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Message 12738 - Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | 11:35:40 UTC

As above. After having successfully crunched 2 wus, the following 2 were aborted with this kind of log:
<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Funzione non corretta. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# There is 1 device supporting CUDA
# Device 0: "GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+"
# Clock rate: 1.94 GHz
# Total amount of global memory: 536543232 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 16
# Number of cores: 128
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
Cuda error: Kernel [pme_fill_charges_accumulate] failed in file 'fillcharges.cu' in line 73 : unspecified launch failure.

</stderr_txt>
]]>

The drivers are: 190.62

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Message 12741 - Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | 11:58:47 UTC - in response to Message 12738.

As above. After having successfully crunched 2 wus, the following 2 were aborted with this kind of log:
<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Funzione non corretta. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
# Using CUDA device 0
# There is 1 device supporting CUDA
# Device 0: "GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+"
# Clock rate: 1.94 GHz
# Total amount of global memory: 536543232 bytes
# Number of multiprocessors: 16
# Number of cores: 128
MDIO ERROR: cannot open file "restart.coor"
Cuda error: Kernel [pme_fill_charges_accumulate] failed in file 'fillcharges.cu' in line 73 : unspecified launch failure.

</stderr_txt>
]]>

The drivers are: 190.62

Thank you in advance.


We all get the MDIO error message when work units first start. Its the last line thats the error message.

I notice you have 6.6.28 which as far as I know doesn't support the later cuda plan classes (cuda23). This problem may go away if you use a more up to date version of BOINC. GPUgrid recommends 6.10.3 (which is an alpha-test version, but seems pretty stable).
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Message 12743 - Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | 13:09:02 UTC - in response to Message 12741.

I notice you have 6.6.28 which as far as I know doesn't support the later cuda plan classes (cuda23). This problem may go away if you use a more up to date version of BOINC. GPUgrid recommends 6.10.3 (which is an alpha-test version, but seems pretty stable).

I'm pretty sure this is another urban myth. I'm still running v6.6.37 for WinXP, but I see I have

<app_version>
<app_name>acemd</app_name>
<version_num>667</version_num>
<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<avg_ncpus>0.129308</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>0.129308</max_ncpus>
<flops>61084800000.000000</flops>
<plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
<api_version>6.7.0</api_version>
<file_ref>
<file_name>acemd_6.67_windows_intelx86__cuda23.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
...

in my client_state.xml - that must be from last time I ran GPUGrid, been running SETI for a while until they run out of data ;-)

Just tried getting a new task: was allocated 6.71_cuda.exe, plan class CUDA and v2.2 DLLs - but that's a project decision, not a client decision.

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Message 12744 - Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | 13:35:29 UTC - in response to Message 12743.

I notice you have 6.6.28 which as far as I know doesn't support the later cuda plan classes (cuda23). This problem may go away if you use a more up to date version of BOINC. GPUgrid recommends 6.10.3 (which is an alpha-test version, but seems pretty stable).

I'm pretty sure this is another urban myth. I'm still running v6.6.37 for WinXP, but I see I have

<app_version>
<app_name>acemd</app_name>
<version_num>667</version_num>
<platform>windows_intelx86</platform>
<avg_ncpus>0.129308</avg_ncpus>
<max_ncpus>0.129308</max_ncpus>
<flops>61084800000.000000</flops>
<plan_class>cuda23</plan_class>
<api_version>6.7.0</api_version>
<file_ref>
<file_name>acemd_6.67_windows_intelx86__cuda23.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
...

in my client_state.xml - that must be from last time I ran GPUGrid, been running SETI for a while until they run out of data ;-)

Just tried getting a new task: was allocated 6.71_cuda.exe, plan class CUDA and v2.2 DLLs - but that's a project decision, not a client decision.


Well his core client was listed as 6.6.28 (see top message in thread).

However regarding your version of the science app, that depends on what nvidia drivers you have installed. It will use cuda 2.3 if your drivers support it and as far as I understand it the cuda23 plan class. But then you are running 6.6.37 which is more up to date than his version.

It might just be that his 6.6.28 core client isn't clearing vram properly. An upgrade (depends on version) should fix that.
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Message 12746 - Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | 15:26:05 UTC - in response to Message 12744.
Last modified: 25 Sep 2009 | 15:37:40 UTC

Well his core client was listed as 6.6.28 (see top message in thread).

However regarding your version of the science app, that depends on what nvidia drivers you have installed. It will use cuda 2.3 if your drivers support it and as far as I understand it the cuda23 plan class. But then you are running 6.6.37 which is more up to date than his version.

It might just be that his 6.6.28 core client isn't clearing vram properly. An upgrade (depends on version) should fix that.

The actual plan classes (cuda or cuda23) are implemented server-side, and the client - having reported hardware and driver versions - accepts what it's given. That's how I come to have plan class 'MT' in my AQUA project, and how I got cuda23 into GPUGrid. I'm pretty sure that there weren't any changes to the plan class mechanism between .28 and .37 - and I was following that particular phase of the development pretty closely, as you know from boinc_alpha!

My drivers (on all three machines) are 190.38, installed no later than 22 July and running unchanged since that date. I tested the 2.3 DLLs here manually on 31 July (message 11550), and tested the cuda23 plan class on 20 August (message 11979). Ah, so that's where the entry in client_state came from!

All in all, I'm pretty certain that cuda23 works with any BOINC 6.6.xx, and the only immediate reason to upgrade to v6.10.xx is to gain ATI support - though obviously they're not going to back-port many more bugfixes into v6.6, and we'll all have to switch to v6.10 eventually if we want to go on picking holes in the development process.

Edit: in that 20 August thread, GDF said that in order to use the cuda23 plan class,

The client needs to be able to report the driver version.
If in your host list you see the driver version, then you are probably fine, otherwise you would just receive the 2.2 application.

I think that's true of all v6.6.xx clients for Windows, and certainly not true of v6.4.x

Macs are significantly different - none of this discussion applies to them.

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Message 12751 - Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | 22:57:13 UTC

@ Richard

It seems since the app update to acemd 6.71 that we are all getting plan class cuda and cuda 2.2 dll's. I had some older tasks running yesterday that were still using plan class cuda23.

Anyway back to the topic at hand and we'll have to wait for the original poster to try upgrading and see if that fixes his issue.
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