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RE: my last cuda wu

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my last cuda wu finished in 5-6 hrs rt.

http://einsteinathome.org/task/137117612

Hi,
is your Q6600 overclocked or running at default speed? I´m looking for some performance numbers between different cards. I want to know, which card gives the most bang for the buck.

hotze

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RE: RE: my last cuda wu

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Quote:

my last cuda wu finished in 5-6 hrs rt.

http://einsteinathome.org/task/137117612

Hi,
is your Q6600 overclocked or running at default speed? I´m looking for some performance numbers between different cards. I want to know, which card gives the most bang for the buck.

hotze

2.4

260 216 core is my card and i'm running the newest driver...

295 is 2*240 core so it's the most bang for buck; but, be sure your power supply can handle it...

i think the gtx 295 can knock it out, with i7 is under 2 hrs if benchmarks are any key..

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RE: Reminiscent of : - the

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Reminiscent of :

- the 1 MB vs 1 million bytes issue ( and GB .... )


1 MB equals 1 million bytes - officially, anyway. There are binary prefixes for use with Bytes, i.e. MiB. Unfortunately, no operating system currently in existence honors these prefixes. (and Mebibyte doesn't sound quite as charming as Megabyte)

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RE: 295 is 2*240 core so

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295 is 2*240 core so it's the most bang for buck; but, be sure your power supply can handle it.....


Don't agree with you there, ZPM.

The GTX295 is certainly the most powerful card, so the most bang...

...but for the buck? I don't think so. Compared with single-processor 240 shader cards such as the GTX275, the shader clock is slower, so you don't get twice the performance: but you pay more than twice the price. I reckon you get almost 25% more bang for the buck with a 275, compared with the 295.

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I have crunching a CUDA WU

I have crunching a CUDA WU with a GTX 285 in 5,5 hours. My wingmen has crunched the same WU with a CPU in 6 hours.

This is not a big difference .......

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@ Einstein@home: Have you

Message 94394 in response to message 94393

@ Einstein@home:

Have you use the latest CUDA to compile, there are some corrections in 2.3
Distributed.net have done this also, bug-fixes and some WU-corruption.
Different field but still a good advise.

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I have crunching a CUDA WU with a GTX 285 in 5,5 hours. My wingmen has crunched the same WU with a CPU in 6 hours.

This is not a big difference .......

Post the system specs, It's all BETA.
So the more details the better.

Speed should be ecpected (grow in future) better or am i wrong.

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RE: @ Einstein@home: Have

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@ Einstein@home:

Have you use the latest CUDA to compile, there are some corrections in 2.3
Distributed.net have done this also, bug-fixes and some WU-corruption.
Different field but still a good advise.

Quote:

I have crunching a CUDA WU with a GTX 285 in 5,5 hours. My wingmen has crunched the same WU with a CPU in 6 hours.

This is not a big difference .......

Post the system specs, It's all BETA.
So the more details the better.

Speed should be ecpected (grow in future) better or am i wrong.

OK :

ASUS P5E3
Q9300
2x1 Gb DDR3 1333
GTX 285 190.38
Vista Ultimate
BOINC 6.6.36

The other task was crunched with a X7900 - Darwin 9.8.0

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If I understand correctly

Message 94396 in response to message 94395

If I understand correctly then the current run is a cuda assisted cpu run. The gpu is used for some calculations but not all. Right now your are mainly limited by the cpu. The gpu gives you just a boost of ca. 20-50%.
If your Q9300 is not overclocked then every 4GHz Core2 runs faster than your cpu with cuda help.
When there is a standalone app for the gpu then yours will fly ;)

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RE: If I understand

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If I understand correctly then the current run is a cuda assisted cpu run. The gpu is used for some calculations but not all. Right now your are mainly limited by the cpu. The gpu gives you just a boost of ca. 20-50%.
If your Q9300 is not overclocked then every 4GHz Core2 runs faster than your cpu with cuda help.
When there is a standalone app for the gpu then yours will fly ;)

Ok, we'll see then :-)
Thanks

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I have been getting the same

I have been getting the same sort of errors within seconds of starting execution, both on 3.07 and 3.10:

6.6.36

The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3) - exit code 3 (0x3)

Activated exception handling...
[10:30:57][9612][INFO ] Starting data processing...
[10:30:57][9612][INFO ] Using CUDA device #0 "GeForce 8500 GT" (44.06 GFLOPS)
[10:30:57][9612][INFO ] Checkpoint file unavailable: status.cpt (No such file or directory).
------> Starting from scratch...
[10:30:57][9612][INFO ] Header contents:
------> Original WAPP file: p2030_54162_47225_0054_G48.85-01.81.C_4.wapp
------> Sample time in microseconds: 128
------> Observation time in seconds: 268.9792
------> Time stamp (MJD): 54162.546585648146
------> Number of samples/record: 512
------> Center freq in MHz: 1440
------> Channel band in MHz: 0.390625
------> Number of channels/record: 256
------> Nifs: 1
------> RA (J2000): 192747.923054
------> DEC (J2000): 131107.828389
------> Galactic l: 48.7926
------> Galactic b: -1.8848
------> Name: G48.85-01.81.C
------> Lagformat: 0
------> Sum: 1
------> Level: 3
------> AZ at start: 348.1477
------> ZA at start: 5.1279
------> AST at start: 0
------> LST at start: 0
------> Project ID: p2030
------> Observers: Kevin
------> File size (bytes): 16190754
------> Data size (bytes): 16179201
------> Number of samples: 2097152
------> Trial dispersion measure: 186.6 cm^-3 pc
------> Scale factor: 7711.9
[10:30:58][9612][INFO ] Seed for random number generator is 1009522123.
[10:31:00][9612][ERROR] Error creating CUDA FFT plan (error code: 2)
[10:31:00][9612][ERROR] Demodulation failed (error: 3)!
called boinc_finish

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Host number is 480469

The WUs appear to fail with both the CUDA 2.1 and 2.3 DLLs - the driver version installed is 190.38.

Am I missing something really obvious? The host runs SETI CUDA WUs okay. I am not complaining, just reporting - I know improvements can't be made without reports from testers.

Soli Deo Gloria

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