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Active BOINC projects => GPUGRID => Topic started by: clownius on April 12, 2009, 12:39:29 AM

Title: Grid down
Post by: clownius on April 12, 2009, 12:39:29 AM
Cant seem to connect to GPUGrid atm and i just installed my second GTX295 too.  Is it down for everyone?  I just errored out both my spare work units so the GPU's are going cold.  Dont you love what Vista does when you install new hardware.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: yoda on April 12, 2009, 01:05:06 AM
Yes it's been down for quite a while (maybe all day?)  I have one WU in progress, none left in cache.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: clownius on April 12, 2009, 01:56:50 AM
Awwww well at least its not just me then.  Hope its up soon so i can let the hungry beasts loose and attempt to double my output.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: mike047 on April 12, 2009, 02:23:14 AM
Quote from: clownius on April 12, 2009, 12:39:29 AM
Cant seem to connect to GPUGrid atm and i just installed my second GTX295 too.  Is it down for everyone?  I just errored out both my spare work units so the GPU's are going cold.  Dont you love what Vista does when you install new hardware.

What's Vista :crazy

Ubuntu for the win :thumbsup:

All my gpus are drying up also.  Hope they get it fixed soon or it will be a long cold weekend.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: dyeman on April 12, 2009, 09:45:19 AM
guess it's time to fire up seti CUDA to keep things warm until they're back.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: clownius on April 12, 2009, 01:23:59 PM
Great idea i forgot about seti.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: yoda on April 12, 2009, 01:25:58 PM
Quote from: clownius on April 12, 2009, 01:23:59 PM
Great idea i forgot about seti.

No use for me as they (according to the list of apps) only support CUDA on 32 bit Windows.  :(

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php

Ah well, such is life.  4 CPU cores and a GPU down for the weekend.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: dyeman on April 12, 2009, 06:38:39 PM
There seems to be something at lunatics (http://lunatics.kwsn.net/linux/seti-mb-cuda-for-linux.0.html (http://lunatics.kwsn.net/linux/seti-mb-cuda-for-linux.0.html)) but not sure how well it works (and seems to use 100% of a core just to drive the GPU)
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: yoda on April 12, 2009, 08:24:23 PM
Quote from: dyeman on April 12, 2009, 06:38:39 PM
There seems to be something at lunatics (http://lunatics.kwsn.net/linux/seti-mb-cuda-for-linux.0.html (http://lunatics.kwsn.net/linux/seti-mb-cuda-for-linux.0.html)) but not sure how well it works (and seems to use 100% of a core just to drive the GPU)

Can't get that to work.  Work units error out after something like 15 seconds.

Example: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=1203156637

Ends with:
Cuda error 'cudaMemcpyToSymbol(cudaAcc_GaussFit_settings, (void*) &settings, sizeof(settings))' in file './cudaAcc_gaussfit.cu' in line 454 : invalid device symbol.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: Rob on April 13, 2009, 12:43:29 PM
Looks like it'll be another day or so before it's back up. Just found this on the Berkely Boinc forums

QuoteNews from Gianni (GPUGRID admin)

"Gianni De Fabritiis" wrote:

    Hi, happy Easter. In perfect timing, it seems that we had a power cut and the server is down. I am not sure if we can bring it up before Tuesday morning. We will be probably change the deadlines so people will be able to get credits.
    gdf
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: yoda on April 13, 2009, 12:58:37 PM
At least there's news - the project has not disappeared without a trace like at least one other project did in the past.

I believe GPUGrid is based in Spain, so even if they get it up and running at say 9am  (their) Tuesday morning, that would be Tuesday afternoon/evening in Australia
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: clownius on April 13, 2009, 01:37:15 PM
Oh well at least we know whats happening sort of.  Seti is keeping my GPU's warm for now.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: Furlozza on April 14, 2009, 06:10:19 PM
Well, uploaded the two jobs I had on TheGnat, but they aren't recorded in my results as at 5.23 PM 14/04/09

got the new masterfile, but it can't open the database, so I guess I continue playing games *grin*.... after "Time Team" *grin*

EDIT: Was granted credit, but at the normal rate *sigh*..... even though should have been 150% in at least one case.... but it sure as heck beats MW and it's crash :rofl:
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: dyeman on April 17, 2009, 02:20:30 PM
Seems to be down again (at least it's not the Easter weekend!)
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: clownius on April 17, 2009, 02:38:08 PM
Not again.  Gah i just found out why my computer was crashing too.  It seems you should never run 2 GTX 295's on one 12v rail of your PSU lol.  Not even if its a 1500W PSU
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: daveandton on April 17, 2009, 03:49:16 PM
It's very annoying indeed, and WMY have you solved the problem of only getting single WU's yet?Thought I had it beat but it sent me another two making four in total
Dave
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: Rob on April 18, 2009, 04:28:22 AM
What version of Boinc do you use. I use 6.6.20 & it only ever keeps one spare.
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: yoda on April 18, 2009, 01:20:41 PM
I haven't solved the problem either.  But in view of GPUGrid having been down a few times I welcome having one or two WU in cache.  Most of the time I only have one spare though (on a quad with a 9800GT).
Title: Re: Grid down
Post by: Rob on April 18, 2009, 02:39:57 PM
Wouldn't you know it. A few hours after saying how it's working fine for me Boinc goes & downloads a second spare ::). May have to end up aborting that one, it takes about 50 hours/wu on my 8600GT & I still have about 20 hours on my current wu plus the first spare, then the second one with a deadline of about 2:20 PM on the 23rd.