Posts by ronnyhugo

1) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones IV (Message 62550) Posted 13 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Ticked over 10 million credits in this project not long ago :)
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Some "strange" crunchers (Message 62493) Posted 6 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: So basically we need to remove these computers from the WU queue without running the risk of removing too many computers that had errors that were fixed quite promptly (like my 6950 spitting out a few dozen errors for a few days).
3) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones IV (Message 62484) Posted 5 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Yay, Team Norway just got the 2nd place (RAC in this project). But its not by much, now I won't dare play any games because my RAC might drop :D
4) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : The Last Person to Post Wins - Fetch it up! (Message 62483) Posted 5 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: (How could I not post that? :D I guess I should say something more coherent than that. How about, Aging is seven things, one of which is the loss of cells, some of which aren't replaced by the body. This causes a series of pathologies over time, depending on where it happens. Its Parkinsons when it happens in the brain, heart-disease in the heart, etc. The treatment (rejuvenation biotechnology) is to replace the cells with stemcell therapy. After which, you will technically be younger than you were previously. The six other types are no less reversible, and you can read about it in the book that you will read cover to cover very quick: ISBN 9780312367077. I Ponder the meaning of life, considering the possibility that at some point, we'll stop dying from aging completely (and its diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease and all the rest which only kill elderly). Then the purpose of life will be to endlessly reinvent oneself, whereas most people would say the meaning of life now is to procreate and enjoy life until it ends. Is it not so that the meaning of life then is to save people from dying of loss of cells and the six other things, so that they can then live until it is possible to endlessly reinvent themselves? Try to follow this! :P
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Some "strange" crunchers (Message 62482) Posted 5 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Ahh, I think I know what it is, I think they load up weeks or months worth of tasks due to not having proper preferences. I'm speaking specifically about "minimum work buffer". Is 0.00 equal infinity on that? Is there a hard cap on lets say 7 days or can un-knowing people put 999999?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with 6950 card finishing WUs in 8 seconds (Computation errors). (Message 62481) Posted 5 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: HD 5800s & 6900s can only crunch MW v1.02 WUs with the Cat 13.1 driver (& you need to do a 'deep' clean of previous drivers), unless you're prepared to do some messing around with the drivers, in which case read this thread http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=3400 It works now. I put it to work doing only "Milkyway@Home Separation (Modified Fit) v1.34 (opencl_ati_101)" WUs. Not going to mess with it now, just going to leave it alone and not break it.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Value of all GPUs on used market? (Message 62458) Posted 3 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: I'm considering gathering up the performance of all GPUs in all the projects and then add modifiers and do some math to figure out what their values are in currency. Then with the fact that 2 cards of 1X total performance is more expensive than having 1 card with 1X total performance (you might have to put the two cards in two machines, unless you buy a dual PCI-e motherboard with comparable PSU). Also power use, remaining warranty and its effect on price, remaining lifetime on the fans, etc etc etc. Would anyone be interested in this data? Could you help? I need the performance data of the cards that actually do perform (not for example R5 210). In each of the projects that they can be used in. The theoretical performance I can get a hold of easy (there's lists on wikipedia).
8) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones IV (Message 62455) Posted 2 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Oh nice a Milestone Thread, I have 10k now : Nice! My milestone: I joined Team Norway and bumped us up to a podium spot again :D (3rd place in RAC)
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with 6950 card finishing WUs in 8 seconds (Computation errors). (Message 62446) Posted 1 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: I did that, and at first it didn't work. But now it works for some unknown reason. This is witchcraft, I say :P
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with 6950 card finishing WUs in 8 seconds (Computation errors). (Message 62442) Posted 1 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Actually, it still fails the "MilkyWay@Home v1.02 (opencl_amd_ati)" tasks. I've changed that machine to "work" and made so that the "work" group don't download those tasks, but it refused to play ball the first time I tried. What do I have to write in the local xml file to get it to stop this nonsense? Every time it downloads the "MilkyWay@Home v1.02 (opencl_amd_ati)" tasks it fails them and then it stops getting WUs due to failure rate.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with 6950 card finishing WUs in 8 seconds (Computation errors). (Message 62438) Posted 1 Oct 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Well now it works, have no idea why, I just installed the newest driver plus all the extra software included in the .exe.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with 6950 card finishing WUs in 8 seconds (Computation errors). (Message 62425) Posted 29 Sep 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: OK, now it says "GPU missing". Drivers are working perfectly, yet BOINC don't think so.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with 6950 card finishing WUs in 8 seconds (Computation errors). (Message 62421) Posted 29 Sep 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: I have visual C++ 32bit (x86) and 64bit of both 2010 and 2012 types. Downloading the old driver now and testing that.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with 6950 card finishing WUs in 8 seconds (Computation errors). (Message 62417) Posted 29 Sep 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Here's the log: 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| cc_config.xml not found - using defaults 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for windows_x86_64 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Data directory: G:\BOINC2 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Running under account server 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6900 series (Cayman) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 2048MB, 2016MB available, 5632 GFLOPS peak) 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6900 series (Cayman) (driver version 1445.5 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1445.5), 2048MB, 2016MB available, 5632 GFLOPS peak) 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| OpenCL CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1445.5 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1445.5)) 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Host name: theserver 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor [Family 16 Model 5 Stepping 2] 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 popcnt syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00) 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Memory: 8.00 GB physical, 16.00 GB virtual 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Disk: 2.73 TB total, 1.00 TB free 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Local time is UTC +0 hours 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 590277; resource share 100 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| General prefs: from http://www.gpugrid.net/ (last modified 24-Apr-2013 17:51:10) 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Host location: none 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| General prefs: using your defaults 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Reading preferences override file 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Preferences: 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| max memory usage when active: 5733.83MB 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| max memory usage when idle: 6552.94MB 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| max disk usage: 0.00GB 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| max download rate: 100004 bytes/sec 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| max upload rate: 9277 bytes/sec 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 9/29/2014 8:51:06 AM \| \| Not using a proxy 9/29/2014 8:52:50 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| update requested by user 9/29/2014 8:52:54 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 9/29/2014 8:52:54 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Reporting 3 completed tasks 9/29/2014 8:52:54 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Not requesting tasks: some task is suspended via Manager 9/29/2014 8:52:58 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Scheduler request completed 9/29/2014 8:54:04 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 9/29/2014 8:54:04 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Requesting new tasks for ATI 9/29/2014 8:54:06 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Scheduler request completed: got 3 new tasks 9/29/2014 8:54:08 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Starting task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749132_0 9/29/2014 8:54:16 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Computation for task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749132_0 finished 9/29/2014 8:54:16 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Starting task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749125_0 9/29/2014 8:54:23 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749125_0 suspended by user 9/29/2014 8:54:24 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Computation for task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749125_0 finished 9/29/2014 8:54:24 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Starting task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749131_0 9/29/2014 8:54:28 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749131_0 suspended by user 9/29/2014 8:54:50 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749131_0 resumed by user 9/29/2014 8:54:59 AM \| Milkyway@Home \| Computation for task ps_84_DR8_rev_8_4_00001_1411504411_1749131_0 finished The "suspended by user" and "resumed by user" is me attempting to fix the problem by turning off AMD overdrive, but the GPU just rip through the 3 WUs I'm sent in barely 20 seconds in total and get computation error on all of them.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : (Modified Fit) v 1.34 (opencl_ati_101) Large amount with Validate error or Completed, can't validate (Message 62416) Posted 29 Sep 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: yeah I dropped that application completely for now (I'd normally not care and just run them until they fix it, but I'm benchmarking to see whether I should buy a couple more 7970/280x).
16) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Milestones IV (Message 62415) Posted 29 Sep 2014 by ronnyhugo Post: Milestone: After a prolonged stop, I've begun to crunch again. I realized I had the perfect GPU for it (7970) so might as well use it. Now to figure out a way to make the computer silent so I can keep this up over the winter (I live in a part of the world where a couple crunching computers can't heat the whole house, so I still need ovens to make up the difference, for now).