Just wondering if anyone knows how long it will take to have GPU tasks available to crunch ?

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Just wondering if anyone knows how long it will take to have GPU tasks available to crunch ?

There are tasks available, just no GPU applications to crunch them with.
Eric has hinted that he may release some this coming week.
And the Lunatics folks seem to be very close to a new installer release as well.
With any luck, looks like it may be this coming week.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Awsome .. Thanks for the info.

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With any luck, looks like it may be this coming week.

Or you might get lucky like me.
Just picked up 56 resends on one of my systems GPUs.

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Grant
Darwin NT

With any luck, looks like it may be this coming week.

Or you might get lucky like me.
Just picked up 56 resends on one of my systems GPUs.

Not so much GPU work coming this way. But the rigs are doing Einstein and still requesting whatever v7 resends come along.
Most of it is on CPU, so shall take a long time to finish up.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

With any luck, looks like it may be this coming week.

Or you might get lucky like me.
Just picked up 56 resends on one of my systems GPUs.

Not so much GPU work coming this way.

I was very surprised. Generally it's just been one or 2 a day. I figure the GPU work request must have happened just after they timed out & were re-released. Half a second later and someone else would have got them.

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Grant
Darwin NT

With any luck, looks like it may be this coming week.

Or you might get lucky like me.
Just picked up 56 resends on one of my systems GPUs.

Not so much GPU work coming this way.

I was very surprised. Generally it's just been one or 2 a day. I figure the GPU work request must have happened just after they timed out & were re-released. Half a second later and someone else would have got them.

That happens....your work request just hits at the right microsecond when the ready to send cache has just been tossed a bunch of timeouts, abandoned tasks, or aborted WUs. And voila....you hit the jackpot. Something like the powerball....LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Tomorrow.

And not a minute too soon...

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Should prove interesting..

Wonder how long it will take to drain that RTS buffer that's currently steady at about 500K tasks? It would be nice if folks with large work buffers could reduce those to about 1 day (or less) for awhile, so the initially available tasks can be spread around better to get more GPUs crunching sooner. Otherwise, some hosts are going to grab 200+ tasks right off the bat, while others stay dry for hours.

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Otherwise, some hosts are going to grab 200+ tasks right off the bat, while others stay dry for hours.

LOL, Iv'e been doing this for a few years 24/7 and I think of this in terms of months. A couple of days even is not a blip on the graph when you look at it in the long term.

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Wonder how long it will take to drain that RTS buffer that's currently steady at about 500K tasks? It would be nice if folks with large work buffers could reduce those to about 1 day (or less) for awhile, so the initially available tasks can be spread around better to get more GPUs crunching sooner. Otherwise, some hosts are going to grab 200+ tasks right off the bat, while others stay dry for hours.

I would agree - it's always best to take work for new applications in small sips to start with, until you're certain that the new apps work and that you've made the correct choices when installing them.

In some respects we are helped by the ropey BOINC framework here: the first few tasks processed with a completely new application (not just a version upgrade) are always given an inflated runtime estimate, resulting in fewer tasks being downloaded. Please don't increase your cache settings in response to that - it sorts itself out quickly enough.