Hi,

I have tried several WUs and the same happens on deadline. Here's last WU http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=945503

Since this card is listed color netural, I've been testing it. It seems to be able to run the WUs, but not in time. Is there a problem making the deadline longer (e.g. 7 days instead of 5)?

I haven't had any problems with the duration on 9600GT. Just the 8500GT.

Thanks

Bill

Yes, I agree. I, and I expect most of us, run the GPU apps when I'm not using the machine, i.e. "Use GPU while computer is in use" is disabled. I also have a low-end card, for BOINC CUDA purposes. It has taken me months, on and off, to get to the point where a WU will complete without crashing this thing or aborting, through numerous crashes and BOINC and driver upgrades and finally having to install TThrottle. I finally finished one yesterday after some huge number of hours. I ran that one past the return date just to see if it would finish. Most WUs I get allow me around 3 or 4 days to complete. No-one who's running GPU WUs this way is likely to be able to do that. You really need to give us a lot more time to get these things through. I received no credit for my almost 200 hours of work. Equally, no-one wants to have to abort a WU that's consumed over a hundred hours because the deadline can't be met. I'm not a credit junkie so I'm more interested that the science is useful but it is pretty annoying and will deter a lot of potential crunchers.

Cheers,

Gary.

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Ht TomaszPawel,

Thanks, been running all the GPU projects since they came out with WUs. This is the only projects having trouble making deadline. The reason I was wonder if the deadline could be changed was if I run for 5 days and it is resent back out then it could take up to 10 days to return the result for that WU. Seven is less than 10. I'm trying 1 more WU before I detach.

Thanks Again

Bill

Hi,

I have tried several WUs and the same happens on deadline. Here's last WU http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=945503

Since this card is listed color netural, I've been testing it. It seems to be able to run the WUs, but not in time. Is there a problem making the deadline longer (e.g. 7 days instead of 5)?

I haven't had any problems with the duration on 9600GT. Just the 8500GT.

Thanks

Bill

hi !
Every WU is 5 days ???

with my :
CUDA device: Quadro NVS 160M (driver version 18603, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, est. 4GFLOPS)
i need a minimum of 10 days to finish the WUs sent... and only if i let it work 24/24 7/7...

the post http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=867#7753 should be posted directly in the home page of the project !

the server should not send work for computers that doesn't meet minimum requirement...

--RonanKER

Hi,

I have tried several WUs and the same happens on deadline. Here's last WU http://www.gpugrid.net/result.php?resultid=945503

Since this card is listed color netural, I've been testing it. It seems to be able to run the WUs, but not in time. Is there a problem making the deadline longer (e.g. 7 days instead of 5)?

I haven't had any problems with the duration on 9600GT. Just the 8500GT.

Thanks

Bill

There is no way you are going to complete in time with that card. I have just completed a WU with a 8600GT twice as many shaders and cores, plus it's 3 times faster than a 8500GT and it's over clocked and it took over 55hrs of processing time and 3 days and 6 hours in computer time because it can't run when I am at the computer. In addition, this computer is on 24/7

It looks like at least some of the new round of workunits are twice the size (timewise) as in the past.

On a 9800GT running with an AMD940 CPU on Windows XP, that means instead of 16 hours, I'm seeing 32 hours. That is OK on a 9800GT (assuming the awarded credits change in proportion to the run time), and even works on a 9600GT.

However, in the past, I could just barely complete a workunit in 5 days with a 9400GT. For those configurations, it looks like the change means no more GPUGrid for those workstations -- I know they are considered marginal in the GPUGrid afficianado circles, but it is disappointing. Those workstations will probably migrate over to Aqua.

What is also disappointing is the ongoing non-support of ATI GPU's -- which provide more processing power per dollar (and support double precision calculations). It seems a tad inconsistent to push toward 9600 and up nvidia while excluding 38xx and 47xx and 48xx ATI cards from the fun.