There is new driver.

I'll test them. Because 185.66 or 185.66 make always errors.

I hope it's good driver with this project.

it seem to work fine on my sys. with gtx 260.

I test, and I have again the same errors, like 185.66, 185.68.

08/05/2009 19:27:31 GPUGRID Starting task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 using acemd version 664
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Computation for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 finished
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Output file 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_1 for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 absent
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Output file 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_2 for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 absent
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Output file 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_3 for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 absent
08/05/2009 19:28:08 GPUGRID Finished upload of 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_4

<core_client_version>6.6.20</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code 98 (0x62)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1404000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939524096 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 27
# Number of cores: 216
# Device 1: "GeForce 8800 GT"
# Clock rate: 1500000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 536870912 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 14
# Number of cores: 112
# Amber: readparm : Reading parm file parameters
# PARM file in AMBER 7 format
# Encounter 10-12 H-bond term
WARNING: parameters.cu, line 568: Found zero 10-12 H-bond term.
WARNING: parameters.cu, line 568: Found zero 10-12 H-bond term.
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
ERROR: c:\cygwin\home\speechserver\gpumd2\src\pme\CPME_cufft.cu, line 104: cufftExecC2R (gridcalc3)
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>

Rivatuner cannot detect the 185.85 driver for some people--others it does..go figure. I've lost RT in the 1 rig running 185.85. I've DLed Nvidia System Tools....looks simple enough....can't get the damn thing to work though....:(

EDIT: Seem to have it going atm....pretty whacked, but what else can be expected from Nvidia these days...sheesh.

EDIT 2: Switched to Precision tool...a bit more intuitive...

I have been using Precision for a while, pretty easy although if you set the fan on auto *sometimes* it forgets and temps start to rise. I have not narrowed it down to exactly when, and there certainly is the possibility that it was me that screwed up and not the tool :am:
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Thanks - Steve

Works good on Win. XP64 with Boinc 6.6.20 with gtx260 and gt9800.

I have been using Precision for a while, pretty easy although if you set the fan on auto *sometimes* it forgets and temps start to rise. I have not narrowed it down to exactly when, and there certainly is the possibility that it was me that screwed up and not the tool :am:

Works good on Win. XP64 with Boinc 6.6.20 with gtx260 and gt9800.

I've just finished my first WU on Windows XP Home with 185.85 WHQL and Boinc 6.6.28 with a GTS250 here (and the most recent beta 185.81 here) and my timestep has dramatically reduced to 47.36ms (42.65ms for the latest beta 185.81), which is the lowest I have ever had.

I'll have to see some other results in the next coming days, but I had been averaging about 65-70ms before on most WU's.

Anyone else seen such improvements?

Rob

185.85, Vista 64, BOINC 6.6.28, GTX295
18 hours GPUGrid, GPUZ, EVGA Precision, no errors.
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Thanks - Steve

The problems with the units only involve the cards not being a 2XX.
So if your card is based on 9xxx or similar it will probably error out on these famous units.
Seems all 2X5 cards run these units without issues on many different drivers, and in fact the newest drivers will give them some performance gains.
The reason why this units fails seems to be a mistery since some do finish but most will crash on our cards.
I also use this 185.85 driver for some time now and seems darn stable, so for me looks like a winner untill now.

I've just finished my first WU on Windows XP Home with 185.85 WHQL and Boinc 6.6.28 with a GTS250 here (and the most recent beta 185.81 here) and my timestep has dramatically reduced to 47.36ms (42.65ms for the latest beta 185.81), which is the lowest I have ever had.

I'll have to see some other results in the next coming days, but I had been averaging about 65-70ms before on most WU's.

Anyone else seen such improvements?

Rob

The problems with the units only involve the cards not being a 2XX.
So if your card is based on 9xxx or similar it will probably error out on these famous units.
Seems all 2X5 cards run these units without issues on many different drivers, and in fact the newest drivers will give them some performance gains.
The reason why this units fails seems to be a mistery since some do finish but most will crash on our cards.
I also use this 185.85 driver for some time now and seems darn stable, so for me looks like a winner untill now.

Always errors for me...
http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?userid=8645

I only have a few lags on my Hauppauge TV card, picture and sound stopped for 2sec after that running in slow motion, not seen this on 182.50.

Anyone else seeing a 2-3% slowdown on v185.85 compared with v185.66?
This is happening on both my ASUS and PNY 9600 GSO cards.

Thanks for the information, this may very well explain some of the recently unusually high failure rates.

So which is the last known good one, 182.50?

MrS

Well i have received a test unit so we gonna see if the driver is the issue.
I had rebooted and was to be honest not expecting to see gpugrid downloaded new units, but since it did i thought ill let it finish and see what happens.
Those 2 i got both with ended without issue
Lets see if this test errors out.
Still want to remind you guys that, according to boinc my card seems only to be able todo 1.0 Cuda, what strikes me is why nvidia does not inform which cards benefit from this new cuda 2.X versions or is it again boinc which does not see the right cuda version.

9600 GT haven't found info anywhere what version of cuda is supported by it.

Yea i forgot indeed is 1.1

Sadly many hours lost again with broken units, rebooted back into win XP

I reinstalled old driver set 182.50 and reversed back to cuda 2.1 with 6.6.28
if i probably change back to 6.5.0 but ill try this a few days more because its time estimates really are ok.

Now back to sleep ill see tommorow if the units still fail

Whell, I was using 182.08 and it works grat.

I have 6.6.20 and I upgrade to 6.6.28.

You say that 185.85 works on GTX26x and up, so I try and:


<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code 98 (0x62)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
ERROR: c:\cygwin\home\speechserver\gpumd2\src\pme\CPME_cufft.cu, line 104: cufftExecC2R (gridcalc3)
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

next:

<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code 98 (0x62)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
# Amber: readparm : Reading parm file parameters
# PARM file in AMBER 7 format
# Encounter 10-12 H-bond term
WARNING: parameters.cu, line 568: Found zero 10-12 H-bond term.
WARNING: parameters.cu, line 568: Found zero 10-12 H-bond term.
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
ERROR: c:\cygwin\home\speechserver\gpumd2\src\pme\CPME_cufft.cu, line 50: cufftExecC2C (gridcalc2.1)
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

next:

<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Niepoprawna funkcja. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
Cuda error: Kernel [langevin_thermostat] failed in file 'thermostat.cu' in line 34 : unspecified launch failure.

</stderr_txt>
]]>

<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code 98 (0x62)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1404000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1404000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1242000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939196416 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 24
# Number of cores: 192
ERROR: c:\cygwin\home\speechserver\gpumd2\src\pme\CPME_cufft.cu, line 104: cufftExecC2R (gridcalc3)
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

So I will try now 182.50 - like testing :) If it also fails I will go back to 182.08...
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I come back with new problems :
Remember my host : 8400 + 1 GTX 260 + 1 8800 GT on vista 64.
It work good with boinc 6.6.2 and Nvidia 182.5.

I upgrade boinc to 6.6.28
First i have :

22/05/2009 01:17:16 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.28 for windows_x86_64
22/05/2009 01:17:16 Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
22/05/2009 01:17:16 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.00.6001.00)
22/05/2009 01:17:16 Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.17 GB virtual
22/05/2009 01:17:16 CUDA device: GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 18585, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 60GFLOPS)
22/05/2009 01:17:16 CUDA device (not used): GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 18585, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 60GFLOPS)
22/05/2009 01:17:16 Not using a proxy

22/05/2009 09:42:02 GPUGRID Computation for task p1270000-IBUCH_pYIpYVk1_2105-0-10-RND0895_1 finished
22/05/2009 09:42:02 GPUGRID Output file p1270000-IBUCH_pYIpYVk1_2105-0-10-RND0895_1_1 for task p1270000-IBUCH_pYIpYVk1_2105-0-10-RND0895_1 absent
22/05/2009 09:42:02 GPUGRID Output file p1270000-IBUCH_pYIpYVk1_2105-0-10-RND0895_1_2 for task p1270000-IBUCH_pYIpYVk1_2105-0-10-RND0895_1 absent
22/05/2009 09:42:02 GPUGRID Output file p1270000-IBUCH_pYIpYVk1_2105-0-10-RND0895_1_3 for task p1270000-IBUCH_pYIpYVk1_2105-0-10-RND0895_1 absent

- regarding the cards being used: in the newer clients you have to add an option in the cc_config if you want all GPUs being used.. sorry, don't know the exact details

MrS

Thanks, but i don't find a cc_config. :/

I notice an another bug :
I work for an other project (µfluid) and Gpugrid stay in waiting.
So with boinc 6.6.20, the 2 projects work in same time.
2 threads for µfluid, and 2 threads for GPUgridµ.

You have to create it yourself...just text, but save it as...

cc_config.xml

It goes in the Boinc folder....
____________


Consciousness: That annoying time between naps......

Experience is a wonderful thing: it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.

You have to create it yourself...just text, but save it as...

cc_config.xml

It goes in the Boinc folder....

Look :


with boinc 6.6.20, the four wus run in same time.

I find the solution :
in advanced option : Use GPU while computer in use.


But i run with 182.5. With 185.85 I still have errors.

In the sticky thread regarding this "problem" paul says that from 6.6.20 up you have to manually switch this settign (if you want you GPU to run when you work).. so I assumed you already knew about this, since you've been using 6.6.20. Was the change introduced later on?

MrS

on this version their are 2 really nasty bugs
once affect display settiing and another wont let you access the control for nivida

It's boinc 6.6.28.

I've updated to the new 185.85 WHPQL driver and my GTX 260 works fine.
Does someone have an idea of the size of the performance improvement over the elder 182.x driver? (mine is running 2 degrees hotter now, so I suggest it is performing a lot more work)
____________

i hav nvidia 158.85...how can i upgrade it to 185.85??

... how can i upgrade ...

I test, and I have again the same errors, like 185.66, 185.68.

08/05/2009 19:27:31 GPUGRID Starting task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 using acemd version 664
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Computation for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 finished
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Output file 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_1 for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 absent
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Output file 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_2 for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 absent
08/05/2009 19:28:04 GPUGRID Output file 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_3 for task 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0 absent
08/05/2009 19:28:08 GPUGRID Finished upload of 21-KASHIF_HIVPR_dim_ba2-4-100-RND7086_0_4

<core_client_version>6.6.20</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
- exit code 98 (0x62)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# Device 0: "GeForce GTX 260"
# Clock rate: 1404000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 939524096 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 27
# Number of cores: 216
# Device 1: "GeForce 8800 GT"
# Clock rate: 1500000 kilohertz
# Total amount of global memory: 536870912 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 14
# Number of cores: 112
# Amber: readparm : Reading parm file parameters
# PARM file in AMBER 7 format
# Encounter 10-12 H-bond term
WARNING: parameters.cu, line 568: Found zero 10-12 H-bond term.
WARNING: parameters.cu, line 568: Found zero 10-12 H-bond term.
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
ERROR: c:\cygwin\home\speechserver\gpumd2\src\pme\CPME_cufft.cu, line 104: cufftExecC2R (gridcalc3)
called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>

I use boinc 6.6.20 on vista 64, and I have 1 GTX260 and one 8800GT.

It works good with ancient driver official 182.50.