2 tasks 1 gpu

eggcup · 22 Aug 2011 at 22:09

Where is the file and line for running 2 tasks on a gpu at same time with s@h and e@h i cannot find it anywhere?

Thanks in advance

TheTross · 22 Aug 2011 at 22:26

It's in the app_info file, which is in the project's folder. Open that in wordpad or similar, then look for the following line under the GPU section:

Code:

<count>1</count>

Suspend BOINC, change the 1 to 0.5, save and close app_info, then restart BOINC. Hopefully you'll have two tasks running per GPU. Although that works well for E@H I'm not sure how it pans out for SETI.

eggcup · 22 Aug 2011 at 22:50

i dont have a app_info file in the projects folder :/

TheTross · 22 Aug 2011 at 22:53

Sorry, should have made it clearer

. Look in \Data\Projects\<project name>

eggcup · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:06

TheTross said:
Sorry, should have made it clearer . Look in \Data\Projects\<project name>

nope i know what you meant, its not in there either, I did however change it in client.state.xml and that seems to have done the trick.....

TheTross · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:41

I've found that that works until you connect to the project servers, which then resets client_state.xml back to how it was. Ideally you need to create an app_info for the project(s) you want to run more than one GPU task for, but you'd need to ask around for help with that as I'm no good at writing them from the ground up, sorry

eggcup · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:57

TheTross said:
I've found that that works until you connect to the project servers, which then resets client_state.xml back to how it was. Ideally you need to create an app_info for the project(s) you want to run more than one GPU task for, but you'd need to ask around for help with that as I'm no good at writing them from the ground up, sorry

oh yeah, so i have just found out

BaBa · 23 Aug 2011 at 00:10

The xml file is generated when you install the Lunatics installer.

Note also that the <count>1<count> will be in several places in the xml file.

Pilgrim57 · 23 Aug 2011 at 12:04

This is from the instructions I found somewhere here a while back

change your app_info section

<count>1</count>

and change the 1 to 0.5 or 0.33 to run 2 or 3 wu's on a single card - jury is out over which is better,
2 or 3 wu's a card - the other good thing is that fermi will crunch vlar wu's

You only need to change the first one & the one under under 6.10
Use the find command from the edit menu in notepad, F5, to save time with a long search..