Posts by Bill F
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(Message 9180)
Posted 27 Sep 2025 by
Bill F
Post: The Stat's information has not been updated in 7 days it appears Last update user XML 2025-09-17 10:26:30 UTC (7 days 18:53:03 old) Last update host XML 2025-09-17 10:26:30 UTC (7 days 18:53:03 old) Last update team XML 2025-09-17 10:26:30 UTC (7 days 18:53:03 old) Respectfully Bill F |
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(Message 9179)
Posted 27 Sep 2025 by
Bill F
Post: My Windows systems are receiving and completing tasks is the "certificate" issue only Linux related ? Bill F |
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(Message 9106)
Posted 2 Sep 2025 by
Bill F
Post: Welcome back The Project site looks good. What work still needs to be completed before new work is generated ? Respectfully Bill F |
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(Message 8723)
Posted 2 Jan 2025 by
Bill F
Post: I dont think ive gotten new tasks on this project since 6 December I have downloaded and uploaded tasks on Jan 1 and Jan 2, 2025 All seems to be fine ... currently no tasks available to download Thanks Bill F |
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(Message 8672)
Posted 6 Dec 2024 by
Bill F
Post: There is no problem with stats export here. The problem is with BoincStats which is broken. Stats have been available at FreeDC with no issues. Keith, Ok I see what you are talking about does the same issue exist for Ralph or are their Stat's actually broken ? Thanks Bill F |
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(Message 8668)
Posted 6 Dec 2024 by
Bill F
Post: The last Time Stamp on the Stat's Export page is as follows.... Last update user XML 2024-11-13 13:33:44 UTC (22 days 01:44:53 old) Last update host XML 2024-11-13 13:33:44 UTC (22 days 01:44:53 old) Last update team XML 2024-11-13 13:33:44 UTC (22 days 01:44:53 old)' The process or Script needs to be restarted or repaired. Respectfully Bill F |
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(Message 8356)
Posted 28 Apr 2024 by
Bill F
Post: Nothing much has changed in a couple of years .... still growing huge numbers of Validated tasks. A person would think that storage space has a cost and Back Ups take time and processing power even in the background why are they keeping the tasks around once the science is extracted. Bill F |
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(Message 8355)
Posted 23 Apr 2024 by
Bill F
Post: we have decided to detect available features by the app instead of having multiple apps and relying on what the boinc client reports. Once (hopefully soon) we release a new version, this boinc feature won't be relevant to us anymore. It would be interesting to hear if a Windows user with a AVX-5112 capable CPU and BOINC Version 8.0.0 can download a 102.15 (avx512_win10) Task. Anyone out there have a success story ? Bill F |
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(Message 8352)
Posted 22 Apr 2024 by
Bill F
Post: This developmental version will allow Windows users to get some of the new Asteroids@home AVX-512 tasks assuming that they have one of the AMD or Intel CPU's that have AVX-512 capability. And are willing to load a Developmental version of BOINC I have been running version 8.0.0 on 4 systems for quite a while with no issues but none of my systems have AVX-512 capabilities. Bill F |
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(Message 8350)
Posted 21 Apr 2024 by
Bill F
Post: Is there a research reason why the number of Valid tasks in the database is so high ? After the task has been completed, returned and validated and the resulting science data collected most projects purge the completed tasks to keep their databases somewhat trimmed. This reduces size and both back up and search and indexing times. Thanks Bill F |
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(Message 8349)
Posted 21 Apr 2024 by
Bill F
Post: Please provide detailed 'How To" instructions for making this switch to the Anonymous platform. Well a new Development level BOINC 8.0.0 has been released for testing which includes AVX-512 detection. Bill F |
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(Message 8345)
Posted 19 Apr 2024 by
Bill F
Post: The new Development version of BOINC 8.0.0 enables AVX-512 detection. This is a feature on some CPU's. Bill F |
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(Message 8270)
Posted 14 Feb 2024 by
Bill F
Post: OBTW Mac Users.... BOINC Version 7.24.3 Recommended version (MacOS 10.13+) Was released on 30 Jan 2024 This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a Mac OS upgrade to Sonoma Bill F |
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(Message 7841)
Posted 29 Jun 2023 by
Bill F
Post: A new version of the BOINC client is available for Windows, Mac, and Android Available at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php |
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(Message 7679)
Posted 8 Jan 2023 by
Bill F
Post: I do run Milyway and Eienstein as well as other projects and I make my GPU's available to those projects as well.I'm just saying it's more sensible to allocate chips to what they're best at. I have adjusted my system allocation based on your suggestion and will give it a try. Thanks Bill F |
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(Message 7677)
Posted 8 Jan 2023 by
Bill F
Post: Yes my GPU is slower than your CPU ... but it is faster than my CPU Dell Precision T5600 runningJust saying I've never seen such a slow project on GPU. Asteroids does not seem to be suited to GPU. You should put that GPU onto Einstein or Milkyway. Those run 30+ times faster than a CPU. If you look at the total flops in the applications page here, the CPUs are outdoing the GPUs, that's just absurd. https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php I do run Milyway and Eienstein as well as other projects and I make my GPU's available to those projects as well. |
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(Message 7669)
Posted 8 Jan 2023 by
Bill F
Post: 1647 seconds to do 4, so it churns out one every 412 seconds. My Ryzen 9 3900XT (using fractionally less power) does 24 in an hour, so one every 150 seconds. Your graphics card is slower than my CPU. That's just not right. Every other project, the GPU is way faster, not slower.Bill, how many do you run concurrently on your nvidia card? So I can get an idea of speed.Bill here I believe that my NVIDA GX 1060 runs 4 concurrently and the Run and CPU times are a fraction of the time on my CPU only systems. Yes my GPU is slower than your CPU ... but it is faster than my CPU Dell Precision T5600 running Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 44 Stepping 2] (4 processors) You may note that I have worked a couple credits for this project. |
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(Message 7666)
Posted 7 Jan 2023 by
Bill F
Post: Actually since there are Cuda application tasks this is a GPU project if I am correct?I hadn't noticed them (I only have AMD cards). What's strange is the total Gflops shown for Cuda is much lower than for CPU. Are those tasks rare? Bill here I believe that my NVIDA GX 1060 runs 4 concurrently and the Run and CPU times are a fraction of the time on my CPU only systems. |
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(Message 7640)
Posted 30 Dec 2022 by
Bill F
Post: This is why we encourage our contributors to upgrade their platform to the latest software platforms and driver packages if possible.What in particular should we make sure is up to date? Since this is not a GPU project, that leaves that complication out. AFAIK there are no drivers to help CPUs behave better. Actually since there are Cuda application tasks this is a GPU project if I am correct ? Bill F |
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(Message 7280)
Posted 9 Nov 2022 by
Bill F
Post: I asked the admin directly by private message a week ago and no answer... ** Update ** Josef Durech responded with the following .... There is still some problem with sending the units 🙁 It seems the chain of problems is neverending. Best Josef |
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