As the Tile states, I have 3 GPUs How do I set GPUGRID to use only One of them and allow the other Two GPUs for other usages. Thanks

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As the Tile states, I have 3 GPUs How do I set GPUGRID to use only One of them and allow the other Two GPUs for other usages. Thanks

As the Tile states, I have 3 GPUs How do I set GPUGRID to use only One of them and allow the other Two GPUs for other usages. Thanks

Right. You will want to configure the BOINC client with a customized cc_config.xml file, per the documentation, found here:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

I too have 3 GPUs, and I only allow certain projects on each of them. Below is my cc_config.xml file, that you may look at as a reference. As you'll see, exclusion blocks can even be commented out, which means they are not in-place, but you can easily switch them back on later.

Regards,
Jacob Klein

I think you can put a file like this in your c:\programdata\Boinc\projects\gpugrid folder:

I think you can put a file like this in your c:\programdata\Boinc\projects\gpugrid folder:

I believe the cc_config.xml file should go in the c:\programdata\Boinc folder.

If you were using an app_info.xml file specific for GPUGrid that would go in the c:\programdata\Boinc\projects\gpugrid folder.

Mikey:

Your xml is missing several open tags, and is invalid.
Also, if you happen to have spaces or tabs in it, and you want to preserve the formatting in a post (such as I have done above), you can simply encapsulate it in a

Mikey:

Your xml is missing several open tags, and is invalid.
Also, if you happen to have spaces or tabs in it, and you want to preserve the formatting in a post (such as I have done above), you can simply encapsulate it in a

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I still think that the xml I pasted earlier, is a great reference.

:) Experience, sure, but not expertise. I typically find out about features from a lot of trial and error, but I usually brute-force that trialing until I know exactly how something works. PS: Someone introduced me to the

This Project & Forum is the Greatest, Thanks for all your inputs.
I now have a pair of R9 290X to start testing on GPUGRID.

Not sure if serious or.............

GPUGrid has NVIDIA Cuda tasks, and CPU tasks (that work on PC and Android).
Your GPUs are AMD Radeons, right? If so, they won't work here, but if you attach to some other project that has AMD tasks, they will work there.

... Unless you meant "testing" in the sense of "getting work for a third GPU that is NVIDIA, while not getting work from the AMD GPUs", in which case, you really shouldn't have to do anything special to make that happen. BOINC knows your resource types, and BOINC knows which projects can do which resource types. Hope that makes sense.

Ok I need some assist. A slight background on me. I came over from Folding@Home, so I am new to crunching, and so far I don't understand how folks can say that BOINC is easier to use than FAH manager. It's much more intensive.

As I posted over here: http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2173190 I am trying to make one of my GPU's not show up to BOINC. I don't want it to crunch at all. I have tried setting up the config as you can see that post, but then after I looked up this thread over here, I edited the cc_config.xml file to look like this.

<cc_config>
<options>
<ignore_nvidia_dev>0</ignore_nvidia_dev>
</options>
</cc_config>

As I also stated over on that other post, I am not a coder. I am great with fixing computers and hardware, but I suck when it comes to command line, scripts, and or anything else that requires a basic knowledge of writing code. I just don't get it. I have tried, and after years of reading shit I don't understand, I still try for some stupid reason, but rarely it works out for me. So I am not being lazy here.

So with that said. I would like to ask for more precise help here. I want GPU 0 in my system to NOT run at all with BOINC. Could someone please fix my script so that I can get what I want?

Offhand, that XML looks good. Are you sure you have it saved to a file exactly named "cc_config.xml" in the ProgramData\Boinc folder? Please restart BOINC, and copy/paste the first ~25 starting lines from the BOINC Event Log. Paste them here so we can see.

Edit: You have to set use_all_gpus to 1 to get BOINC to see any GPU that isn't the primary GPU (device 0) I recommend setting it to 1, even if you're going to disable 1 of the GPUs.

From what I gathered in the thread you linked to, you're trying to set this up for a system with two GTX570s and you're trying to exclude GPU0 from BOINC. However, you are still seeing tasks being processed by GPU0 even with the cc_config in place.

I concur with Jacob that the XML you posted should work.

This may seem a bit basic, but as someone new to BOINC you may not have caught this yet: Have you checked to make sure that it is actually GPU0 that is doing the crunching? I've noticed in my systems where I have two identical cards that you can't trust the BOINC manager to tell you which card a task is actually running on. Just because it says "Running (0.855 CPUs + 1 Nividia GPU)(device 0)" next to a task does not mean it is actually running on GPU0. My mixed card systems always correctly reported the actual GPU in use in the manager, but with the twin card systems it seems BOINC doesn't report accurately.

Just thought I'd throw that out there as it is an odd thing about BOINC that I didn't catch myself for a long time.

Hope we've been of some help. Please keep posting with any other questions.

Ok here's the event log from a fresh start of BOINC.

Why does that first line say my config file is not found???

6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for windows_x86_64
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Data directory: K:\BOINC Work
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Running under account Phil Gaming
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0 (not used): GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 337.88, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 2.0, 1280MB, 522MB available, 1425 GFLOPS peak)
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 337.88, CUDA version 6.0, compute capability 2.0, 1280MB, 1182MB available, 1425 GFLOPS peak)
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0 (ignored by config): GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 337.88, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1280MB, 522MB available, 1425 GFLOPS peak)
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 337.88, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1280MB, 1182MB available, 1425 GFLOPS peak)
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Host name: PhilGaming-PC
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5]
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Memory: 11.99 GB physical, 23.98 GB virtual
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Disk: 148.95 GB total, 134.18 GB free
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 92548; resource share 100
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | Milkyway@Home | URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 577447; resource share 100
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | pogs | URL http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/; Computer ID 39322; resource share 100
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7298565; resource share 100
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | GPUGRID | URL http://www.gpugrid.net/; Computer ID 175670; resource share 100
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 3061693; resource share 100
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 28-May-2014 15:57:05)
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Host location: none
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | General prefs: using your defaults
6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | Reading preferences override file


After I took this report, I went and added the use all gpus to the config and now it doesnt name a GPU to a task, it just says 0.394 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU. So I think problem solved.. However it still says cc_config.xml not found. Did I put it in the wrong place? I have it in both the start folder and the work folder. It must be seeing it somewhere though, cause it's showing them ignored. Weird

Ok here's the event log from a fresh start of BOINC.

Why does that first line say my config file is not found???

6/4/2014 00:08:44 | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults

After I took this report, I went and added the use all gpus to the config and now it doesnt name a GPU to a task, it just says 0.394 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU. So I think problem solved.. However it still says cc_config.xml not found. Did I put it in the wrong place? I have it in both the start folder and the work folder. It must be seeing it somewhere though, cause it's showing them ignored. Weird

It's showing 1 GPU ignored, I think, because the default BOINC settings are to only use the main GPU.

But let's solve your problem.

According to your own logs there, the data directory is "K:\BOINC Work", so the "cc_config.xml" file must be placed in that folder. Turn on the Windows folder option to show file extensions, to make absolutely sure it isn't named "cc_config.xml.txt". If you need to rename it, then do so, then restart BOINC and let us know if it finds it.