New machine not getting tasks
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24 Dec 2012 11:31:44 UTC
Topic 196700
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Yo,
I have installed BOINC on my new laptop (ASUS W8), but for some reason no tasks are downloaded. I have done some research on the forums, the parameters seem OK, I must miss something...
BOINC has been running fine on my two other laptops (BOINC 7, a W7 and a MacOS) for some time now, I do not see what is wrong with the new one. Something to do with W8 ?
And by the way, merry Christmas !
Thierry
New machine not getting tasks
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That depends on which BOINC version you're running;
that you allowed BOINC through your firewall, to connect to the internet on TCP port 80 and 443;
and since your computers are hidden, us mere mortals can reach the connect log. Perhaps you want to be so friendly to link to it?
Thx for your answer Jord
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Thx for your answer Jord !
Here is an excerpt of stdoutdae.txt (do not mind the date, I am not travelling in time, I fixed it).
25-Dec-2012 12:13:31 [Einstein@Home] update requested by user
25-Dec-2012 12:13:36 [Einstein@Home] Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
25-Dec-2012 12:13:36 [Einstein@Home] Not requesting tasks: don't need
25-Dec-2012 12:13:38 [Einstein@Home] Scheduler request completed
I changed the preferences of the project to show the computers. The faulty one is Precious.
RE: 25-Dec-2012 12:13:36
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LOL, I asked for the other connect log, but this one's fine as well. The line above shows why your computer doesn't get work, BOINC thinks it doesn't need work.
So that then makes it a preference. Can you please check in the project preferences what your settings are for:
- Use CPU?
- Run only the selected applications?
- Run CPU versions of applications for which GPU versions are available?
Thanks again Jord, I think
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Thanks again Jord, I think that I know the reason now.
The BOINC manager does not see the GPU : I have set preferences to get GPU tasks only, and in the BOINC manager I can not see anything related to the GPU.
I strongly suspect Optimus to be the cause of the issue, since in normal operation only the Intel Graphics is operating. (I have a NVIDIA GPU (GT650M) and Optimus).
So what would be the solution ? Disable Optimus (I'd rather not to), or modify the project properties (I do not see which one) ?
To get the GPU to be detected
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To get the GPU to be detected by BOINC, you require drivers from Nvidia, not the ones installed (or updated) by Windows or the laptop manufacturer. Windows and most computer manufacturer their installed drivers lack the OpenGL, CUDA and OpenCL components.
So go to http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and download and install the appropriate drivers. Reboot the system and when BOINC starts, it will now probably detect your GPU.
However, since you have a Kepler style GPU, you may run into difficulties at projects, returning only errors. In that case follow either one of these three options:
(Source at Seti forums)
See http://www.technoon.com/how-to-add-environment-variables-in-windows-8.html on how to set the environment variable in Windows 8.
Stressing: The above solutions are either, or, or. You don't require all three. You also only need any if you return only errors.
@ Thierry, We had a litle bit
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@ Thierry,
We had a litle bit of trouble with Optimus technology in the early days (I run a 420M, and BOINC couldn't work out which driver version was running), but that should be fixed now. The nvidia site video drivers have never been a problem, even on an OEM video card.
@ Jord,
The environment variable workround only really applies at SETI (indeed, it was written into the new drivers specifically to solve a SETI problem). The problem is that SETI - being an early adopter of GPU technology, and being short of programming resources - is still distributing a CUDA v3.0 application. Most other projects have upgraded their apps to CUDA v3.2 (like Einstein here) or even CUDA v4.2: the newer CUDA runtime files don't suffer from the problem that the workround was created to solve.
But it won't do any harm to set it, just in case.
Thx guys ! I installed
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Thx guys !
I installed today the latest driver from NVIDIA.
I will go for the environment variable fix when I am back home, the 26th.
I will let you know if it worked (or not :-).
And Merry Christmas !
Okay, when it doesn't (seem)
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Okay, when it doesn't (seem) to have worked, could you please post your BOINC start-up messages? The first 20 to 30 lines will do.
With thanks, and happy holidays back. :-)
RE: Okay, when it doesn't
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Will do :-)
RE: Okay, when it doesn't
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I stopped BOINC manager, set env variable CUDA_GRID_SIZE_COMPAT to 1 then restarted BOINC.
Here ar the logs :
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.0.33 for windows_x86_64
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Running as a daemon
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Running under account boinc_master
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Processor: 256.00 KB cache
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] 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 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows 8: x64 Edition, (06.02.9200.00)
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Memory: 15.89 GB physical, 21.39 GB virtual
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Disk: 372.60 GB total, 322.58 GB free
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] Local time is UTC +1 hours
26-Dec-2012 14:49:06 [---] No usable GPUs found
Looks like it does not work...
Note : I tried again, launching BOINC as administrator, the GPU still was not found.