Damn, now the vlars are broke again?

Not that i've noticed.
There aren't a lot about at the moment, but since the outage all that i have received have gone to my CPUs, not my Nvidia GPUs.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Good! A check of the server logs also shows that the VLAR prevention mechanism should be in place.

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@SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon)

我明白了

translate.google:
我明白了 == I understand

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

I don't know how to write code and was hoping someone might post a cc.config.xml that forces BOINC to use my single GTX 550 Ti gpu..can't seem to get any task to utilize this gpu...please help.

Thank you in advance. I am using version 7.0.28

Hello ?!

what bug in nvidia is it exactly ?

nvidia in Window$
or
nvidia under Linux ?

It seems that driver-package of nvidia has those bugs,
who are creating trouble under Linux - wherefor it is better
to run vesa under Linux than nvidia-drivers ...
sometimes it is better not to use the most modern or most actual software
like those drivers of nvidia, which are not completely un-bugged.

Regards.
samspade.

... cc.config.xml that forces BOINC to use my single GTX 550 Ti ...

You don't need cc_config.xml to use GTX 550 Ti for BOINC purposes, you need CUDA driver.

So, never let Windows to install/update video card drivers! (they lack many features)
Get the driver from the video card manufacturer or the GPU manufacturer (in your case NVIDIA)

Check with GPU-Z to see if CUDA and OpenCL are installed.

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what bug in nvidia is it exactly ?

There are bugs in nVidia drivers (as in any other software) but this thread is not about any of them.

The bug was in the server part of BOINC (at setiathome.berkeley.edu)
(Not connected/induced by anything that you as user do or not do on your machine (except your chosen BOINC version).
The problem: the new BOINC server code (that runs in the SETI lab at Berkeley) 'forgot' that it have to connect also to older (before v7) BOINC versions on the user machines.

The new BOINC server code reported <type>NVIDIA</type> but the older BOINC versions on the user machines understand only <type>CUDA</type>
Now BOINC server code is fixed to report <type>NVIDIA</type> if you use BOINC 7.0 (or later) and <type>CUDA</type> if you use BOINC < v7 (e.g. 6.10.x)
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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

Addendum to what BilBg wrote to you, the Nvidia drivers can be found on http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

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So, if I understand this correctly, these WUs are sitting in my caches on 7 rigs like little time bombs waiting to go off when they get to the top of the cache?

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

My GTX560 TI and 2x GTX550Ti rigs don't seem to have a problem with them other than they take 3-5 times longer to complete than an average work unit (both rigs no signs of bogging down even with each card doing 2 at a time).

It will interesting to see how my 3x 9800GT rig handles them when it comes to getting into its lot, but then drivers have come quite a long way since the VLAR code was first introduced.

Cheers.

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This thread is not about 'VLARs on NVIDIA GPUs'
It's about different problem: running many (e.g. 10-40) tasks (of any AR, not only VLAR) on single NVIDIA GPU

(I'm not sure if this problem affects 'Anonymous platform' hosts)

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

So, if I understand this correctly, these WUs are sitting in my caches ...

Do you have <type>NVIDIA</type> in client_state.xml

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So, if I understand this correctly, these WUs are sitting in my caches on 7 rigs like little time bombs waiting to go off when they get to the top of the cache?

No, the problem only happened to hosts running stock where the server sends a complete app_version. Hosts running anonymous platform are merely told which of the app_versions listed in the app_info.xml to use.

                                                                   Joe

So, if I understand this correctly, these WUs are sitting in my caches on 7 rigs like little time bombs waiting to go off when they get to the top of the cache?

No, the problem only happened to hosts running stock where the server sends a complete app_version. Hosts running anonymous platform are merely told which of the app_versions listed in the app_info.xml to use.

                                                                   Joe

Thanks, Joe.
That gives the kitties a little more peace of mind.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

in the "news" department, there are two problems: 1) I can't upload completed tasks; 2) the "Server Status" page shows as a blank! (as of time & date posted)

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Hello, from Albany, CA!...

in the "news" department, there are two problems: 1) I can't upload completed tasks; 2) the "Server Status" page shows as a blank! (as of time & date posted)

Servers are probably being rebooted as we speak....

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

2) the "Server Status" page shows as a blank! (as of time & date posted)

It's partially available on http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/server_status.php although very slow to load to it. Thus looks like a new server setup has been loaded, as the 'server_status.php' page is the default page in the BOINC back-end source code. 'sah_status.html' is the Setified page for it, but not the standard one.

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I just put up a new machine, Enigma III. I can't get work. All my machines will be changing over the next two weeks. I never have been successful in bringing work assignments to a new machine. ( a little help? ).

When might I see work for Enigma III?

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When might I see work for Enigma III?

Shouild be soon. The project has had problems and work's underway. Downloads just came back.

If you don't get some soon, open a thread in Q&A or Number Crunching - we don't usually do troubleshooting in this forum.

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Another Fred
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