GTX460 settings ?

[TouchuvGrey]

Uninstalled, cleaned up. Reinstalled. Seems ok so
far but no GPU WU's.

   Next, i think i'm getting a GTX560ti unless someone
can suggest something that will give me more bang
for the bucks.

[Jason G]

   Next, i think i'm getting a GTX560ti unless someone
can suggest something that will give me more bang
for the bucks.

I'd hold out a bit longer perhaps, if you can, and see how the 660ti's come out.

Jason

[TouchuvGrey]

   Next, i think i'm getting a GTX560ti unless someone
can suggest something that will give me more bang
for the bucks.

I'd hold out a bit longer perhaps, if you can, and see how the 660ti's come out.

Jason

     Speculation seems to center on a $299.00 ( USD ) price.
That's out of my price range. The GTX560ti at about $200.00
is do able.

      In another note, i now seem to have almost all CUDA WU's
with a few  astropulse units running.

[TouchuvGrey]

GTX 560ti on the way, likely here Friday.
Will take GTS 250 out and replace with 560.
250 will replace the 220 currently in #2 machine.

 Looking forward to seeing what i can do with a
460 and the 560ti. Been running out of WU's recently
i hope SETI can send more my way.

[TouchuvGrey]

GTX 560 ti installed and running:

2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Running under account Mike
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         920  @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt pbe
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, (06.01.7601.00)
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Memory: 11.99 GB physical, 23.98 GB virtual
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Disk: 419.93 GB total, 276.85 GB free
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Local time is UTC -6 hours
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (driver version 290.53, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 869MB available, 1306 GFLOPS peak)
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 290.53, CUDA version 4.10, compute capability 2.1, 768MB, 704MB available, 1025 GFLOPS peak)
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (driver version 290.53, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB, 869MB available)
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 290.53, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 768MB, 704MB available)
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM |  | Config: use all coprocessors
2/24/2012 8:56:04 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5807368; resource share 100

     Would it be better to have 2 or 3 tasks per GPU running ?

[arkayn]

The GTX460/768 is only capable of running 2 at a time, so that is what you will have to use.

[TouchuvGrey]

560ti up and running beside the 460.

i'm presuming that it is the:

<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>

value in the app_info Claggy was kind enough to make for
me when i had the GTX460 and the GTS250 will need replacing.

   What should i replace it with and where can i find that
information ?

     i'm trying to learn to do more of this stuff myself so as to
A) not have to bother someone here when i want to change something, and
B) not look like quite such an idiot at times.

   i predict greater success at A than B <sigh>

<app_info>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>AK_v8b2_win_x64_SSE3.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>603</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>16.493661080458e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
           <file_name>AK_v8b2_win_x64_SSE3.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>603</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>16.493661080458e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
           <file_name>AK_v8b2_win_x64_SSE3.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app>
        <name>astropulse_v505</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name>
        <version_num>505</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>23.341936239259e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>   
    <app_version>
        <app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name>
        <version_num>505</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>23.341936239259e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>cudart32_32_16.dll</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>cufft32_32_16.dll</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>610</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda_fermi</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>609</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>608</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>610</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda_fermi</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>609</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>608</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

[Jason G]

Try the value from the host details page, 'Average Processing Rate'.  my 560ti is running 3 at a time & says ~160 (GFlops, so 160e09 ), which would be near enough to reality to get the server side estimates in the ballpark, 

Given the 2 different cards, & 2 tasks at a time, probably somewhere around 200e09 would be good enough for yours.

Jason

[Claggy]

560ti up and running beside the 460.

i'm presuming that it is the:

<flops>112.9666755771e09</flops>

value in the app_info Claggy was kind enough to make for
me when i had the GTX460 and the GTS250 will need replacing.

   What should i replace it with and where can i find that
information ?

     i'm trying to learn to do more of this stuff myself so as to
A) not have to bother someone here when i want to change something, and
B) not look like quite such an idiot at times.

   i predict greater success at A than B <sigh>

On your Computers Detail's page: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5807368

There is a link called Application details http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/host_app_versions.php?hostid=5807368

From here you get the APR values for your different apps, just substitute the old value for the latest value for 'SETI@home Enhanced (anonymous platform, nvidia GPU)', don't forget the e09 on the end,

Claggy

[TouchuvGrey]

Thank you again Claggy and Jason.

Going to install new app_info now.

<flops>151.51027321387e09</flops>

<app_info>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>AK_v8b2_win_x64_SSE3.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>603</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>16.493661080458e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
           <file_name>AK_v8b2_win_x64_SSE3.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>603</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>16.493661080458e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
           <file_name>AK_v8b2_win_x64_SSE3.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app>
        <name>astropulse_v505</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name>
        <version_num>505</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>23.341936239259e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>   
    <app_version>
        <app_name>astropulse_v505</app_name>
        <version_num>505</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>23.341936239259e09</flops>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>ap_5.05r409_SSE.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app>
        <name>setiathome_enhanced</name>
    </app>
    <file_info>
        <name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>cudart32_32_16.dll</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <file_info>
        <name>cufft32_32_16.dll</name>
        <executable/>
    </file_info>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>610</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>151.51027321387e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda_fermi</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>609</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>151.51027321387e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>608</version_num>
   <platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<flops>151.51027321387e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>610</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>151.51027321387e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda_fermi</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>609</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>151.51027321387e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
    <app_version>
        <app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
        <version_num>608</version_num>
   <platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<flops>151.51027321387e09</flops>
        <plan_class>cuda</plan_class>
        <avg_ncpus>0.040000</avg_ncpus>
        <max_ncpus>0.040000</max_ncpus>
        <coproc>
            <type>CUDA</type>
            <count>0.5</count>
        </coproc>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>Lunatics_x41g_win32_cuda32.exe</file_name>
            <main_program/>
         </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
          <file_name>cudart32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
        <file_ref>
            <file_name>cufft32_32_16.dll</file_name>
        </file_ref>
    </app_version>
</app_info>

[arkayn]

Mine is listed as 175.73269304973e09, but I have kept my flops setting at 200.52843553287e09 because of the mixture of the 560 and 460

[TouchuvGrey]

Mine is listed as 175.73269304973e09, but I have kept my flops setting at 200.52843553287e09 because of the mixture of the 560 and 460

     In that case, so will i.

[TouchuvGrey]

For some reason my computer has decided to use only one
of my GPU's and i cannot recall what i need to do to tell it to
use both of them. Here is the message i see:

5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | No config file found - using defaults
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.27 for windows_x86_64
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Running under account Mike
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         920  @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt pbe
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, (06.01.7601.00)
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Memory: 11.99 GB physical, 23.98 GB virtual
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Disk: 419.93 GB total, 280.63 GB free
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | Local time is UTC -5 hours
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (driver version 301.24, CUDA version 4.20, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 860MB available, 1306 GFLOPS peak)
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 301.24, CUDA version 4.20, compute capability 2.1, 768MB, 589MB available, 1025 GFLOPS peak)
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 560 Ti (driver version 301.24, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB, 860MB available)
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce GTX 460 (driver version 301.24, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 768MB, 589MB available)
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6650127; resource share 100
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 01-Apr-2012 14:51:25)
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM | SETI@home | Computer location: home
5/21/2012 7:02:46 PM |  | General prefs: using separate prefs for home

    add a config file ?  where and what shoud it say ?

[arkayn]

cc_config.xml with

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<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

It goes in the same folder as the client_state.xml file.

[TouchuvGrey]

Thank you again arkayn, that did it.