Posts by Bill F

Bill F

It might need you to post in order to update, or something weird like that. Everything should be good up to 100B credit and 20 years of volunteering!

Bill F

No version 7.2.10 is advertised at Boinc at all.

only:
Only version 7.14.2

Bill F

Has there been prior discussion of the possible creation of an Android App for cell phones. And or a request out to volunteers to assist with a port / create ?

Lots of hardware out there and lots of volunteers.

Thanks
Bill F

Bill F

Cavalary you are running a fairly old version of BOINC 7.6.22 it was released in Dec of 2015. Maybe you could consider upgrading to 7.14.2 (32 bit) or higher if you have a 64 bit system. Also has your PC or mother board manufacturer released any updates for your hardware that might help you ?

Go with if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and at least so far BOINC didn't cause issues, and saw some things about changes to scheduling in newer versions.

At some point all versions of Boinc below 7.10.XX will not be allowed because they don't have the capability to still work on all the different Projects, there was a big fuss awhile back about them all going to https and then some also banned version below 7.10.xx because of a possible security thing I think as well. Going to a version of Boinc above 7.14.xx also gives you the 'pre-fetch' that alot of people hate while others love it. If you have a zero resource share Project it knows you will need a new task soon so downloads it before the task you are working on is completed so there is no more lag between tasks. It only partially works on MilkyWay because they have a 10 minute wait period between asking for gpu tasks but not for the cpu tasks so it will continue to run cpu tasks even with a zero resource share.

Bill F

The validate errors will account for some of your 40% reduction in RAC but there is also a disparity in the old unit resulting in 227 points and the new at 230 which considering the work unit takes longer than the 3 point extra awarded there is a defecit on every work unit. This has resulted in a shortfall of about 250K per day in my situation without the failed units.

The time difference in my case is similarly small for regular WUs. With computer otherwise idle, used to take almost exactly one hour, give or take mere seconds. Now it's 1:01-1:02. But there are indeed those (so far few, but existing) WUs taking about 1:47, yet those reward 230 credits just as well.

Either way, doing the math, at almost exactly 1h/WU and 2 cores, if computer would have done nothing else at all, my maximum RAC before this latest run should have been up to 10900, and it was usually a little over 10000, with peaks around 10500 if I'd hardly use the computer for a few days and dipping below if I'd use it more, such as playing a game. So, very little room for invalids before. And I also occasionally checked anyway.
Now, with the new values, my maximum should be up to 10700, a bit less if 1-2 of those longer ones would come per day. The difference to the current value of less than 7000 comes from invalids.

And if there are those tiny but sufficiently significant differences between my results and those of wingmen that produce those invalids, I wonder whether the new run does something or uses some instructions that older or weaker CPUs don't deal with so well... Or may it have something to do with the 32-bit OS?

Bill F

I am having a problem with long running tasks on a Dell Laptop Win 10 that has been pretty reliable. It is not pulling any errors that I am aware of on multiple projects. Intermittently it will run long with times climbing instead of falling on a Milkyway task. It runs them as 6 cpu jobs.

Example Task that I manually aborted.

Task and Work Unit 880644236 2077317465
CPU ID: 851150

Suggestions welcome

Thanks
Bill F

I'm guessing that's an n-body cpu task...they don't work for everyone and use every cpu core your pc has to crunch each and every one of them. That means if you are doing anything else with the pc they take longer and longer and longer.

Bill F

Hey Link,

Going forward, we are planning a new N-body release for next week. This release will not include a MT version as we have decided it does not make sense for our project anymore. I will be working on fixing the preference options, but it might take me a little while as I work through several other issues.

Best,
Jake