Does anyone have an app_config.xml that works for GPUGRID? I'm running multiple machines with dual GTX690's, dual GTX590's, and two mixed machines with GTX690/660Ti, and GTX590/GTX660Ti. I would like to experiment with .5/gpu configurations to see if I could squeeze more work out of all this computing power. Thanks in advance to anyone/everyone who responds. Rick
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Try this one:

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3359&nowrap=true#31014

Hope that helps.

I would like to experiment with .5/gpu configurations to see if I could squeeze more work out of all this computing power.

Try this one:

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3359&nowrap=true#31014

Hope that helps.

I can confirm; a 30% reduction in GPU core allocation (from 1.0 to 0.7) results in a 100% increase in time required to complete a GPUGRID WU. Basically the same results on my GTX590's, GTX660Ti's, and GTX690's. I can't explain why, but that's what happened in my tests. Rick
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Hi Rick,

what exactly did you run along GPU-Grid set to 0.7 GPU? Note that this value is only used to help the BOINC scheduler decide which WUs to launch. It does not affect the actual GPU usage. So if you run e.g. GPU-Grid at 0.7 and Einstein at 0.3, they'll probably share the GPU 0.5 : 0.5. Or each might get as many time slices as the other one, but their length would depend on the WU and app, so sharing would be asynchronous in some hard-to-predict way.

Hence just looking at the GPU-Grid time is only half of the story. If the throughput of the other project increased, it might still be worth it.

MrS

Ok, I'm getting wu's again, BUT I give up on what new app names to use in the app_config.xml file. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance, Rick
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Ok, I'm getting wu's again, BUT I give up on what new app names to use in the app_config.xml file. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance, Rick

You can get the app_name by looking in the BOINC Manager Event Log for "Starting task" events. Following "using" is app_name.

That was what I thought, but when I put "acemd.800-55.exe" or "acemd.800-55" or "acemd_800_55" and about 10 other variations, BOINC did not recognize the app name. Couriously, the new long app seems to accept the variables of the old "acemdlong" app name in my app_config.xml file. Rick
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You must use <name> of <app> section (=acemdlong, acemdbeta), not <name> of application.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientAppConfig
If you want to change anything depending on application name,you must use app_info.xml.

That was what I thought, but when I put "acemd.800-55.exe" or "acemd.800-55" or "acemd_800_55" and about 10 other variations, BOINC did not recognize the app name. Couriously, the new long app seems to accept the variables of the old "acemdlong" app name in my app_config.xml file. Rick

That was what I thought, but when I put "acemd.800-55.exe" or "acemd.800-55" or "acemd_800_55" and about 10 other variations, BOINC did not recognize the app name. Couriously, the new long app seems to accept the variables of the old "acemdlong" app name in my app_config.xml file. Rick

I get the app names from looking in the client_state.xml file, within the <app> blocks.

No problem.

For full disclosure, here is my GPUGrid app_config.xml file (including tons of personal notes in xml comments at the top that briefly describe my testing and results over the course of the last several months)