Just wanted to post that I finally got some Albert tasks!
I followed Skildude and Ageless's advice. I uninstalled the ATI drivers, then ran driversweep in safe mode. I found a lot of old Nvidia stuff as well from previous cards. I also updated to 7.0.20 just for the heck of it. The Boinc startup messages did show opencl for the gpu this time.
Well, let's say it's non-optimal, in particular for GPU apps. The runtime estimates are determined for every application version independently. Thus after each newly released version BOINC needs some time to gather statistics to come up with a valid/reasonable runtime estimate. Don't worry, we won't be using this new system over on einstein until it proves reliable, but we need to test it here in order to improve (fix) it at all - as soon as time permits.
Today I had a lot of atiOpenCL tasks aborted after exactly 24:14 min.
133328 43214 7 Mar 2012 | 16:58:05 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 6:11:00 UTC Error while computing 1,454.57 580.95 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133327 39414 7 Mar 2012 | 16:59:13 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 6:11:00 UTC Error while computing 1,453.71 578.01 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133326 39395 7 Mar 2012 | 16:59:13 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 6:11:00 UTC Error while computing 1,454.23 582.54 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133325 39432 7 Mar 2012 | 16:59:13 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 8:30:35 UTC Error while computing 1,453.80 582.52 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133324 39441 7 Mar 2012 | 16:59:13 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 8:30:35 UTC Error while computing 1,453.70 586.05 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133323 43314 7 Mar 2012 | 16:58:05 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 6:11:00 UTC Error while computing 1,454.00 584.04 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133321 39279 7 Mar 2012 | 16:55:50 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 6:11:00 UTC Error while computing 1,453.96 582.06 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133320 37403 7 Mar 2012 | 17:00:24 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 8:30:35 UTC Error while computing 1,454.57 614.77 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133319 36932 7 Mar 2012 | 17:00:24 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 8:30:35 UTC Error while computing 1,453.83 607.69 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133318 44053 7 Mar 2012 | 17:00:25 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 10:38:10 UTC Error while computing 1,453.83 662.62 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133317 38006 7 Mar 2012 | 17:01:34 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 12:57:42 UTC Error while computing 1,454.31 665.01 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133316 43437 7 Mar 2012 | 16:58:05 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 6:11:00 UTC Error while computing 1,454.19 582.07 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
Bikemans:
133387 44311 7 Mar 2012 | 17:42:19 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 9:42:23 UTC Error while computing 947.54 846.04 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133348 44229 7 Mar 2012 | 17:42:19 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 9:42:23 UTC Error while computing 946.95 840.90 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133346 44226 7 Mar 2012 | 17:43:26 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 10:07:15 UTC Error while computing 947.58 838.51 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133314 39550 7 Mar 2012 | 17:41:09 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 4:31:47 UTC Error while computing 946.85 838.29 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
133274 44093 7 Mar 2012 | 17:41:09 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 4:31:47 UTC Error while computing 947.08 842.30 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
130790 44395 7 Mar 2012 | 17:43:27 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 10:43:45 UTC Error while computing 946.86 844.07 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
130749 44374 7 Mar 2012 | 17:42:19 UTC 8 Mar 2012 | 9:42:23 UTC Error while computing 947.30 837.06 --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.22 (atiOpenCL)
PS.:
Bikemans end up earlier due to better hardware
I also had my tasks ended after 702 seconds (tasks 130935,130925,130906 for example). I had to divide by 10 in client_state.xml to allow tasks to finish.
I just upgraded to catalyst 12.12 (7/3/2012) and the good news for Linux users is that the CPU usage was significantly reducted. 1300 seconds of CPU time per work, instead of about 3600 with 12.11. Average CPU is now about 33%.
I don't know if this affects the OpenCL in any way, but the Catalysts 12.2 do cause Anti Aliasing problems in some games. I noticed it after upgrading to these drivers, that all fine mist like graphics in Skyrim would become lots of square pixels. This can only be fixed by disabling AA and enabling FSAA instead.
ATI says it's a game problem, not their drivers, but heck if something works before and doesn't after changing the drivers, then how can that be the game's problem when that one hasn't changed literally a bit?
And again...
Normal average run time of OpenCl tasks on my ATI HD6850 is around 6200 seconds. When not interrupted.
When interrupted (due to exit BOINC, suspend BOINC or suspend task (exclusive_app or switch between applications)), task run time length increases to 31,000 - 36,000 seconds (!!). (task list)
As Tullio posted in an other thread, the Albert wu's are slower than the Einstein wu's.
I checked it twice with BRP3cuda32 wu's, running all of them with the same setting (GPU 0.5) on the same hardware.
@ Jord: I don't see this behaviour on my machine, I turn it off sometimes, put tasks on hold, start them on my HD5830 and let it finish on the APU. I have no tasks running longer than 12800 sec.
Hi,
what did you do exactly on client_state.xml? If I change the entry in the ati_openCL application section it was automatically reset by the application after a while and tasks end up before finishing.
Just wanted to post that I
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Just wanted to post that I finally got some Albert tasks!
I followed Skildude and Ageless's advice. I uninstalled the ATI drivers, then ran driversweep in safe mode. I found a lot of old Nvidia stuff as well from previous cards. I also updated to 7.0.20 just for the heck of it. The Boinc startup messages did show opencl for the gpu this time.
Thanks!
RE: ... and it looks like
)
Well, let's say it's non-optimal, in particular for GPU apps. The runtime estimates are determined for every application version independently. Thus after each newly released version BOINC needs some time to gather statistics to come up with a valid/reasonable runtime estimate. Don't worry, we won't be using this new system over on einstein until it proves reliable, but we need to test it here in order to improve (fix) it at all - as soon as time permits.
Best,
Oliver
Today I had a lot of
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Today I had a lot of atiOpenCL tasks aborted after exactly 24:14 min.
PS.:
Bikemans end up earlier due to better hardware
Now that's strange. Looks
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Now that's strange. Looks like BOINC's borked runtime estimation again. Thanks for reporting...
Oliver
Hi, I also had my tasks
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Hi,
I also had my tasks ended after 702 seconds (tasks 130935,130925,130906 for example). I had to divide by 10 in client_state.xml to allow tasks to finish.
I just upgraded to catalyst 12.12 (7/3/2012) and the good news for Linux users is that the CPU usage was significantly reducted. 1300 seconds of CPU time per work, instead of about 3600 with 12.11. Average CPU is now about 33%.
Christophe
All 1.22 wu's are erroring
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All 1.22 wu's are erroring out with max time elapsed http://albert.phys.uwm.edu/results.php?userid=128605&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid=
running on boinc 7.0.20 ati drivers 12.2
I don't know if this affects
)
I don't know if this affects the OpenCL in any way, but the Catalysts 12.2 do cause Anti Aliasing problems in some games. I noticed it after upgrading to these drivers, that all fine mist like graphics in Skyrim would become lots of square pixels. This can only be fixed by disabling AA and enabling FSAA instead.
ATI says it's a game problem, not their drivers, but heck if something works before and doesn't after changing the drivers, then how can that be the game's problem when that one hasn't changed literally a bit?
And again... Normal average
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And again...
Normal average run time of OpenCl tasks on my ATI HD6850 is around 6200 seconds. When not interrupted.
When interrupted (due to exit BOINC, suspend BOINC or suspend task (exclusive_app or switch between applications)), task run time length increases to 31,000 - 36,000 seconds (!!). (task list)
As Tullio posted in an other
)
As Tullio posted in an other thread, the Albert wu's are slower than the Einstein wu's.
I checked it twice with BRP3cuda32 wu's, running all of them with the same setting (GPU 0.5) on the same hardware.
@ Jord: I don't see this behaviour on my machine, I turn it off sometimes, put tasks on hold, start them on my HD5830 and let it finish on the APU. I have no tasks running longer than 12800 sec.
Hi, what did you do exactly
)
Hi,
what did you do exactly on client_state.xml? If I change the entry in the ati_openCL application section it was automatically reset by the application after a while and tasks end up before finishing.
einsteinbinary_BRP4 122 i686-pc-linux-gnu 0.150000 1.000000 4127438621653.708496 atiOpenCL 7.0.18 einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.22_i686-pc-linux-gnu__atiOpenCL einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-pc-linux-gnu graphics_app ATI 1.000000 377487360.000000