Earlier today Bernd posted a notice reading "We completed our GPU port of the GW app such that it can now also process the current O2AS tasks efficiently. There is now a GPU version of the O2AS20-500 app available for Beta testing."
I tried enabling both
Beta Testing|Run test applications
and Applications: Continuous Gravitational Wave search O2 All-Sky
on the location-specific Einstein project preferences for one of my hosts. It promptly downloaded a task, and I suspended all other work so that it started up immediately.
That task did not run what I would term "efficiently".
In particular, while it used nearly a full CPU, the GPU usage was very low (intermittent but averaging far under 10%).
I kept some watch using task properties and did see that it began saving checkpoints after a couple of minutes. After an initial period of "fake progress," it settled down to a pattern which suggested it would take a number of hours to complete.
This seemed very like the most recent flavor of Einstein GW work I ran a number of weeks ago, not like an "efficient" performance-enhanced variant. I confess that I aborted it after about 2/3 of an hour of running time with reported progress well under 10%.
Just possibly the task I got was not of the newest flavor.
The task name was: h1_0510.25_O2C02Cl1In0__O2AS20-500_510.40Hz_616_0
The host runs under Windows 10, using an AMD RX 570 graphics GPU, with a very modern, but not especially fast Intel CPU (i5-9400F) with several spare real cores.
Perhaps the real, new, beta-test one is different from this one. Does anyone know?
What's the point of having GPU applications if that only uses 10% of the GPU ? My GPUs don't even switch to boost clocks, I feel like I'm wasting resources ...
Yes, I know. I've tried them
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Yes, I know. I've tried them all.
But for the injection run there is no checkbox yet.
DF1DX wrote:Yes, I know. I've
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I see that now, sorry.
DF1DX wrote:But for the
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*sigh*
Always the same. Takes mostly weeks/months until new apps are "free" for everyone. Wonder how long it will take this time... :-\
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Continuous Gravitational Wave
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Continuous Gravitational Wave search O2 All-Sky
Nvidia GTX 960, crunching 1x ... a task completed in 7 h 25 min
Earlier today Bernd posted a
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Earlier today Bernd posted a notice reading "We completed our GPU port of the GW app such that it can now also process the current O2AS tasks efficiently. There is now a GPU version of the O2AS20-500 app available for Beta testing."
I tried enabling both
Beta Testing|Run test applications
and Applications: Continuous Gravitational Wave search O2 All-Sky
on the location-specific Einstein project preferences for one of my hosts. It promptly downloaded a task, and I suspended all other work so that it started up immediately.
That task did not run what I would term "efficiently".
In particular, while it used nearly a full CPU, the GPU usage was very low (intermittent but averaging far under 10%).
I kept some watch using task properties and did see that it began saving checkpoints after a couple of minutes. After an initial period of "fake progress," it settled down to a pattern which suggested it would take a number of hours to complete.
This seemed very like the most recent flavor of Einstein GW work I ran a number of weeks ago, not like an "efficient" performance-enhanced variant. I confess that I aborted it after about 2/3 of an hour of running time with reported progress well under 10%.
Just possibly the task I got was not of the newest flavor.
The task name was: h1_0510.25_O2C02Cl1In0__O2AS20-500_510.40Hz_616_0
Application name was: Continuous Gravitational Wave search O2 All-Sky v1.02 (GW-opencl-ati) windows_x86_64
The host runs under Windows 10, using an AMD RX 570 graphics GPU, with a very modern, but not especially fast Intel CPU (i5-9400F) with several spare real cores.
Perhaps the real, new, beta-test one is different from this one. Does anyone know?
The previous chat here was
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The previous chat here was about the Injection app vs O2 app mentioned in the other thread. Neither seem to work.
Bernd seems a bit perplexed
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Bernd seems a bit perplexed by this particular turn of events.
Cheers,
Gary.
What the point of having GPU
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What's the point of having GPU applications if that only uses 10% of the GPU ? My GPUs don't even switch to boost clocks, I feel like I'm wasting resources ...
Version 1.03 is clearly
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Version 1.03 is clearly better than the previous ones.
Version 1.04 is significantly
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Version 1.04 is significantly faster than 1.03 yesterday.