FYI to all Nvidia Crunches out there... Clock speed Problems

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Tex1954
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25 May 2011 13:09:28 UTC
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    There is an ongoing problem with CUDA tasks and the Clock Rates being dropped in Nvidia I've written it up and the problem is with Vista and Win7 both.

    What happens, is the clock rate gets dropped to conserve power/heat etc. and never returns to high speed again. This always happens with DUAL Nvidia cards installed and seems only magic prevents it from happening on it's own most of the time. Doesn't matter what power settings are set, performance mode seems to help, but not totally correct it. Snoozing or Suspending tasks is a 95% guarantee the clocks with drop and never regain full speed again.

    I've informed Nvidia tech support and the forums.

    http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=9f29a996e0ac9d6ea44a506f6631f805&showtopic=200414&pid=1237460&st=0entry1237460

    8-)

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    Richard Haselgrove
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    FYI to all Nvidia Crunches out there... Clock speed Problems

    25 May 2011 13:52:24 UTC
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      As I've just posted in reply to your identical post at SETI:

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      This problem has recently been drawn to the attention of the SETI CUDA developers, and is in the process of being reported onwards to other CUDA-enabled BOINC projects. It seems to be related specifically to the release of nVidia drivers which will support the forthcoming v4 release of the CUDA run-time support files. The central BOINC library code isn't yet fully compatible with CUDA v4: the problem has been overcome with test programs, and should go away with the next round of application releases.

      Unfortunately, v3 and earlier nVidia drivers aren't available for the very latest generation of nVidia cards, but if you have a card which can run with nVidia driver 266.58, that should avoid the problem.


      @ Bernd:

      It's been isolated to a CUDA task exit handling problem in the BOINC API library code. Eric Korpela has a copy of the proposed (and tested) solution for evaluation, and is considering checking it in following testing and evaluation. I can put you in touch with the developer concerned, or pass messages, if you wish.

      Tex1954
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      Thanks for the good work and

      26 May 2011 18:33:38 UTC
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        Thanks for the good work and the heads up!

        8-)

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        Bernd Machenschalk
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        Thanks. I pointed Oliver to

        27 May 2011 14:20:39 UTC
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          Thanks. I pointed Oliver to this thread.

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          Is it worth updating to

          17 Jun 2011 4:56:14 UTC
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            Is it worth updating to GeForce 275.33 Driver? Released 11/06/01 Dose this release fix the down clocking issues?

            Thanks for advice in advance

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            RE: Is it worth updating to

            17 Jun 2011 5:43:10 UTC
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              Quote:
              Is it worth updating to GeForce 275.33 Driver? Released 11/06/01 Dose this release fix the down clocking issues?


              No, it's the 275.33 driver which causes the downclocking issues - or more strictly, reveals the bug in the BOINC API which causes them.

              Although the API bug has been fixed (in theory), this project hasn't re-compiled and re-issued the applications to take advantage of it yet (and nor has any other BOINC project that I'm aware of).

              FrankHagen
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              RE: Although the API bug

              17 Jun 2011 15:40:25 UTC
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                Although the API bug has been fixed (in theory), this project hasn't re-compiled and re-issued the applications to take advantage of it yet (and nor has any other BOINC project that I'm aware of).

                well - it would be nice if this could be done at least.

                and probably giving CUDA 4.0 a try then..

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