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Send message Joined: 12 Feb 18 Posts: 5 |
Hello, I have an older computer that I use as my server. Most of the time it sits there doing nothing, so I thought I would let it run BOINC and do some good. However, I was sure that it would use the GPU. While an older graphics card, I thought it was compatible. In addition, it says "Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU", "Scheduler request complete: got 0 new tasks" everytime it appears to communicate with the two projects I have it attached to (Einstein@Home and Milkyway@Home). So it is requesting new tasks, but not receiving any. Not sure what the issue is, but I thought I would post to see if anyone has any insights. Following is the event log and clinfo log files below as requested: EVENT LOG: 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.6.33 for windows_x86_64 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Running under account Administrator 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8600 GTS (driver version 342.01, CUDA version 6.5, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, 212MB available, 139 GFLOPS peak) 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8600 GTS (driver version 342.01, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 256MB, 212MB available, 139 GFLOPS peak) 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Version change (7.0.28 -> 7.6.33) 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2] 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm avx svm sse4a osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 topx page1gb rdtscp 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 "R2": Home Server 2011x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00) 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Memory: 7.91 GB physical, 15.82 GB virtual 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Disk: 57.51 GB total, 17.16 GB free 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Local time is UTC -7 hours 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | VirtualBox version: 5.0.18 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | General prefs: from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ (last modified 23-Jan-2007 15:49:27) 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Host location: none 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | General prefs: using your defaults 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Reading preferences override file 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Preferences: 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | max disk usage: 17.06GB 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | This computer is not attached to any projects 2/11/2018 6:14:41 PM | | Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions 2/11/2018 6:15:05 PM | | Fetching configuration file from https://www.grcpool.com/get_project_config.php 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | Contacting account manager at https://www.grcpool.com/ 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | Account manager contact succeeded 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | General prefs: from https://www.grcpool.com/ (last modified ---) 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | Host location: none 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | General prefs: using your defaults 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | Reading preferences override file 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | Preferences: 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | max disk usage: 17.06GB 2/11/2018 6:16:24 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 2/11/2018 6:18:50 PM | | Fetching configuration file from https://www.grcpool.com/get_project_config.php 2/11/2018 6:18:54 PM | | Contacting account manager at https://www.grcpool.com/ 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Account manager contact succeeded 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Attaching to https://einsteinathome.org/ 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Attaching to https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | General prefs: from https://www.grcpool.com/ (last modified ---) 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Host location: none 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | General prefs: using your defaults 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Reading preferences override file 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Preferences: 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | max disk usage: 17.06GB 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks 2/11/2018 6:18:55 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress 2/11/2018 6:18:59 PM | https://einsteinathome.org/ | Master file download succeeded 2/11/2018 6:19:04 PM | https://einsteinathome.org/ | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. 2/11/2018 6:19:04 PM | https://einsteinathome.org/ | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | Einstein@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | Einstein@Home | This project is using an old URL. When convenient, remove the project, then add http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | General prefs: from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ (last modified 22-Aug-2017 17:09:19) 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | Host location: none 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | General prefs: using your defaults 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | Reading preferences override file 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | Preferences: 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 8098.57MB 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | max disk usage: 17.15GB 2/11/2018 6:19:10 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 2/11/2018 6:19:18 PM | https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ | Master file download succeeded 2/11/2018 6:19:23 PM | https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. 2/11/2018 6:19:23 PM | https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU 2/11/2018 6:19:26 PM | | Benchmark results: 2/11/2018 6:19:26 PM | | Number of CPUs: 4 2/11/2018 6:19:26 PM | | 2780 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 2/11/2018 6:19:26 PM | | 8010 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU CLINFO LOG: Number of platforms: 1 Platform Profile: FULL_PROFILE Platform Version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA 6.5.51 Platform Name: NVIDIA CUDA Platform Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Platform Extensions: cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_d3d9_sharing cl_nv_d3d10_sharing cl_khr_d3d10_sharing cl_nv_d3d11_sharing cl_nv_copy_opts Platform Name: NVIDIA CUDA Number of devices: 1 Device Type: CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU Device ID: 4318 Max compute units: 4 Max work items dimensions: 3 Max work items[0]: 512 Max work items[1]: 512 Max work items[2]: 64 Max work group size: 512 Preferred vector width char: 1 Preferred vector width short: 1 Preferred vector width int: 1 Preferred vector width long: 1 Preferred vector width float: 1 Preferred vector width double: 0 Max clock frequency: 1450Mhz Address bits: 14757395255531667488 Max memory allocation: 134217728 Image support: Yes Max number of images read arguments: 128 Max number of images write arguments: 8 Max image 2D width: 4096 Max image 2D height: 16383 Max image 3D width: 2048 Max image 3D height: 2048 Max image 3D depth: 2048 Max samplers within kernel: 16 Max size of kernel argument: 4352 Alignment (bits) of base address: 2048 Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype: 128 Single precision floating point capability Denorms: No Quiet NaNs: Yes Round to nearest even: Yes Round to zero: Yes Round to +ve and infinity: Yes IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add: Yes Cache type: None Cache line size: 0 Cache size: 0 Global memory size: 268435456 Constant buffer size: 65536 Max number of constant args: 9 Local memory type: Scratchpad Local memory size: 16384 Error correction support: 0 Profiling timer resolution: 1000 Device endianess: Little Available: Yes Compiler available: Yes Execution capabilities: Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes Execute native function: No Queue properties: Out-of-Order: Yes Profiling : Yes Platform ID: 00DF1010 Name: GeForce 8600 GTS Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Driver version: 342.01 Profile: FULL_PROFILE Version: OpenCL 1.0 CUDA Extensions: cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_icd cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_nv_compiler_options cl_nv_device_attribute_query cl_nv_pragma_unroll cl_nv_d3d9_sharing cl_nv_d3d10_sharing cl_khr_d3d10_sharing cl_nv_d3d11_sharing cl_nv_copy_opts cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics If additional info is required, just ask. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Jason |
Send message Joined: 2 Jul 14 Posts: 186 |
GeForce 8600 GTS is too old for Einstein@Home. That card can't run their GPU-tasks these days. Sorry, I don't know what the conditions are with Seti. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5121 |
I think that card should still be usable by SETI@Home, but don't expect blistering performance - it wasn't even state-of-the art (though not far behind) when GPU processing first became possible ten years ago. Gulp - that's not a phrase I expected to find myself typing! By all means attach to SETI, and see what happens. You'll have to be quick - SETI has regular maintenance on Tuesdays, starting in around 2 hours (13:00 UTC) - or patient: SETI should be accessible again around midnight UTC. Another thing to watch for: those early NVidia cards were quite power hungry - your electricity consumption will go up (and your room will become warmer). Your local climate will determine whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. |
Send message Joined: 25 May 09 Posts: 1295 |
It should certainly work - SETI is a lot more tolerant of GPUs than many projects. Just don't expect it to "set the World on fire", just sit back and have some fun. |
Send message Joined: 12 Feb 18 Posts: 5 |
All, Thank you for the responses, very much appreciated. I was not expecting stellar performance. Just thought it could do some good, since it just sits there most of the time doing nothing. I will keep an eye on the GPU temp as well. I missed the Seti scheduled down time, so I will have to wait until it is back up to see if it will down load any workunits for the gpu. Thanks again, Jason |
Send message Joined: 23 Feb 12 Posts: 198 |
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Send message Joined: 1 Jul 16 Posts: 146 |
It also will not work with Milkyway@home as that project will need Double Precision capable cards. Some projects it "may" still work with off the top of my head would be: Einstein is out due to the memory requirements. Albert is still on the 4G tasks when there are some available. I don't recall how much vram those need. |
Send message Joined: 19 May 15 Posts: 123 |
Einstein requires 1gb of VRAM. :/ Once upon a time it didn't but at some point they upgraded the requirements. |
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