Posts by Richie
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(Message 6440)
Posted 13 Feb 2020 by Richie Post: Your GPU has Turing architecture. It is not supported. That's why those tasks fail. |
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(Message 6413)
Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Richie Post: http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=768&postid=6341 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_series |
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(Message 6356)
Posted 22 Sep 2019 by Richie Post: This journey was fun sometimes, but lately... not so much. My feeling about the current state of this project has changed many times during this year. I rememmber a couple of years back there was still for example a promise to add new information to this "scientific results" page: http://asteroidsathome.net/scientific_results.html Didn't happen. Lately I've also started to feel like I'm running tasks from a project where there's no more than zero interaction happening between project stuff and users anymore. I get this absurd picture in my head that the people "there" have left the building a long time ago and lights have been shut down. But at the basement there's a lonely server that keeps running because for some reason electricity and connections still work. And that server over there runs automated scripts that work well enough to keep that machine running, tasks flowing and these web pages up. But why is my computer crunching these tasks? I don't know anymore. So, this is a convenient time for me to move on. Bye and best wishes. |
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(Message 6336)
Posted 24 Aug 2019 by Richie Post: I will probably have to abort half of these. It's alright. Project server will adapt to that and eventually tasks will get crunched somewhere. It can be difficult to find a good work cache setting if you run cpu tasks from several projects at the same time. I don't know how the Boinc scheduler makes decisions whenever it calculates what work it should download at some moment. It may seem that Asteroids tends to be able to fill the cache relatively aggressively. I've had frustration with that a few times when mixing cpu tasks from other projects. In general it can take quite a long time in that kind of mixed-cpu-work scenario until cpu tasks will flow in smoothly between all the projects. |
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(Message 6333)
Posted 11 Aug 2019 by Richie Post: But if nobody else is getting any work, why are my country and project stats falling? Most likely there are plenty of users running tasks solely from this project. Or users may have set large cache, for example "store at least 7 days of work". If running that kind of settings it won't matter if the server is out of work for a couple of days. Their computers will have tasks in queue all the time and can continue crunching 24/7 |
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(Message 6289)
Posted 24 May 2019 by Richie Post: I guess it should be taken literally, and there just isn't anything else to do than wait. Yes. This project doesn't have trillions of tasks constantly available these days. Tasks come in bursts (usually about a million tasks) and server tends to be sucked dry in a couple of days. Then will follow a couple of days of waiting... until next burst. |
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Posted 12 Apr 2019 by Richie Post: http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/prefs.php?subset=project There are 4 different "preferences" (default, home, school, work). You can save different settings for each one. Then... http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/hosts_user.php Go to "Details" of your computer. At the bottom rows of that page there is a drop-down box called "Location". From that box you can choose which preference set you would like to use for that particular computer. Then in Boinc, click update for Asteroids. Boinc will get correct information about which location / preference set that computer should be using. |
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(Message 6237)
Posted 31 Mar 2019 by Richie Post: Im starting to wonder if they just release a ton of tasks at once, people fill up their caches, then they run dry for a while? Yes, that's how it goes. |
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(Message 6183)
Posted 28 Feb 2019 by Richie Post: You are asking at wrong forum. ATLAS is from LHC@Home. |
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(Message 6166)
Posted 6 Feb 2019 by Richie Post: That task name has ending " _8 " which tells your computer is already eighth computer trying to run that task. So it's just pile of crap, a faulty work unit that's going to have status "Too many errors (may have bug)". You should abort that task. I'm quite sure normal run time with GTX 1080 should be way under half an hour. |
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(Message 6130)
Posted 5 Jan 2019 by Richie Post: Is this a problem at my end? No, it is not. https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/server_status.php Tasks ready to send: 0 Or is there currently a shortage of work that might be corrected soon? Kyong's message right below: It took more time than expected but we finally have new server and I'll be adding at January. Then the disk space issues will be solved. At the "Problems and bug reports" or "Number crunching" topics there is a bunch of threads like "no work" or "out of disk space". Disk space issues have been an essential reason why there have been problems with availability of work. |
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(Message 6126)
Posted 4 Jan 2019 by Richie Post: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/server_status.php Tasks ready to send: 0 |
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(Message 6090)
Posted 13 Dec 2018 by Richie Post: Any suggestions? Well, let's assume you're looking for a "spare project" and if you're into astrophysics then I think Einstein and their 'Gravitational Wave All-sky search on LIGO O1 Open Data' is scientifically quite interesting. Those tasks require about 150MB of RAM. Based on the specs of your computer I guess a task could finish in about 10 hours. There's also 'Gamma-ray pulsar search #5' which uses more RAM (a few hundred MBs) and tasks run a little bit faster. Both are CPU applications. |
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(Message 6081)
Posted 11 Dec 2018 by Richie Post: i just don't see a point I was writing something else... but saw Luigi's message. Maybe this project is alive. |
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Posted 19 Nov 2018 by Richie Post: Those tasks are probably broken. You can abort them and see if other tasks will run like they should. |
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(Message 6020)
Posted 26 Oct 2018 by Richie Post: Upload is starting to work again. Might require hitting 'retry' a few times, but at least something is happening. |
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(Message 5997)
Posted 25 Oct 2018 by Richie Post: Here's a post about saving app_info.xml file in Asteroids project directory: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=200&postid=2760#2760 That thread is from a few years back, but app version hasn't changed. Maybe that example would still work, I don't know. That file should be saved as a real xml file (not txt). Otherwise Boinc won't be able to read it. So, you could try these lines in it: <app_info> <app> <name>period_search</name> <user_friendly_name>Asteroids</user_friendly_name> </app> <!-- AVX --> <file_info> <name>period_search_10210_windows_x86_64__avx.exe</name> <executable/> </file_info> <app_version> <app_name>period_search</app_name> <version_num>1021</version_num> <avg_ncpus>1.00</avg_ncpus> <max_ncpus>1.00</max_ncpus> <plan_class>avx</plan_class> <file_ref> <file_name>period_search_10210_windows_x86_64__avx.exe</file_name> <main_program/> </file_ref> </app_version> </app_info> |
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(Message 5990)
Posted 24 Oct 2018 by Richie Post: Out of disk space again... |
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(Message 5970)
Posted 26 Sep 2018 by Richie Post: Application That application is from Einstein@Home project. Their forum would be a better place to check. |
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(Message 5963)
Posted 26 Sep 2018 by Richie Post: Boinc Manager event log says: Error reported by file upload server: Server is out of disk space |
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