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HD7790 and Project 11292

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 3:52 am
by scmo
Curious to know if anyone had thoughts on slow performance of newly added HD7790. Working on project 11292 WU and currently running at 1,508 PPD and TPF of 21 mins 13 sec. In FAHbench 1.1.2 benchmarking, HD7790 outperformed GTX 650 Ti by 44% in OpenCL single precision Explicit (12.2037 v 8.49785 ns) and 63% in Implicit (70.8036 v 43.4377 ns). Yet, in folding, performance is barely better than an HD6450. Believe AMD driver is v13.4. Log below for reference.

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*********************** Log Started 2013-05-11T17:32:03Z ***********************
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:Starting
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:Running FahCore: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FAHClient/FAHCoreWrapper.exe" C:/Users/Mo/AppData/Roaming/FAHClient/cores/www.stanford.edu/~pande/Win32/AMD64/ATI/R600/Core_16.fah/FahCore_16.exe -dir 00 -suffix 01 -version 703 -lifeline 3700 -checkpoint 15 -gpu 0 -gpu-vendor ati
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:Started FahCore on PID 4192
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:Core PID:4312
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:FahCore 0x16 started
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:*------------------------------*
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Folding@Home GPU Core
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Version 2.11 (Thu Dec 9 15:00:14 PST 2010)
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Compiler  : Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.30729.01 for 80x86 
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Build host: user-f6d030f24f
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Board Type: AMD/OpenCL
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Core      : x=16
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16: Window's signal control handler registered.
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Preparing to commence simulation
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:- Looking at optimizations...
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:- Files status OK
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:sizeof(CORE_PACKET_HDR) = 512 file=<>
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:- Expanded 44828 -> 171163 (decompressed 381.8 percent)
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=44828 data_size=171163, decompressed_data_size=171163 diff=0
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:- Digital signature verified
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Project: 11292 (Run 1, Clone 24, Gen 20)
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Assembly optimizations on if available.
17:32:03:WU00:FS00:0x16:Entering M.D.
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Will resume from checkpoint file 00/wudata_01.ckp
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Tpr hash 00/wudata_01.tpr:  3032318023 1598319029 2227781785 4140995055 1718344867
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Working on ALZHEIMER DISEASE AMYLOID
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Client config unavailable.
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Starting GUI Server
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Resuming from checkpoint
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: retreived and current tpr file hash:
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:   0   3032318023   3032318023
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:   1   1598319029   1598319029
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:   2   2227781785   2227781785
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:   3   4140995055   4140995055
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:   4   1718344867   1718344867
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: file hashes same.
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: state restored.
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: name 00/wudata_01.log Verified 00/wudata_01.log
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: name 00/wudata_01.trr Verified 00/wudata_01.trr
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: name 00/wudata_01.xtc Verified 00/wudata_01.xtc
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: name 00/wudata_01.edr Verified 00/wudata_01.edr
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:fcCheckPointResume: state restored 2
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Resumed from checkpoint
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Setting checkpoint frequency: 599999
17:32:05:WU00:FS00:0x16:Completed         3 out of 59999936 steps (0%).
17:51:02:WU00:FS00:0x16:Completed    600000 out of 59999936 steps (1%).
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******************************* Date: 2013-05-11 *******************************
23:52:55:WU00:FS00:0x16:Completed  11399988 out of 59999936 steps (19%).
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Mod Edit: Added Code Tags - PantherX

Re: HD7790 and Project 11292

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:23 am
by PantherX
Please note that FAHBench is based upon FahCore_17 and not FahCore_16. FahCore_17 is based upon OpenCL and is currently being beta tested. There are many differences between FahCore_16 and FahCore_17, the main ones are:
1) Uses OpenCL
2) Significantly better performance on AMD GPUs
3) More efficient code base

One option is to wait until FahCore_17 is released to the public.

Re: HD7790 and Project 11292

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:46 am
by scmo
PantherX, Thanks for the clarification on the cores. Any guess on release date of FAHCore_17?

Re: HD7790 and Project 11292

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:49 am
by tlg
Probably a couple of months. They had some issues before with the a group of work units and I'm willing to bet that they don't want that to happen again. Due Diligence and what not.

Re: HD7790 and Project 11292

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 6:12 am
by proteneer
soon

our development style is:

internal->beta->adv->public

Re: HD7790 and Project 11292

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 7:08 pm
by Joe_H
One thing to mention, processing Core 16 WU's is known to work better with the older OpenCL support provided by the 12.8 release of the Catalyst drivers. Some persons have reported success using the older SDK with just the driver from a newer release. But all remnants of the newer SDK need to be removed for that to work. That has been covered in other topics.