SOLVED (My Bad): CUDA Tasks not starting
11 Apr 2013 18:07:30 UTC
Topic 196906
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I have a number of Einstein cuda tasks waiting in the queue, and the only tasks which are starting are CPU-based tasks. No GPU tasks.
I am assuming that BRP4cudaNV301 tasks are indeed cuda-based.
Following the FAQ, I have updated the drivers on my GEForce 8400GS video card to the latest version from the NVidea site (v317, or v314 when reported by BOINC, or 9.18.13.1422 when reported by Windows) - I did a clean install.
GPU-Z shows OpenCL, CUDA, PhysX and DirectCompute all as enabled, and the GPU Load is 1-2%
The BOINC startup log is:
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | No config file found - using defaults
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.28 for windows_x86_64
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Data directory: C:\Users\Jim\Documents\BOINC
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Running under account Jim
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G850 @ 2.90GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7]
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Processor: 256.00 KB cache
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | 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 pbe
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Memory: 7.95 GB physical, 15.89 GB virtual
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Disk: 931.39 GB total, 847.03 GB free
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Local time is UTC -4 hours
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8400GS (driver version 314.22, CUDA version 5.0, compute capability 1.2, 1024MB, 8381346MB available, 67 GFLOPS peak)
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8400GS (driver version 314.22, device version OpenCL 1.0 CUDA, 1024MB, 8381346MB available)
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 6260128; resource share 100
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6805554; resource share 100
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | Einstein@Home | General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 10-Apr-2013 23:50:24)
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | Einstein@Home | Computer location: home
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | Einstein@Home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Reading preferences override file
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Preferences:
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8138.14MB
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 8138.14MB
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | max disk usage: 100.00GB
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
2013-04-11 1:57:24 PM | | Not using a proxy
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | SETI@home | task 15my12ae.12222.342176.206158430213.10.186_0 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | SETI@home | task 15my12ae.12222.342176.206158430213.10.64_0 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | SETI@home | task 15my12ae.12222.342176.206158430213.10.58_0 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task p2030.20121230.G203.34-01.01.C.b5s0g0.00000_2440_2 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task p2030.20121230.G203.21-01.24.S.b2s0g0.00000_1608_1 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task p2030.20121228.G202.65-00.36.C.b4s0g0.00000_3216_1 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task p2030.20121230.G203.82-00.08.S.b0s0g0.00000_1104_0 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task p2030.20121216.G201.86-00.40.S.b3s0g0.00000_2408_1 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task h1_0493.70_S6GC1__S6BucketLVEa_493.813682292Hz_2218_0 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task p2030.20121216.G201.74-00.63.S.b3s0g0.00000_1704_1 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task h1_0493.70_S6GC1__S6BucketLVEa_493.813682292Hz_2219_0 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:30 PM | Einstein@Home | task h1_0493.70_S6GC1__S6BucketLVEa_493.813682292Hz_2217_0 resumed by user
2013-04-11 1:57:31 PM | Einstein@Home | Restarting task h1_0493.70_S6GC1__S6BucketLVEa_493.813682292Hz_2218_0 using einstein_S6BucketLVE version 104 (SSE2) in slot 3
2013-04-11 1:57:31 PM | SETI@home | Restarting task 15my12ae.12222.342176.206158430213.10.186_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 603 in slot 0
2013-04-11 1:58:11 PM | Einstein@Home | update requested by user
2013-04-11 1:58:13 PM | SETI@home | update requested by user
2013-04-11 1:58:15 PM | Einstein@Home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2013-04-11 1:58:15 PM | Einstein@Home | Not reporting or requesting tasks
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | Einstein@Home | Scheduler request completed
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | Einstein@Home | New computer location: home
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | Einstein@Home | General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 10-Apr-2013 23:50:24)
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | Einstein@Home | Computer location: home
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | Einstein@Home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | | Reading preferences override file
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | | Preferences:
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | | max memory usage when active: 8138.14MB
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 8138.14MB
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | | max disk usage: 100.00GB
2013-04-11 1:58:16 PM | | (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
2013-04-11 1:58:21 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2013-04-11 1:58:21 PM | SETI@home | Not reporting or requesting tasks
2013-04-11 1:58:31 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
SOLVED (My Bad): CUDA Tasks not starting
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Problem found - in the BOINC manager, under Activity, there is a "Suspend GPU" option - which was selected.
How - I have no idea. I'm the only user of this computer.
Changed the setting, and a GPU-based task started.
My Bad.
Jim
I get power outages at home
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I get power outages at home several times a week, and as I have computers that crunch 24/7 then they get likewise interrupted. Very occasionally on reboot they come out with such things like altered preferences. I'd assumed some configuration/process was indeterminate at the moment of power loss. So if things don't seem right I manually check that first. But I couldn't give a more exact reason.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: I get power outages at
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I'm a convinced UPS user, despite having power interruption experience that is about two orders of magnitude better than your description.
Granted that one needs to spend several times the minimum to get run times long enough to suit a serious reliability purpose, how is it that you choose not to use UPS? I'm just curious.
RE: RE: I get power
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I do not use ups's, I DO use surge suppressors, as the battery costs to replace them is too high. I should say I use ups's but NOT the ups part, just the surge suppression side of them as all the batteries have long since died. I have 15 pc's running and the multiple ups's required, in some cases I use one ups for multiple pc's, means huge battery replacement costs.
RE: I have 15 pc's running
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Similar set-up here; the way I do it is to run the PC's diskless off a central server, and have a single UPS for the server. If the client PC's lose power, it's no big deal (in the case of BOINC, it'll just pick up at the last checkpoint).
RE: I get power outages at
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Oh, I AM knocking on wood here, I have not lost power in 5 years or so now!! I have underground powerlines and the last time I lost power a squirrel got under a power box and got fried while trying to curl up and stay warm. The power company poured a bigger, deeper concrete pad and it hasn't been a problems since.
RE: Oh, I AM knocking on
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We dream of underground supply! There was a local plebiscite about that some seven years ago - cost of about $6K AUD per household - but it failed.
Mountain range, road access through forest. When the wind blows, limbs from trees fall down on line, power down. When it rains, the roots of trees go loose and tree falls down on line, power down. Possums ( who like easy pathways through the forest canopy ) bridge distinct phase lines, power down. Dust accumulating on pole transformer becomes conducting path in rain storm thus blows up spectacularly, power down. Leakage of cooling oil out of 'kiosk' size down transformer, which then blows up really amazingly, power down. Truck slides on wet corner and hits pole, power down. Lightning strikes all of the above, power down. Bushfire goes through destroying infrastructure, power down. Earth rotates about own axis, power down .... :-)
So as archae86 has politely hinted, I am going to bite the bullet and get UPS to cover at least momentary voltage drops. They have surge protection too, but I have a gadget at the house board to cover that as well.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: Oh, I AM knocking
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Wow you make living in the woods sound FUN AND EXCITING!! I think I prefer my over 1000 home neighborhood better after that! Do you have natural gas or propane? If so for less than 10k, here in the US, you could get a backup generator that automatically comes on when the power goes off. The ups's will get you thru the momentary blip and then you will be happy camper crunching again! My mother-in-law has similar to you issues and her power will go out for days at a time. Natural gas and propane are not the easiest or cheapest in the short run, but over the long run there is very little maintenance, meaning they just work! You setup a switch so the lineman doesn't get fried and you are good to go! You can hook up just a few circuits or even the whole house, depending on your cash flow.
RE: Wow you make living in
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Well the longer you live here the more you appreciate The Far Side! :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal