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Message 36182 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 16:57:28 UTC

My ATI FirePro V4800-based QuadCore desktop is running the Collatz Conjecture very quickly on the GPU but relatively slowly on the CPU. Because I value more highly some of the biological research platformed on BOINC, I would prefer to run Collatz on the GPU only, while simultaneously (not switched) running a project like Rosetta@home on the CPU cores, as Rosetta does not run on this GPU.

This appears to be an odd-enough formulation that BOINC is not geared to it. Is my understanding of the situation correct?
Win 10-64 Pro on: Dual Xeon Quad E5472s 3.0GHz w/128GB DDR2 Main Memory + ATI FirePro W5000 GPU; Quad+HT i7-860 2.8GHz 8GB + ATI FirePro V4800 GPU; Quad Q6600-775 2.4GHz 4GB + ATI FirePro V4800 GPU; + 3 laptops
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Message 36183 - Posted: 22 Dec 2010, 17:03:36 UTC - in response to Message 36182.  

My ATI FirePro V4800-based QuadCore desktop is running the Collatz Conjecture very quickly on the GPU but relatively slowly on the CPU. Because I value more highly some of the biological research platformed on BOINC, I would prefer to run Collatz on the GPU only, while simultaneously (not switched) running a project like Rosetta@home on the CPU cores, as Rosetta does not run on this GPU.

This appears to be an odd-enough formulation that BOINC is not geared to it. Is my understanding of the situation correct?


Just go to your Collatz Preferences and set use CPU to No:

                   Use CPU    No
(enforced by 6.10+ clients)


You have four differerent venues (at each project) so you can set different sets of computers to do different combinations of work.

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Message 36198 - Posted: 24 Dec 2010, 4:31:39 UTC - in response to Message 36183.  

Thank you for your suggestions. I understand the restriction of Collatz to the GPU only, and I will add the Rosetta application. The reason for the question is that the BOINC 'preferences' offers 'minutes between switching applications', from which I inferred (probably erroneously) that applications would not run simultaneously, but only back-to-back so to speak.
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Message 36199 - Posted: 24 Dec 2010, 4:46:11 UTC - in response to Message 36183.  

Worked a charm. Thank you!
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