Panic Mode On (76) Server Problems?

Every time VLARs are discussed I remember The Attack of the Killer 58.7s. In that late 2006 time frame with only CPU crunching and coarser chirp resolution, that was the granted credit rate for VLARs.

Conceptually, assigning work in a manner such that each host is most productive is obviously desirable. The .vlar exclusion for CUDA does align with that and is definitely needed as long as the 6.08 and 6.09 stock applications are in use on older CUDA cards. My impression is that when SETI@home v7 is released here, both CUDA and NV OpenCL implementations should be capable of doing VLARS without excessive screen lags, etc., and with less time penalty. An adjustment of the basic splitter estimate could be used to better balance credit grants.

The fact remains that VLAR tasks are harder to divide into small enough parts to take full advantage of the parallel nature of GPU crunching. Newer GPUs do have the capability to be subdivided so that only part of the GPU would be working on the least divisible parts of the task, but that's another layer of software complexity and there would be issues with validation on result_overflow tasks. That brings this discussion back toward the "Server problems" subject area.

Please don´t missunderstud what I and Richard says, SETI is a project that is spected to runs DECADES before any spected success could be achived (unless of course our little green mens give us a hand), so "fast or slow" is relative to that, the difference from a 12 min WU (GPU) to a 1 1/2 hour (CPU) makes little difference to the 50 Years or maybe more project.

Any help is wanted, just don´t need to be worried on that particular point, we are just warning because the video lag could be a serius problem if you need to use a not crunching only host.

Anyone else having trouble reporting ?
Uploads are going through ok but Scheduler requests are timing out.

T.A.

Huge Panic. The panic thread is now way above the 200 posts, where arkayn usually would start a new Panic Mode thread.

This thread is getting too big for my 300 Baud modem.....

What to do, what to do? :-)
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I'm only running one computer. Using 2 cores of an old Q8200 CPU for CPU tasks, and 2 cores feeding a single Mid-range GPU, ATI HD7870.
Look at the RAC folks, and ask yourselves why it beats so many multi GPU monster computers :-)

Ok, I think I will have to stop using my Swedish, and/or English type of humour. Seems as if only people from England (Great Britain), and Nordic people get it.

Be serious Sten-Arne, be very very serious.
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I'm only running one computer. Using 2 cores of an old Q8200 CPU for CPU tasks, and 2 cores feeding a single Mid-range GPU, ATI HD7870.
Look at the RAC folks, and ask yourselves why it beats so many multi GPU monster computers :-)

Ok, I think I will have to stop using my Swedish, and/or English type of humour. Seems as if only English people and Nordic people get it.

Be serious Sten-Arne, be very very serious.

Meow?

I was just wondering Sten.
Just returned from London.

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Seems like our wingmens take few days off, normaly Pendings/Validated = 2x, to much pendings = to low RAC!. Now = 12282WU wonder to see when the number stop growing.

Yeah, I'm actually starting to realize what you meant about pendings piling up. I've never had so many, but then again, judging by the ones that have validated it looks like they're mostly going to be shorties. But still, a ton of pending WU's....holy moly!

I guess we are back. Welcome back everyone.
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