yodap
I should be home in about 6-7 hours and will get my 980ti back in the game as well as cpu's

Awesome, safe travels home..

I have to copy-paste other people's app_configs, but after that I do attempt some tweaking. Regarding GPU's and the cpu usage setting, the ONLY thing the cpu setting does is to reserve the cpu. If a task needs to use one whole thread, it's going to use that whole thread no matter what you put there. If it needs the entire CPU (4/8/12/128 threads), it will use it, again, regardless of your settings.
 
Milkyway uses up to one full thread per task (at the 20/40/60/80/100% marks), so if you have dual cards, each running 3 GPU tasks, you are going to need to have 6 available threads to feed the beasts. You absolutely do NOT want to starve the GPUs of CPU cycles. (in my opinion)(for maximum point output)
 
I always just set my GPU cpu usage to some ridiculously small number, like .001. Then I run only GPU tasks for a bit, and watch my CPU usage. From there I can see how many threads I have left to run CPU projects, and use the BOINC manager's CPU usage to control that. Not very efficient, but I'm not very smart. ;)  The reason I do it this way is because if the GPU app is set to .5 or 1 CPU, BOINC manager will often times suspend the GPU app, because some other CPU app has a shorter deadline for example. It treats the GPU app with a high CPU setting as just another CPU task that needs to wait it's turn.
 
This may seem wasteful, for example I can only use 3 of 12 threads on my primary computer for CPU BOINC tasks, but you gotta remember the vast output of a decent GPU versus the output of a CPU thread/core. So don't starve your GPUs.
 
Sorry for the long-winded-not-well-thought-out reply. :D  Hope it helps.
 
Congrats on taking 3rd by the horns!

Thanks Tony for your words of wisdom and experience. Much appreciate your drop in as always.
For 2 of my computers, 1x i5 and an AMD, I had to reduce the CPU's use at most % to 75% as I was loosing time on GPU tasks.
 
All the rest of the 3x computers are i7's and an AMD 9590, have no issues
 
Howdy I have GPU tasks no worries, preferences in BoincTasks for each client is 0.01

HK-Steve
 
 
Howdy I have GPU tasks no worries, preferences in BoincTasks for each client is 0.01

Mine were set to .01 also....interesting....might be my ISP jacking with me. It has been flaky the last few days as far a speed wise goes, maybe I'll give that tech support person Richard with the Indian accent a call.

howdy2u2

robbysites
Thanks!!
 
ok 4 minutes plus with 4 on each card 1080 Hybrid FTWs and .5 on CPU
 
I will check back in an hour.
 
robby

Your clock is broken.........

Yes It was broken - I ran out of gas last night - I am running 4 on my fastest pair of 1080s and 3 on the 980tis and the other pair that has a 1070 and a 1060 - that setup seems seems to have the highest output.

howdy2u2

HK-Steve

howdy2u2

HK-Steve
 
 
Howdy I have GPU tasks no worries, preferences in BoincTasks for each client is 0.01

Mine were set to .01 also....interesting....might be my ISP jacking with me. It has been flaky the last few days as far a speed wise goes, maybe I'll give that tech support person Richard with the Indian accent a call.

Good luck with Richard... to funny... 
 
Now Sir, have you unplugged the modem, had a cup of coffee before plugging it back in???
Yes, I have tried that already before calling you Richard......
 
OK, let me have a look at the system here, please just give me a moment....
Yes, I can see that everything looks normal, it must be your cables or computer at your end causing this problem.
 
I can send someone around but we can not get there until next week Thursday at 2pm, is that ok??
Sorry Richard that is not good, I have to work.... 
 
 
OK, back to reality, Hope you get it worked out..
 

EXACTY!!!! You have spoken with Richard too!!! Man he gets around..........

Oh Yeah, we all have at some point!!!!!!
 
Are tasks coming through at the moment, or you are still having issues??

robbysites

howdy2u2

robbysites
Thanks!!
 
ok 4 minutes plus with 4 on each card 1080 Hybrid FTWs and .5 on CPU
 
I will check back in an hour.
 
robby

Your clock is broken.........

Yes It was broken - I ran out of gas last night - I am running 4 on my fastest pair of 1080s and 3 on the 980tis and the other pair that has a 1070 and a 1060 - that setup seems seems to have the highest output.

Good stuff Robby, keep up the great work,
That includes Everyone, Great work Everyone, But looks like we will get overtaken and be into 4th in the next 4 to 5 hrs time...
 
Keep Crunching as you never know what will happen 

HK-Steve
 
Good stuff Robby, keep up the great work,
That includes Everyone, Great work Everyone, But looks like we will get overtaken and be into 4th in the next 4 to 5 hrs time...
 
Keep Crunching as you never know what will happen 

Well from what I calculated we went from +112k> +160k since the last update. Looks like it could be a nail biter to the end!! 

bcavnaugh
Set BoincTasks to 1 and 1 this set my single GPU with 80 Tasks.
Running 0.3 (3) Task Per GPU and CPU set to 02 No issues for over 2 years now.
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=684938&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid

That is weird, I got plenty of tasks set at 0.01
https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?userid=1277154
 
I am also running 3 tasks per GPU, except for my 970's, they are single task per GPU

bcavnaugh

HK-Steve

bcavnaugh
Set BoincTasks to 1 and 1 this set my single GPU with 80 Tasks.
Running 0.3 (3) Task Per GPU and CPU set to 02 No issues for over 2 years now.
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?hostid=684938&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid

That is weird, I got plenty of tasks set at 0.01
https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/results.php?userid=1277154
 
I am also running 3 tasks per GPU, except for my 970's, they are single task per GPU

I needed 20+ Tasks a once on my Titans and that gets me an above amount.
Though I am not running my Titan my settings are from the last run form a remote location.
I have no issue running 10 Tasks Per GPU on my Titans with DP Enabled, I almost drove the 4 Hours to turn them on but did not.

Would Love to have a couple of Titan's to play with, I think I could have some real fun..

HK-Steve
 
Would Love to have a couple of Titan's to play with, I think I could have some real fun..

6 pack for $19.99 USD........what ever floats your boat I guess

howdy2u2

HK-Steve
 
Would Love to have a couple of Titan's to play with, I think I could have some real fun..

6 pack for $19.99 USD........what ever floats your boat I guess

Nearly wet my pants laughing, awesome...

Never even heard of them, my kids watch things through cross hairs .............. and no grand kids yet. 

There are Titan Black for sale for 275$ each.
I was thinking of making an offer, but I am maxed out with hardware.
To buy them just to do Milkyway or PG genfer, I rather have a 1080 or 1080Ti
 
I have a 1080 on the shelf, I'll try to get that running.

bill1024
There are Titan Black for sale for 275$ each.
I was thinking of making an offer, but I am maxed out with hardware.
To buy them just to do Milkyway or PG genfer, I rather have a 1080 or 1080Ti
 
I have a 1080 on the shelf, I'll try to get that running.

I have 2x 1080 under water, but had a weird widowzzz error, kernel error or something like that. Otherwise they would be in the mix also.
Really need to look into that tomorrow morning and see if I can fix....
 
Guest's here for dinner soon, so no work possible tonight... Oh well..