Hi

A have a strange problem. From some time I am not able to get WU for my CPU i SETI. BOINC is trying to get the WU only for GPU despite the fact that I set up the option Use NVIDIA GPU = no

My settings are as follows

SETI@home Enhanced: yes
Astropulse: no
Astropulse v5: no
Use CPU
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) yes
Use NVIDIA GPU if present
(enforced by 6.10+ clients) no

The standard output from BOINC is

2010-05-13 16:58 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2010-05-13 16:58 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
2010-05-13 16:58 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2010-05-13 16:58 SETI@home Message from server: No work sent
2010-05-13 16:58 SETI@home Message from server: Your computer has no NVIDIA GPU
2010-05-13 18:49 SETI@home update requested by user
2010-05-13 18:49 SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2010-05-13 18:49 SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
2010-05-13 18:49 SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

Any ideas? I tried to change setting from no to yes and change back to no. I tried various configurations and it is still the same. The problem persists from a few days. It's a bit strange - I am able to get the Astropulse for my CPU in SetiBeta...

I will be grateful for help
Regards
Chris

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It's probably to do with the version of BOINC that you use, but since you haven't stated it (and your computers are hidden, so we can't look it up), I'm a bit stuck.

I am using 6.10.18 - as far as I know the last public version

More details

2010-05-13 16:57:34 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_x86_64
2010-05-13 16:57:34 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
2010-05-13 16:57:34 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
2010-05-13 16:57:34 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
2010-05-13 16:57:34 Running under account Bartosiewicz
2010-05-13 16:57:35 Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
2010-05-13 16:57:35 Processor: 256.00 KB cache
2010-05-13 16:57:35 Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni
2010-05-13 16:57:35 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Ultimate x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
2010-05-13 16:57:35 Memory: 3.99 GB physical, 13.76 GB virtual
2010-05-13 16:57:35 Disk: 244.14 GB total, 72.14 GB free
2010-05-13 16:57:35 Local time is UTC +2 hours
2010-05-13 16:57:47 ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5700 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1360 GFLOPS peak)
2010-05-13 16:57:47 ATI GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD5700 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1360 GFLOPS peak)


Regards
Chris

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I am using 6.10.18 - as far as I know the last public version

Later versions have been released, but we keep reverting to Groundhog Day (6 November 2009), because the bugs they introduced into the newer versions are deemed to be more serious than the bugs they hadn't even to started to fix when v6.10.18 was first released.

It's getting harder and harder to remember the exact state of play at a particular moment over six months ago, but I believe v6.10.18 still had a bug with the "Use NVidia GPU?" setting for any except the default venue. Claggy will be able to advise - it was his bug-catch.

Now off to test v6.10.55 - downloaded while I was typing :-(

BOINC is trying to get the WU only for GPU despite the fact that I set up the option Use NVIDIA GPU = no

Since you don't have an nVidia GPU, that options is meaningless for your host.

The reason why your BOINC isn't requesting work for the CPU must be something else, maybe debt issues.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Thanks for answers - two new questions though ;-)
- where can I get those versions? They are not on the official site (or am I wrong?)
- can you recommend me any newer version which is the most stable one? Or direct to somewhere where I can find such information?

Regards
Chris

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Gundolf,

What do you mean by debt issues?

Regards
Chris

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What do you mean by debt issues?

You are crunching for six projects besides SETI. Depending on your resource share, it's possible that other projects have gotten less computing time in the past and are demanding it back now. On the other hand, it could be a bug with your BOINC client too. They haven't been quite reliable in respect to that lately.

Gruß,
Gundolf

I am crunching two GPU projects and two CPU (SETI/SETI beta). Three additional ones I am using only when there is no data from SETI, they are usually in "no download data" state and they have resource share 100 while both SETI have 1000 RS. BTW how is resource share counted? By day/week/month? I looked a bit and I found that 10x resource share should result in 10x more work but to be quite frank I cannot see it working like that ;-)

Regards Chris

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Thanks for answers - two new questions though ;-)
- where can I get those versions? They are not on the official site (or am I wrong?)
- can you recommend me any newer version which is the most stable one? Or direct to somewhere where I can find such information?

Regards
Chris

Actually, v6.10.18 isn't too bad - just having a moan!

Provided you're not running AQUA (you're not - I just checked the list), you should be OK. You'll get that slightly irritating line about asking for GPU work - actually, that'll be folorn attempts to get ATI work, it's a separate message from the "don't have an NVidia GPU" one - so it won't go away with a newer BOINC: I hadn't seen the ATI cards listed when I asked about versions.

If you want to live on the bleedin' edge, go to the same download website, and click the 'All versions' link. You'll see v6.10.55 already available, with this very important warning:

(MAY BE UNSTABLE - USE ONLY FOR TESTING)

Thanks! Somehow I didn't notice the all versions button ;-) I think I will give it a try - if everything collapses at least I will be able to report some new bugs heh...

Regards
Chris

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There is a very neat trick not to have the Seti project ask for work on the ATI GPU. You know that through the Milkyway (and Collatz?) project preferences you can set not to use the ATI GPU? These preferences work for that project only, of course.

But it sets <no_ati>1</no_ati> in the account_*.xml file.

So all you have to do is:
- exit BOINC completely;
- navigate to your BOINC Data directory.
- edit account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml with Notepad;
- add <no_ati>1</no_ati> under <no_cuda>1</no_cuda>
- save the file;
- restart BOINC.

And hey, presto, no more asking for work for the ATI GPU on Seti.

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Hi

Just a quick update.

Before I installed the newer version I changed the resource share to 10x more and boinc downloaded a few units.. So it seems to be the problem with RS - nevertheless I'll try to install the newer version just to see it if's the same there

Thanks for help
Chris

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