OK, First off I have figured out how to use both of my cores in my CPU and my graphics card by setting the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3.

But I seem to only be able to get all CUDA W/U's or only all CPU w/u's the only way I can get a mix is to change the use my GPU option back and forth in pref's to keep a mix in my queue. is there any way to get seti to auto download both?

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OK, First off I have figured out how to use both of my cores in my CPU and my graphics card by setting the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3.

But I seem to only be able to get all CUDA W/U's or only all CPU w/u's the only way I can get a mix is to change the use my GPU option back and forth in pref's to keep a mix in my queue. is there any way to get seti to auto download both?

One limitation of BOINC currently is that the SETI CUDA only performs MultiBeam type workunits, and so long as CUDA is running, MultiBeam cannot run on the CPU. The only way to keep the other CPUs busy is to either do AstroPulse or to join another project.

This will be fixed in a future release of BOINC.

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Since the time of that last post there have been changes in the Seti scheduler, on the server. Yes, it is now possible to run Seti Enhanced (Multibeam) on the CPU and the GPU at the same time. But at the time of the post you constantly referred to it wasn't.

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OK, we have seen now, that you are crunching two multibeam and one cuda workunit. Please give the supporters the chance to help you. If we all stay polite, we can figure it out.

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Regardless of what you say, I was running GPU and CPU at the time the post was made. I don't understand how you will sit there and claim to have any knowledge of what was happening on MY computer. All that had to be done was set the numCPUs variable in some config file. I've long since forgotten about the specifics. Anyway the scheduler change you speak of is useless, I still have to go in and change the option to use GPU off and on daily to be able to download both types of work units. At any rate you're not helping, And have no worthwhile advice to offer on a solution.

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Since the time of that last post there have been changes in the Seti scheduler, on the server. Yes, it is now possible to run Seti Enhanced (Multibeam) on the CPU and the GPU at the same time. But at the time of the post you constantly referred to it wasn't.

By the way since you're good at picking through statistics why don't you go dig a little deeper and you'll see that for quite awhile now this system has been turning in both CPU and GPU workunits. Look at when they were downloaded, How long they took to process and it will be quite evident that they had to be running in tandem.

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OK granted we don't know what you are doing on your PC and you don't remember the exact details of what you did. Can you please tell the public what exactly you want from us since we are clearly not getting what you are trying to do.

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I'm going to refer back to my first post for most of this, With some additional information added.

"OK, First off I have figured out how to use both of my cores in my CPU and my graphics card by setting the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3."

once you set the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3 (I have a dual core CPU) and then enable the option to use CUDA *POOF* like magic I'm processing both types of work units at the same time.

But one small problem...

"But I seem to only be able to get all CUDA W/U's or only all CPU w/u's the only way I can get a mix is to change the use my GPU option back and forth in pref's to keep a mix in my queue. is there any way to get seti to auto download both?"

See once I set the option to use my GPU I ONLY got CUDA Work units, So once the few CPU units I had in my queue had been processed and uploaded I had to go and uncheck the option to use my GPU and get some more CPU work units....

It's really not a huge bother, Just wondered if someone had a simple workaround. People said you can't do both at the same time, But with a very simple fix of the NUMCPUS variable it can be done. I am aware there is some sort of "Raimeisters" (Cant remember how to spell it) Add on. Thats not what I'm looking for. Simply would like to know if anyone knows a simple workaround.

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I'm going to refer back to my first post for most of this, With some additional information added.

"OK, First off I have figured out how to use both of my cores in my CPU and my graphics card by setting the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3."

once you set the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3 (I have a dual core CPU) and then enable the option to use CUDA *POOF* like magic I'm processing both types of work units at the same time.

But one small problem...

"But I seem to only be able to get all CUDA W/U's or only all CPU w/u's the only way I can get a mix is to change the use my GPU option back and forth in pref's to keep a mix in my queue. is there any way to get seti to auto download both?"

See once I set the option to use my GPU I ONLY got CUDA Work units, So once the few CPU units I had in my queue had been processed and uploaded I had to go and uncheck the option to use my GPU and get some more CPU work units....

It's really not a huge bother, Just wondered if someone had a simple workaround. People said you can't do both at the same time, But with a very simple fix of the NUMCPUS variable it can be done. I am aware there is some sort of "Raimeisters" (Cant remember how to spell it) Add on. Thats not what I'm looking for. Simply would like to know if anyone knows a simple workaround.

The simplest workaround is to wait for public release of the fully tested 6.6.x Boinc. The functionality you are looking for is being baked into that (without the need for the cc_config frig).

F.

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Well, While I was looking over the options page it appears SETI has added an option which may be of use.



Allthough it's a bit confusing I believe the second option is a typo and should say CPU. looks like you can select either or both now.... A few days testing will answer that one for sure.

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Keep us informed.

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I'm going to refer back to my first post for most of this, With some additional information added.

"OK, First off I have figured out how to use both of my cores in my CPU and my graphics card by setting the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3."

once you set the numcpu variable in the cc_config file to 3 (I have a dual core CPU) and then enable the option to use CUDA *POOF* like magic I'm processing both types of work units at the same time.

But one small problem...

"But I seem to only be able to get all CUDA W/U's or only all CPU w/u's the only way I can get a mix is to change the use my GPU option back and forth in pref's to keep a mix in my queue. is there any way to get seti to auto download both?"

See once I set the option to use my GPU I ONLY got CUDA Work units, So once the few CPU units I had in my queue had been processed and uploaded I had to go and uncheck the option to use my GPU and get some more CPU work units....

It's really not a huge bother, Just wondered if someone had a simple workaround. People said you can't do both at the same time, But with a very simple fix of the NUMCPUS variable it can be done. I am aware there is some sort of "Raimeisters" (Cant remember how to spell it) Add on. Thats not what I'm looking for. Simply would like to know if anyone knows a simple workaround.

The work fetch algorithm in 6.4 is known to be broken. It whould be working correctly whtn 6.6 is released.

There are two work arounds:

1) Keep swaping between the two.
2) Join a project that has no CUDA app for a while.

Wait for 6.6 to be released.

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Keep us informed.

It's not working.

I accelerated my testing of the idea by aborting some work units to see what would be downloaded. Only CUDA came. So for now I'll just keep changing the use GPU option off and on to balance the work units I get.

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if you download the test version of boinc 6.6.15(or higher), it will download both CPU and GPU work. at least it does for me.

or just wait for public release as said by others already.

going further, this lovely new option for selecting to run CPU work should only effect computers that are running GPU work.

example, I have 4 cuda capable computers now that I only want to run GPU work(no CPU work) but my other computers will still need to run CPU work.

so use GPU (if available) [YES]
then if GPU available also use CPU [NO]


hope this made sense.

OK, Having hashed all that out (Sort of for now anyway) Was anybody else able to run Both CPU and GPU work units prior to the last update using the NUMCPUS setting?

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OK, Having hashed all that out (Sort of for now anyway) Was anybody else able to run Both CPU and GPU work units prior to the last update using the NUMCPUS setting?

Run, yes, download, no.

BTW, the ncpus HACK will be wrong when you switch to 6.6.

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OK, Having hashed all that out (Sort of for now anyway) Was anybody else able to run Both CPU and GPU work units prior to the last update using the NUMCPUS setting?

Run, yes, download, no.

BTW, the ncpus HACK will be wrong when you switch to 6.6.

Hmm, Let me get some clarification on your answer. Prior to the update, Could you process CPU and GPU workunits at the same time? If say you switched the option back and forth like I did.

See how I discovered this is when I enabled GPU processing I still had some old CPU work units and I saw they were still processing, At the same time my New CUDA GPU work units were running. After all the CPU units had finished and results uploaded I didn't get any more. So I Switched the GPU option off, And voila I started getting CPU units again. As long as I keep switching the option off and on and keep both types of work units in queue the both run at the same time.

Like so...


I'll delete the NCPUS thing once I upgrade of course. Thanks for the heads up.

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