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Send message Joined: 8 Nov 11 Posts: 205 Credit: 2,900,464 RAC: 0 |
I think there may still be a problem. I have 7 tasks showing in progress when they have been sent back. I have tried resetting the project but they are still showing. In terms of validating I think the system is around 6 days behind. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 21 Posts: 24 Credit: 67,417,786 RAC: 747 |
My Mac's run 280X's, all repaired units + spares, best bang for the buck. Windforce OC seems to be the quickest. |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3339 Credit: 524,010,781 RAC: 1 |
mikey: When I did it on a VERY old Server more than 10 years ago it took 2 days to get it's act together, I was just trying to see if it worked as the Server was free and I was backing up and crunching with it. This was an old floor model Server that had SCSI drives in it. |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3339 Credit: 524,010,781 RAC: 1 |
It dropped to that a while ago then stopped, and was sending out new work too. Maybe he's paused things to let the disk rebuild get done? I'm thinking these are hamster powered disks he's using. SRBase will never learn...it sends 400+ tasks for my cpu's even when I have a cache of 0.001 and 0.001 and a resource share of zero!! I too just abort the extra tasks, not my problem I didn't ask for them in the first place, and let them deal with resending them to someone else. I usually have to suspend the Project to stop getting tasks. |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3339 Credit: 524,010,781 RAC: 1 |
Hmm, I see that the status page hasn't updated in a few hours. Normally it updates once or twice an hour... Einstein's Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 on GPUs and SRBase's TF tasks are both fairly short and give out good credits for each and if you set a zero resource share for Einstein you will only get 1 task at a time, meaning if you set MilkyWay at a higher resource share it will finish an Einstein task then ask MilkyWay for work then get another task from Einstein if you don't get any MIlkyWay tasks. |
Send message Joined: 1 Aug 11 Posts: 10 Credit: 51,374,490 RAC: 0 |
We just got the repaired drive back, and we're installing it shortly. We are waiting to see if the server starts rebuilding automatically, or if we need to schedule downtime. Mr. Donlon, the only inconvenience for me is having WU fetch going on and offline. I know all we volunteers would like to at least have a bit of an status update notification from time to time, PLEASE! :) |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
My Mac's run 280X's, all repaired units + spares, best bang for the buck. Windforce OC seems to be the quickest.Are you one of those people who have managed a solder reflow in a domestic oven? I could never get that to work. I get whatever I can find cheap, and fix minor faults, or ignore parts I don't need like the display output, or run them at a reduced clock speed, or limit them to small tasks (VRAM wise) like MW. The only one that stood out was a triple width instead of double, nice thick heatsink, runs very cool. I use risers (the ones for bitcoins, on a USB lead, only pass one lane but that's all you need for Boinc). I can connect 4 to each PCI-E socket. Or 16 if I daisy chain the adapters! I've yet to try a third daisy chain for 64 cards! |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
Boinc has a bug, even with the unofficial update I got, maybe it's a bug on the server end, if I say no GPU work from Einstein, and Boinc can't get MW GPU work because there isn't any, it will get Einstein GPU work when I intended only to run that on the CPU!It dropped to that a while ago then stopped, and was sending out new work too. Maybe he's paused things to let the disk rebuild get done? I'm thinking these are hamster powered disks he's using. The Beta Boinc I'm using gets rid of some bugs to do with getting too much work - I got it to stop it getting hundreds of tasks when I'd limited it to running on x cores on the rosetta python app. Not sure if it would stop SRBase going mad on yours, it might do. If you want the beta Boinc (running perfectly here) for 64 bit Windows, send me a private message with your email address and I'll send the three executables over in a zip (about 5MB). You can get it from Github and compile it yourself, but I have no idea how to do that. Richard Haselgrove did it for me. |
Send message Joined: 4 Jul 09 Posts: 92 Credit: 17,297,167 RAC: 2,871 |
There are lots of other projects to work on in the meantime. Einstein has Tasks that work well with older systems or systems with limitations. In October of 1969 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; There was no expiration date. |
Send message Joined: 10 Apr 19 Posts: 408 Credit: 120,203,200 RAC: 0 |
Currently turning some processes off to flush the transitioner backlog. Once that's done I'll turn things back on. |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
Einstein has Tasks that work well with older systems or systems with limitations.Disable gravity tasks on the server if you have an older GPU though. They don't get anywhere - you can tell, low GPU usage, take forever. |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
Currently turning some processes off to flush the transitioner backlog. Once that's done I'll turn things back on.Thanks Tom, that poor old server has far too much to do. If I were you I'd gather lots of donations (put the donation box on the home page) and buy it some shiny new fast hardware. |
Send message Joined: 13 Dec 12 Posts: 101 Credit: 1,782,758,310 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the updates Tom! Appreciated. |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
N-body now being issued for CPU. No GPU work coming yet. EDIT! GPU work floodgates opened! 200 tasks just appeared on a GPU. EDIT AGAIN! Oops, 2 GPUs got work, 2 didn't. Limited supply. |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
Would it be possible to only give out Nbody for CPUs and not seperation? Seems daft to do seperation on CPUs when the GPUs are so much faster. There's not currently a way to choose Nbody only if you have a CPU and GPU in the same system. |
Send message Joined: 13 Apr 17 Posts: 256 Credit: 604,411,638 RAC: 0 |
Hi Peter: how old is old? Einstein has Tasks that work well with older systems or systems with limitations.Disable gravity tasks on the server if you have an older GPU though. They don't get anywhere - you can tell, low GPU usage, take forever. Einstein GW: NVIDIA GTX 750ti around max. 27 minutes credit 1000 (on old slow system/board/cpu) NVIDIA Titan V around max. 11 minutes credit 1000 No OC. About half of the time needed is GPU work, the rest is CPU. I find that ok. AND there are always plenty WUs. AND there are even muc faster GR tasks that give you around 3600 credits ... Just my humble 2 cents ... Have a nice day! cheers |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
Hi Peter:I have five Radeon R9 280X cards, only 6 months older than your 750Ti. But yours is OpenCL 3.0 and mine are only 1.2, perhaps Gravity needs a newer OpenCL? Or maybe Gravity uses Cuda on Nvidia cards. |
Send message Joined: 13 Apr 17 Posts: 256 Credit: 604,411,638 RAC: 0 |
Hi Peter:I have five Radeon R9 280X cards, only 6 months older than your 750Ti. But yours is OpenCL 3.0 and mine are only 1.2, perhaps Gravity needs a newer OpenCL? Or maybe Gravity uses Cuda on Nvidia cards. Well, thanks for the info ... Very interesting to know! I don't go into such details - my fault. I guess things have to be carefully brokendown to/for each singular situation. But what I just learned again (over and over) that each cruncher should try and find out what is the best for him/her. Since we all have different hard-/software it is somewhat "dangerous" to give "general" recommendations. Well, it sunny outside, but cold, anyway I'll go for a walk and not worry about not getting any tasks! Have a great day. |
Send message Joined: 5 Jul 11 Posts: 990 Credit: 376,143,149 RAC: 0 |
Well, it sunny outside, but cold, anyway I'll go for a walk and not worry about not getting any tasks!Same weather here, I'm off to buy some cockatiels! |
Send message Joined: 13 Apr 17 Posts: 256 Credit: 604,411,638 RAC: 0 |
Nice hobby! |
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