Posts by cliff

21) (Message 5319)
Posted 8 Apr 2017 by Profile cliff
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Same.

How come this keeps happening?


This often means a project does not have enough spare cash to buy another hard drive, but occasionally means that the servers do not have a good place to attach another hard drive.

If it's the first of these, the project could provide an estimate of how much it would cost to buy another suitable hard drive, plus a way to donate toward that cost.


Doesn't A@H BOINC page have a donation tab? I'm not crunching right now so I cant look..
Dratted server wont issue new work due to too many uploads hanging:-(
22) (Message 5294)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile cliff
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Hi Tom,
Resends?
I got 3 resends.. if the WU ends in 2 or greater its a resend:-)
The server doesn't seem to show those unless they are waiting for D/L
23) (Message 5291)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile cliff
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Hi Fr. Micka,

The project lead has had to start over from scratch in a new job, with few resources. In my view he's doing ok.

Nearly every project I've crunched for has problems, including a lack of WU and or being offline or other server problems.
24) (Message 5289)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile cliff
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Hi,
Once again the project is out of work, I assume that the project team is aware of this and will sort it out during working hours.
25) (Message 5288)
Posted 2 Apr 2017 by Profile cliff
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Hi,
Yes, A@H server is out of work until more are generated, this happens now and then..

Unfortunate about the competition...

Regards
26) (Message 5266)
Posted 19 Mar 2017 by Profile cliff
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Looks as if there's another server glitch, no work is being generated, getting no work available log messages..

Guess something needs a bit of a push:-)
27) (Message 5167)
Posted 6 Mar 2017 by Profile cliff
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Hi Remarc,
I PM'd the project lead last Saturday, no doubt he'll get the server sorted out when he can.

Regards,
28) (Message 5144)
Posted 4 Mar 2017 by Profile cliff
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yup, summats up/down/whatever, cant upload any results, keep getting retry..
29) (Message 5143)
Posted 4 Mar 2017 by Profile cliff
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No problems getting work, mega problems trying to upload the crunched data though... keep getting sent to retry in xx mins/hours etc:-(
30) (Message 5101)
Posted 22 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Well, not sure its over.
A@H status page shows NO tasks waiting validation. But my tasks list shows several waiting validation.
31) (Message 5086)
Posted 6 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi mmonnin,

Ahh yes I did post app_config.xml file which is 100% correct and works. I am running it now. I don't recall editing any app_info file but I use cc_config.xml file to limit projects to one card or another. I used it to run asteroids on a 970 and E@H on a 1070 in the same machine. Before Asteroids released its Pascal capable app. The same app_config.xml file works then and now.

Well, it simply failed to do anything for me:-) As I posted earlier I use 'exclude' to run 3 separate projects, each with its own dedicated GPU I'm assuming that the plethora of 'excludes' confused boinc and it just looked, saw the app_config.xml and did nothing about implementing it..

Not serious, new mobo arriving later today, so I'll be putting another late night running rig up with some old NVidia GPU's and that should take care of things.
32) (Message 5083)
Posted 3 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi Kashi,


A complex app_info.xml like that is beyond the ability of most GPU crunchers. Some of the theoretical possible configurations also exceed the available BOINC command options.

Running 3 separate GPU projects concurrently on the one box is already quite an achievement. I don't have a computer with 2 or more graphics cards any more so I can't experiment myself.

Had an overclocked HD 5970 and HD 5870 and reached 149th world ranking but they really sucked the juice. When electricity tariffs increased greatly here was forced to reduce the amount of GPU crunching I do. Now even have one box that doesn't have a separate graphics card. Not jelly though, still like to see others enjoying going to town with multiple powerful graphics cards.


Yeah, electrikery prices are a pita:-( Now and then I get bitten by the 'to hell' with it bug, and run my rigs 24/7

However a recent bout of said 'bug' left me having to pay and extra £256.37 to my supplier... So I've cut back again to run mainly off peak.

I've [if the vendor' ever gets his finger out] a replacement server mobo coming
and with that mobo I can run up to 6 GPU's [which I aint got right now] as well as about 8 cpu tasks..

The original mobo fired up and I got as far as installing Win7 and doing some of the mandatory updates, then after a reboot, it didn't and even after changing every component I had available it still failed to boot, so it went back, but its taken over 2 weeks and I still haven't got the replacement:-(

If I can manage it I'll save up some more and buy another mobo, but from a more reputable vendor, Amazon methinks they don't quibble or mess about, but send replacemnts as soon as they are notified. Trouble is a similar Asus server board costs about a hundred quid more.. Time to tell my cat its on short rations:-)
33) (Message 5081)
Posted 2 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi kasha,
Yup I use 'exclude gpu' to ensure that I can dedicate a particular GPU to a project.

I run A@H, MW@H and E@H each one gets its own GPU:-) That way I don't have 99% completed tasks with 3 secs to go, dumped in favour of the next project to use the GPU, that used to 'really' annoy me:-)

Anyway I lack the skill to make my own app_info, so for now at any rate the idea is on the back burner..

Thanks for your assistance.
34) (Message 5078)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi Kashi,
You ask for an app_info.xml file and then refer to an app_config.xml file.

They are different. If you get them mixed up it will cause you confusion.

For example an app_info.xml file requires BOINC to be stopped and restarted before it works, whereas an app_config.xml file can be activated by clicking "Read config files" option in BOINC Manager. An incorrectly configured app_info.xml file will immediately delete an existing cache of tasks as soon as BOINC is restarted.


Yup I know they are different, and I've had a misconfigured app_info zilch WU before:-(

The app-config was someone else's solution to the task of running 2 WU together on 1 GPU.

I tried it, minor error on filename, boinc wanted the exact name as found in client_state, when I changed it to comply, boinc saw the file, logged it, but didn't run 2 WU.

Since I'd already had tasks binned I decided to post asking for an app_info.xml
but the reply I got was for an app_config.xml.

I'd still like to see an app_info.xml to work with the current cuda exe from a@h.
35) (Message 5075)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi JugNut,
I've been around a bit:-) I know EXACTLY where ALL boinc related files are, including the a@h sub directory.

I don't know what OS you use or what version of boinc.
But on my rig, win7ult and boinc 7.6.22 it simply fails to do anything in the a@h sub directory, where it is supposed to go.

And I've say here watching boinc detect the app_config.xml file and ignore its settings other then 1 error message saying there was NO period search application as named only the actual cuda .exe file that WAS there and when I changed the app_config to reflect the correct filename it no longer gave an error message but simply logged the existence of the app_config.xml file and ignored its settings..
36) (Message 5073)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi JugNut,
Nope doesn't work here, boinc sees the file, doesn't error any part of it, but nowt happens, designated gpu carry's on working 1 task.

As far as number capability, I'm running GTX 980Ti for A@H and have an 8 core CPU so can free another core for the added task.. If I could get it to work:-)
37) (Message 5072)
Posted 1 Dec 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi Mmonnin,

<app_config>
  <app>
    <name>period_search</name>
    <max_concurrent>4</max_concurrent>
     <gpu_versions>
      <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
      <cpu_usage>0.2</cpu_usage>
     </gpu_versions>
  </app>
</app_config>

Well I can confirm that with boinc 7.6.22 under Windows7 ultimate it does NOT work:-)

Errors out with unknown application, when I changed period search to the actual application name boinc says it see's it, but that's it! no change in number of WU run on the designated GPU..

Thanks for the advice, who knows what's actually preventing it doing what its told to do..But I did get boinc to actually see the aapp_config it just doesn't care to actually do owt:-)
38) (Message 5066)
Posted 28 Nov 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi Conan,
yup, and its been included... but its still a no-go:-)
I think I'll just bin the idea for now, that card is working pcie x8 right now so maybe it wasn't such a good idea in the 1st place.
thanks for your help.
39) (Message 5064)
Posted 28 Nov 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi Folks,
I'm trying to get an app_config to work but keep getting errors:-/

<app_config>
<app>
<name>period_search_10200_ windows_x86_64_cuda55.exe</name>
<user_friendly_name>Period_Search_Application_102.00_(cuda55)</name>
</app>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.04</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>

Boinc doesnt see the ending </app> for some reason any ideas?
40) (Message 5062)
Posted 24 Nov 2016 by Profile cliff
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Hi,
Does anyone have an outline app_info.xml to run 2 tasks at the same time on an
Nvidia GPU?

Having tried in the past and having boinc dump my entire cache of WU, I thought that perhaps someone with a few more grey cells might have the anwer.

Thanks


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