This is using the new parameter files (which I fixed up a bit -- seems there was an error in it). Let me know if these are running okay.

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Thet are running fine.
Could you tell us why de_separation_22_3s_edge_1 and de_separation_22_3s_free only got 106.99 credits?
All Workunits are in the same size, aren't they?


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de_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_179359_0 253410118 13 Oct 2012 | 8:20:44 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:48:25 UTC Completed and validated 77.42 12.23 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_179358_0 253410117 13 Oct 2012 | 8:20:44 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:48:25 UTC Completed and validated 78.42 11.36 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_09_2s_sample_3_1350087199_179357_0 253410116 13 Oct 2012 | 8:20:44 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:45:02 UTC Completed and validated 79.28 13.92 159.86 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_09_2s_sample_3_1350087199_179356_0 253410115 13 Oct 2012 | 8:20:44 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:47:17 UTC Completed and validated 90.42 14.12 159.86 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_09_2s_sample_3_1350087199_179355_0 253410114 13 Oct 2012 | 8:20:44 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:47:17 UTC Completed and validated 91.56 13.99 159.86 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_151648_1 253382407 13 Oct 2012 | 8:17:48 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:46:09 UTC Completed and validated 88.69 11.04 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_177773_0 253408532 13 Oct 2012 | 8:16:40 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:42:37 UTC Completed and validated 78.50 11.56 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_177772_0 253408531 13 Oct 2012 | 8:16:40 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:43:45 UTC Completed and validated 85.53 11.81 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_09_2s_sample_2_1349373750_2832313_1 251165546 13 Oct 2012 | 8:16:40 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:43:45 UTC Completed and validated 76.26 14.20 159.86 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_176751_0 253407510 13 Oct 2012 | 8:14:07 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:41:29 UTC Completed and validated 73.46 11.09 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_176736_0 253407495 13 Oct 2012 | 8:14:07 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:41:29 UTC Completed and validated 75.47 11.09 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_144290_1 253375049 13 Oct 2012 | 8:12:59 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:40:21 UTC Completed and validated 84.42 11.26 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_09_2s_sample_3_1350087199_126273_1 253357032 13 Oct 2012 | 8:12:59 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:40:21 UTC Completed and validated 78.43 14.06 159.86 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_175881_0 253406640 13 Oct 2012 | 8:11:52 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:39:13 UTC Completed and validated 78.46 11.22 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_174763_0 253405522 13 Oct 2012 | 8:09:21 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:36:58 UTC Completed and validated 80.39 11.76 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_174740_0 253405499 13 Oct 2012 | 8:09:21 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:38:06 UTC Completed and validated 79.50 11.03 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_174198_0 253404957 13 Oct 2012 | 8:08:08 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:35:50 UTC Completed and validated 75.80 11.19 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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ps_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_161309_1 253392068 13 Oct 2012 | 8:08:08 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:35:50 UTC Completed and validated 77.81 11.47 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_173822_0 253404581 13 Oct 2012 | 8:07:00 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:34:42 UTC Completed and validated 87.63 10.76 106.99 MilkyWay@Home
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de_separation_09_2s_sample_3_1350087199_173805_0 253404564 13 Oct 2012 | 8:07:00 UTC 13 Oct 2012 | 8:34:42 UTC Completed and validated 79.38 14.02 159.86 MilkyWay@Home
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The *22_3s_edge_1* and *22_3s_free_1* WUs seem to be almost OK, had 3 "errors while computing" so far. All of those ended in error also on hosts running the OpenCL app, so it was not just my CAL app. But nothing to worry about I think, not yet at least.


My system: Win7 x64, ATI HD3850 (not OpenCL capable, Catalyst 11.9) using the 64-bit CAL app v0.82, running 2 WUs at once.

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Thet are running fine.
Could you tell us why de_separation_22_3s_edge_1 and de_separation_22_3s_free only got 106.99 credits?
All Workunits are in the same size, aren't they?

No, the separation_22_3s WUs need about 2/3 of computation time compared to the 159.86 credit WUs, so 106.99 credits is about what we should get for them.

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I have had two BSOD this morning caused by ntoskrnl.exe on a system that has been stable for months so maybe these new WUs are the cause.

I have now had 4 more BSOD on the same system and 2 on my other one.

Not all of these WU's are failing on my 1090t/5870/Win7-64, but I've had about 25 errors between 0300-1400 UTC.

Examples:

Valid result: 319331392
Invaid result: 319330707

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I have been seeing computational errors that occur at the end of processing on roughly one out of ten WUs

Error Examples
Milkyway@Home 1.02 MilkyWay@Home (opencl_amd_ati) de_separation_22_3s_edge_1_1350087199_193416_2 00:00:51 (00:00:01) 10/13/2012 9:41:15 AM 10/13/2012 9:43:56 AM 0.05 CPUs + 1 ATI GPU 1.96 Reported: Computation error (1,) Sagita

Milkyway@Home 1.02 MilkyWay@Home (opencl_amd_ati) ps_separation_22_3s_free_1_1350087199_232226_2 00:00:56 (00:00:02) 10/13/2012 9:30:33 AM 10/13/2012 9:32:29 AM 0.05 CPUs + 1 ATI GPU 3.57 Reported: Computation error (1,) Sagita

I am getting comp errors on about 5% of wu's now (various Nvidia GPU's).

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Hi,
on my system, for now I have only had 6 errors while computing. New wu (22_3s_edge_1 and 22_3s_free_1) seem almost to be ok.

I have had two BSOD this morning caused by ntoskrnl.exe on a system that has been stable for months so maybe these new WUs are the cause.

As Phil, in my system which was stable for many months, I also have had a BSOD caused according to BlueScreenView by ntoskrnl.exe and around the same time. the bsod occurred at 11:52 UTC if this can be of help.

The *22_3s_edge_1* and *22_3s_free_1* WUs seem to be almost OK, had 3 "errors while computing" so far. All of those ended in error also on hosts running the OpenCL app, so it was not just my CAL app. But nothing to worry about I think, not yet at least.


My system: Win7 x64, ATI HD3850 (not OpenCL capable, Catalyst 11.9) using the 64-bit CAL app v0.82, running 2 WUs at once.

Little update on that: at the moment of this post out of 70 *22_3s* WUs 7 errors, all of which also error out for others (3 of those reached already "Too many errors (may have bug)"). So for me it is 10% bad WUs, besides of that no other issues.

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Also all the computation errors cause the boinc manager to stop requesting work. Each time I get an error it seems to increase the 'Communication deferred' time so it ends up going from 60 seconds to several hours.

I'm having the same problem with high error rate (?10% +) and communication deferred for a couple of hours. Before these work units I seldom ever had an error (i7-3770K and 2 HD7950 GPUs - the system was rock solid). This system crunches 2 GPU work units in less than a minute. So a 3 hr deferred communication causes a minimum of 2 x 60 x 3 = 360 work units to be missed. I have to manually update to get going again. These recurring errors are causing you to miss a lot of production work!

Joe

The *22_3s_edge_1* and *22_3s_free_1* WUs seem to be almost OK, had 3 "errors while computing" so far. All of those ended in error also on hosts running the OpenCL app, so it was not just my CAL app. But nothing to worry about I think, not yet at least.


My system: Win7 x64, ATI HD3850 (not OpenCL capable, Catalyst 11.9) using the 64-bit CAL app v0.82, running 2 WUs at once.

Don't know if this helps, as you have already stopped those (and you are not really supporting the CAL app), but anyway: shortly before you stopped those searches I got 4 "validate errors" which were actually "marked as invalid", so the result from my HD3850 was different than from others.

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Thet are running fine.
Could you tell us why de_separation_22_3s_edge_1 and de_separation_22_3s_free only got 106.99 credits?
All Workunits are in the same size, aren't they?

No, the separation_22_3s WUs need about 2/3 of computation time compared to the 159.86 credit WUs, so 106.99 credits is about what we should get for them.

For some reason my HD7970 is taking longer time to crunch the de_separation_22_3s_edge_3 and de_separation_22_3s_free_3 tasks. Same behaviour was evident already with earlier versions of these new tasks.

For months the crunch time was about 60 seconds with 2 simultaneous WU:s. Now with the de_separation_09_2s_sample_2 tasks the crunch time is about the same 60 seconds with 159.86 credit but de_separation_22_3s_edge_3 and de_separation_22_3s_free_3 take 70 seconds and credit 106.99.

Has anyone else noticed such behaviour? Any guesses what might be causing the longer crunch time?

For some reason my HD7970 is taking longer time to crunch the de_separation_22_3s_edge_3 and de_separation_22_3s_free_3 tasks. Same behaviour was evident already with earlier versions of these new tasks.

I have noticed this as well.

Yeah run time has increased about 10 seconds on my 7970s and the credit has gone down.

I haven't seen that. My run times prior to the new WUs were consistently 46-47 secs with a single GPU task per HD7950. The run times on the edge_3 tasks are 38-39 secs.

I run an i7-3770K processor with several free cores and two HD7950s with the GPUs dedicated to Milkyway (Catalyst 12.6, BOINC 7.0.28, Win 7 Utlimate 64Bit). Three CPU cores run Cosmology.

Joe