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Message 111916 - Posted: 9 Mar 2012 | 21:57:16 UTC

.. looks like it's not working.
I've set it to 0.5, but



Nevertheless, if this is working it's the biggest improvement here, I offer any help I can give to get this thing running.
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Message 111917 - Posted: 10 Mar 2012 | 7:09:43 UTC - in response to Message 111916.

Update

It works now for the nvidia wu's but not for the ati openCL.
The problem was an app_info which was in the einstein directory, it affected the albert wu's as well.


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Message 111921 - Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | 15:18:26 UTC

We were testing this feature here for usage on Einstein@Home. Honestly I don't have any idea how an OpenCL App or an ATI card would behave when running more than one task at once.

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Message 111923 - Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | 19:21:50 UTC - in response to Message 111921.
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We were testing this feature here for usage on Einstein@Home. Honestly I don't have any idea how an OpenCL App or an ATI card would behave when running more than one task at once.

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Hi,

since I do it sometimes at Milkyway, I can tell you, perfect behaviour!
The project has changed his app to openCL some weeks ago. Now both (nVidia and AMD - apps) are openCL, both work fine running more than one task on a card.

Give it a chance, I'll test it for you!

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Alexander

edit:
just to give an expression how this is done at MW, here is the app_ifo for that:

<app_info>
<app>
<name>milkyway</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>milkyway_separation_1.02_windows_x86_64__opencl_amd_ati.exe</name>
<executable/>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>milkyway</app_name>
<version_num>102</version_num>
<flops>1.0e11</flops>
<avg_ncpus>0.05</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>1</max_ncpus>
<plan_class>ati14ati</plan_class>
<coproc>
<type>ATI</type>
<count>0.5</count>
</coproc>
<cmdline>--gpu-target-frequency 10 --gpu-disable-checkpointing</cmdline>
<file_ref>
<file_name>milkyway_separation_1.02_windows_x86_64__opencl_amd_ati.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>
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Message 111938 - Posted: 25 Mar 2012 | 3:21:58 UTC - in response to Message 111923.

Give it a chance, I'll test it for you!



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Message 111947 - Posted: 3 Apr 2012 | 17:20:26 UTC - in response to Message 111938.

Give it a chance, I'll test it for you!

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Should work now.

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Message 111952 - Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | 3:05:46 UTC

I am trying to test it, but I cannot get any tasks for my OSX ATI machine.


Mon Apr 9 20:04:01 2012 | Albert@Home | update requested by user
Mon Apr 9 20:04:06 2012 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
Mon Apr 9 20:04:06 2012 | Albert@Home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Mon Apr 9 20:04:06 2012 | Albert@Home | Requesting new tasks for ATI
Mon Apr 9 20:04:06 2012 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 0.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
Mon Apr 9 20:04:06 2012 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] ATI work request: 86400.00 seconds; 1.00 devices
Mon Apr 9 20:04:07 2012 | Albert@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon Apr 9 20:04:07 2012 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] Server version 700
Mon Apr 9 20:04:07 2012 | Albert@Home | No tasks sent
Mon Apr 9 20:04:07 2012 | Albert@Home | Tasks for CPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
Mon Apr 9 20:04:07 2012 | Albert@Home | Project requested delay of 60 seconds
Mon Apr 9 20:04:07 2012 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
Mon Apr 9 20:04:07 2012 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] Reason: requested by project

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Message 111953 - Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | 11:20:02 UTC - in response to Message 111952.

ATI OpenCL Applications are currently only available for Windows and Linux. I think there is a serious problem with the OpenCL (1.1) App on Mac OS X, that will be fixed with Apple's next system update to Lion.

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Message 111968 - Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | 17:18:45 UTC

Update:

We see some improvements in the OSX support, but it's not quite sure yet whether it will be sufficient to be able to have a stable app for Lion or even Mountain Lion together with Linux and Windows. Probably teh OSX app will come later than those for Windows and Linux.

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Message 111976 - Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | 11:29:44 UTC
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The first task which I am running before change to .05 is still showing 1.0
First task was started with setting GPU 1.0
Second task started with setting 0.5

But the other shows running 0.5GPU's



I am running 2tasks simultaniously now.
ATI 5850 CAT 12.3 BM 7.0.26

:)

It uses Both my cores so I have no CPU% left for other tasks.
Windows task manager says each task is using about 20% so if that could be modified to the app, that would be great.
I think SETI Beta is now using some way of <flops> calculation to set the CPU % before tasks is started.

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