Blanding (Jan 12 2009)

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Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1376 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 852788 - Posted: 12 Jan 2009, 23:58:40 UTC
	A rather quiet weekend, though the astropulse validator seems to have gotten locked up on something. Josh and Eric and looking into that. This morning was a little weird. An old UPS we were using as a glorified power strip just up and stopped working, thus removing power to various sundry items in our secondary lab which wouldn't have been a big deal but one of those items was a switch, so sidious and vader (and casper for that matter) disappeared from the network for a short while there. Nobody seemed to notice. In the afternoon Jeff and I plotted some physical server moves for tomorrow's outage. We'll see how much we get done - and as always we take small steps with these big projects. Various cuda-related items were discussed in our server meeting today. A bug that was causing the triplet overflows was found, and the blue screen of death issue with slower nVidia boards is getting a workaround. New client and application releases in the near future should clear some of this up. Back to work - which means plotting lots of radar data for me. - Matt ____________ -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude
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Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 641 Credit: 10,902,514 RAC: 2,705	Message 852789 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 0:04:50 UTC - in response to Message 852788.
	Question, is the "triplet overflow" bug you mention the same as the problem with VLAR workunits crashing CUDA and possibly the video driver too? ____________ You will be assimilated...bunghole!
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Dr. C.E.T.I. Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 15969 Credit: 630,995 RAC: 199	Message 852791 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 0:09:31 UTC
	. . . Thanks to All of You @ Berkeley - Accolades to Each for the Hard Work Thanks for the Updates Matt . . . ____________ BOINC Wiki . . . Science Status Page . . .
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Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7669 Credit: 40,271,727 RAC: 21,568	Message 852798 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 0:27:23 UTC - in response to Message 852789.
	Question, is the "triplet overflow" bug you mention the same as the problem with VLAR workunits crashing CUDA and possibly the video driver too? No, they are two separate bugs - but Matt's post suggests that both are being addressed.
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Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 641 Credit: 10,902,514 RAC: 2,705	Message 852799 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 0:28:55 UTC - in response to Message 852798.
	I thought that the VLAR bug affected all Nvidia cards regardless of the speed of the chip? ____________ You will be assimilated...bunghole!
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Eric Korpela Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 998 Credit: 5,841,097 RAC: 6,291	Message 852806 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 0:40:52 UTC - in response to Message 852798.
	Definitely two different bugs. New app is going into beta shortly. Eric ____________
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Borgholio Send message Joined: 2 Aug 99 Posts: 641 Credit: 10,902,514 RAC: 2,705	Message 852811 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 0:44:39 UTC - in response to Message 852806.
	So the VLAR bug is going to be looked at after this next release? ____________ You will be assimilated...bunghole!
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Geek@Play Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 31 Jul 01 Posts: 2414 Credit: 79,016,596 RAC: 0	Message 852891 - Posted: 13 Jan 2009, 3:44:35 UTC
	Oh........I get it!!! Blanding, Utah of course!!! ____________ Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....Boinc....
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