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21) Message boards : Number crunching : Work Availability v2 (June 9) (Message 25123)
Posted 12 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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yeah mine was 40K yesterday, 56K today... 70K tomorrow?


well it's 07:30hrs (UK) and I've crunched approx. 53k already. wow.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Out of wu's (Message 25024)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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I stopped the server to remove the badly sized searches. It should be better shortly.


Back up and running................
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Out of wu's (Message 25021)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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I've ran out work - server status shows none ready to send.

Oh dear me.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Little help for those using opti apps. (Message 24952)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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HELP REQUIRED.

I have a dual boot system running XP Pro and Vista.

BOINC ver.6.6.20
ATI 0.19f

1.Installed ATI 4870.
2.Installed Catalyst 9.1 for Win Vista. Works as should.
3.Installed Catalyst 8.12 for Win XP. Not working.

Followed instructions in readme file.
Any ideas why it works with vista and not XP?
25) Message boards : Number crunching : How to Get Work (Message 24930)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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Almost seems a reduntant question now.

The answer is of course - just sit back and watch 'em roll..............

Get a few ATI cards and watch 'em rock as well ;)


Did you forget the part about electricity?

Not at all. I'm going to start cycling now and using my car less so I can afford to keep my pong pump running 24/7. The little fishes just love it ;)



Bicycle power
26) Message boards : Number crunching : Milestones II (Message 24926)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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Well, just checked some old S@H posts and it was 429 days ago that I achieved my first 1m combined credits and now I've passed the 4m credit mark.

3 cheers for technology. hip hip .......
27) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24924)
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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I'm not so much getting a system freeze but a GPU reset! These seem to be happenong with the 3s, specifically the '3s 6', I have visually seen this happen, have'nt noticed it on '3s 5', but will be watching - difficult to catch as it has only happened on three seperate occasions in the last 36 hours.
28) Message boards : Number crunching : Work Availability v2 (June 9) (Message 24836)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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I just cannot crunch them fast enough!

I've had to clear my cache due to a few units not being crunched, sitting there for almost an hour until they are reported as 'aborted', though not stated, presumably by the project, they do not subsequently appear in the task list, not even as aborted, just not there?
29) Message boards : Number crunching : How to Get Work (Message 24830)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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Almost seems a reduntant question now.

The answer is of course - just sit back and watch 'em roll..............
30) Message boards : Number crunching : MilkyWay_GPU II (Message 24812)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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Peter - Is "parrot" off-topic or a opptim. app for GPU? update me on it, will you? Lol. ;-)


I picked two words that Ice wrote - "dead certain"...and referenced the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch...

It's never as funny if you have to explain it...

Oh, and the whole "tea and a slice" thing... Pink Floyd


Hmm... isnt that parrot even Norwegian? wow - thats a coincidence. lol.

A Norwegian Blue if I recall. But he wasn't dead. Just resting.


Pining for the fjords...

There.. I told you he wasn't dead. He was pining for the fjords and must have been momentarily stunned...




The Parrot Sketch
31) Message boards : Number crunching : Work Availability v2 (June 9) (Message 24784)
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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This deluge has now been happily going on for almost 12 hours, with no indication that it will slow down anytime soon.

It would therefore be safe to assume that the 'nay sayers of scripts' were incorrect in their assumptions that the problem of wu distribution was hindered by the use of the afore mentioned scripts.

I've turned my script off as there is currently no need for it.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : Work Availability v2 (June 9) (Message 24734)
Posted 9 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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My ATI has not come up for air for over 2 hrs.

It's like Walmart is giving its groceries away - no need to steal any! lol
33) Message boards : Number crunching : ATI GPU app 0.19f fixes the ps_sgr_208_3s errors (Message 24288)
Posted 5 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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Hello!

The Version 0.19f of the ATI GPU application
is ready for download. Besides the fix for the three stream WUs it reports now the GPU time as WU time.

Be sure to update your GPU apps as soon as possible, so the project can continue with the new searches!

PS:
Read the readme.txt!


Looking forward to tackling those pesky 3s
34) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24276)
Posted 5 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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No 3s to be had, everything seems ok at present.
35) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24213)
Posted 4 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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If you abort the 3s, and the 2s or 1s don't start up, rather than restart your computer:

Close BOINC
Open Task Manager
End all Astronomy sse2 processes
Reopen BOINC

The WUs start crunching again

Sorry guys!

I just have seen this mess and but it is already midnight here. So I can't do much about it before tomorrow.
What has changed with the ps_208_s3 WUs compared to all earlier ones is that these WUs do computations on three streams (opposed to only one ore two in all previous WUs). The GPU app was supposed to handle that (Travis told me that probably three streams will coming already in february or so), but as there were no appropriate WUs it was never tested. Obviously there is a bug in the GPU app (as the CPU app is working). So I need to find the bug, fix it and distribute a new version of the GPU application.

I hope it will be ready tomorrow.


Thanks for the update :)


This would entail (used this word before) micro management. If it wasn't almost midnight here I would do that, it's going to affect a lot of people over the next few hours.
Solution, temp. revert to the cpu app till CP sorts the problem!
36) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24195)
Posted 4 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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I have re-installed the cpu version of the opt. app. and can confirm that these same units work as expected under the CPU and as I will be unable to micro manage throughout the night, will run the units this way until tomorrow when I will try again, hopefully it may be sorted by then.
37) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24190)
Posted 4 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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Ok just had a closer look.
The stillstand here is caused by the "3s" but if everything stood still, the "1s" and "2s" do need a complete restart of boinc to get going again.


I think this is the correct diagnosys for ATI GPU clients

if I'm lucky, I erase all "3s" WUs before BOINC starts crunching them. In this way I save "1s" and "2s" without restarting BOINC


Tried this approach, does not work for me................

Just checked my task manager, though i have no wu's currently downloaded or running, task manager shows : (multiple instances) astronomy_0.19_ATI_SSE2e.exe running in the background?
38) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24181)
Posted 4 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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I'm getting errors on s1, s2 & s3's

I'm having to micromange at the moment as none are completeing, therefore, none are being returned.....so unless i abort them i don't get any new units.
the circle of life...............
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Compute Errors (Message 24174)
Posted 4 Jun 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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Same here, wu's failing to run then causing errors.

ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9411_1244143134_0
ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9410_1244143134_0
ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9409_1244143134_0
ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9408_1244143134_0
ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9407_1244143134_0
ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9386_1244143134_0
ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9385_1244143134_0
ps_sgr_208_3s_2_9384_1244143134_0

<core_client_version>6.6.28</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
Incorrect function. (0x1) - exit code 1 (0x1)
</message>

and, seems to be using a lot of processor power for a wu unit running on an ATI
and, once downloaded they fail to start processing, a shut down and restart of BOINC does not remedy this either.
I've started to abort these units but the next batch of downloads just sends more of the same!
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Milestones II (Message 23486)
Posted 27 May 2009 by Profile Lord Tedric
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2 million for me!


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