Posts by Dark Angel

1) (Message 8281)
Posted 20 days ago by Dark Angel
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Another one here, trouble getting to the site unless I step past several warnings about expired ssl certificates and cannot upload completed work. All uploads fail with "transient HTTP error". Hitting Update results in:
Fri 08 Mar 2024 21:24:24 | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request to http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc_cgi/cgi failed: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
2) (Message 7362)
Posted 18 Nov 2022 by Dark Angel
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Actually the project is now using the most resent Credit System, provided by Boinc.
There are many reasons why project is switching to it. In contrary to the old one, the new system is more stable, more accurate, more fair and more bulletproof to cheating.
Here https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CreditNew you can find some details if you are interesting.

Cheers,
Georgi


The Credit New system and it's ease for cheating is the reason LHC@Home was dropped by Gridcoin with a significant loss of computing resources for the project. Your previous system, with fixed credit for validated work was far "more fair and bulletproof to cheating". The one and only reason any project uses Credit New is because it's the default.
All you have to do to abuse Credit New is keep creating new clients. You don't need new machines, just wipe the old client and start fresh. It's trivial.
3) (Message 7349)
Posted 17 Nov 2022 by Dark Angel
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Wonderful!

So when is the messed up credit going to be fixed? We're getting about 1/7th of the return for the same work units compared to before the crash.
4) (Message 7326)
Posted 16 Nov 2022 by Dark Angel
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Is there a reason this project is returning such low credit?
I don't mean compared to any other project, I mean to itself. Each unit used to be worth 480 credits, now I'm seeing less than one sixth of that per unit after the restart.
5) (Message 7271)
Posted 22 Oct 2022 by Dark Angel
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Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:00 | Asteroids@home | Fetching scheduler list
Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:02 | Asteroids@home | Master file download succeeded
Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:07 | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:07 | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
Sat 22 Oct 2022 14:28:14 | Asteroids@home | [error] No start tag in scheduler reply


Something's not right with the scheduler
6) (Message 7153)
Posted 26 Feb 2021 by Dark Angel
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This user http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/show_user.php?userid=464084 has attempted to take the captaincy of our team. We do not know who they are, they are not one of us and tried to take the captaincy the first day they joined the team. Is there any way they can be barred for misconduct?
7) (Message 7084)
Posted 28 Oct 2020 by Dark Angel
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https://www.9news.com.au/world/god-of-chaos-asteroid-is-speeding-up-as-it-heads-towards-earth/02c4d899-bf23-4a04-98fc-b92861f115ba?fbclid=IwAR2PCuwXlGjiRmh3gD1itb3ygu-i3_K1bU_x9eSZFj8HPup_tm7Lg9H9_UA
8) (Message 6785)
Posted 25 Jun 2020 by Dark Angel
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I have seen multiple comments regarding a doubling of run time on the new work units compared to the CUDA55 units. I am seeing the same thing, though the variation seems to be from double to triple the run time.
This isn't encouraging and suggests the new app is poorly optimised.
If this matter could be passed up to the devs for revision that would be much appreciated by the volunteers.
9) (Message 6303)
Posted 11 Jun 2019 by Dark Angel
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Wed 12 Jun 2019 07:37:35 AEST | Asteroids@home | [error] Error reported by file upload server: Server is out of disk space

Isn't the new server supposed to be here by now?
10) (Message 6156)
Posted 20 Jan 2019 by Dark Angel
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According to this page you run a TR since june 2012 (!) and it got hundreds of sse2, sse3 and avx tasks:
http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/host_app_versions.php?hostid=116
This can't be true, can it?

I suggest to detach and reattach the TR to get a fresh computer ID.

Nonetheless avx is not necessarily faster than sse(x) as an optimised app also needs to be aligned to the CPU's cache layout etc.


Old post but this deserves a reply.

The OP probably is running a machine which has had the HDD moved to newer hardware without an operating system reinstall. This is quite common when upgrading Linux based machines.
11) (Message 6155)
Posted 19 Jan 2019 by Dark Angel
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Ryzen 7 2700X running 64bit Linux Mint

Sun 20 Jan 2019 08:45:49 AEDT | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor smca

This machine has never seen anything except SSE3 CPU units and Cuda55 GPU units.
My Ryzen 7 2700 (non X) rig is the same. Never done anything but SSE3.
12) (Message 6154)
Posted 19 Jan 2019 by Dark Angel
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I have two Ryzen 7 rigs that haven't seen an AVX unit, only ever SSE3. Are there no AVX units being produced any more?
13) (Message 6132)
Posted 6 Jan 2019 by Dark Angel
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Is there any forecast on when there will be more work?
14) (Message 5869)
Posted 30 Jun 2018 by Dark Angel
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This seems to be happening again.
15) (Message 5857)
Posted 24 Jun 2018 by Dark Angel
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It costs the project actual money to provide the servers and network connection, and like most oragnisations they will be paying for the resources that best fit their needs. A sudden, unexpected influx of demand on those resources can be quite problematic and even crash the project servers if enough static reserve or elastic capacity isn't being paid for. That's on top of the issue of work availability to cope with a significant but short term increase in production.

I'm disappointed that FB didn't give the project a bit more warning so they could schedule the required resources. The last FB Sprint, at the ODLK1 project, brought the project servers to their knees with the extra load, requiring them to be upgraded at least once and possibly twice over the few days the Sprint ran. I'm sure every project is happy to get more work done, but that's no reason to not be considerate about it.
16) (Message 5838)
Posted 22 Jun 2018 by Dark Angel
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Unfortunately I think you're right.
17) (Message 5836)
Posted 22 Jun 2018 by Dark Angel
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A question: do the Formula BOINC organisers give the project any warning? That would be fair and reasonable given the sudden increase in demand for work as well as the sudden drop off of same at the end of the event.
18) (Message 5794)
Posted 23 Apr 2018 by Dark Angel
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Hi Kyong, the same problem appears to be happening again.
19) (Message 5790)
Posted 23 Apr 2018 by Dark Angel
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Getting same message here on three machines.