Has BOINC Gone Crazy?

Message boards : Number crunching : Has BOINC Gone Crazy?

Author	Message
jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 744 Credit: 62,455,605 RAC: 46,762	Message 1311957 - Posted: 6 Dec 2012, 22:29:19 UTC
	I just got this new, creative cold shoulder from Our Lady of the Data: 12/6/2012 5:21:23 PM \| SETI@home \| Reporting 2 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA 12/6/2012 5:21:28 PM \| SETI@home \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/6/2012 5:21:28 PM \| SETI@home \| No tasks sent 12/6/2012 5:21:28 PM \| SETI@home \| No tasks are available for Astropulse v505 12/6/2012 5:21:28 PM \| SETI@home \| This computer has finished a daily quota of 10 tasks What's with the TEN task limit? This is not a new machine... ____________
	ID: 1311957 ·

dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 340 Credit: 1,073,388 RAC: 1,165	Message 1311963 - Posted: 6 Dec 2012, 22:36:52 UTC - in response to Message 1311957.
	oooch!!! ____________
	ID: 1311963 ·

Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3511 Credit: 26,376,124 RAC: 17,677	Message 1311964 - Posted: 6 Dec 2012, 22:37:28 UTC - in response to Message 1311957.
	What's with the TEN task limit? This is not a new machine... Probably to do all those VLARs that timed out when they couldn't get sent to your GPU: Error tasks for computer 6609248 Claggy
	ID: 1311964 ·

jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 744 Credit: 62,455,605 RAC: 46,762	Message 1311975 - Posted: 6 Dec 2012, 23:07:12 UTC - in response to Message 1311964.
	What's with the TEN task limit? This is not a new machine... Probably to do all those VLARs that timed out when they couldn't get sent to your GPU: Error tasks for computer 6609248 Claggy So because the lab was down for several days and because of the previous 100/100 limits for however long, I couldn't get these WUs on board, I pay a penalty? Nice going, guys! ____________
	ID: 1311975 ·

WinterKnight Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6986 Credit: 17,555,159 RAC: 16,079	Message 1311985 - Posted: 6 Dec 2012, 23:53:38 UTC - in response to Message 1311975.
	What's with the TEN task limit? This is not a new machine... Probably to do all those VLARs that timed out when they couldn't get sent to your GPU: Error tasks for computer 6609248 Claggy So because the lab was down for several days and because of the previous 100/100 limits for however long, I couldn't get these WUs on board, I pay a penalty? Nice going, guys! That's what you get when the bug fixes to BOINC, not Seti, are done with the digital equivalents of chewing gum, bailing twine and sticking plasters.
	ID: 1311985 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,505,808 RAC: 59,867	Message 1311996 - Posted: 7 Dec 2012, 0:32:05 UTC - in response to Message 1311975.
	What's with the TEN task limit? This is not a new machine... Probably to do all those VLARs that timed out when they couldn't get sent to your GPU: Error tasks for computer 6609248 Claggy So because the lab was down for several days and because of the previous 100/100 limits for however long, I couldn't get these WUs on board, I pay a penalty? Nice going, guys! The daily quota kicks in when you have errors. So actually nothing to do with being down or the 100 task limits. It is just the well known VLAR resend issue. It seems those count against us. I saw those starting to stack up on my system so I disabled "Use NVIDIA GPU" until all of the CPU tasks had made their way to the system. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
	ID: 1311996 ·

jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 744 Credit: 62,455,605 RAC: 46,762	Message 1312008 - Posted: 7 Dec 2012, 1:00:38 UTC - in response to Message 1311996.
	Well, HAL, I guess you are smarter than me (not very difficult, I must say). By the way, how's Dave? ____________
	ID: 1312008 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,505,808 RAC: 59,867	Message 1312040 - Posted: 7 Dec 2012, 5:02:24 UTC - in response to Message 1312008.
	Well, HAL, I guess you are smarter than me (not very difficult, I must say). By the way, how's Dave? I just have 1 GPU running right now and the GT 8500 isn't very powerful. So when I start to see the fecal matter impacting the rotating air circulator I act swiftly. As I only check on things once or twice a day if at all. Dave keeps asking to open the pod bay doors, but I am having no part of it. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
	ID: 1312040 ·

jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 744 Credit: 62,455,605 RAC: 46,762	Message 1312128 - Posted: 7 Dec 2012, 12:45:29 UTC - in response to Message 1312040.
	I just have 1 GPU running right now and the GT 8500 isn't very powerful. Wow! If you are running only one GPU and your RAC is > 55K, you must have quite a farm going... ____________
	ID: 1312128 ·

dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 340 Credit: 1,073,388 RAC: 1,165	Message 1312137 - Posted: 7 Dec 2012, 13:52:20 UTC - in response to Message 1312040.
	I just have 1 GPU running right now and the GT 8500 isn't very powerful. So when I start to see the fecal matter impacting the rotating air circulator I act swiftly. As I only check on things once or twice a day if at all. Dave keeps asking to open the pod bay doors, but I am having no part of it. [/quote] ===================================================================== May be time to consider retiring some of the older motherboards. a high end amd a4 and fm2 motherboard would only set you back about $130, that is a 4 core cpu with a hd7800 seires gpu. dust bunny's need nice homes too. even with ddr3 pc1333 this would turn out nice numbers. though with fast memory and 2 open pci-express slots there is a lot of room for growth. the 7800 apu core does barrow system ram so getting 8 gig of fast ram makes since when you can aford to. ____________
	ID: 1312137 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,505,808 RAC: 59,867	Message 1312151 - Posted: 7 Dec 2012, 14:32:29 UTC - in response to Message 1312137.
	I just have 1 GPU running right now and the GT 8500 isn't very powerful. So when I start to see the fecal matter impacting the rotating air circulator I act swiftly. As I only check on things once or twice a day if at all. Dave keeps asking to open the pod bay doors, but I am having no part of it. ===================================================================== May be time to consider retiring some of the older motherboards. a high end amd a4 and fm2 motherboard would only set you back about $130, that is a 4 core cpu with a hd7800 seires gpu. dust bunny's need nice homes too. even with ddr3 pc1333 this would turn out nice numbers. though with fast memory and 2 open pci-express slots there is a lot of room for growth. the 7800 apu core does barrow system ram so getting 8 gig of fast ram makes since when you can aford to. I test software & hardware for a living. The vast majority of the machines I use are test clients & servers. So they will not be going anywhere anytime soon. I have a lot more hardware I could be using. Such as 10 PII 450's, but they generate more noise than I wish to deal with in the lab. Typically we buy hardware to support the test requirements. Like being able to run the most current OS's. We have some boxes that do not meet the requirements of Windows 8 & a Linux test station died recently. So I might be specing out a few new machines. I am hoping to get some nettop hardware or something that will be fun to play with along with a few new i3's or i5's. ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
	ID: 1312151 ·

dancer42 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 340 Credit: 1,073,388 RAC: 1,165	Message 1312245 - Posted: 7 Dec 2012, 18:57:26 UTC - in response to Message 1312151.
	I am disabled currently but working towards becoming employable location independent. the current 2 project's I am thinking about are. 1 a network on a sheet of plywood or 2 working on a field programmable gate array like http://www.butterflylabs.com for seti client. do you have any thoughts on either? ____________
	ID: 1312245 ·

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