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 Carlesa25 Send message Joined: 13 Nov 10 Posts: 328 Credit: 72,619,453 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications      | |
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Hi: Available the new Nvidia driver is from May 2nd, with many new features and updates. | |
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skgiven Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications   | |
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What version of Ubuntu did it work on? | |
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Carlesa25 Send message Joined: 13 Nov 10 Posts: 328 Credit: 72,619,453 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Hello: I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 - 64 bits - Kernel 3.9 - GTX 590 and 6 GB Ram with FX 8150. | |
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fractal Send message Joined: 16 Aug 08 Posts: 87 Credit: 1,248,879,715 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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I just replaced at gts450 with a gtx650ti in an ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS box and the old driver did not support the new card. I upgraded to 319.17 and it is crunching. I will won't be able to tell whether it is any faster or slower than the old one as I changed both the driver and the card at the same time. But, 319.17 installed just fine on a 12.0.4 LTS server box. | |
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fractal Send message Joined: 16 Aug 08 Posts: 87 Credit: 1,248,879,715 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Things are not looking so good. Work unit started off wanting 40 hrs on a gtx650ti. 24 hrs later it wanted 50 hrs more so I dedicated a core to it. Now with 49 hrs elapsed it wants 56 hrs to complete. | |
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Beyond Send message Joined: 23 Nov 08 Posts: 1112 Credit: 6,162,416,256 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
Things are not looking so good. Work unit started off wanting 40 hrs on a gtx650ti. 24 hrs later it wanted 50 hrs more so I dedicated a core to it. Now with 49 hrs elapsed it wants 56 hrs to complete. Hi fractal, is it a new card? Any possibility of popping it in a windows box to run a few WUs and verify the card is good. Are other projects running correctly? Sorry but can't be of much help with Linux. The NOELIA WUs (like the one you're currently running) have been taking about 17-18 hours on my OCed 650 Ti cards. AFAIK Linux should be about 10-12% faster than W7 here, but harder to get working for many. | |
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fractal, nvidia-smi -a Most of the fields output N/A. I've had a lot of success using Nvidia cards in Linux over the years. Instead of experimenting with WUs right now, maybe try a benchmarking tool like Unigine's Heaven 4.0 (or Valley 1.0). Download their free Linux build and run the benchmark on extreme settings. | |
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skgiven Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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If the GPU's utilization isn't high enough, it will downclock (possibly to ~550Mhz, but perhaps lower). It's often the case that this is related to overuse of the CPU by CPU apps. The GeForce 600 series GPU's need a full CPU core/thread to support the GPUGrid app. | |
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fractal Send message Joined: 16 Aug 08 Posts: 87 Credit: 1,248,879,715 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Yeah, nvidia-smi doesn't say much ==============NVSMI LOG============== Timestamp : Wed May 22 09:54:35 2013 Driver Version : 319.17 Attached GPUs : 1 GPU 0000:01:00.0 Product Name : GeForce GTX 650 Ti Display Mode : N/A Display Active : N/A Persistence Mode : Disabled Accounting Mode : N/A Accounting Mode Buffer Size : N/A Driver Model Current : N/A Pending : N/A Serial Number : N/A GPU UUID : GPU-27d68e8c-fc15-1cc8-a08c-8e1a9831d643 VBIOS Version : 80.06.3C.00.50 Inforom Version Image Version : N/A OEM Object : N/A ECC Object : N/A Power Management Object : N/A GPU Operation Mode Current : N/A Pending : N/A PCI Bus : 0x01 Device : 0x00 Domain : 0x0000 Device Id : 0x11C610DE Bus Id : 0000:01:00.0 Sub System Id : 0x36523842 GPU Link Info PCIe Generation Max : N/A Current : N/A Link Width Max : N/A Current : N/A Fan Speed : 21 % Performance State : N/A Clocks Throttle Reasons : N/A Memory Usage Total : 1023 MB Used : 729 MB Free : 294 MB Compute Mode : Default Utilization Gpu : N/A Memory : N/A Ecc Mode Current : N/A Pending : N/A ECC Errors Volatile Single Bit Device Memory : N/A Register File : N/A L1 Cache : N/A L2 Cache : N/A Texture Memory : N/A Total : N/A Double Bit Device Memory : N/A Register File : N/A L1 Cache : N/A L2 Cache : N/A Texture Memory : N/A Total : N/A Aggregate Single Bit Device Memory : N/A Register File : N/A L1 Cache : N/A L2 Cache : N/A Texture Memory : N/A Total : N/A Double Bit Device Memory : N/A Register File : N/A L1 Cache : N/A L2 Cache : N/A Texture Memory : N/A Total : N/A Retired Pages Single Bit ECC : N/A Double Bit ECC : N/A Pending : N/A Temperature Gpu : 32 C Power Readings Power Management : N/A Power Draw : N/A Power Limit : N/A Default Power Limit : N/A Min Power Limit : N/A Max Power Limit : N/A Clocks Graphics : N/A SM : N/A Memory : N/A Applications Clocks Graphics : N/A Memory : N/A Default Applications Clocks Graphics : N/A Memory : N/A Max Clocks Graphics : N/A SM : N/A Memory : N/A Compute Processes : N/A Though, 32c suggests it isn't working too hard. I am already running 99% cpu to free up a core (well, thread) top - 09:57:20 up 2 days, 13:04, 1 user, load average: 7.21, 7.29, 7.30 Tasks: 117 total, 8 running, 109 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.2%sy, 88.1%ni, 11.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16326392k total, 1070696k used, 15255696k free, 153076k buffers Swap: 8292348k total, 0k used, 8292348k free, 418284k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 18589 boinc 39 19 41144 2672 1348 R 100 0.0 2:34.00 eonclient_5.00_ 18591 boinc 39 19 40992 2516 1348 R 100 0.0 2:01.92 eonclient_5.00_ 18593 boinc 39 19 40840 2368 1348 R 100 0.0 1:52.80 eonclient_5.00_ 18595 boinc 39 19 40692 2224 1348 R 100 0.0 1:12.54 eonclient_5.00_ 18597 boinc 39 19 40540 2068 1348 R 100 0.0 1:01.39 eonclient_5.00_ 18599 boinc 39 19 40464 2000 1348 R 100 0.0 0:48.35 eonclient_5.00_ 18585 boinc 39 19 41292 2820 1348 R 99 0.0 2:55.04 eonclient_5.00_ 1485 boinc 30 10 28.3g 214m 50m S 6 1.3 223:41.23 acemd.2868 1434 boinc 20 0 56.1g 14m 5712 S 0 0.1 5:37.67 boinc 18486 boinc 20 0 81876 1744 880 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sshd One thing that does concern me is a message in the system log [ 56.391646] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console [ 56.391649] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver [ 56.391650] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console [ 56.391652] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in [ 56.391653] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported. which makes me wonder if I should hook a display up to the card. I have been running my NVIDIA linux boxes from the onboard video to save a few cycles on the GPU's for many years but perhaps the new driver doesn't permit that. | |
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Beyond Send message Joined: 23 Nov 08 Posts: 1112 Credit: 6,162,416,256 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
One thing that does concern me is a message in the system log Or perhaps a dummy plug? | |
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Elmar Klausmeier Send message Joined: 22 Mar 11 Posts: 2 Credit: 27,938,105 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
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Maybe the following post http://eklausmeier.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/cuda-without-x/ will help you alleviate the problem Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console Basically you pass the following additional parameters video=vesa:off vga=normal to the Linux kernel at startup in your GRUB configuration file. | |
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Carlesa25 Send message Joined: 13 Nov 10 Posts: 328 Credit: 72,619,453 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Hello: No English language domain, all for Google translator, sorry. | |
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Your GPU is idle. | |
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fractal Send message Joined: 16 Aug 08 Posts: 87 Credit: 1,248,879,715 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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Adding kernel options did not help, nor did connecting a display. 3010 boinc 30 10 28.3g 218m 51m R 44 1.4 1:20.73 acemd.2868 showing that acemd is taking half a core. So, ymmv but 319.17 did not work very well for me with a 650ti on ubuntu 12.04 LTS | |
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319.17 will work if installed with a properly updated Xorg and kernel. There are many issues with installing it manually, so I just stay with the distro packages. For Ubuntu there is also the xorg-edgers PPA for the latest Xorg, Nvidia, AMD, etc drivers, but I don't see support for CUDA with those packages. I think if you install CUDA after using that PPA, it will try to revert the packages to resolve the dependencies. If looking for a distro with the latest packages, Arch Linux looks to be a good choice: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/ I will continue to use Lubuntu (with MATE desktop environment) as my desktop OS, since it's very easy to manage the OS as a whole. If I build a dedicated crunching machine, I will likely choose Arch to have the latest packages for the few packages I will need. | |
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Vagelis Giannadakis Send message Joined: 5 May 13 Posts: 187 Credit: 349,254,454 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications | |
Adding kernel options did not help, nor did connecting a display. 319.17 working fine on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server, which is otherwise completely stock, nothing outside the repositories. Upgraded to an ASUS GTX 650Ti from a Gigabyte GT 440 with no issues (knock on wood), just swapped the cards. fractal, something must be wrong with your system configuration. Are you sure you have blacklisted the nouveau driver? Can you see a line like blacklist nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf? | |
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fractal Send message Joined: 16 Aug 08 Posts: 87 Credit: 1,248,879,715 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
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It is not in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but the installer created boinc@charles:/etc/modprobe.d$ cat nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf # generated by nvidia-installer blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 That initial long running work unit did finish and validate and I am half way through a second one. It looks like it will take about 18 hrs. acemd is taking 100% of one thread on a stock i7-2700K feeding this card which is steady at 50c. And, it may be worth noting that I am running 12.04 LTS x86_64 server (no gui) stock with nothing other than boinc and nvidia drivers. I have been running gpugrid on linux machines with no gui since I started this project in 08. I was using fedora back then and generally stick with ubuntu LTS versions these days. | |
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