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Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3319 Credit: 520,310,392 RAC: 20,684 |
I just brought over two gpu's to MIlkyWay and they are working just fine but my question is how is work generated here at MW? Is it generated on an as needed basis, there are 395 units available right now according to the webpage, or are there x number of units made in a day and when they are done they are done? I just don't want to be the reason other don't get enough work as I do have other places I COULD be instead. |
Send message Joined: 8 Feb 08 Posts: 261 Credit: 104,050,322 RAC: 0 |
That number is sort of misleading. 395 WUs are gone faster than you can read the first digit. New workunits are generated based on the results that are coming in and queued in 'ready to send'. It's manually started for a WU type and than runs automatically. We have problems if the validator isn't working ('waiting for validation' is jumping up big time) or the WU generator can't keep up with the demand. Actually the demand is high (~320k WUs downloaded) and so the queue 'ready to send' got a bit small (seems stable ~400 right now) but new WUs are steady generated as the results are coming back and the generator is still able to keep up with the demand. The number WUs per core and per gpu is limited for each computer to prevent single computers grapping tons of WUs while others can't get any. As long as you get your queue loaded with this max number WUs without problems, your don't need to worry. Haven't seen a message like "Project has no tasks available" for mw separation in my logs since a while. |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3319 Credit: 520,310,392 RAC: 20,684 |
That number is sort of misleading. 395 WUs are gone faster than you can read the first digit. Thank you very much, I will continue my crunching then!! |
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