Ion's WCG Essentials Thread

[Ion] · Jan 12, 2011

Absolutely. FF can be a huge memory hog, I'm very familiar with that. Very familiar. Still, it'll be interesting to see if I can reproduce it on the dedicated rig (since no one ever actually uses it)

Chicken Patty · Oct 25, 2011

Just wanted to bump this thread for all those new members who might not have came across this, some great info in here! :toast:

[Ion] · Oct 11, 2012

I've updated a few things and added a quickie about WCG on GPUs :toast:

Chicken Patty · Oct 12, 2012

Thank you for continuing to update this even though it's been a while. :respect:

[Ion] · Oct 12, 2012

Chicken Patty said:
Thank you for continuing to update this even though it's been a while.

It was time. GPU WUs are a gamechanger and some of the info was out-of-date. Now to re-learn C++ so I can update my PPD Estimator :toast:

[Ion] · Oct 20, 2012

Updated the OP with information about badges :toast:

Jhelms · Nov 10, 2012

Joined

Little confused it seems on getting the GPU to run. Currently working a lot of tasks but no gpu usage? Do some tasks use the GPU and others not? I checked to use GPU while computer is in use and checked to use GPU always. But no activity. Just CPU rocking away!

the54thvoid · Nov 10, 2012

Garage1217 said:
Joined Little confused it seems on getting the GPU to run. Currently working a lot of tasks but no gpu usage? Do some tasks use the GPU and others not? I checked to use GPU while computer is in use and checked to use GPU always. But no activity. Just CPU rocking away!

I'm new to this myself but there's a tonne of hoops to jump through for it to work smoothly.

I see you have a 7970, so you could easily get 4 WU's on your gpu. Do you know there is an xml file you can use to make your gpu do more work?

If not see this thread:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174138&page=11

There was an update from the WCG folks that made the original app_info file from the OP of that thread not work as well.

If you get probs, post on that thread and the guys will all help out. :toast:

Jhelms · Nov 10, 2012

Yeah very irritating, no time to set it up today so leaving it run on my cpu. Hate sounding like an arse but people this smart, doing this much awesome stuff should have software in which I can click a few check boxes and walk away lol All good, happy Saturday!

KieX · Nov 10, 2012

Garage1217 said:
Yeah very irritating, no time to set it up today so leaving it run on my cpu. Hate sounding like an arse but people this smart, doing this much awesome stuff should have software in which I can click a few check boxes and walk away lol All good, happy Saturday!

If you're running default there's no reason why it shouldn't be supplying the WU. You can quickly help diagnose the problem if you go to Advanced> Run CPU Benchmarks. And check the Event Log (Ctrl+Shift+E) for something like this:

10/11/2012 13:24:51 | | ATI GPU 0: Capeverde (CAL version 1.4.1741, 1024MB, 984MB available, 3200 GFLOPS peak)
10/11/2012 13:24:51 | | OpenCL: ATI GPU 1: Capeverde (driver version CAL 1.4.1741 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (938.2), 1024MB, 984MB available)

If you get any errors let us know. Otherwise if you are not seeing your version of that, then either you need to check that you've installed all the Catalyst driver options or that your "default" profile in the WCG site is set to:

(Under Device Manager, click on the profile next to your computer and Make sure both the HCC project and that option are ticked).

[Ion] · Nov 10, 2012

Garage1217 said:
Joined Little confused it seems on getting the GPU to run. Currently working a lot of tasks but no gpu usage? Do some tasks use the GPU and others not? I checked to use GPU while computer is in use and checked to use GPU always. But no activity. Just CPU rocking away!

Welcome aboard! As KieX said, you need to make sure that WCG is set to allow GPU computing :toast:

What are you crunching on ATM?

Jhelms · Nov 10, 2012

Pretty much crunching ALL the things right now

Are there set things the team is crunching specifically - to focus on?

Norton · Nov 10, 2012

Garage1217 said:
Pretty much crunching ALL the things right now Are there set things the team is crunching specifically - to focus on?

As long as your crunching on World Community grid it is fine to crunch on all projects. We are currently participating in a challenge for the Help Conquer Cancer project so a lot of us have opted to only crunch that project until the end of the challenge (options are availble on the WCG website to select the project and setup a different profile with different work)

Welcome Aboard! :toast:

Jhelms · Nov 10, 2012

KieX said:
If you're running default there's no reason why it shouldn't be supplying the WU. You can quickly help diagnose the problem if you go to Advanced> Run CPU Benchmarks. And check the Event Log (Ctrl+Shift+E) for something like this:

10/11/2012 13:24:51 | | ATI GPU 0: Capeverde (CAL version 1.4.1741, 1024MB, 984MB available, 3200 GFLOPS peak)
10/11/2012 13:24:51 | | OpenCL: ATI GPU 1: Capeverde (driver version CAL 1.4.1741 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (938.2), 1024MB, 984MB available)

If you get any errors let us know. Otherwise if you are not seeing your version of that, then either you need to check that you've installed all the Catalyst driver options or that your "default" profile in the WCG site is set to:
http://i.imgur.com/SSsAm.jpg
(Under Device Manager, click on the profile next to your computer and Make sure both the HCC project and that option are ticked).

Awesome thanks! That was the dealio. Was not checked in my profile. I now show things crunching on all 8 cores and a +1 ATI GPU Bouncing around crunching random things. Need to have the card crunch more so will have to figure that out. never passes 67%.

But wow... things crunch FAST with the GPU running now.

Jhelms · Nov 10, 2012

Norton said:
As long as your crunching on World Community grid it is fine to crunch on all projects. We are currently participating in a challenge for the Help Conquer Cancer project so a lot of us have opted to only crunch that project until the end of the challenge (options are availble on the WCG website to select the project and setup a different profile with different work)

Welcome Aboard!

Got it, thanks. Checked to focus on childhood cancer and conquer cancer for right now. Pretty cool! Brings me back to early seti stuff I did back in early 2000's lol

KieX · Nov 11, 2012

Garage1217 said:
Awesome thanks! That was the dealio. Was not checked in my profile. I now show things crunching on all 8 cores and a +1 ATI GPU Bouncing around crunching random things. Need to have the card crunch more so will have to figure that out. never passes 67%.

But wow... things crunch FAST with the GPU running now.

Awesome! Great to have another member and powerhouse onboard :toast:

[Ion] · Nov 11, 2012

Garage1217 said:
Got it, thanks. Checked to focus on childhood cancer and conquer cancer for right now. Pretty cool! Brings me back to early seti stuff I did back in early 2000's lol

BOINC Manager -> Advanced View -> Tools -> Computing Preferences -> Max CPU Usage: 100%

That will get you running on all eight cores :toast:

You can also probably check "Use GPU while computer is in use"

[Ion] · Nov 19, 2012

I've added a bit more information on BOINC on Ubuntu

Any more topics you guys want added/expanded?

TRWOV · Feb 6, 2013

I've tried to install the client but I'm getting an error: "failed to add user to the "boinc_admins" group" and the installation fails.

[Ion] · Feb 6, 2013

TRWOV said:
I've tried to install the client but I'm getting an error: "failed to add user to the "boinc_admins" group" and the installation fails.

You need to install it from an Administrator account, or run the program as Administrator. What install options have you selected?

TRWOV · Feb 6, 2013

I ran it as admin (right clic, Run as administrator). I selected the default install options.

[Ion] · Feb 6, 2013

TRWOV said:
I ran it as admin (right clic, Run as administrator). I selected the default install options.

What version of Windows are you running? x64 or x86? Is UAC enabled or disabled? What version of BOINC are you trying?

TRWOV · Feb 6, 2013

I'm using W8 Pro 64bit and the client is 6.10.58. UAC is enabled I think.

EDIT: NVM, I found this: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=33527

[Ion] · Feb 6, 2013

TRWOV said:
I'm using W8 Pro 64bit and the client is 6.10.58. UAC is enabled I think.

EDIT: NVM, I found this: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=33527

OK, so you've solved it?

Norton · Feb 6, 2013

TRWOV said:
I'm using W8 Pro 64bit and the client is 6.10.58. UAC is enabled I think.

EDIT: NVM, I found this: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=33527

Unfortunately as you found out- the software on WCG's website isn't compatible with Win8. You can use the 7.0.44 Beta version from the BOINC website, it runs 100% fine for just about everyone. Also, use latest the Cat. graphics drivers if you want to run more than one gpu wu at a time under Win8

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