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Title: How much stress on a GPU
Post by: NudgeyNR on November 04, 2020, 10:12:35 PM
How hard does PG work / stress a GPU??

Do people run one wu per GPU or more ??
Title: Re: How much stree on a GPU
Post by: Dingo on November 04, 2020, 11:02:17 PM
PG runs the CPU and GPU pretty hard.  In the preferences  (https://www.primegrid.com/prefs.php?subset=project) you can state weather you want to run multi-threaded where more than one CPU core is run per task, and they finish quicker and more chance of being the first to return if it is Prime Number.

I also give permission and give my name in the "Reporting primes to the Prime Pages" in the default preferences so I am credited with any primes I find.
Title: Re: How much stree on a GPU
Post by: chooka03 on November 05, 2020, 06:05:03 AM
I run 2 x wu's at a time on my cards. The Radeon VII's can handle it but it's barely worth running 2 on my Vega 56 & 280X.... I just can't be bothered changing the app config :)
Running 2 wu's on my Radeon VII still doesn't put the GPU under full load and it runs MUCH cooler than say running Milkyway or Einstein.

CPU is a different story. Quite hard on the temps although multi threading isn't used quite as much now with LLR2.

http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=9303

Title: Re: How much stress on a GPU
Post by: NudgeyNR on November 06, 2020, 12:07:04 PM
Have found plenty of info on how to setup PG CPU side of things, but nothing on how to run multiple wu's on a GPU.

Can i simply tell the project to run multiple wu's on every project with a simple change or do i have to setup for each project i choose to run ?

@chooka how have you gone about setting up the config file to run multiple wu's on your GPU's ?
Title: Re: How much stress on a GPU
Post by: chooka03 on November 06, 2020, 07:53:15 PM
I use this -

<app_config>
<app>
   <name>pps_sr2sieve</name>
   <report_results_immediately/>
   <fraction_done_exact/>
</app>
<app_version>
    <app_name>pps_sr2sieve</app_name>
    <plan_class>openclatiPPSsieve</plan_class>
    <avg_ncpus>0.0001</avg_ncpus>
    <ngpus>0.5</ngpus>
</app_version>

</app_config>

Happy crunching!
Title: Re: How much stress on a GPU
Post by: NudgeyNR on November 07, 2020, 12:13:19 PM
@chooka So i have to do those settings for every project i crunch on that particular GPU ?