What I find an absolute nightmare is trying to get AMD drivers to load when I also have NVidia GPU running:-( Dunno what the secret is but its eluded me..

I didn't think that was possible, I'd never try mixing the cards. In fact I've even had problems when replacing a Nvidia with an AMD, if you don't remove the Nvidia driver first, it goes mental when it sees an AMD card and gives a blue screen. And since the Nvidea card was dead, that proved very difficult. I only use AMD (the above was a friend's machine I was trying to repair) since Nvidia like to overheat, they're less powerful for the money, and I don't much like their drivers!

Thats the other thing I liked about my old 280 card.... It just worked with BOINC! Simple.
Now days because I'm running a 390, every times there's a change (like now) I've got to try and remember how to fix the app_config file! Hate it!

Hi Arivald,


Its only the person[s] that generate an error that doesn't get credited for it.

That's not really true. ALL people that took part in such a bundle DON'T get credits. If not, then please explain why I have "Can't validate" WUs? I have 10 invalids per day, NOT due to problems on my end. The same problem applies to every R280X. That work is wasted, I don't get any credits, so in essence we have wasted electricity = money.
Well,
[Would you really like to have a single Host with 3 R280X (that takes almost a 1kW from the wall), have all invalid results cause some other Host wants that?
I DON'T!

This needs to be fixed!

Actually that was logical. It wouldn't be easy to make task validation per chunk. There is such validation method in ClimatePredicion.net, but I believe it's rather custom, and only because each part takes 2 days or so :)

IMHO, fixing issues with Hosts that all generate only invalid issues will go a long way towards decreasing invalid results as a whole.

Thanks. Another speculative possibility that I should have thought of is that the Windows Nvidia GPU client might be running the work units in the CPU instead of the GPU because it is using as much CPU as a single core CPU client.

Does anyone have any idea when the current problems will be overcome?

I am playing with server settings so I am restarting the BOINC daemons a bunch. It's all good no worries.

Jake

Would someone please fix the feeder!!! Systems are all backed up.

Status STILL unchanged at 1:30PM PDT Sunday.

Perhaps, since it seems pretty obvious that the maintenance process has encountered some unexpected issues, some one from the project might provide some information for folks here regarding a revised plan.