Hello there..

New on this project. Joined up with a 9600GT and got a WU instantly..

So far the card has been chewing on this wu for 4-5 hours and still only 17% completed...When I look at the top hosts, I see even a 8400GS process faster than mine..

Anything I am missing here??

Hi!

Based on 46 WU crunched on my GTX260 SP216

Min: 18668s
Max: 27513s
Avg: 24071s

if you have 64 sp it schould be around 24h per WU.
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Hi Beerdrinker

It would help greatly if you unhid your computers, we can then look at your setup and the WU you are crunching.

As mentioned above, 24 hrs to crunch a WU, for a 9600GT, is about par for the course - you get credit immediately on successful crunching - no waiting. There are longer WUs that would take you around 30-36hrs (5600+ credits for those), you might have one of those.

Hang in there for a while, you'll get used to the length of the WU, the server is very reliable and they jump fast to resolve WU/Crunching issues.

Compared to many other Projects its a sea of calm ....

Regards
Zy

Hello, I've been wondering this same question. I'm using a GF8600GT, 256MB DDR3. The job's been running for 14 hours now total and progress is 25%. At this rate I will have to leave it running the whole day everyday to make the tight 1-week deadline.

Are jobs supposed to be as heavy, or did something break on my end?

I have got a little long task 16-KASHIF_HIVPR_n1_for_1hhp_open_ba5-7-100-RND0950_1. Standard tasks at my GTX260top are 5 - 7 hours long, that task looks like 18 hours run (after 46 minutes reached 4.18% progress). Run it out or suspend or abort?

Mine is http://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=560543, I noticed that a peer already computed his copy with a GF9800. I'm at 28%. Does that mean GF8600 is useless, or is there some weird glitch that's slowing me down?

PS: his machine solved it in 1+1/4 hour. I'll probably be done in 60 hours. So, wth?

nenym, something's going wrong, but before you abort the WU you should first try restarting BOINC (not only the manager, choose "advanced / shutdown connected client"). You may also try rebooting, but if that doesn't work it's probably best to abort the WU.

MrS

Thank you for the info. Perhaps BOINC should have a feature that warns the user when he's near/below the minimal requirements :)

You are probably looking at CPU time reported, since it is crunching on the GPU the CPU time looks very fast. My WU's take about 9 hours to run but report about 40 min in CPU time.

I believe you should make it more clear to new users to check the list at http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=867 before attaching to the project. From what I've observed, GPUGRID's work units are way too large, and the deadlines are way too short for any 'normal' user to participate (unless they dedicate their hardware to full-time computation).

For reference:
peer: < 22 hours on GeForce 9800 GT, cpu time 1.25 hrs
me : > 60 hours on GeForce 8600 GT, cpu time 5 hrs
Deadline was set to 5 days only, which is 120 hours (50%) or 80 awake hours (75%). I made the deadline with only 1 hour to spare, by leaving the machine running overnight. I will not be participating in this project anymore. My suggestion is, either reduce the WU size by a factor of ten to make it more accessible, or make it clear that the project only needs elite dedicated hardware (if you don't want mass participation).

From what I've observed, GPUGRID's work units are way too large, and the deadlines are way too short for any 'normal' user to participate (unless they dedicate their hardware to full-time computation).