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Radeon 7900 thread
(Message 111727)
Posted 21 Jan 2012 by  [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: new ATI driver for 79xx - http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/RC11Driver.aspx in the "Resolved" section is: Folding@Home: intermittent stability issues have been resolved for the OpenCL version of Folding@Home Would I be correct in guessing that may have baring here as well? |
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Radeon 7900 thread
(Message 111699)
Posted 16 Jan 2012 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: so far of the 71 tasks given, 6 validated (all from 288larsson, who has the same GPU) 3 failed validation, and one error (I think do to a driver reset during processing or comp lockup). Remaining 60 are pending validation still. Of those that failed validation, 2 had a windows with a older ATI GPU validate against a Linux running a NVidia GPU, the other had 2 windows comps both with a NVidia GPU. So looks like the validator still may have some work to do, but the app itself seem to be doing reasonably well without modification, aside from the low GPU usage. This may be solved by a cheep modification to what the server sends out of the app using 0.5 ATI instead of 1. |
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Radeon 7900 thread
(Message 111693)
Posted 15 Jan 2012 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: ah good, any idea when that will be avalible? |
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Radeon 7900 thread
(Message 111690)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: yes, with your 7970 as well. All others are either "waiting" or "inconclusive" against any other GPU, even against an ATI 6900 series. So it looks like currently only 7000 series may validate against other 7000 series GPUs... |
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Radeon 7900 thread
(Message 111687)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: According to GPUz, the current GPU load is around 45% on the card. "Would be nice" to have it used more. |
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Radeon 7900 thread
(Message 111686)
Posted 14 Jan 2012 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: Just a note for the devs, I have started working on this project again with my new AMD 7970. It is currently clocked at 1125 MHz GPU (highest CCC allows) and default memory, but from the reviews so far, this won't be a problem for the card. host is at http://albert.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1306 I am also currently using the BOINC 7.0.7 x64 client on windows 8 x64 With the stock app, it is taking about 40 min for a WU to complete, but its waiting on validation, so I don't know yet if its usable. Anyone else here with a AMD 79xx GPU want to comment on their experience? |
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Running on ATI
(Message 111483)
Posted 3 Dec 2011 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: I'm using the ATI 11.11 drivers and the 2.5SDK installed, on my i7 2600K @ 4.7GHz, i typically see 3-4% of the total CPU usage going to the albert openCL app... I have a ATI 6970 and running windows 8 x64. My typical GPU load is around 80% |
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general question about Albert
(Message 111482)
Posted 3 Dec 2011 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: wait for the 7000 series, should be announced on monday. This new series will have much reduced power consumptions, and improved performance over the 6000 series. Or, you can see if you can find the new entry level ATI 6930. |
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BOINC 6.13.12 & ATI 11.8 Thru 11.11
(Message 111453)
Posted 1 Dec 2011 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: this project will not work for ATI openCL on 6.12.x clients, that version of BOINC doesn't report openCL capabilities of the host system. |
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News :
Sending work
(Message 111415)
Posted 25 Nov 2011 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: credits for this alpha project are 500 per WU that validates, irregardless of how long it takes to run. Also, last I read this project is soon not going to export stats, if they haven't yet turned that off. |
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Error -5 and 2021 on all GPU workunits
(Message 111310)
Posted 18 Nov 2011 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: Is there any recomendation what ati driver one should use with an ATI5850 I did set my GPU clock speed higher than the default, but that wouldn't stop it from lowering the speed on low load. I don't know why I would be getting a higher load consistently than the rest of you guys. |
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Error -5 and 2021 on all GPU workunits
(Message 111309)
Posted 18 Nov 2011 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: I see that you get a totall runtime of the task for aprox 1hour... I'm using a ATI 6970, and get about a 70% GPU load all the way through the app, at least during the several times I was looking. As for what SDK I used, I dunno, I just searched for "ATI SDK 2.5 on AMD's site. After I installed that, I ended up upgrading to the Radeon 11.11 drivers, with the APP installed as well. |
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Error -5 and 2021 on all GPU workunits
(Message 111292)
Posted 18 Nov 2011 by [SETI.USA]Tank_Master
Post: I am running successfully now on my system with ATI 11.11, the AMD SDK 2.5, and BOINC 6.13.12. I do not know if installing the SKD is important or not, but it was one of my steps I took to get it to work initially. Also, I am running on Windows 8 64bit. |
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