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Message 45523 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 15:19:36 UTC

Couple of months ago, an outage was considered to be an exception which was happening maximum 2 times in a month. Nowadays, crunchers accept the outage, which happens at least 2 times per week, as a part of the project.

I did say this, and will be saying that, we need better servers. If crunchers allocate their resources to buy hardware for the science, the project staff is obligated to provide a service that meets the crunchers behavior.

The existence of backup projects doesn't soften the excuse of sequential outages. I don't know whether the cause is server load, validation or feeder but apparently something is wrong in the server side.

Still, milkyway@home is my primary project but when the opencl becomes an industry platform, which has been becoming really fast, i wonder how many people will stick to this project. At least the Prime Grid did a wonderful job implementing it into their application.
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Message 45524 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 15:54:21 UTC

I got a message thru, lets see if it helps!
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Message 45525 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 15:58:37 UTC

Well, this thread answered my question. I was wondering if I was having BOINC issues. Just got my 6950 unlocked to 6970 specs and moved my 4890 to my secondary rig and was hoping to punch out some work units, but I guess that isn't going to happen for awhile.
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Message 45527 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 20:35:43 UTC

Clearly there is no Milkyway GPU work coming through, despite the server status claiming plenty of new work is ready to send.

It looks like other people have a correct surmise that it's only nBody work.
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Message 45528 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 21:24:42 UTC - in response to Message 45523.  

i wonder how many people will stick to this project. At least the Prime Grid did a wonderful job implementing it into their application.


Some did bail quite a while ago. I only run MW now when DNETC is down which is the opposite of what I would prefer. Shame, MW doesn't even support the automatic backup capability of BOINC.

This used to be one of the premier projects for reliability but things have changed. Very unfortunate!
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Message 45529 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 21:28:25 UTC

Don't know what you mean about MW not supporting the automatic backup capability of BOINC. I have Collatz and DNETC at 0% resource share and BOINC pretty seamlessly swaps over to one of those when MW has no work.

I run MW pretty much 100% GPU resource allocation and have no problems..other than MW doesn't have any GPU work right now.

I've PM'd Matt about the work outrage, maybe I'll also PM Travis.
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Message 45530 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 21:45:12 UTC - in response to Message 45529.  
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Don't know what you mean about MW not supporting the automatic backup capability of BOINC. I have Collatz and DNETC at 0% resource share and BOINC pretty seamlessly swaps over to one of those when MW has no work.

I run MW pretty much 100% GPU resource allocation and have no problems..other than MW doesn't have any GPU work right now.

I've PM'd Matt about the work outrage, maybe I'll also PM Travis.


He was talking about having a significant amount of workunits CACHED to help lessen the burden of the very frequent outages.

A 20 minute cache is not enough for this project.
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Message 45532 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 22:46:28 UTC
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Personally, Ive about had it with this nonsense.
They don't bother to communicate with us what they are doing most of the time.
They don't seem to be willing or able to solve a recurring problem.
Arrogance for the first ,incompetence for the latter.
I would have fired the lot of them by now if they were any of my employees!
Think I'll take my 40 cores and 19 GPU's and go play somewhere I'm respected just a little more.

In fact I'm already gone,lol!
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Message 45533 - Posted: 12 Jan 2011, 22:57:40 UTC
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Well we were getting double credits there for a couple of days...maybe this is pay back! :)

[edit]PM'd Travis as well.
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Message 45535 - Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 0:10:03 UTC

Yes! I just got 4 WU's the ATI are firing up.

See our patience is rewarded (is this good English?)
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Message 45536 - Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 0:13:04 UTC - in response to Message 45535.  

I think we need more patience. The 4WU's ran, and where uploaded again.
But no new ones, but I keep looking.
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Message 45537 - Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 1:58:55 UTC

I started up some new GPU runs, that should get things going again.

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Message 45540 - Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 4:13:24 UTC - in response to Message 45537.  

I got my 24 new WUs! Yay! I still wish i could store a few more, i go through them so fast :)
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Message 45542 - Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 6:48:52 UTC - in response to Message 45532.  

Personally, Ive about had it with this nonsense.
They don't bother to communicate with us what they are doing most of the time.
They don't seem to be willing or able to solve a recurring problem.
Arrogance for the first ,incompetence for the latter.
I would have fired the lot of them by now if they were any of my employees!
Think I'll take my 40 cores and 19 GPU's and go play somewhere I'm respected just a little more.

In fact I'm already gone,lol!



I often wonder what people don't understand about the word

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Message 45544 - Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 10:15:15 UTC

My GPU work started to flow earllier and I returned the first result an hour or so. So, back to normal (I hope).
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Message 45545 - Posted: 13 Jan 2011, 10:46:23 UTC - in response to Message 45544.  
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I noticed the same John, but I am now on the high power rate (my high power consuming rigs run nights). So I start to finish the lot.

But I see all de_separation_11, 13, 14, 15 and 16 (run 1.26) not the 17 (run 2.12), so I guess it is not totally "normal" just jet.

Happy crunching.
Greetings from,
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Message 45594 - Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 13:34:19 UTC

Snow drifts in server again, clean and kick please.

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    Message 45595 - Posted: 16 Jan 2011, 14:46:26 UTC - in response to Message 45594.  

    Snow drifts in server again, clean and kick please.


    Here we go again.

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    Message 45610 - Posted: 18 Jan 2011, 15:02:20 UTC

    Server page looks wierd
    Go away, I was asleep


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    Message 45613 - Posted: 18 Jan 2011, 18:17:44 UTC

    Thanks, I gave it a kick and took some old runs down. It looks like things are calming down... I'll keep an eye on it today.

    -Matthew
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