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Message 48525 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 7:52:11 UTC
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I think I've fixed the problem with workunits all being marked invalid. Let me know if newly reported workunits are validating ok.
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Message 48526 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 8:02:18 UTC - in response to Message 48525.  

The one cuda work unit I just reported validated. Good work.

Are those units already marked as invalid lost, or will you do a re-validating?

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Message 48527 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 8:04:14 UTC - in response to Message 48526.  

The one cuda work unit I just reported validated. Good work.

Are those units already marked as invalid lost, or will you do a re-validating?

Best regards Bent


Theres a chance they might get revalidated, but i'm not quite sure.
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Message 48528 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 8:06:43 UTC - in response to Message 48527.  

You have my feelings. Let us just pray :-) Bent
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Message 48529 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 8:56:24 UTC

I noticed that many of the work units now only allow a maximum of one error before the work unit is rejected. That seems to be a bad idea due to the number of people with outdated graphics drivers (causing some ATI/AMD work units to fail) and those with optimized applications that will generate validate errors because they still upload results with file uploads, where the validator no longer looks.
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Message 48530 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 9:07:46 UTC - in response to Message 48525.  

As from 07:33 UTC no more invalids.
Thank you!
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Message 48531 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 10:32:16 UTC

Still have wu's marked as invalid.
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Message 48533 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 11:01:59 UTC

I have had a load just "aborted by project"
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Message 48534 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 12:04:01 UTC - in response to Message 48529.  

I agree with Jesse, the current situation could use some improvement.

While looking at recent results I noticed you became quite generous with "initial replication". I've seen 4 and 6. Out of these only 1 error (due to an old app or whatever) already triggers the WU being marked invalid. Sorry, but this is stupid if you've got 5 perfectly fine and agreeing results together with that error. Take the results which are good, give them credit and never mind the error.

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Message 48535 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 12:05:03 UTC
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I got @~50% per WU an aborting computing error with all the WUs from today :/
There must be something wrong :(

Edit:
I saw now in errorreports on website from two of the WUs:

Maximum elapsed time exceeded

hum? after ~4 Minutes? Timeline is 15.5. not today in 4 minutes.. ^^ Dont have a 5990 or something to get this finished in this time ^^ Need 7-13 Minutes depending on Type of WU
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Message 48538 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 12:16:59 UTC - in response to Message 48525.  

Don't know if this is related, but all wu on my dual 5870s error now.
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Message 48540 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 12:38:44 UTC

I have a 6950 and the same problem, every WU end with Computation error.

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Message 48541 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 12:44:33 UTC
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-every tasks from my dual ATI 4890 GPU are in error today.
-my CPU Tasks are ok.


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Message 48543 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 14:14:46 UTC

Same here, all my GPU WUs (4850) end in Computation Error. Just watched one and they only get about half way.
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Message 48544 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 15:12:10 UTC
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All of my workunits running on the GPU are currently being aborted - automatically, with diagnostics similar to the following:

07/05/2011 16:07:31 Milkyway@home Starting de_separation_10_3s_fix20_1_142549_1304780731_0
07/05/2011 16:07:31 Milkyway@home Starting task de_separation_10_3s_fix20_1_142549_1304780731_0 using milkyway version 62
07/05/2011 16:09:09 Milkyway@home Aborting task de_separation_10_3s_fix20_1_142549_1304780731_0: exceeded elapsed time limit 96.990841
07/05/2011 16:09:10 Milkyway@home Computation for task de_separation_10_3s_fix20_1_142549_1304780731_0 finished

I guess this is another screw-up?

As you can see, the unit was aborted after about a minute of the astronomic time, due to "exceeded elapsed time limit". Evidently the "elapsed time limit" is being set wrongly.
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Message 48545 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 15:57:01 UTC

I have lots of error while computing now, just powerd the rig.
Wingman have almost all errors with same WU's.
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Message 48555 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 18:57:53 UTC

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I have very few of these invalid or error wus. Most of them are cancelled by server.

I don't use any app_info, cpu and only have one backup project which doesn't use cpu as well. BOINC Version 6.10.60, catalyst 11.3, 7 Pro X64SP1.

Also, I downclock the memory within official limits unlike the unofficial one in MSI AB. If i downclock more than 1/2 of the initial memory amount, than at some point, the driver causes BSOD.

Hope the info helps.
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Message 48556 - Posted: 7 May 2011, 19:50:55 UTC - in response to Message 48555.  

I think you are lucky indeed. All my wingman have errors so a lot of people have them.
I haven't made any changes to settings of cards, cpus and so on. No tweaks no overclocks or downclocks, and till today all was running like a train, a fast train.
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Message 48563 - Posted: 8 May 2011, 5:43:46 UTC

Travis, not clear that this is fixed yet. I did a project reset and the first unit went to a computation error.

What I will do from this side is update to the most recent (11.4) ATI drivers -- been running 11.2. After that I'll try again.


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Message 48564 - Posted: 8 May 2011, 6:04:04 UTC

OK - looks like the problem is not resolved.

I'm running 6.10.58

I installed the current 11.4 ATI drivers

I then did a project reset.

I got computation errors (after about 33% complete) -- on a Windows XP as well as a Win 7 - 64 bit, both workstations have HD 4850's -- not over clocked.

So for now, I figure the issue which showed up in the past day, is on the MW side of things.

I figure to watch the news here but for now, I will push over to Collatz.

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