Posts by Chris Rampson

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : MilkyWay steals all my CPUs (Message 69763) Posted 29 Apr 2020 by Chris Rampson Post: Milkyway grabs all my CPUs and crunches away while other projects miss their deadlines - even when Milkyway has a LOWER resource share and it's deadline is far in the future. Can this be fixed in Preferences, or is it a coding issue? RH Linux 7 with 8-core AMD
2) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Fix it or I'm gone (Message 66180) Posted 12 Feb 2017 by Chris Rampson Post: The "official" version of BOINC for x86_64 is too old. I downloaded the latest (developer?) version 7.7.0, and the problem went away. I will look into providing BOINC rpms for my distro.
3) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Fix it or I'm gone (Message 66155) Posted 3 Feb 2017 by Chris Rampson Post: It's been months that one particular Milky Way program started failing. I have lost millions of points! If Milkyway@home is interested in keeping my considerable computing resources working for them - you have until the end of February to fix YOUR problem (hint, there is no "inf" variable type), or I'm going somewhere else. https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=4087
4) Message boards : Application Code Discussion : Tons of failed jobs (Message 66140) Posted 25 Jan 2017 by Chris Rampson Post: Speaking about the "#define Q_INV_SQR inf" Milkyway error: I have been running BOINC/SETI for over 20 years. I have projects in Einstein, SETI, GPUGrid, Rosetta and Milkyway. Of the Milkyway project, there are 3 different types of jobs that I noticed. ONLY ONE OF THOSE IS FAILING. I do not subscribe to the idea that there is a configuration problem when all my other projects are screaming along (including alternate Milkyway jobs). The most reasonable explanation is a TYPO in the project files. Someone fatfingered a "t" into a "f" - which is not too hard to do since they are next to each other on the keyboard. What needs to happen is for a Milkyway developer to explain why this happens - and hopefully fix his own code.
5) Message boards : News : GPU Issues Mega Thread (Message 66139) Posted 25 Jan 2017 by Chris Rampson Post: Speaking about the "#define Q_INV_SQR inf" Milkyway error: I have been running BOINC/SETI for over 20 years. I have projects in Einstein, SETI, GPUGrid, Rosetta and Milkyway. Of the Milkyway project, there are 3 different types of jobs that I noticed. ONLY ONE OF THOSE IS FAILING. I do not subscribe to the idea that there is a configuration problem when all my other projects are screaming along (including alternate Milkyway jobs). The most reasonable explanation is a TYPO in the project files. Someone fatfingered a "t" into a "f" - which is not too hard to do since they are next to each other on the keyboard. What needs to happen is for a Milkyway developer to explain why this happens - and hopefully fix his own code.
6) Message boards : Application Code Discussion : Tons of failed jobs (Message 66129) Posted 21 Jan 2017 by Chris Rampson Post: Seems that the Linux 64 bit version of BOINC has been stuck at 7.2.42 for 3 years now. So a variable declaration of type "inf" is a valid statement?
7) Message boards : Application Code Discussion : Tons of failed jobs (Message 66127) Posted 21 Jan 2017 by Chris Rampson Post: Here is my log from a failed job (I get a hundred every day). It appears that the developer typo-ed a variable declaration and used inf instead of int. How can I get this info to the right people? Thanks. BTW, I'm losing tons of credit and CPU cycles over this. Build log (https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=1944345652): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <kernel>:176:72: warning: unknown attribute 'max_constant_size' ignored __constant real* _ap_consts __attribute__((max_constant_size(18 * sizeof(real)))), ^ <kernel>:178:62: warning: unknown attribute 'max_constant_size' ignored __constant SC* sc __attribute__((max_constant_size(NSTREAM * sizeof(SC)))), ^ <kernel>:179:67: warning: unknown attribute 'max_constant_size' ignored __constant real* sg_dx __attribute__((max_constant_size(256 * sizeof(real)))), ^ <kernel>:227:26: error: use of undeclared identifier 'inf' tmp = mad((real) Q_INV_SQR, z * z, tmp); /* (q_invsqr * z^2) + (x^2 + y^2) */ ^ <built-in>:33:19: note: expanded from here #define Q_INV_SQR inf ^ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- clBuildProgram: Build failure (-11): CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE Error building program from source (-11): CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE Error creating integral program from source