NVidia driver 515.48.07 gives OpenCL errors for 12GB RTX 3060 on Linux

Ian&Steve C.
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Yes that’s true.    3060Ti

Yes that’s true. 
 

3060Ti - December 2nd 2020

3060 - February 25th 2021 

 

 

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Keith Myers
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My original idea of

My original idea of backleveling to the 470 series drivers then was a good idea then for Mike.

 

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I don’t think his issue is

I don’t think his issue is the drivers. Looks like the GPU is dropping off the PCIe bus (OpenCL device missing) Reboot brings it back I bet. 
 

how’s the power and thermal situation? Using risers? What motherboard? Which slot on the motherboard? What PCIe gen is the slot/card running? 

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Keith Myers wrote: My

Keith Myers wrote:

My original idea of backleveling to the 470 series drivers then was a good idea then for Mike.

Indeed ! There have now been 16 consecutive successful FGRPB1G WUs finishing, validating and being awarded credit since I reverted the driver. Looking good ie.

12:30:25 (747): [debug]: Set up communication with graphics process.
boinc_get_opencl_ids returned [0x1659b30 , 0x16598f0] 
Using OpenCL platform provided by: NVIDIA Corporation
Using OpenCL device "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060" by: NVIDIA Corporation
Max allocation limit: 3159015424
Global mem size: 12636061696

Thanks everyone for all your input.

Cheers, Mike.

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... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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Ian&Steve C. wrote:I don’t

Ian&Steve C. wrote:

I don’t think his issue is the drivers. Looks like the GPU is dropping off the PCIe bus (OpenCL device missing) Reboot brings it back I bet. 
 

how’s the power and thermal situation?

About 60 - 700 C at 80 - 90% load. Power I don't know.

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Using risers?

Nope.

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What motherboard?

Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AX ( rev 1.0 )

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Which slot on the motherboard?

The first ( nearest to CPU ) of three, other two are empty. But there are M.2 slots ( both occupied ) either side of that first slot.

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What PCIe gen is the slot/card running?

4.0

Hmm, I am rebooting after driver changes .....

I'll watch and wait.

Cheers, Mike.

( edit ) I drop the 3060 temp to ~ 500 C by setting the fans x2 to max speed.

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Keith Myers
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Sounds like the 470 backlevel

Sounds like the 470 backlevel was the ticket.

The 515 drivers are showing up in a lot of problem tickets across numerous forums.

They did a major rewrite to shift focus to AI and cloud computing clusters for the series.

That appears to be antithetical to standard BOINC computing.

 

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Yep it's working fine, now 32

Yep it's working fine, now 32 consecutive successful FGRPB1G WUs finishing, validating and being awarded credit since I reverted the driver.

It's actually fascinating to watch the GPU load and temperature in one ( Coolero ) window vs the work unit progress in another ( BOINC Task pane ). The first ( notionally ) ~ 90 % of the workunit goes at 80 - 90% load @ 600C, the remaining 10% of the workunit at 20 - 60% load and temp down to 450C. Check this out :

Do I see exponential rise and decay in the GPU temps ? You can even see a little downward notch in load & temp during the reload to a new WU.

Cheers, Mike.

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The last 10% of the task

The last 10% of the task shifts computation to the cpu to calculate the toplist.

So utilization on the gpu drops to almost nothing.

 

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Yeah the first 90% is

Yeah the first 90% is essentially an FFT calculation, but in the toplist phase the GPU load varies widely, probably shuffling data back to general memory space maybe ?

Also it clearly shows that the last notional 10% of the WU is actually over 20% of the time.

Cheers, Mike.

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A very impressive

A very impressive visualisation of the overall crunching behaviour!

For the rates of rise/fall in GPU temps, I think the word you're looking for is asymptotic rather than exponential :-).

Since the followup stage (last 10%) involves recalculating (on the GPU, not the CPU) the top 10 candidates (toplist) using double precision, the lower GPU load (and temperature) is a function of the relative paucity of the double precision hardware being used.  The single precision hardware would be idling during this time so the load being measured (on average) drops.

I was interested to count the peak/trough cycles that show so nicely.  Exactly 1 for each of the ten candidates.  The bigger drop to almost zero load marks the transition between tasks.

There are similar cycles in load for the main (90%) stage.  I reckon if you counted those, they would add up to the number of skypoints in the task being analysed :-).

That software seems to be doing a very nice job of following exactly what is happening.  Thanks very much for sharing.

Cheers,
Gary.

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