I attached my 8600gt 512mb to see how long it would take to complete a unit. I already knew it would complete a unit within the 5 day deadline so was no danger in losing the unit or wasting time.

However. it's running on a machine with a Q9300 so 4 CPU's. What's silly is instead of this project giving me one WU for one GPU it gave me one, then another one and then another one, it would have given me a fourth one but realising it was going to give me a WU for every CPU core I stopped it getting new work.

So, having stopped the fourth I aborted the third because there was no way it was going to finish 3 WU's in five days. that means it would have been sitting on my HDD for 5 days and then have to be resent so I saved project time by aborting and it has been resent.

I may still have to abort the second unit if the first takes more than 2.5 days because it will not finish in time.

That's what makes it silly because the project is delaying it's own results by sending a WU for every CPU core when it's a GPU project.

I am clear in conscience that my card can easily complete one WU in at least 5 but probably 3 days so why can't the administrators of this project change the preferences to one unit per GPU at a time by default and then give users the option to increase it when they have fast cards.

You know it makes sense! Saves project and user time.

EDIT to add;

May I also have a reponse to this post please. I need to hear the words
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I support Betting Slip wholeheartedly. This is long-standing, idiotic behaviour: and he has accurately attributed it to 'one work request per CPU core'.

But I don't think it's something that GPUGrid can cure by reconfiguration. GPUGrid need to report it to BOINC as a bug in the infrastructure, and get it fixed that way for the benefit of all projects.

GPUGrid need to report it to BOINC as a bug in the infrastructure, and get it fixed that way for the benefit of all projects.

GPUGrid need to report it to BOINC as a bug in the infrastructure, and get it fixed that way for the benefit of all projects.

It is a well-known issue.
They are already working on it.

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Since yesterday I realized that there is a new limit of WUs:

Something like: number_cores + 2 * number_GPUs

In a PC with a Quad and 2 GPUs I got yesterday 8 WUs (now it has less because I stopped downloading)

In a PC with a Core 2 Duo (2 cores) and one GPU I'm getting 4 WUs
In a Pc with a Core 2 Duo (2 cores) and two GPUs I'm getting 6 WUs

All these can be seen in my account.

I don't know whether there is any relation, but it happened after I tried the "Cojatz Conjecture" CUDA project in all three PCs.

I am seeing the same thing - a C2D that used to download 2 WUs (1 running, 1 waiting) now downloads 4 (1 running 3 waiting - I assume 2 WUs per CPU core). This will result in all WUs now missing the 2-day 'bonus' window. Nothing has changed on this machine. It is running BOINC 6.6.28 and NVIDIA 185.85. This is the computer: 29936