TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[Arjai]

So, the BOINC site is a bit unclear. On the one hand it says OpenCL Intel graphics will work. On the other hand it says it will not use them/ Boinc will not look to use them.

So, I have this, supposedly, decent graphics thingy in this laptop. I have yet to throw a DVD movie in it to see what it can show me but, on paper it should work just fine.

I am running 7.0.28 on WIN8 and would like to see if this GPU will run some work.

Also, since this version seems to be glitch free, any thoughts on the newest ver. 7.0.45/46?

One more thing, while I am at it, I have reported at least four, or more, completed projects, over the last two days.

On the BOINC statistics tab, I am not getting a line graph showing my progress. It just shows the line where I was when I had to stop, a year ago. I know there is a delay in points allocating but, I thought it was faster than two days?

Anyways, Thanks in advance!

So, I loaded the latest driver, same as I had, and still this: "5/21/2013 8:57:53 AM | | No usable GPUs found"

Help?

 

[AnnCore]

Up until the gpu units I was running 7 rigs. Since I have dropped down to 4 and have decent output from them. If I pick up a FX8530 I will probably drop another rig.

You made me Google "FX8530"...

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

You made me Google "FX8530"...

LOL I meant FX8350.

 

[t_ski]

LOL I meant FX8350.

dislexia FWT!

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

dislexia FWT!

 

[TRWOV]

Now that I've setup the second 1055t I think I'll decommission the office machines except for the X4 620. Haven't got a complain but some clients are running on the accounting machines and I don't want to crash a DB or something Collectively they get about 500 ppd anyway.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

shutting my rigs down until the heavy storm passes my area >_<

 

[Jstn7477]

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/13/05/21/20h.png

So, the BOINC site is a bit unclear. On the one hand it says OpenCL Intel graphics will work. On the other hand it says it will not use them/ Boinc will not look to use them.

So, I have this, supposedly, decent graphics thingy in this laptop. I have yet to throw a DVD movie in it to see what it can show me but, on paper it should work just fine.

I am running 7.0.28 on WIN8 and would like to see if this GPU will run some work.

Also, since this version seems to be glitch free, any thoughts on the newest ver. 7.0.45/46?

One more thing, while I am at it, I have reported at least four, or more, completed projects, over the last two days.

On the BOINC statistics tab, I am not getting a line graph showing my progress. It just shows the line where I was when I had to stop, a year ago. I know there is a delay in points allocating but, I thought it was faster than two days?

Anyways, Thanks in advance!

So, I loaded the latest driver, same as I had, and still this: "5/21/2013 8:57:53 AM | | No usable GPUs found"

Help?

World Community Grid is a project that uses the BOINC client, BOINC != World Community Grid. There currently aren't any GPU accelerated work units for World Community Grid, and it is unlikely that the chip would offer much meaningful compute power, much less making your laptop unbearably laggy while the GPU is being used. Help Conquer Cancer, the only GPU accelerated WCG project, finished up a few weeks ago, and 16x sooner than expected. It is unknown whether new projects will be out soon or if they even support Intel's recently added OpenCL capabilities.

You should be using version 7.0.64 or above. Any version older than that that is deprecated.

 

[Nordic]

Where are these places that have storms so bad that you have to shut down rigs? Is it the coast? I get one or two bad storms, maybe not by your guys standards, a year. Rarely do I ever lose power, if I do it is not for more than a minute or two. I do get high winds from time to time, like the 40mph ones outside right now.

 

[Bow]

Lol
I am sitting here now with no power because a storm just came over. Up state New York..

 

[Norton]

Lol
I am sitting here now with no power because a storm just came over. Up state New York..

Those storms came close to her but stalled about 30 miles North of here

 

[Bow]

Where are you?
We are outside Potsdam, NY

 

[Norton]

Where are you?
We are outside Potsdam, NY

Southern CT

The southern edge of these/those storms are just crossing the border North of here but they don't look like they will come down any further South....

 

[Bow]

Lucky you. Not going to get power on here till after midnight.

 

[manofthem]

We have had nasty thunderstorms here for the last 2 days too; Chicken Patty probabably knows what I'm talking about. I was a out to shut down my rigs yesterday, but I never did, just hoped for the best.

Ended up being fine, just lights flickering last night a tad but PCs never shut off

@Bow: sorry to hear about your power loss

 

[Bow]

Thanks man.
phone getting low also. Time to grab a book.
Cya later.

 

[manofthem]

Thanks man.
phone getting low also. Time to grab a book.
Cya later.

I've heard of these "books," what are they?
jk, I'm currently rereading The Road, good book

 

[t_ski]

Mine flickered last night, just enough to make the rigs reboot. The Phenom II rig seemed to be unresponsive this morning, so I had to reset it. Surprised I got as many points as I did.

 

[Jstn7477]

We have had nasty thunderstorms here for the last 2 days too; Chicken Patty probabably knows what I'm talking about. I was a out to shut down my rigs yesterday, but I never did, just hoped for the best.

Ended up being fine, just lights flickering last night a tad but PCs never shut off

@Bow: sorry to hear about your power loss

Yeah, I've seen the storms too. I'm up in the Dale Mabry/TPA area (on the other side of Florida, haha) until around 3:30pm most of the week, and the storms look rather heavy as I'm leaving. However, by the time I reach the Bradenton area around 5-ish, not much has happened down there these last 2 days (just light showers).

 

[manofthem]

Yeah, I've seen the storms too. I'm up in the Dale Mabry/TPA area (on the other side of Florida, haha) until around 3:30pm most of the week, and the storms look rather heavy as I'm leaving. However, by the time I reach the Bradenton area around 5-ish, not much has happened down there these last 2 days (just light showers).

That's a good deal then. We had flood warnings; I've seen some flooding in certain areas, though nothing uber crazy. I don't mind the rain, but the lightning is what I hate.

 

[Jstn7477]

That's a good deal then. We had flood warnings; I've seen some flooding in certain areas, though nothing uber crazy. I don't mind the rain, but the lightning is what I hate.

Yeah, lightning hasn't been a problem for me for about a decade. We had 4 huge pine trees cut down around our house (they used to eat lightning strikes frequently), along with a whole house surge protector installed on the meter. Work is in a large steel-shelled warehouse strip, and while we have had some super close strikes, nothing terrible has happened yet. Once we move to our own building in a month or so, we're going to have protection at the meter installed like at home.

 

[[Ion]]

As much as we all want to run giant crunching farms and whatnot, don't let it consume your life. Other things such as your family, school, etc. should take precedence. Distributed computing should be a hobby that should not do things like piss off your spouse or consume all of your money (it has done this to me quite a few times). My mom's computer no longer does distributed computing because it annoyed her and I obliged, even though there's no way in hell she uses an entire FX-8150 for web browsing, accounting software, etc. Some of us have the capability of running larger amounts of computers than others, and some of us have to downsize sometimes as well (I certainly will be within a month and selling off 3-5 GeForce 400 series GPUs as they are no longer viable for me to run). Don't get me wrong, DC is a great tihng to do, but do it within your limits.

Well said. It's a great hobby, but I don't think that it should ever be much more than that. A good thing to dedicate resources too but not all of what we have

I noticed my HCC badge moved to the bottom of the badge list, which prompted me to check and confirm:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3224/hcc.png
Congratulations for the HCC team in a project well done!

Excellent--I'm glad to see another project successfully wrap up!

Where are these places that have storms so bad that you have to shut down rigs? Is it the coast? I get one or two bad storms, maybe not by your guys standards, a year. Rarely do I ever lose power, if I do it is not for more than a minute or two. I do get high winds from time to time, like the 40mph ones outside right now.

Here in central NC we've had some enormous storms the past couple days--prompted me to shut down things a few times

 

[Nordic]

Those coastal storms!

 

[librin.so.1]

Oy! Nutta!
Binghamton University Cares finally caught up and passed us ~___~
Having no GPU work sure has turned the tables

 

[Arjai]

So, I ran a windows performance assessment thingy. Everything off but GPU-Z.

Those power spikes averaged around 7.7 to 8.4. That last one? 11 W!

The GPU tops out at 1050 MHz. The Temp said no higher than 63 C.

Desktop graphics rating 5.5, up from 5.4 from 5 days ago. (?)

Relative to nothing. Just me, and a new computer.