Any chance anyone feels like popping down, in plain English, how to go about "extracting" (I imagine) the RAR download for the V10 package and how to go abou t"installing it...?
I have no idea, and nothing on the Ubuntu box Im trying to put it on will "open" the download.
Also , it seems certain opt apps (cannot remember where I read it , but was on some forum tonight..) that at least 6.6.15 or higher was required for .... something (to do with gpu work) to work properly.
HOW does one install the latest (even a unstable version) of boinc client/ manager, in linux, so that it starts on bott etc , like it "should".. (I have found that the two times I managed to GET it to install, it didn't start until I physically started the client itself !.
Any help would be great... as my brain is NOT doing too well after spending 6 hrs last night trying to get an ATI card working in this same ubuntu box... ended up "stealing" the sons GT9500 and put the ATI card in his windows box - no problems now....
I have no idea about theopt apps you mention as I haven't used them, but to install a different version of BOINC over the packaged version, look here (http://forum.boinc-australia.net/index.php?topic=139.msg2504#msg2504)
I am trying to run CUDA seti on my i7 (with GTS250) yet the tasks page doesn't show any work units as running on GPU (in the same fashion that GPUgrid does..).
1) from memory I m sure I saw it saying "0.xx CPU, 1 GPU" ages ago when it DID work on another card... should it be showing that ?
2) I have the "number" of cpus set at 9 in cc_config (8 for i7 + 1 for GPU).. this is right isn't it?
I downloaded a stack of SET WU's after setting that up last night, but as I say, none "show" to be crunching on the GPU...
any help would be appreciated, as the move to more philanthropic projects (and the downtime of GPU grid) is killing my RAC....
I can't check it but I thought Seti only ran CUDA on the 32 bit app.
Dave
yeah, Im tryin gto get it to run on Win XP 32 bit.
Sorry. I don't use Win at all, not for a few years
Dave
I just have Windows on the i7 coz Milkyway was a killer on windows back a little while.
If I could get seti cuda WU's going on Ubuntu, I would do that TOO !
I just cannot seem to get them going at all. the GT9600 is prolly the only one I could run it on on my linux boxes.
Quote from: veebee on April 14, 2009, 09:31:36 AM
If I could get seti cuda WU's going on Ubuntu, I would do that TOO !
veebee. SETI only supports Windows for CUDA at this stage.
Are you running the stock CUDA app or one of Raistmer's packages (latter may not really be needed with BOINC 6.6.20)? The stock app will show "Seti@home enhanced 6.08 (CUDA)" in the tasks. The Raistmer apps will show as if it is a regular CPU app, but you can still tell because the CPU time is a lot less than the elapsed time.
Also, check SETI@HOME prefs that "run on GPU = yes" and "Run on CPU = No" (if you don't want SETI on your CPU also).
You also need BOINC version 6.4.7 or later to get it to work with Raistmer's V10a or V11.
If all you want is a project that runs on your GPU only (like GPUGRID), all you need is the stock SETI CUDA app and current BOINC (6.6.20), and SETI prefs set to run on GPU only (not CPU). That is what I have been running since GPUGRID went offline and it has been running fine.
can someone please direct me to (or provide an actual link) the Cuda apps for seti.. dont want to crunch it on my cpu (have set the prefs for that).. i have looked "everywhere" on KWSN site and just cannot make head nor tails of where it might/ should be... (none of the linux downloads SAY "CUDA app")
EDIT:
why on earth is it such a hassle to run seti on a gpu....?
I have gone over every thread I could find (at kwsn) and found a post from ranu:
Follow all steps (1-4) below:
1) Use a newer boinc version. The latest is 6.6.36, http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php . I haven't checked it, I use 6.6.20, direct download link http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.6.20_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh
2) Make sure all the appropriate cuda libs from 2.2 toolkit
libcudart.so
libcudart.so.2
libcudart.so.2.2
libcufft.so
libcufft.so.2
libcufft.so.2.2
are in the projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu directory.
3) Edit accordingly your ld.so.conf or the corresponding ld-something file of your distro with the above location of the cuda libs.
4) Place a copy of the cuda client in one of the following locations:
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
on top of that I had to get CUDA 2.3, which managed to download and install OK... but "step 3" - I found ld.so.conf , an dput the location (/usr/bin/cuda/lib64) if the lib files in it, under the one existing line in the file..
then step 4.... WHERE is the actual "cuda client"? or what is it ? I went through all folders in the cuda directory and couldn't seem to find any file or whatevr that "popped out at ne' as a / the "client".
Has everybody else had to go through all this crap to run SETI cuda ????
Is there anyone who can PLEASE explain , in English, how to set up SETi, so I can run it on my 9600GT please (Ubuntu 8.04 x64)...
I have tried so many different things I dont know where I am.. what I DO know is that THIS (http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?hostid=32701) is whats happening at GPU grid fro some reason .. used to be fine, not any more.
20 posisitve karma points (heck.. one every time I can, for the rest of my natural boincing LIFE !!) for anyone who helps me get it running....
Thanks..in advance...
I can't help you with SETI but I looked at a sampling of your GPUGrid wu's and you are failing for many many different reasons. You are way over clocked at 1.75 GHz. The standard core clock for a 9600 is 550 MHz or 600MHz depending on the manufacturer. Use EVGA Preccision (http://www.evga.com/precision/) to down clock it. Make sure the core and shader clock link is on. Set the core clock to 600 and memory clock to 1800 (factory specs). I suspect that is your problem. Otherwise your card may be preparing to go to the great GPU graveyard in the sky due to extream OC.
EDIT: Crap ... Precision probably does not work with Linux Bashhead Is there some Linux utility to clock cards? Nonetheless you are WAY over factory specs for that card.
I used to have it over clocked, but at the last driver upgrade, "coolbits" must have been 'removed" or whatever (from /etc/X11/xorg.conf), as Perlmon didn't give me the clock/ frequency button.
Have just edited xorg.conf and it is showing 720 clock frequency and 950 memory freq.
I thought (from your last message) that somehow the overclock had stayed "on", so I clicked "restore to factory defaults"... and that IS the factory default.. (this card is a 9600 GT Extreme, if that make sany difference).
(just read on "Tom's Hardware" they got a 9600 GT to 767 GPU and 1116 memory).
Will put it down to 650 and 900 and see how that goes...
EDIT: I just ran the "auto detect" feature to see hwat the "safest maximum speeds etc" are according to the driver software itself.. and it set it at 795 GPU clock and 1110 Memory !
(I wont run it at that speed)...
I'm sure that is the problem. GPUGrid wu's are very GPU intensive and don't allow much OC. Failing for many reasons is usually a sign of a clock problem or a failing card. That is why I recommend NOT to get factory OC'ed cards. They work great for gamers but not for cruncher that run them 24/7. Sorry mate that I keep forgetting that is a Linux box. Bashhead I'm old and senile. :rofl:
Its the only linux box ATM....
I went to install Win 7 on it last night, but my oldest son has misplaced the install disc BF sent me... and the downloads are "over" now for the RC.
I do have the file downloaded.. but have tried so often to burn it with constant failure... might have to work out how to check the file with the md5 checksum or whatever it is, tose if its OK, then try burning it again, but Im sure something's gone wrong while downloading...
Have set the 9600 back to 660 and 910 to see how THAT goes... maybe I should actuallt go even lower and work my way up...
but I am actually interested in giving SETI a whirl now... as this card is sooo slooow at GPU grid compared to the other two.
I think that is a wise move veebee. GPUGrid has always been "unfriendly" to cards below 9800GT with their short return times and "Bonus credits" for high-end cards.
If you were not half a world away I'd send you a Win7 64-bit disk. I have had sooooo many CD/DVD burners fail. Over time you get a bt of dust on the laser and they go "wonky" ... is that the right word? :rofl: I'm learning Aussie. :jester:
EDIT: BTW my response time to Australia is like an 800 BAUD dial-up modem tonight. :hbang:
veebee
did you extract the files from the v10 package...
Lionel
Lionel - I cant even find the package.. can only fin AP and Multibeam apps etc.. nothing mentioning CUDA or GPU.
Quote from: veebee on August 25, 2009, 11:51:09 PM
Lionel - I cant even find the package.. can only fin AP and Multibeam apps etc.. nothing mentioning CUDA or GPU.
You can find the linux CUDA package
here (http://lunatics.kwsn.net/linux/seti-mb-cuda-for-linux.0.html), at the bottom of Crunch3r's first post..
well, I extracted the files, copied the lib files to /usr/lib64 as it says to, restarted the client and get the same thing I did last tiem I tried this... libcudart.so.2 and libcufft.so.2 can't be found/ dpownloaded or whatever...
Also are the app_info.xml and the cuda xxxx.gnu file , "for" anything? do they need to be put somewhere? nothing is mentioned about them . . . .
or is the whole setiathome-CUDA folder supposed to be extracted into one of the seti folders?
Have tried a number of work arounds.... but these two files seem to be the problem.
EDIT: I attached my i7 to SETI (was only attached to AQUA an s GPU grid) and it immediately got what it needed etc and began crunching CUDA WU's...
so I detached my Ubuntu box from SEtI, shut the client/ manager down, then restarted and attached to SETI... but it syas there is no work available for the applications I haveselected, please check setting on the website, and neext request is met by " no work sent".
why doesn't Linux SETI just "do it" like windows does...?
Quote from: veebee on August 26, 2009, 02:12:19 PM
EDIT: I attached my i7 to SETI (was only attached to AQUA an s GPU grid) and it immediately got what it needed etc and began crunching CUDA WU's...
so I detached my Ubuntu box from SEtI, shut the client/ manager down, then restarted and attached to SETI... but it syas there is no work available for the applications I haveselected, please check setting on the website, and neext request is met by " no work sent".
why doesn't Linux SETI just "do it" like windows does...?
When you detached and reattached the Ubuntu box, it would have deleted Crunch3r's app. So it would have tried to download the "standard" apps from SETI. And since SETI does not support Linux CUDA, you would have got that message..
I got SETI Cuda working on Ubuntu once, but I remember it being a pain to set up..
Put all the files from the download, including the app_info file into the SETI directory in BOINC.
The missing libcudart and libcufft files can be downloaded from the NVIDIA website (http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html). You need to download the CUDA toolkit, the missing files are in one of the folders in the toolkit..
Good luck! :thumbsup:
Thanks BF... looked promising for a minute there...but every WU errorred out as soon as it started, which is what has happened the couple of times I have gotten WU's to download.
No message as to WHY in the message tab, just says "work finished for task xxxx".
This sux...
On your results page in SETI, what does the 'stderr out' say for those errored out results?