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bruce wrote:Windows is less effective than Linux at utilizing all of the bandwidth that's actually avaiable.

Adding an additional moderate speed GPU on a moderate speed slot with the limitations imposed by Windows will be a positive benefit, but your mileage may vary.

What limitations?

Seeing fairly wild fluctuating PPD on 11738 (0, 346, 39) on a GTX 1070 Ti. It's not pushing the GPU very hard, power and heat-wise. Jumping around between roughly 730k and 810k, which unfortunately happens to be the range of PPD I get from all of the core 21 projects. Not used to seeing fluctuations...

Updating the driver fixed it. There must have been an updated version of openCL at some point.
Also getting something like 20% higher PPD on this project than the usual.

I got this project again and the popup error is "The procedure entry point clReleaseDevice could not be located in the dynamic link library OpenCL.dll." No idea if that's helpful beyond what was in my log.

When I get this project it immediately fails a gives a popup dialog saying something about Entry Point Not Found with openCL. I didn't take down the message before the client started on a new WU. I'm on a Geforce 1060 6GB on Windows 7, and my video drivers are fairly old. Here's the log: 14:18:44:**...

It's down again. Connection is being actively refused.

I was scanning the log for errors after noticing some bizarrely low points on certain stat updates, and, although I didn't find anything causing that, I did notice some strange errors from the GPU client that have occurred several times over the past week. The GPU core says it "probably crashed...

Despite the fact that they generate double the science, I get an a7 unit extremely rarely. Maybe one every few days? Why would the system do that? Why are new projects being made on a4 if it's outdated and inferior?

Why does the client fail to get a work unit and then just refuse to try connecting again indefinitely? This happens all the time when a server goes down, your client simply stops attempting to connect *forever* until you notice it and manually screw with it til it tries again. I'm always amazed at ...

Why does the client fail to get a work unit and then just refuse to try connecting again indefinitely? This happens all the time when a server goes down, your client simply stops attempting to connect *forever* until you notice it and manually screw with it til it tries again. I'm always amazed at h...

So these 43 mystery WUs I got at noon were actually missing since the Thanksgiving outage, or before that? Very weird.
It's completely thrown off the measurement I've been trying to do this week of weekly points generation without my usual pausing. :/

These servers are down again. Got another 8200 WU that can't upload.

My client has been trying to upload an 8200 WU for more than 24 hours now and is still failing to connect. The estimated credit for it is mostly gone, so I've just put it out of my mind. I assume the WU files will be deleted automatically once it expires.

I just right now ran into a crash on this WU. Here's the relevant part of my log: [05:30:31] *------------------------------* [05:30:31] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core [05:30:31] Version 2.19 (Mar 12, 2010) [05:30:31] [05:30:31] Preparing to commence simulation [05:30:31] - Looking at optimizations.....

Somewhat tangential, but what happened to F@h's FLOPs in the past couple of months? At one point it was hovering up in the 4.5 PF range, I believe (didn't it break 5 briefly?), and then it seemed that after the GPU server problems it dropped substantially to its current 3.5ish. I seem to remember t...