As a followup, NVIDIA did release an update to their driver (on 20Dec21, but I just learned about it today). Probably doesn't really fix the problem, but I did learn something.
I did a clean install with the new driver, uninstalling the old one first (didn't use the Wagnard uninstaller yet, just NVIDIA's own installer software). Then changed the BOINC client computing preferences so that I wouldn't suddenly get 24 Einstein jobs that all fail immediately, causing Einstein to not send any more workunits for any configuration for a day.
The first couple of NVIDIA tasks were GRPB, and they actually finished without problems. (Haven't got credit yet, but I'm hopeful, once it's validated.) However, then I got a GWO3AS task, which got a computation error in about 3 minutes, similar to previous experiences. However, at least I see now that the error was a memory allocation error:
XLAL Error - XLALOpenCLMemcpy (/home/jenkins/workspace/workspace/EaH-GW-OpenCL-Testing/SLAVE/MinGW6.3/TARGET/windows-x64/EinsteinAtHome/source/lalsuite/lalpulsar/lib/GPUUtils/OpenCLUtils.c:312): Transferring host memory to GPU failed with OpenCL error: CL_MEM_OBJECT_ALLOCATION_FAILURE
After that, all jobs trying to use the NVIDIA driver failed, not just Einstein jobs, but anything else as well, until I rebooted. The other GWO3AS jobs that tried to run had a different error, not memory allocation:
So I currently suspect that 1) I don't have enough memory to run (some) GWO3AS jobs, but 2) the bad part is that when this happens, it leave the laptop in a bad state, essentially unusable for any job. So I'm holding off on running Einstein jobs on NVIDIA for now (Still running on the Intel driver, though). Might exclude the GW03AS in the future, as one possible alternative.
You are correct..the GWO3AS tasks require a gpu with at least 4gb of onboard memory and yours only has 2gb, so if you stay away from them you should be okay.
I run these tasks "Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 (GPU)" on my Nvidia 1050Ti, which does have 4gb of onboard memory, and they just scream along taking about 1000 seconds each, I only run 1 task at a time, and get 3465 credits for each valid task.
mcz wrote: As a followup,
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You are correct..the GWO3AS tasks require a gpu with at least 4gb of onboard memory and yours only has 2gb, so if you stay away from them you should be okay.
I run these tasks "Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 (GPU)" on my Nvidia 1050Ti, which does have 4gb of onboard memory, and they just scream along taking about 1000 seconds each, I only run 1 task at a time, and get 3465 credits for each valid task.
I beg to differ, my 3gb
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I beg to differ, my 3gb GTX1060s run GWs just fine.