Posts by Finn the Human

1) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76929) Posted 15 Feb 2024 by Finn the Human Post: It depends on the volunteers prospective. If a volunteer is donating their hardware and electricity for science then the "sudden stop of credits" is interesting and requires watching BUT is not a not a big cause for concern. If the volunteer is donating hardware and electricity for Credit's and recognition and / or badges then it might be a "big cause for concern" for that volunteer. Science wins.... Bill F I'm not folding for the "rewards." The sudden loss of credits concerns whether we are doing science at all since that's the only immediate empirical metric users see. None of the admin update posts mentioned that no one was getting credited, so it gave way to all the questions about "why aren't we getting credits? Is my machine broken? Etc..." If a proactive announcement had been made that explained what had happened in a manner the public understands, this wouldn't have been a big concern.
2) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76924) Posted 14 Feb 2024 by Finn the Human Post: It is a problem with volunteer relations. The process sending out tasks could trivially issue a quorum in rapid succession even if the number of workunits in the queue is large. What useful purpose is served by operating in a manner that causes unnecessary concern for people who are donating their resources? I agree that the lack of proper communication requires us to extrapolate information. From our side, a sudden stop of credits being awarded is a big cause for concern. However, I feel the sole developer here is overburdened and the lack of engagement is the consequence.
3) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76916) Posted 12 Feb 2024 by Finn the Human Post: A few validated WUs have shown up on my tasks list!
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Option in project preferences to set max CPUs (Message 76910) Posted 10 Feb 2024 by Finn the Human Post: Just eyeballing the numbers, I see higher CPU utilization and more WUs being crunched. Probably because now I can run 6x (4core) WUs and saturate all 24 threads of my CPU. Individual WUs suffer less run time increase than the number of cores removed per WU.
5) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76909) Posted 10 Feb 2024 by Finn the Human Post: We have to see this through. Eventually, the validation WUs will be sent; just be patient. 1300 WUs are waiting for validation from my side so far, and I allocated more cores to help get more WUs calculated.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Option in project preferences to set max CPUs (Message 76825) Posted 27 Jan 2024 by Finn the Human Post: Thanks, I've set mine to also run multiple lower CPU count WUs. Is there any performance increase you see for doing this?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Option in project preferences to set max CPUs (Message 76821) Posted 27 Jan 2024 by Finn the Human Post: Yes, I believe the highest number of cpus a wu can use right now is 16
8) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76799) Posted 23 Jan 2024 by Finn the Human Post: Seems like the previously marked valid but zero-credit WUs have been moved to validation inconclusive again. Is anyone else seeing this? Hopefully now, this means we will get those validation WUs sent properly now.
9) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76787) Posted 21 Jan 2024 by Finn the Human Post: As WUs stopped being validated and accredited like usual without any official explanation, I felt like reallocating resources towards another project rather than wasting power. This is coming from a volunteer not very versed in Boinc inner workings. We can speculate on the reason why no credits are being given, but I'm not convinced until we hear back from the developers.
10) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76777) Posted 20 Jan 2024 by Finn the Human Post: Well i'll probably stop crunching for a bit till this gets sorted
11) Message boards : News : Admin Updates Discussion (Message 76763) Posted 18 Jan 2024 by Finn the Human Post: I haven't had any tasks validated for the past two days now with 80+ validation inconclusive because of that. Maybe we should prioritize sending WUs that need validation?
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Thread to report issues after server migration (Message 76612) Posted 14 Nov 2023 by Finn the Human Post: Today I got a Workunit 962969273 aborted by project. What does that mean? Application Milkyway@home N-Body Simulation 1.83 (mt) Name de_nbody_02_27_2023_v182_pal5__data__11_1688749648_2138300 State Aborted by project Received 11/13/2023 9:03:31 PM Report deadline 11/25/2023 9:03:30 PM Resources 4 CPUs Estimated computation size 3,012 GFLOPs CPU time --- Elapsed time --- Executable milkyway_nbody_1.83_windows_x86_64__mt.exe
13) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Request Account Remove (Message 76411) Posted 5 Oct 2023 by Finn the Human Post: I want to meet the people at RPI who run this project and have this user's wish met. MW@H is surprisingly not very known around campus.
14) Message boards : News : New MilkyWay@home Scientist (Message 68536) Posted 15 Apr 2019 by Finn the Human Post: Welcome to the stars! A hello from your boi Finn Mertens of Ooo.
15) Message boards : News : New Server Update (Message 68274) Posted 20 Mar 2019 by Finn the Human Post: One of those things is the validated work units with 0 credits. This is an urgent problem. My RAC is dying and my OCD can't allow it :(
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Task Validated But No Credit Given (Message 68273) Posted 20 Mar 2019 by Finn the Human Post: Is anyone else experiencing this? I have work units completed and validated but zero credits were given. https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/workunit.php?wuid=1735675988
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Invalids Exit status 0 (0x0) after server came back (Message 68228) Posted 8 Mar 2019 by Finn the Human Post: I have 14 invalid tasks thus far since my computer is slow. My computer has never encountered frequent invalid tasks like this before the outage and I hope the server upgrade in the next few days will resolve this problem. Edit: Typos
18) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD recently announced Radeon VII with 6.9TFLOPS of FP64 (1:2) for only $699???!!! (Message 68107) Posted 7 Feb 2019 by Finn the Human Post: Anand says it is 1/4 at 3.5 TFLOPS https://www.anandtech.com/show/13923/the-amd-radeon-vii-review all media say 1:4...thats amazing... That is flipping amazing! Although not as good as the rumoured 1: 2 but itâ€™s still way better than 1:8 or anything Nvidia has to offer new at this price point. I will defiantly get my hands on one once the retail pricing is on MSRP.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD recently announced Radeon VII with 6.9TFLOPS of FP64 (1:2) for only $699???!!! (Message 68036) Posted 18 Jan 2019 by Finn the Human Post: maybe we have luck Anandtech has confimred that vega vii wil have a DP ratio of 1:8. that 2 time the DP of of a vega 64 or 1.7TFlop DP. Letâ€™s hope they will keep it at 1:8. 1.7TFLOPS is still better than any RTX cards right now, at least on paper. Edit: spelling
20) Message boards : News : New Separation Runs (Message 68020) Posted 17 Jan 2019 by Finn the Human Post: Hmm. I see 16 errors to compute (all GPU WUs) on your computer equipped with the GTX 670 and half of them failed within 3 seconds of starting. I have yet to see any task failing on your RX560 and my GPUs. It might just be your GTX 670 acting up.

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