WCG Challenge Help Conquer Cancer (1st/2nd week of November)

[KieX]

I will spring a brand new 7770 to NEW crunchers (less then 50,000 points as of today) that does an effort with the HW he/she have. The 25,000 points is not an qualifying requirement. I will let the decision to who won go to the Captain and has crew. A 7700 does around 20K PPD and I hope it will be used 24/7 as long there is GPU crunching work.

Thanks for your generous donation- I'll add it to post 2 list as a special prize

I like mstenholm's thinking. I'll offer one of my own 7770's on the same principle, to a separate qualifier of your choosing.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Norton, I tried to set up the 4P Opty 6176 server and I'm getting a message that there is "no HCC work avail". It ends up downloading all kinds of other projects. I have HCC on all my other rigs...wtf? Something wrong with my settings? Is your Opty rig getting HCC work or are they discriminating against 48 core servers??

10/31/2012 12:04:49 PM World Community Grid Message from server: No tasks are available for Help Conquer Cancer

 

[Norton]

Norton, I tried to set up the 4P Opty 6176 server and I'm getting a message that there is "no HCC work avail". It ends up downloading all kinds of other projects. I have HCC on all my other rigs...wtf? Something wrong with my settings? Is your Opty rig getting HCC work or are they discriminating against 48 core servers??

I'll find that out when I get my power back, rigs sitting all alone in the dark ATM .... hopefully I'll get my power back by this evening.

I do believe that it is a Quota issue though and you should have got at least some HCC wu's and new ones should be added as you finish the ones you have.

Thanks to KieX and Delta6326 for the additional donations

 

[brandonwh64]

Ok I have a new plan on getting my network at home back up until I get a new router. I am going to BUILD a router out of this P4 combo I have at home!

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1558613

 

[[Ion]]

How's this looking? Running for about 12 hours at stock:

http://img.techpowerup.org/121031/wcg.jpg

That looks amazing!

I will spring a brand new 7770 to NEW crunchers (less then 50,000 points as of today) that does an effort with the HW he/she have. The 25,000 points is not an qualifying requirement. I will let the decision to who won go to the Captain and has crew. A 7700 does around 20K PPD and I hope it will be used 24/7 as long there is GPU crunching work.

I like mstenholm's thinking. I'll offer one of my own 7770's on the same principle, to a separate qualifier of your choosing.

You guys are awesome!

Norton, I tried to set up the 4P Opty 6176 server and I'm getting a message that there is "no HCC work avail". It ends up downloading all kinds of other projects. I have HCC on all my other rigs...wtf? Something wrong with my settings? Is your Opty rig getting HCC work or are they discriminating against 48 core servers??

10/31/2012 12:04:49 PM World Community Grid Message from server: No tasks are available for Help Conquer Cancer

There are unfortunately intermittent shortages--I've been noticing it as well.

I forgot to switch to HCC yesterday, but now I have everything running HCC. Cancer doesn't stand a chance!

 

[manofthem]

So inspired by t_ski, i want to add my 7970s to the mix, try running at a slight OC too, if poissible. T sent me 2 links because I'm lost.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93395
I have that link to get setup and to join, right?

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2760323&postcount=19734
Then follow these steps?

Please let me know if there's anything I'm missing. Thanks for the help

 

[KieX]

So inspired by t_ski, i want to add my 7970s to the mix, try running at a slight OC too, if poissible. T sent me 2 links because I'm lost.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93395
I have that link to get setup and to join, right?

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2760323&postcount=19734
Then follow these steps?

Please let me know if there's anything I'm missing. Thanks for the help

You should be golden with those steps. Awesome horsepower

 

[[Ion]]

So inspired by t_ski, i want to add my 7970s to the mix, try running at a slight OC too, if poissible. T sent me 2 links because I'm lost.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93395
I have that link to get setup and to join, right?

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2760323&postcount=19734
Then follow these steps?

Please let me know if there's anything I'm missing. Thanks for the help

That should be all you need to get going

Let us know if you have any questions--and I can't wait to see the impact of these GPUs

 

[catnipkiller]

I have a few rigs and can probly set up 1 or 2 depending on how stable they are lol

 

[[Ion]]

I have a few rigs and can probly set up 1 or 2 depending on how stable they are lol

Whatever you can do would be amazing! Even if it's just a Core 2 Duo, it still helps

 

[manofthem]

Can someone help me figure out why I'm getting this error?

 

[[Ion]]

Can someone help me figure out why I'm getting this error?
http://img.techpowerup.org/121031/wcg2909.png

Ahh---that version of BOINC doesn't work with Windows 8. Use the latest version from Berkeley

 

[brandonwh64]

Can someone help me figure out why I'm getting this error?
http://img.techpowerup.org/121031/wcg2909.png

Run install as admin.

 

[manofthem]

Run install as admin.

Tried that but it didn't work, didn't have the right version

Ahh---that version of BOINC doesn't work with Windows 8. Use the latest version from Berkeley

This worked, thanks. rebooting

 

[[Ion]]

Tried that but it didn't work

This worked, thanks. rebooting

Keep us posted--I think that's what the Win8 users have been using. I haven't tried--still running my copy of Windows 7 Professional on all of my computers.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

So inspired by t_ski, i want to add my 7970s to the mix, try running at a slight OC too, if poissible. T sent me 2 links because I'm lost.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93395
I have that link to get setup and to join, right?

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2760323&postcount=19734
Then follow these steps?

Please let me know if there's anything I'm missing. Thanks for the help

Thats it man just copy the app_info file from the first post in the gpu crunching thread. Also get the one for gpu only. And follow my steps exactly. Don't let it download any work until you get the app_info file in place.

 

[Hillbilly]

Count me in.

 

[[Ion]]

Count me in.

That i5 and HD7850 will be a great combination for this contest

 

[Peter1986C]

Maybe I will run GPU HCC WUs again during a few nights (not every night though). Daytime crunching, if any, will be regular style (GRAM, FAAH, HCCC, SN2S, DSFL, TCEP will get CPU time too).

 

[Hillbilly]

That i5 and HD7850 will be a great combination for this contest

That won't be the only machine I run.

 

[manofthem]

So I can't seem to get the gpus working. I've been in touch with [Ion] constantly in pms and he's been helping me. But what am I missing?

I haven't done these steps yet, so it may be my problem:

1: Create new profile on wcg site with HCC only and make it default.
2: Attach the rig you want to crunch the app_info with to the profile
3: Uninstall Boinc/Wcg
4: Delete folder under program Data
5: reboot
6: Install Wcg Client from Wcg site.
7: Reboot
8: Attach to project and immediately set to no new task.
9: Shut down client
10: Add your app_info file
11: Restart Client
12: Allow new task
13: Reboot just because.

In regards to the app_info file in the steps, what is it and where is that file? Sorry for all the noob questions!

 

[[Ion]]

That won't be the only machine I run.

What else?

So I can't seem to get the gpus working. I've been in touch with [Ion] constantly in pms and he's been helping me. But what am I missing?

I haven't done these steps yet, so it may be my problem:

1: Create new profile on wcg site with HCC only and make it default.
2: Attach the rig you want to crunch the app_info with to the profile
3: Uninstall Boinc/Wcg
4: Delete folder under program Data
5: reboot
6: Install Wcg Client from Wcg site.
7: Reboot
8: Attach to project and immediately set to no new task.
9: Shut down client
10: Add your app_info file
11: Restart Client
12: Allow new task
13: Reboot just because.

In regards to the app_info file in the steps, what is it and where is that file? Sorry for all the noob questions!

That's for trying to get multiple WUs running on each GPU. Honestly, I'd suggest skipping that for now. Let's get your GPUs crunching first, and then we can do multiple WUs/card after that

 

[manofthem]

What else?


That's for trying to get multiple WUs running on each GPU. Honestly, I'd suggest skipping that for now. Let's get your GPUs crunching first, and then we can do multiple WUs/card after that

Oh ok, that' cool with me. I really just want to get them running in the first place. I'm not that sure why it's not working yet. This is all new to me lol

 

[[Ion]]

Oh ok, that' cool with me. I really just want to get them running in the first place. I'm not that sure why it's not working yet. This is all new to me lol

So what is it looking like now? Do you have any GPU WUs downloaded? Is the CPU still maintaining 100% load?

 

[manofthem]

So what is it looking like now? Do you have any GPU WUs downloaded? Is the CPU still maintaining 100% load?

CPU is at 100% most of the time, with little dips in between. Should be like in that ss i pmd you. Nothing on the gpus yet, still messing with it.