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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:10 pm
by warfire
Hello!
I used to be part of the EasyNews team but just reinstalled WCG and felt it was time for a new group.
Anyway, I hope my points are useful
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Warfire
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:41 pm
by UBT - Rick Horn
Hi warfire, and a very warm welcome to the team.
I am also a WCG "fan", and your credits will be more than welcome.
Rick.
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:32 pm
by Joshrandom
Hello Warfire, welcome to UBT.
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:10 pm
by melter65
Hello and Welcome!
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:13 pm
by Ben
Welcome aboard
WCG is a good project to be doing. Shame it can't harness the power of gpu's just yet.. But all in good time im sure :D
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:15 pm
by Temujin
Hi warfire and welcome to UBT
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:25 pm
by UBT - bobuk
Welcome to the best team in the UK.
May your stay be along one.
Need any help ? Then just ask there is
always someone around to give advice.
b.
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:05 am
by warfire
I do have one quick question - one of my hosts has a P4 3.0Ghz HT CPU but an nVidia GTX260 graphics card. Running WCG I can only use the CPU but I would probably get better performance using the GPU as well. Are there any good clients that can use both? Probably most newbie question of the month but last time I did all this (2005) GPU number crunching didn't exist!
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:41 am
by Temujin
warfire wrote:I do have one quick question - one of my hosts has a P4 3.0Ghz HT CPU but an nVidia GTX260 graphics card. Running WCG I can only use the CPU but I would probably get better performance using the GPU as well. Are there any good clients that can use both? Probably most newbie question of the month but last time I did all this (2005) GPU number crunching didn't exist!
WCG won't run on your GPU (I think) but there are several projects that support NVidia GPU crunching.
GPUGrid,
Seti and
MilkyWay are maybe the most stable but there are others around (GPUGrid probably pays best BTW).
All should run quite happily alongside your WCG but you may have to let boinc learn it now has a GPU. During this learning stage boinc may suspend or not request work for certain projects for no apparent reason but once it sorts itself out it'll run fine.
I don't know what boinc version you run but you'll need at least v6.x to support GPU crunching
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:46 am
by warfire
Thanks for the info! I am running the latest WCG client (6.2.28) and nothing else.
Should I drop this and download BOINC from Berkeley instead?
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:54 am
by UBT - Rick Horn
The latest BM V6.6.36 works fine with WCG.
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:59 am
by warfire
So it's best to uninstall the WCG client and install the Boinc Manager directly if I want to use GPU calculations too?
Or is adding the GPUGrid project to the WCG client enough to enable GPU? I have a feeling it isn't.
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:08 am
by UBT - Rick Horn
You don`t need to uninstall anything. Just update to 6.6.36, and BM will sort itself automatically.
If you are running projects that have GPU WUs, they should download by themselves.
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:15 am
by warfire
Yep, that seems to have worked. Thanks!
Why does the WCG website have such an old version on there?? All it has is a little branding in it!
Thanks so much for your help