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Message 5895 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 13:09:24 UTC - in response to Message 5894.
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Funny thing is that the system with the A10-5700 has three HD6670 cards, and it own IGP, and crunches four of the GPU72 WUs at the same time.

I get the idea that in Radeon-coding the option '--device 0' just doesn't work, not for Linux and not for Windows.


-d 0


That is a code/compiler thing, not something I can change

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Message 5896 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 15:08:15 UTC - in response to Message 5895.

Funny thing is that the system with the A10-5700 has three HD6670 cards, and it own IGP, and crunches four of the GPU72 WUs at the same time.

I get the idea that in Radeon-coding the option '--device 0' just doesn't work, not for Linux and not for Windows.


-d 0


That is a code/compiler thing, not something I can change


you can use an app_config file but try in standalone.

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Message 5897 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 15:20:14 UTC - in response to Message 5896.
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Funny thing is that the system with the A10-5700 has three HD6670 cards, and it own IGP, and crunches four of the GPU72 WUs at the same time.

I get the idea that in Radeon-coding the option '--device 0' just doesn't work, not for Linux and not for Windows.


-d 0


That is a code/compiler thing, not something I can change


you can use an app_config file but try in standalone.


I have no problems with running four WUs at a time, I have problems with running each WU for more than 12 hours, getting a few meagre number of credits, while the same GPUs bring me 300k credits a day on e.g. Moo! and double that on Collatz.
If I want it to run on just one GPU I can use
<cc_config> <log_flags> </log_flags> <options> <use_all_gpus>0</use_all_gpus> </options> <cc_config>
, but that's not why I have three GPUs next to my APU

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Message 5898 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 15:36:06 UTC

For all with this error ERROR: unknown option '--device'
try in standalone with
./mfakto -d 0 -st (mfakto must be renamed from zipfile)

If its running I can add the -d option to the template but also need to test on windows. Normally the program taking always the first GPU by default.

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Message 5899 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 16:20:27 UTC

I have updated the FAQ, mfakto has no multi-GPU support but mfaktc has it (all GPUs running on one WU) so I cant use the -d option in template. If you have success to run it in standalone we need another solution.

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Message 5902 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 16:52:22 UTC
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Makes no sense about no multi-GPU support. 1 WU per GPU shouldn't be this hard. Every other project that uses GPU can do it. And I don't see both GPU's working on 1 WU like the FAQ shows for NVIDIA, 1 is idle. So what's the problem here?

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Message 5903 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 16:53:08 UTC - in response to Message 5902.

Makes no sense about no multi-GPU support. 1 WU per GPU shouldn't be this hard. Every other project that uses GPU can do it. So what's the problem here?


the app itself.

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Message 5904 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 16:56:30 UTC - in response to Message 5903.

Well, sorry but that's just lame.

It makes the other GPU not usable by other projects because BOINC thinks it's in use even thought it isn't.

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Message 5905 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 16:59:28 UTC - in response to Message 5904.

Well, sorry but that's just lame.

It makes the other GPU not usable by other projects because BOINC thinks it's in use even thought it isn't.


Are you relating to mfakto or mfaktc? I can report this to the devs if there are some issues.

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Message 5906 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 17:05:13 UTC - in response to Message 5905.
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Well, sorry but that's just lame.

It makes the other GPU not usable by other projects because BOINC thinks it's in use even thought it isn't.


Are you relating to mfakto or mfaktc? I can report this to the devs if there are some issues.


Both, does it on both AMD and NVIDIA systems with 2 GPUs in each. Shows 2 tasks running but only 1 GPU with utilization.

On Windows machines:
http://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/hosts_user.php?userid=2080

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Message 5907 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 17:12:58 UTC - in response to Message 5906.

Well, sorry but that's just lame.

It makes the other GPU not usable by other projects because BOINC thinks it's in use even thought it isn't.


Are you relating to mfakto or mfaktc? I can report this to the devs if there are some issues.


Both, does it on both AMD and NVIDIA systems with 2 GPUs in each. Shows 2 tasks running but only 1 GPU with utilization.

On Windows machines:
http://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/hosts_user.php?userid=2080


So we need an app_config file to define the GPUs (doesnt work with mfakto - AMD).

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Message 5908 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 17:23:22 UTC

Lovely, So I have to tell the app how to run my machine properly instead of the app telling my machine how to run properly.

You have an app_config.xml template for this I could use?

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Message 5909 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 17:31:39 UTC - in response to Message 5908.

Lovely, So I have to tell the app how to run my machine properly instead of the app telling my machine how to run properly.

You have an app_config.xml template for this I could use?


I will try to create one, never used that. Before we starting with this file, do you have a cc_config file with

<cc_config> <options> <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus> </options> </cc_config>

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Message 5910 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 17:39:51 UTC - in response to Message 5909.

Yes.

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Message 5911 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 17:43:16 UTC - in response to Message 5910.

Yes.


I put the file content to the FAQ, let me know if its working.

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Message 5912 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 18:16:49 UTC - in response to Message 5911.
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Yeah, that's not going to work. I basically had that in my app_config and cc_config anyway. Nothing there tells the app to use all GPUs on 1 WU. Only to run 1 WU at a time per GPU and 1 WU max per project. The app is not doing it's job properly by not using all GPUs towards 1 WU on NVIDIA.

I'm also not even sure it knows which device to even use as in one system (NVIDIA) its using device 1, not device 0. And in another system its using device 0, not device 1. You would think it would use the 1st device 0 by default. Both have identical 2x GPUs per system.

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Message 5913 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 18:21:04 UTC - in response to Message 5912.
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Yeah, that's not going to work. I basically had that in my app_config and cc_config anyway. Nothing there tells the app to use all GPUs on 1 WU. Only to run 1 WU at a time per GPU and 1 WU max per project. The app is not doing it's job properly by not using all GPUs towards 1 WU on NVIDIA.

I'm also not even sure it knows which device to even use as in one system (NVIDIA) its using device 1, not device 0. And in another system its using device 0, not device 1. You would think it would use the 1st device 0 by default. Both have identical 2x GPUs per system.


Any errors in the BOINC event log? Its always using device 0 by default.

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Message 5914 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 18:25:48 UTC - in response to Message 5913.

Nope, no errors. Both HWiNFO and Afterburner show the 1st GPU deivce 0 being ignored/not used and device 1 being used in my 2x 1660ti setup. Only device 1 shows any utilization in those 2 programs.

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Message 5915 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 18:26:30 UTC - in response to Message 5914.
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Nope, no errors. Both HWiNFO and Afterburner show the 1st GPU deivce 0 being ignored/not used and device 1 being used in my 2x 1660ti setup. Only device 1 shows any utilization in those 2 programs.


I have checked the documentation and found out that the app_config.xml must be in the data/projects/srbase.my-firewall.org_sr5 directory, corrected in FAQ.

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Message 5916 - Posted: 28 Mar 2020, 18:51:01 UTC - in response to Message 5915.

Mine were in the correct locations.

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