
<final_cpu_time>0.000000</final_cpu_time>
<exit_status>193</exit_status>
<state>3</state>
<platform>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform>
<version_num>337</version_num>
<plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
<stderr_out>
<![CDATA[
<message>
process exited with code 193 (0xc1, -63)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
SIGSEGV: segmentation violation
Stack trace (14 frames):
aqua_3.37_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__cuda(boinc_catch_signal+0x19a)[0x427750]
/lib64/libpthread.so.0[0x7f0541319770]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1[0x7f0541d66980]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1[0x7f0541d6c3c4]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1[0x7f0541d3c557]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1[0x7f0541ce7cf7]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1[0x7f0541cf952b]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1[0x7f0541cde940]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1[0x7f0541cd7a8a]
/usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1(cuCtxCreate+0x57)[0x7f0541d32187]
aqua_3.37_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__cuda[0x4222e1]
aqua_3.37_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__cuda[0x405d60]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x7f0540fcc164]
aqua_3.37_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__cuda[0x403759]
Exiting...
</stderr_txt>
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My setup:
AMD 9600 quad core processor.
Gainward 9800GT green edition.
4 GB ram.
Nothing overclocked!
Linux SLAMD 64 with kernel 2.6.27.7
Tried nvidia driver 185.18.31
now 190.18
boinc version 6.5.0
It's running with milkyway optimised app which i throttled to 3 processors max.
I googled a lot, but didn't find an answer. I'm sure one of you loonies can help me!
Li,
Erland.
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Sir Papa Smurph
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:43 am Post subject: |
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You should run a couple of benchmark/diagnostic programs on the card. It could be a bad one.
http://www.futuremark.com/
Edit: Don't forget to Dl EVGA precision so you can run up your fan speed...
Otherwise your card will fry......
http://www.evga.com/PRecision/
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:20 am Post subject: |
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You might want to post this over in the GPUGrid user forums. Did you upgrade to the 185.xx driver?
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Sir Tux
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| Adam Alexander wrote: | | You might want to post this over in the GPUGrid user forums. Did you upgrade to the 185.xx driver? |
Yes i did, and later even to 190.xx.
The crazy (or lucky) thing is i have it with aqua also. What's great on aqua is that it only takes seconds to ruin 3 WU's where it takes hours with gpugrid.
With Aqua i had the same problem on the same system. Aqua works on my 8200 of my other linux system, i think i'm going to try to put the gpu in the other system today.
Li,
Erland.
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Sir Tux
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:23 am Post subject: |
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It seems i have sorted it out.
I looked some more into the forum of gpugrid and found that there are issues with the 185.xx and 190.xx drivers.
I reverted to the 180.xx driver and at the moment aqua seems to be running without error. After completion of the first wu i'll switch gpugrid back on.
I'll keep you guy's posted.
Li,
Erland.
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Sir Tux
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:42 am Post subject: |
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Ok, 3 WU's of aqua crunched without problems, 15 credit 
I started GPU grid and am at 14.5 % at the moment, i'm going to enable the 4th core for cpu crunching again.
Li,
Erland.
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| Sir Tux wrote: | Ok, 3 WU's of aqua crunched without problems, 15 credit
I started GPU grid and am at 14.5 % at the moment, i'm going to enable the 4th core for cpu crunching again.
Li,
Erland. |
Good luck
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Sir Tux
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:54 am Post subject: |
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First one succesfull after about 20 hours.
Li,
Erland.
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Congratulations
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| Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Sir Papa Smurph wrote: | | The ones I fried were Coolmax 500 watt Psu's. |
IMNSHO, Coolmax PSUs suck. My supposed 500W Coolmax PSU was causing all sorts of problems with my main (Opty) shrubber, until I figured out it had a droopy 12V line. I replaced it with a much lower-rated Thermaltake I had laying around, and it's run fine for months.
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I have one machine with a Coolmax 600 that's been solid for over a year. Maybe it's just the 500's.
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Maybe it is the 500s
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