INTEL Arc.

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Since I have been fascinated

Since I have been fascinated with Intel's attempts to get into the dedicated GPU market, I just had to have one.  I do some gaming, so I can always use it for that or a home theater pc.  The idea of an all-Intel build is tempting.

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You don't have to. I didn't

You don't have to. I didn't buy any :)

This is why I made this topic - to know if Intel Arc is good for BOINC only.

Of course as a test this is great to have one, but not for crunching only.

Anyway I appreciate somebody bought it and tested.

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tito wrote: You don't have

tito wrote:

You don't have to. I didn't buy any :)

This is why I made this topic - to know if Intel Arc is good for BOINC only.

Of course as a test this is great to have one, but not for crunching only.

Anyway I appreciate somebody bought it and tested.

My build is dedicated to crunching, and it seems decent so far :)

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[AF>EDLS wrote:zOU] tito

[AF>EDLS wrote:

zOU]

tito wrote:

You don't have to. I didn't buy any :)

This is why I made this topic - to know if Intel Arc is good for BOINC only.

Of course as a test this is great to have one, but not for crunching only.

Anyway I appreciate somebody bought it and tested.

My build is dedicated to crunching, and it seems decent so far :) 

You are certainly popping out the tasks at under 60 seconds each!!! That is a WHOLE LOT faster than what an R-Pi can do them in!!

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mikey wrote:You are

mikey wrote:

You are certainly popping out the tasks at under 60 seconds each!!! That is a WHOLE LOT faster than what an R-Pi can do them in!!

 

On my Raspberry Pi (2/3/3B+) and ZeroPI (raspberry zero), they take several hours I believe :)
I have to check how the Nvidia jetson nano does.

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[AF>EDLS wrote:zOU] mikey

[AF>EDLS wrote:

zOU]

mikey wrote:

You are certainly popping out the tasks at under 60 seconds each!!! That is a WHOLE LOT faster than what an R-Pi can do them in!!

 

On my Raspberry Pi (2/3/3B+) and ZeroPI (raspberry zero), they take several hours I believe :)
I have to check how the Nvidia jetson nano does. 

I believe Keith Myers has at least one of those 

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I installed my Arc a770 and

I installed my Arc a770 and had a few issues with freezing.  I set everything back to single GPU (Arc a770) and duplicated the app_config.xml listed on the previous posts.  I reset the project and I will see how things go.

 

What is interesting is when first installed, it ripped through tasks in less than a minute.  But after I started messing around it started getting the 89% freezing issue (where it reaches 89% in a minute then spends 15 minutes to complete the task).  Even worse, it would freeze the desktop.

 

Hopefully, I am back to something more reliable.

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That's not

That's not freezing 

That's the Double Precision part of the WU, since the Intel arc don't have FP64, these last 10% take more time

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element6 wrote: I installed

element6 wrote:

I installed my Arc a770 and had a few issues with freezing.  I set everything back to single GPU (Arc a770) and duplicated the app_config.xml listed on the previous posts.  I reset the project and I will see how things go.

 

What is interesting is when first installed, it ripped through tasks in less than a minute.  But after I started messing around it started getting the 89% freezing issue (where it reaches 89% in a minute then spends 15 minutes to complete the task).  Even worse, it would freeze the desktop.

 

Hopefully, I am back to something more reliable.

The 89% issue is only on the gamma ray tasks. and it's because the Arc A750/770/380 all have no FP64 support, and FP64 calculations are performed at the 90-100% stage.

you can relieve this issue by turning off the gamma ray #1 work in your project preferences and only run BRP4

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I reverted to no app_config

I reverted to no app_config as it was freezing the GPU.
It seemed to work for a while, then I had GPu freezing and tasks not progressing and computer freezing.

I tried several things and the only one that fixed it was just removing the app_config, reading the app_config, aborting the GPU tasks, and getting fresh tasks.

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