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new GPU for ATI?

yup like zero said its part of the v7 open beta client.. Vijay is just announcing publically what most of us already knew about with the openCL core 16 support on the v7 client.
 
Zero82z said:
He said it's been released to advmethods. That means you need to download the v7 client and use the client-type advmethods option. There's no special download for this.
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actually.
name: client-type
value: advanced

just to minimize confusion.
 
Thanks guys,

I got these red team cards idling here...was under the impression that they were still holding back on a new GPU client.

-oneunit set for upgrade

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ok, I'm an idiot, GPU tracker says my clients are up to date...I guess I need to start manually managing my clients if I want to run beta stuff?
 
yeah, and GPU tracker 3.52 does not think it exists, not too surprising as tracker is sort of aimed at the more hands off folder, sure is easy to run though.

I apologize in advance for my ignorance, this is my first modern system and it has only been running 2 weeks. Can someone point me to a thread where I can learn the ins and outs of getting which client to run on which card manually? I am pretty excited to get these things cooking.

76% through a 1338 -smp, when it loads out I'm going to dump all my current clients and start breaking on it.
 
yes, I am seeing now...front end is integrated now, thank you
 
jojo69 said:
yeah, and GPU tracker 3.52 does not think it exists, not too surprising as tracker is sort of aimed at the more hands off folder, sure is easy to run though.

I apologize in advance for my ignorance, this is my first modern system and it has only been running 2 weeks. Can someone point me to a thread where I can learn the ins and outs of getting which client to run on which card manually? I am pretty excited to get these things cooking.

76% through a 1338 -smp, when it loads out I'm going to dump all my current clients and start breaking on it.
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here you go: (disclosure, I wrote it :p)

http://timverry.com/?p=661
 
I'll see if I can find the link, I meant to put it in the article but forgot :p
 
Sorry for the double post, but the edit button never works for me :p

I looked but I couldn't find it... I could've sworn I read a thread on standford's forums about it not working properly but I guess not (it was really late when I finished writing so that could have something to do with it lol). I'll update that part, thanks for keeping me sharp :D
 
Saw your edit...thanks for the shout out. I was not challenging your accuracy, just wondering what was up. I have smp and 2 gpu running now, better utilization than I have seen before, the cpu is pegged as usual but the gpus are running over 90% which I have never seen before with the smp client running. I will report tomorrow how my ppd looks.
 
Nah, it's alright, thanks for keeping me accurate! I definitely read something about it but as I can't find it and people are getting it to run, it's obviously working :p. I've been wracking my brain trying to remember what it was and I think that it had to do with letting the client auto install the gpu (when you first install you can choose a single core, smp, or gpu as an initial folding client), and I think the issue was that it did not identify that people had multiple cards, or if it did it still wasn't adding the proper number of slots. I'll try to test this out myself later.

How do you have the smp set up? Are you leaving a spare core for each GPU or letting them fight it out? :)

I'm running SMP 6 and one GPU (i7 860 and 6950) and the GPU jumps between 91 and 99 % usage consistently according to MSI Afterburner while my CPU usage is reported as 88% (usually it would be closer to 100 but the client recommends to use a multiple of 2 when setting the smp number of cores flag so I chose 6 instead of putting smp 7 like I would have for the old v6 client.) I may try smp 7 once this smp WU is done to see if the client will bitch at me for not following what it recommends though :p
 
The issue is probably the one where if you mixed fermi ans mon fermi cards, they both get assigned fermi units. If all your cards are in the same "family", no problem, but mixed 2xx and 4xx or 5xx cards doesn't work properly at the moment.

H.
 
hspeirs said:
The issue is probably the one where if you mixed fermi ans mon fermi cards, they both get assigned fermi units. If all your cards are in the same "family", no problem, but mixed 2xx and 4xx or 5xx cards doesn't work properly at the moment.

H.
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How about mixed ATI and nVidia cards?
 
Sounds plausible :) Def. can't say for sure though as I have no fermi cards to test.
 
AFAIK, ati & nvidia are ok, it is an issue with mixing nvidia families.

H.
 
I did find one thread on the stanford forums about v7 and AMD 4850 and Nvidia 460 causing the client to only successfully run one WU at a time (so either the AMD or the nvidia client would run, but not both).

However, the poster never/has not responded with the log file they requested so maybe he fixed it himself.. still shouldn't have left us all in suspense thou! :p
 
Well, no good data yet, GF was cruising Google Earth in eyefinity last night while the rig was folding 100% and it froze up losing a couple hours work...lol.
 
Oh man, that sucks about losing that much work!

Does google earth use flash? There's an issue with using hardware accelerated flash while folding. Disable hardware acceleration and you can keep on trucking with the GPU unit while using flash based websites. Unfortunately for SMP folders, using software accelerated flash uses a lot more CPU.
 
hspeirs said:
The issue is probably the one where if you mixed fermi ans mon fermi cards, they both get assigned fermi units. If all your cards are in the same "family", no problem, but mixed 2xx and 4xx or 5xx cards doesn't work properly at the moment.

H.
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unless they changed the flags the easy work around for that is to use the Forcegpu_nvidia_g80 flag or what ever it is(been a while since i used the flags), it will force gpu2 WU's. but either way unless your running 8 or 9 series cards or fermi's ya want to stay as far away from the gpu3 client as possible.
 
I would like to clarify my earlier post.

Upon further inquiry the GF did click on a flash element embedded in the Google Sky interface. The flash bug is a bummer...but I have NOT identified any incompatibility with GE.

I was contacted by a dev regarding my last post...impressive.

What I CAN report, as I discover what all calls flash routines, is that the new client is quite robust to crashes, I have wu that have survived six.

All in all I am heartened, there are known issues...and ppd could be better, but they ARE working on it. This is beta code, I am happy so far.
 
OK, got 24 largely crash free hours here. GF did crash it once but it held the work, thought she was just clicking on a pic but it turned out to be flash. Everyone here is hot to play with the fancy new box lol. Making about 18Kppd with the CPU folding SMP as well. I think I could beat this with just SMP, but I don't have the completed units for bigadv bonus yet so not by much. My best day yet on non bonus smp is about 20K...which sounds feeble in here, but is a good 2 orders of magnitude over what I used to fold.
 
jojo69 said:
My best day yet on non bonus smp is about 20K...which sounds feeble in here, but is a good 2 orders of magnitude over what I used to fold.
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Don't dismiss your 20k, it is above average for the team and puts you just outside the top 100 contributors for the team, especially as that is before the bonus. Every WU is valuable, whether it is worth 100 points or 100k points.

Fold on and fold [H]ard:)
 
Nathan_P said:
Don't dismiss your 20k, it is above average for the team and puts you just outside the top 100 contributors for the team, especially as that is before the bonus. Every WU is valuable, whether it is worth 100 points or 100k points.

Fold on and fold [H]ard:)
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Full disclosure,

My 200 ppd have historically gone to 45104, team Ubuntu. I have lurked here for a couple years, posting only rarely. I climbed slowly through the inactives over there embarrassed to put the Tualatin and the lappy on the mighty [33]. I watched with impotent horror as the EVGA juggernaut closed in, but I knew that my contribution was hardly going to hold them off.

(BTW, is the ASUS REPUBLIC OF GAMERS team on anybody's radar here? Similar to EVGA, but you do not get direct credit, instead your points earn you lottery tickets toward monthly gear drawings...they are ramping up fast.)

It has always been my intention to cut over to 33 once my build is up to speed. I am currently the #5 producer on 45104, still working the bugs out.

Thank you for the encouragement...a few weeks, they are going to refine this openCL code, everybody's red team cards are going to really start producing...and we are going after EVGA folks. When the time comes, I will be here.
 
jojo69 said:
(BTW, is the ASUS REPUBLIC OF GAMERS team on anybody's radar here? Similar to EVGA, but you do not get direct credit, instead your points earn you lottery tickets toward monthly gear drawings...they are ramping up fast.)
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There are other teams with contests for people that fold, even including this one. The issue some people have with EVGA is that they're basically giving away money directly to anyone who folds a certain amount of points for them. Realistically, it's a fine line, and beating the EVGA horse some more isn't going to accomplish anything, so let's just drop that discussion right now.
 
Ah, yes I fold for another team aswell, but the mighty [H] would have never heard of us as we are still rather small (we just broke into the top 900 the day before last), but in the name/spirit of folding I've been trying to get the word out about the new AMD WUs to everyone I can, my team or no :D
 
Zero82z said:
beating the EVGA horse some more isn't going to accomplish anything, so let's just drop that discussion right now.
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we all have our own opinions on corporate citizen behavior

when I fold for 33, it will be to place altruism above profit

transmission ends
 
Huh- I somehow didn't hear about the flash bug at all, but that explains why my 6950 was about to get used to balance a table. Back to SMP, problem sloved. To bad my little AMD720 (unlocked core #4) only pulld 5k PPD. I was hoping to produce moar, but such is life.
 
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