Posts by mikey

1) (Message 8278)
Posted 21 days ago by Profile mikey
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Firefox is refusing to connect saying the certificate has expired, yes I got around it by agreeing to connect to a 'potentially dangerous site' but some browsers are harder than others to do that and my completed tasks won't upload either, guess that's related.
2) (Message 8064)
Posted 23 Sep 2023 by Profile mikey
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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.


It's unfair to compare "points", most people call them credits, between projects as each project has it's own basis for awarding them. Gving more credit per task often means more users coming to your project which can push a project to the very brink of failure or cause them to spend money to upgrade the hardware that they would rather use for other things. It's best to pick the project you crunch for because you like what they are doing and think it's useful to what you think is a good thing and stop worrying about the credits or "points" each project gives out.. As a person with over 1 Trillion total Boinc credits or "points" I can tell you that all those "points" and $10US will get me a cup of coffee at a Starbucks coffee shop but without the $10US I am not getting anything!!
3) (Message 7996)
Posted 17 Sep 2023 by Profile mikey
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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?


If they are gpu's then yes most Boinc Projects, that have gpu apps, and Folding can use gpu miners. I'm not aware of anything except mining itself that can use Asic miners though.
4) (Message 7815)
Posted 28 May 2023 by Profile mikey
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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 best to set your A/V to ignore the Boinc directories altogether, c:\program data\boinc, as this will stop you getting notified of any fake viruses, back and forth activity can seem like virus activity, and any real virus will try to escape the Boinc directories and be caught by your A/V. Norton for you. ALL Boinc Projects work very hard to keep their systems clean as any real virus can be a killer for them as far as ever getting people back crunching for them again.
5) (Message 7495)
Posted 27 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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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.


You do know that they are using 'credit new' now and are set on that at least for the short term...right? 'Credit New' is pushed by the Boinc Developers and other senior level tech people and they seem to be the people the Project is listening too right now.
6) (Message 7486)
Posted 27 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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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
7) (Message 7483)
Posted 25 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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New tasks should be available from sunday or monday.


WOO HOO!!!
Thank you very much!!
8) (Message 7410)
Posted 21 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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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.


Yes neither of you guys are on the Team now and when I go to my Team page I see that option listed
9) (Message 7409)
Posted 21 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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These two lines have disappeared :)


From where and what did they do?
10) (Message 7408)
Posted 21 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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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.


[Removed by moderator content]I do have other options but Linux has a much smaller footprint and overhead as well meaning most tasks run a little bit faster. That also means that memory limited pc's, I still have a couple that can't go past 16GB of ram and Linux will let me use them much better than Windows is doing now. I have been using Linux Mint for awhile now and can mostly make it do what I want it to do so that all current Boinc Projects work on it. The one problem is I haven't tried running an AMD gpu on it yet, there are lots of how tos in the various forums but right now I have plenty of Windows machines for my AMd gpu's without having to actually do it.

And no don't even think of asking me to send you my AMD gpu's, I will figure things out here eventually but right now I can still crunch something with them so it's okay.

BTW PrimeGrid has no problems with the Win7 pc's so it's a setting someplace on the Server side, probably a security thing the 'developers' wanted and stuck it in there.
11) (Message 7407)
Posted 21 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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... 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


ROFL!!!
I never ran those tasks as they just took too long for me, I now run RNA World and Climate Prediction tasks that can both take a LONG time even on faster cpu's.
12) (Message 7404)
Posted 21 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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Thank you for doing this
13) (Message 7372)
Posted 19 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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... 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
14) (Message 7371)
Posted 19 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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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.


It just says can't connect due to SSL error, it happens on all of my Win7 pc's and I'm just going to wind them down from crunching what they can and will install Linux Mint on them, I already have Mint running on several other pc's so it's not really a problem and they will probably crunch faster anyway and best of all they can crunch any project
15) (Message 7365)
Posted 19 Nov 2022 by Profile mikey
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Project was re-added to the official BOINC list in last day or two.

How do you get Boinc to reload the list to see it? I'm using Win11 Home on this pc with Boinc ver 7.20.0 and it isn't on the list for me?

Also those of us with Win7 pc's are out of luck due to an SSL error, 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
16) (Message 7025)
Posted 11 Aug 2020 by Profile mikey
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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!


Slide the sliders in Afterburner, if they slide together and you don't want them to click the link linking them and they will be unlinked.
17) (Message 6670)
Posted 12 May 2020 by Profile mikey
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Hi! Sorry for the long delay. What driver are you using? And it is not that I can not run any asteroid jobs, but that some jobs will cause Windows 7 to decide that the driver is not responding and forces a reset. As I said, this causes my desktop to be screwed up and Nvidia GeForce Experience not to be able to access the driver to display card information or access video recording settings or perform video recordings.


In Windows once the driver crashes the only way to reset it is to restart Windows itself.
18) (Message 6663)
Posted 10 May 2020 by Profile mikey
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My raspberry 3B+ and Zeros that running stretch are getting constant computation errors. The raspberry 4's that are running buster are processing units properly. They have the latest boinc app installed. Please advise


Did you try installing the latest app on the 3B+ and Zeros? Did you try installing Buster on the older Pi's? The older Pi's could have been pushed out due to the Project moving forward instead of standing still.
19) (Message 6651)
Posted 5 May 2020 by Profile mikey
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Is there a link? My laptop has finished all the work it had & can't upload or get any new work :(


It's called Server Status on the home page
http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/server_status.php
20) (Message 6635)
Posted 30 Apr 2020 by Profile mikey
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Thank you, Mikey, for your reply.

With no intervention on my part, the Pi 1B+ is now processing a work unit. This is after 295 work units were downloaded today and failed with "error while computing."

Hopefully, the problem is solved, albeit mysteriously.


I would make a backup disk for your Pi just in case they come back, shut things down swap disks and start back up again and see if it works, if so it's a disk problem.


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