I tested the Intel version on the Core i3-6300, which supports DP, and it took around five hours. Since the iGPU usually slows down the CPU cores, it's unusable. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/hd-graphics-530.c2789

Intel Arc Alchemist lacks FP64 support. I'm working on a software emulation to enable it, but it's still in the early stages. Even if all goes well, the performance will be limited. It’s more efficient to use the card for projects that don’t rely on FP64.

Intel Arc Battlemage may work, but as far as I know, no one tested it. Volunteers willing to try are welcome :)

With latest results, 2024 YR4 chance of hitting Earth on 2032 is lowered down to 0,004% & no chance of hitting Earth in next century; but there is still a very high chance of hitting Moon with 1,7%.

Link to article: https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/02/24/latest-calculations-conclude-asteroid-2024-yr4-now-poses-no-significant-threat-to-earth-in-2032-and-beyond/

Some CUDA tasks don't seem to finish at all, staying at 0.10% progress even after a rather absurd amount of time, at least in GPU terms (longest I've left one on is 3 days).

GPU core load stays constantly at around 10%, whereas VRAM usage is only ~256MB throughout the process. One CPU core, however, is also constantly at 100%.

Note that not all CUDA tasks exhibit this behavior, but every now and then one will, and it's hard to keep track of to avoid wasting GPU compute time and power. I've disabled GPU tasks for now until the situation improves.

Well a new Development level BOINC 8.0.0 has been released for testing which includes AVX-512 detection.

Bill F

Now it's a week after the parallel work progressed on my (AMD integrated graphics card) octcore, i get like 700 points (the task uses 0,1 cpu) during a night session (of eleven hours) whilst Einstein@home (binary pulsars, using 0,5 cpu) would add 15'000 . The Task jump in about 3 percent every 100 seconds. I read in older posts in other forums that the parallel computing for asteroids ("rocky cookies") wasn't showing very significant performance increase, some few percent in some way. So i keep the computer trying to get the parallel computing to swing, since the performance could become far more competitive compared what guys at einstein@home or folding@home provide, what they make gpu's capable of.

Is there any route to possible to have access to the resources in large bitcoin mining warehouses as they approach the point where the cost > value of the bitcoins mined?

I downloaded some Asteroids NVIDIA tasks for the first time in years. I am using Windows 10 and Norton Anti-virus. Norton detected a threat while downloading for the Heur-AdvMLB threat, probably a false positive. The download fails.

I have a screen shot if that would help. I can upload the screen shot PNG file to a web site if it would help: it states: very few users, very new file, High file risk

Generally, is it still better to use Asteroid CPU tasks rather than use GPU tasks for my old-ish NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU? It uses CUDA 1.2.

it's not just based on "working hours" it's based on flops too. faster devices will complete tasks faster so it needs to be scaled accordingly. but there's obviously some problem happening here with the flops on fast GPUs like Ampere. the reported flops is way higher than previous gens.

it's fair that a GPU would get the SAME credit as the CPU. since both devices did the same amount of work. the GPU just did it faster. but what's not fair is the untended bonus that the CN system applies when two very fast systems validate against each other, presumably the same amount of work that a CPU does (since all the tasks here seem similar in size with some variance) but with lower reward.

static reward fixes these issues.

No need for anything fancy. A task is a certain size and gets a certain amount of credit whenever it's completed and however long that takes. Just like me paying you $20 to mow my lawn. I don't care if you do it fast with a ride on mower, or slow with a push mower, you get paid the same amount when you complete it.

C ... 10K
Si ... 100K
Fe ... 500K
Ni ... 1M
Co ... 5M
Pd ... 10M
Au ... 50M
Ir ... 100M

New tasks should be available from sunday or monday.

I think the issue is that we're not on the team on Asteroids. but we can't get on the team to intiate the request because it's a closed group and all the existing members are not around anymore.

These two lines have disappeared :)

No I meant 'older' as in older OS but yes the pc's have seen far better days, I have a couple of I7-47?? cpu's and I have have a dozen dual Xeon quad core cpu's that are off-lease business HP's and Dell's with the long rectangular psu's at the bottom of the pc and limited abilities for gpu's due to the low wattage psu's. I could put a standard psu next to the case and let it run everything and one day I may do that but not today

Can't you stick Windows 10 on them? It should run on anything 7 runs on. It's only RAM that limits the OS, and I've got 10 on 8GB ok just as 7 was ok on 8GB. Both are rubbish on 4GB.

... this is not the only project that has moved on from the older pc's and I don't blame them I'm just commenting

Older PCs, like this one?

No I meant 'older' as in older OS but yes the pc's have seen far better days, I have a couple of I7-47?? cpu's and I have have a dozen dual Xeon quad core cpu's that are off-lease business HP's and Dell's with the long rectangular psu's at the bottom of the pc and limited abilities for gpu's due to the low wattage psu's. I could put a standard psu next to the case and let it run everything and one day I may do that but not today

Don’t laugh, my first computer, the one I started running Climate models on back at the time of the BBC experiment, had only single core 1.2 Ghz processer and 256 MB of RAM. It took 8 months to finish one of those models.

It was older, it was running Windows XP

... this is not the only project that has moved on from the older pc's and I don't blame them I'm just commenting

Older PCs, like this one?

Also those of us with Win7 pc's are out of luck due to an SSL error

What kind of SSL ERROR?

I have 2 Windows 7 PC'S currently attached and receiving and sending completed / valid work back.
As for the Project list, I believe you will have to manually download it (maybe from the boinc.berkeley.edu site???) then copy/paste into the BOINCData folder.

BOINC is supposed to check and automatically download a new list periodically but I have never had it work in the 20+ years on BOINC.

Project was re-added to the official BOINC list in last day or two.

Hi everyone! I am running a Ryzen 2600 and an RTX 2060 for Rosetta and Asteroids @home. I dedicate the CPUs to Rosetta and the GPU to Asteroids. During the hottest part of the day my GPU starts to run pretty hot running full-bore non-stop. Is there a way I can throttle it down to run at like 75% power or something to control heat during the day?

I have MSI afterburner installed so if there is a way to do it with that I am open to that as well.

Thank you!