Posts by Mr P Hucker

61) Message boards : News : Badges (Message 7487) Posted 27 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: C ... 10K Si ... 100K Fe ... 500K Ni ... 1M Co ... 5M Pd ... 10M Au ... 50M Ir ... 100M Let's bubble this back up to the top and see what happens Can't get badges if there's no work! What happened to the data flow? It seems it's on it's way: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/forum_thread.php?id=911#7472 Although there's no explanation why it stopped.
62) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD Windows GPU application? (Message 7424) Posted 22 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Probably because CUDA is the highest performing development platform and is better known with much more developer support. CUDA predates OpenCL by two years. That is a lot of time passed for developers to get comfortable with the CUDA SDK's CUDA only runs on Nvidia cards and is optimized specifically for that hardware. OpenCL has to make itself compatible with all architectures and is not optimized for any specific architecture. It has to be a generalist and never will have the performance of CUDA. But there are twice as many of us that can run it.
63) Message boards : Number crunching : AVX vs SSE3 not being checked for one host (Message 7423) Posted 22 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: I have two similar machines, a Ryzen 9 3900XT and a Ryzen 9 3900X. Differences are: The XT is 5% higher clock. The XT has dual channel memory fitted, while the X is single channel. Here they are: Ryzen 9 3900XT: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/host_app_versions.php?hostid=724474 Ryzen 9 3900X: https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/host_app_versions.php?hostid=724479 Why is the second one not even attempting avx? We can see from the first one AVX is more efficient. The first one tried both, and quickly settled on AVX. The second one has only been given 669 sse3 tasks, and 0 avx tasks. Apart from a minor difference in clock speed and dual channel memory, those processors are identical.
64) Message boards : Problems and bug reports : Not getting email notifications from this forum (Message 7418) Posted 21 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Same here... no emails Seen it on a few other projects, they fixed it easily by doing something to the server. Hopefully the admin will see this shortly, I have to keep remembering to pop in here.
65) Message boards : News : Server is up and running again (Message 7417) Posted 21 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: 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.
66) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD Windows GPU application? (Message 7415) Posted 21 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Hi folks, We also would like to have it already done. Unfortunately the past two years messed up pretty well with our plans, as many others. So at this moment I can't give any prognosis. One thing is sure though, we'll find a way to have that OpenCL work finished at some point. Thanks for understanding, Georgi I shall wait in anticipation. But tell me, why did you write the Cuda first, considering OpenCL would have worked on every card instead of just half of them?
67) Message boards : News : Server is up and running again (Message 7401) Posted 21 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Nope, there's plenty of CPU work landing on my end as well as CUDA stuff! Very funny.
68) Message boards : News : Server is up and running again (Message 7400) Posted 21 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: I fail to see how creating a new client will benefit anyone who intends to cheat. none of the factors in the credit new system take into account host age The bug is to do with multi-core tasks I think. LHC have 8 core Atlas tasks, there was a way to run 8 Atlas at once so they only got one core, but you got credit for 8 of 8 core tasks!
69) Message boards : Number crunching : Project Status (Message 7399) Posted 21 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: 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.
70) Message boards : Problems and bug reports : Not getting email notifications from this forum (Message 7398) Posted 21 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Not getting email notifications from this forum
71) Message boards : Number crunching : Inaccurate Teraflops? (Message 7381) Posted 20 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: One of my tasks on a Ryzen 9 3900XT says "Estimated app speed 324.04 GFLOPs/sec" On the server status page, we see "Current TeraFLOPS 23.1" If my calculations are correct, that shows the equivalent of 71 Ryzen cores across 7296 users with recent credit. I have two Ryzens with 24 cores each, so something is wrong.... I'm not doing more than half the current work!
72) Message boards : Number crunching : Project Status (Message 7347) Posted 17 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Why is asteroids@home no longer listed on BOINC. I tried to add to my new computer and it wasn't list. I think that list is manually updated, you'll have to ask over in the Boinc forums and someone will tell the big guy in charge (David Anderson).
73) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD Windows GPU application? (Message 7346) Posted 17 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Also hungry for AMD GPU work....
74) Message boards : News : Server is up and running again (Message 7345) Posted 17 Nov 2022 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Welcome back! i have GPU work and so far no problems. Is this project cuda only? :-(
75) Message boards : Number crunching : Project Status (Message 7121) Posted 2 Feb 2021 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: So when are we going to get a new status report on the project? Keeping your users up to date will keep the users from giving up on the project completely and also increase the amount of money contributed to fix the hardware issues. It's claimed to be a coronavirus problem. They have heard of Ebay right? You can fix the server without leaving the building.
76) Message boards : Web site : Certificate Expired (Message 7120) Posted 2 Feb 2021 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: The site certificate has expired I see that a lot in many places, you're not using Opera are you? It's very fussy and gets upset even if it's 1 second out of date.
77) Message boards : Problems and bug reports : Unable to reattach the project (Message 7119) Posted 2 Feb 2021 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: I am getting error "Failed to add project. Please try again later." in BOINC. I can login via the web-site and see my account just fine. There's a busted server, it says so on the main page. Quite what coronavirus has to do with it I've no idea, you can order parts online.
78) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD Windows GPU application? (Message 5818) Posted 27 May 2018 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Thanks, I'm currently messing about with 5 computers getting them to run as much at once as possible. I've got a mixture of AMD and Nvidia cards and Intel CPUs, some with on-board graphics, and the graphics cards can often do multiple WUs at the same time with certain projects, or even two different projects at once (to use the SP and DP parts of them simultaneously), and some tasks require some CPU assistance. For example my R9 290 AMD GPU is now running two Einsteins and 2 Milkyways at once. I've worked out how much CPU assistance that needs, told Boinc via the config files, and whatever's spare runs Asteroids on the rest of the CPU. I'm either being really clever or I've gone nuts.
79) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD Windows GPU application? (Message 5814) Posted 25 May 2018 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Are there currently Nvidia tasks available? Because looking at the leaderboard, I don't see many folk with more computing power than myself. And I'm only running CPUs. I would have thought anyone with a Nvidia running would have massive amounts more points than me.
80) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU stopped due to quad core task (Message 5812) Posted 20 May 2018 by (banished: ID 389916) Post: Ah, it's happened again and I think I was wrong to blame the 4 core Milkyway nbody. This time I have 4 1-core Milkyway modfits running on my quad core CPU, and nothing on the GPU, with only Einstein 1GPU+1CPU tasks queued. The reason being the modfits are on high priority as they're the second choice for the processor and were downloaded when Asteroids had no work left. I guess Boinc is making the most sensible choice after all, I think it always fills all cores and GPUs whenever possible, but if something has little deadline left, that has to come first. But I see a much bigger queue of tasks to send out on the Asteroids server now, did we get the disk upgrade for the server for that marathon?

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