[LiveBrianD]

I just downloaded GPUgrid, which it says is specifically optimized for nvidia gpus (cool, since I have one), but it seems that when it's running things that involve even a tiny fraction of the gpu, such as moving windows around, are unacceptably choppy. Any ideas on how to stop that? For now, I stopped the project entirely. It's too bad that it seems to take the entire GPU, including cycles that I need - I have a few projects running right now that are maxing out the CPU, but if I run something else that needs a bit of CPU power, the distributed computing project hands them right over. In fact, I don't notice any change in performance with the CPU maxed out like this.

[ElfBane]

LiveBrianD, on 17 May 2012 - 02:39 PM, said:

I just added einstein@home. I guess the SETI@home guys don't want any cpu cycles from me - the site is still down, and I can't add it to BOINC.

Berkeley.edu had a lightning strike. Their servers and acouple of neighborhoods around the university were without power. Try back later.

[ElfBane]

Go to this thread... http://einstein.phys...ead.php?id=9445 .

It talks about how the software isn't perfect, and what they are still trying to fix.

[LiveBrianD]

Hmm, I contacted them and apparently there was an unexpected outage in one of the buildings. I guess that's it then.

[LiveBrianD]

So, it looks like the SETI site is finally up, so I added that project. That also uses the GPU (right now it's at ~80-90% usage), and yet regular desktop performance isn't impacted at all (I even hit start+tab and it was completely smooth). OK, how can that do it while GPUgrid can't?

Say, how does it decide how many instances of a project to download? For instance, I have 15 instances of rosetta@home, but I manually paused all but 1 so I could run some other projects (right now, I'm running climateprediction.net on one core - I'd like to run 2 of these but it doesn't support that, rosetta@home on one core, einstein@home on two cores, and seti@home on the GPU - it uses about 3% of the CPU). All the rosetta instances have a deadline a week from today (the 26th), but with each one taking 4 hours, there's no way I'm going to get all of those done in time. (2 done, 1 running, 12 paused) That would mean running my PC about 7.5 hours a day, which I probably won't do. What does it do if a project is past the deadline?

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 19 May 2012 - 01:33 PM

[ElfBane]

I don't know. Check their forums.