Posts by Bill F

41) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation inconclusive (Message 73116) Posted 26 Apr 2022 by Bill F Post: My validation inconclusive's haven't dropped in 4 days now. I had hopes for improvement. Mine go back as far as 14 days so far. I know others have more so I won't complain about how many but mine are like many of yours .... all 920 of them are hanging tough and not going away. Bill F
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation inconclusive (Message 72909) Posted 16 Apr 2022 by Bill F Post: Keith Meyers is knowledgeable and helpful on many project forums. An asset to the community. Bill F
43) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation inconclusive (Message 72865) Posted 16 Apr 2022 by Bill F Post: My numbers are similar 894 inconclusive with 4 valid tasks for a current credit of 88 or so. After the flush we will see how things shake out. Bill F
44) Message boards : News : Server Trouble (Message 72807) Posted 15 Apr 2022 by Bill F Post: BOINC server software has a default size for the feeder buffer. It can be configured larger if necessary if it is getting emptied too fast on every connection. But that swells the database and the database tracking of sent/returned/awaiting validation/deletion transactions take longer times. So you can't dramatically increase the size of the feeder buffer willy-nilly without slowing down other parts of the server. It's all a balancing act depending on the hardware and scheduler connections. Something bad was happening in MW, since every time there was a problem, instead of the usual 1000/10000 tasks, it jumped to several million of each. Yet another Boinc bug I'd guess. project forum. Peter you continually bash the BOINC software on this forum. The Milkyway project does not write, maintain or modify the basic BOINC software for Clients or Servers. This is all controlled and developed by the BOINC organization out of Berkely Ca. Here is a URL to their forum I politely suggest that you redirect your BOINC suggestions and criticisms to some where they can be addressed. They serve no purpose here. Create yourself an account and do some studying. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_index.php Sincerely Bill F
45) Message boards : News : Server Downtime March 28, 2022 (12 hours starting 00:00 UTC) (Message 72568) Posted 7 Apr 2022 by Bill F Post: I think that you should stop guessing.... you sound very negative and cold in the view of life. Who pays you to volunteer? Bill F
46) Message boards : News : Server Downtime March 28, 2022 (12 hours starting 00:00 UTC) (Message 72543) Posted 6 Apr 2022 by Bill F Post: And why would you assume that human pay is either a part or a big part ? Thanks Bill F
47) Message boards : News : Server Downtime March 28, 2022 (12 hours starting 00:00 UTC) (Message 72461) Posted 3 Apr 2022 by Bill F Post: All of the credits stagger out of the system when they are ready... I have been credited with over 140K in the last 3 days. Bill F
48) Message boards : News : Server Downtime March 28, 2022 (12 hours starting 00:00 UTC) (Message 72391) Posted 31 Mar 2022 by Bill F Post: Oh, OK. Well, that is also what the project status page says. No need for a very dark unreadable "picture"? Or am I missing something? Have you all a nice day ... The Dark unreadable picture if you look closely shows history and trends so it has lots of value Bill F
49) Message boards : News : Server Downtime March 28, 2022 (12 hours starting 00:00 UTC) (Message 72324) Posted 29 Mar 2022 by Bill F Post: Image from Stat's page now Download server milkyway.cs.rpi.edu Running Upload server milkyway.cs.rpi.edu Running Scheduler milkyway Not Running feeder milkyway Not Running transitioner milkyway Not Running db_purge milkyway Not Running file_deleter milkyway Not Running stream_fit_validator (milkyway) milkyway Not Running stream_fit_assimilator (milkyway ) milkyway Not Running stream_fit_work_generator (milkyway ) milkyway Not Running nbody_validator (milkyway_nbody ) milkyway Not Running nbody_assimilator (milkyway_nbody ) milkyway Not Running nbody_work_generator (milkyway_nbody) milkyway Not Running Milkyway@home N-Body Simulation 13966487 576029 0.17 (0.01 - 1.3) 185 Milkyway@home Separation 4961115 655282 0.6 (0.01 - 25.08) 919 Upstream server release: 1.0.4 Database schema version: 27028 Task data as of 29 Mar 2022, 18:24:00 UTC
50) Message boards : News : Server Downtime March 28, 2022 (12 hours starting 00:00 UTC) (Message 72288) Posted 28 Mar 2022 by Bill F Post: Another area of confusion for who was looking where. Here is the current Time Stamp from the bottom of the Server Status page... showing yesterdays date and status. Another process to restart Upstream server release: 1.0.4 Database schema version: 27028 Task data as of 27 Mar 2022, 18:54:47 UTC Thanks Bill F Dallas TX
51) Message boards : News : Server Trouble (Message 72217) Posted 23 Mar 2022 by Bill F Post: Since gridcoin doesn't anywhere near even pay for the electricity, who cares? True, it doesn't pay for the electricity. But it can help offset the cost of adding new gpus. Just added new 3080's and 2080 Ti's to my hosts. Main thing is helping maintain my RAC for my Team. No point in wasting gpu time for MW that takes 3 weeks to pay out when I can spend the gpu time more wisely at Einstein. No optimized apps for Milkyway yet. Hoping I can persuade our developer to look at that next after we finalize our Einstein app development. We just recently broached 104Million Einstein Team RAC. Which is amazing for only 18 active members. When you get them to look at the Einstein app development please ask them to consider an Einstein project option type Run CPU versions of applications for which GPU versions are available: Yes or No Where we can split Apps on systems with GPU's Thanks Bill F
52) Message boards : News : Server Trouble (Message 72146) Posted 22 Mar 2022 by Bill F Post: 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. Are you trying to split a system with N-Body on CPU and Separation on GPU on a system ? Or are you just trying to do Separation only on GPU's on a system ? Systems with GPU and CPU, I want Nbody on the CPU and Seperation on the GPU. Ok I suspected that was what you were hoping for. Milkyway does not have the special preferences option that Einstein has .. Run CPU versions of applications for which GPU versions are available: Yes or No I suppose that you could write it up as a Wish List item for development
53) Message boards : News : Server Trouble (Message 72141) Posted 21 Mar 2022 by Bill F Post: 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. Are you trying to split a system with N-Body on CPU and Separation on GPU on a system ? Or are you just trying to do Separation only on GPU's on a system ? Bill F
54) Message boards : News : Server Trouble (Message 72095) Posted 21 Mar 2022 by Bill F Post: There are lots of other projects to work on in the meantime. Any specific suggestions? So far managed to keep the computer busy with what it could get between outages, and now it still has some 16-17h of work left, but it's only connected a small part of the time, sometimes as little as 2h/day, which makes it trickier to "catch" those moments when such things happen, and it's also just a dual-core Pentium with 4 GB of RAM, 32-bit OS, no dedicated GPU, and only doing CPU work, which seriously limits what it can work on, plenty of projects using much more resources, and I just want it to work on environmental or space projects (and can't exactly find any environmental ones), so after SETI@home shut down it was quite a relief to see that MW@h's separation tasks had even lower resource use and switch here. Einstein has Tasks that work well with older systems or systems with limitations.
55) Message boards : News : New Milkyway Badges Online (Message 71573) Posted 2 Jan 2022 by Bill F Post: 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! Tom is there a way to export the official badges to the Admin of the signature site below ? https://signature.statseb.fr/ They are not going past 10 years Thanks Bill F
56) Message boards : News : Planned Deprecation of TLS 1.0/1.1 (Message 71478) Posted 12 Dec 2021 by Bill F Post: Taking a quick count of systems using BOINC versions older than 7.2.10 gives a count of about 79 systems. This is using statistics from the project. URL source https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/host_stats.php?boinc_version=1 Considering that the Server stat's page shows 27,300 systems with recent credit 79 would be a very small number. Bill F
57) Message boards : News : Planned Deprecation of TLS 1.0/1.1 (Message 71470) Posted 11 Dec 2021 by Bill F Post: No version 7.2.10 is advertised at Boinc at all. only: Only version 7.14.2 Yes for Windows 32 Bit the current version is 7.14.2 and it was released back in October of 2018. Version 7.2.10 is much older and would not be advertised anymore as it was released in August of 2013. The intent it to get any "real" old users and systems to update to something newer before they change the system later this month, You are fine. Bill F
58) Message boards : News : Planned Deprecation of TLS 1.0/1.1 (Message 71460) Posted 10 Dec 2021 by Bill F Post: Tom is probably pointing to the fact that everyone should be running version 7.2.10 or newer. There are a number of versions for different types of hardware and software that are not Windows 64 bit 7.16.20 compliant. A full list of versions based on Hardware and OS is at the following location. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php Thanks Bill F
59) Message boards : News : Scheduled Outage 11/16/21 3PM EDT (Message 71366) Posted 16 Nov 2021 by Bill F Post: And Thank you for giving us a heads up instead of having us wonder why we could not connect. Bill F
60) Message boards : Application Code Discussion : Android ARM application (Message 71053) Posted 3 Aug 2021 by Bill F Post: 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 Bump it has been about 4 years Thanks Bill F

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