Systems w/ 2 GPUs only getting WUs for one

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sremick
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Systems w/ 2 GPUs only getting WUs for one

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New to the project.

I set up a system the other day with 2 nVidia cards.... after a while I got WUs for both the CPU and one of the GPUs. It's been a couple days and I haven't gotten a WU for the 2nd GPU so from reading the forums I just assumed there was a shortage of WUs in general and I was lucky to even get one.

Last night I build an identical system, and got it all configured properly about 30 mins ago. Within short order, this 2nd machine got a WU for one of the GPUs.... again, the 2nd remains idle. The 2nd GPU on the original system also remains idle.

Now I'm wondering if there's a problem somewhere. If there was a shortage of WUs, I wouldn't expect the 2nd computer to get one so fast while after 3 days the original has yet to get one for the 2nd GPU.

In the logs, everything seems ok with no errors except for the perpetual "No WUs available for this configuration". But is "this configuration" = dual-GPU? Are special WUs necessary for multi-GPU setups? Or are all GPU WUs equal?

System Info on both systems looks good, with both cards detected along with CUDA and OpenCL.
sremick
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Re: Systems w/ 2 GPUs only getting WUs for one

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And like magic, after posting the question, I get WUs for the 2nd GPUs in both.
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Re: Systems w/ 2 GPUs only getting WUs for one

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The servers are just heavily loaded from all the new users. They're working on it and getting more projects into the queue to keep up with demand. You should always be able to get work in time and with a little bit of luck. :)

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