Who'd a thunk chewing gum, after it has been chewed for quite some time (usually when the flavor is all gone) would come in handy for fixing things? I did. :)

I am really hard on keyboards. ...

Seeing your post reminded me of this silly ear worm ditty...

Hi Fan,

Thank you very much! :) I have always known there was a song with that phrase, I just never did hear it until this morning. You just made my day! :)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

Has anyone else noticed how productive "Anonymous" is becoming? :) There are two machines in the top 20 leaderboard owned by Anonymous plus at least one other in the top 40.

Tom

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One of them (#4) Is Kevvy

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

I was getting ready to post how far this machine had come using gtx 1060's gpu's https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8821753 when I looked at a gpu task and discovered he is mostly running these: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/p102-100.c3100 which appear to be slightly cut down Titan xp's

When you are running 6 near Titan xp's you should expect just a little bit of production?

Tom

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The top 20 Leaderboard is 15% Amd cpus.

The 20-40 place group is 25% Amd cpus.

I ran across someone whos team is "Amd - builds" and he does have 2 but his third build is a top performing Intel.... No I am not talking about Keith who has more than 3 machines....

Tom

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If you look his validated WU all the crunching time are high, so probably he is running 2 WU at a time who is slower and not recommended, the CPU is over commitment or is using the GPU for another usage while crunching slowing all. Who knows?

Or simply the host not runs 24/7 too.

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One of them (#4) Is Kevvy

Simply look at the number of GPU's if he uses the spoofed client you know who is.

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I was getting ready to post how far this machine had come using gtx 1060's gpu's https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8821753 when I looked at a gpu task and discovered he is mostly running these: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/p102-100.c3100 which appear to be slightly cut down Titan xp's

When you are running 6 near Titan xp's you should expect just a little bit of production?

Tom

I noticed that system also. But a couple things.

The P102-100 is a cut down 1080ti (which is itself a cut down Titan Xp). It has less memory and SMs than a 1080ti. 25 SMs and 5 GB GDDR5X.

Most of his cards are P106-100s (not the 102) and they are more or less equivalent to a GTX 1060 6GB (same SM and memory). These mining cards have no display outputs or NVENC.

But it’s nice to know that these cards work with the special app/BOINC. I always wondered if they would be detected properly.

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

This is getting silly. 24my12ac.26751.254205.16.43.121

OpenCL, Android, and CUDA can't agree on a solution amongst themselves.

Two modern, expensive, GPUs totally wasted by bad driver support.

It'll get polished off - hopefully - by a humble little 750 Ti sometime tonight.

I finally cracked the 200,000 RAC barrier again on what I hope is my long term cruncher.

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I finally cracked the 200,000 RAC barrier again on what I hope is my long term cruncher.

Nice!

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I finally cracked the 200,000 RAC barrier again on what I hope is my long term cruncher.

Awesome sauce, nice work =)

Really BIG true angle range...
I have seen the following phenomenon occur on a couple of work units from the same series and looking at some other completed, but not yet validated, units they seem to also have something similar.
WU true ange range = 186.8xxx
And, yes, that decimal point is in the right place! I came across this when I noticed a work unit with progress stuck at 0.001% for 40 or 50 minutes (CPU application) while the estimated remaining time steadily increased to thousands of hours. Not to worry, though, as the task finished in more or less a typical time. I've seen this three times and the work units come from the 14oc19ab.25259.3508577.10.37.** series . I have another 10 of them (all CPU apps) in the cache. One of my completed, and reported, units in this series was a GPU app. It showed a "normal" run time but I wasn't watching Boinc Manager at the time and, thus, can't say whether it had an abnormal progress/remaining time displayed.
Kind of interesting anyway, and that angle range sure looks odd...

Really BIG true angle range...
I have seen the following phenomenon occur on a couple of work units from the same series and looking at some other completed, but not yet validated, units they seem to also have something similar.
WU true ange range = 186.8xxx
And, yes, that decimal point is in the right place! I came across this when I noticed a work unit with progress stuck at 0.001% for 40 or 50 minutes (CPU application) while the estimated remaining time steadily increased to thousands of hours. Not to worry, though, as the task finished in more or less a typical time. I've seen this three times and the work units come from the 14oc19ab.25259.3508577.10.37.** series . I have another 10 of them (all CPU apps) in the cache. One of my completed, and reported, units in this series was a GPU app. It showed a "normal" run time but I wasn't watching Boinc Manager at the time and, thus, can't say whether it had an abnormal progress/remaining time displayed.
Kind of interesting anyway, and that angle range sure looks odd...

Whoah, that really is a HUMONGOUS angle range and outside the norm we see. That means the telescope was slewing toward that target at maximum speed and really was lucky that the alpha receiver was able to capture anything in that short window.

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Greetings,

WTF!!!!

I found this and need to know...

... if I need to abort this or will it happen on it's own? It's running at high priority.

Ok, belay that. I just looked again and what is highlighted in the above image is gone. I guess BOINC decided it was going to take WAY TOO LONG to process and would go WAY beyond the expiration date. ;) 1231+ days to process? Yeah right!

I have never seen anything like this.

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\//
Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

From the README_x41p_V0.98.txt;

For best use;
1) You should reserve CPU usage for the GPU App by changing the "Use at most ___ % of the CPUs" to at least 99% in the BOINC - Computing preferences. For multiple GPUs you need to reserve more CPU usage. The App will run poorly without Free CPU time available.

2) Use a Newer CUDA 9.0+ driver, CUDA90 needs at least 384.130, CUDA101 at least 418.x, the Repository driver 384.130 should work for the CUDA90 App.

3) Run One Task per GPU, running more will not improve output and will use twice as much vRam.

4) With this version -unroll autotune and Blocking Sync is set by default. Override Autotune with the cmdline -unroll N, Blocking Sync override is -nobs

5) If you wish to use 100% CPU per task, add the command -nobs to the CUDA section of the app_info.xml,
<plan_class>cuda90</plan_class>
<cmdline>-nobs</cmdline>
<coproc>
There isn't any requirement to use a Full CPU per task, but, it may be a few seconds faster.

6) The App may give Incorrect results on a restarted task. One way to avoid restarted tasks is to set the checkpoint higher than the longest task's estimated run-time, and also avoid suspending/resuming a task.

7) If you have an AMD CPU move the AMD CPU App in the folder 'For AMD CPUs' to the root level, change the App names in the CPU section of the app_info.xml (<name> & <file_name>), and see if that works better.
If you have a CUDA 10.1 driver you can use the CUDA101 App, change the app_info.xml to name the CUDA 10.1 App in the Two locations, <name> & <file_name>

8) The CPU Progress bar may stall with High AR Work Units, the task will finish normally, it's just the Progress Bar that's stalled.

If there is a problem it will end with an Error, Time Limit Exceeded. If you Don't see that Error, nothing is wrong.

I'm sure this system would help with Seti's server issues.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 is a massive 4U server designed specifically for enterprises who deal with resource-intensive and mission-critical workloads on a consistent basis. Powered by (up to) 8 second-generation Intel Xeon Platinum processors with (up to) 28x cores per processor, the Lenovo server supports up to a generous 24TB of TruDDR4 RAM via the available 96x 256GB DIMM slots, and supports Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. The SR950 is equipped with 24 x 2.5" bays that support SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs, including 12 x 2.5" NVMe SSDs. looking to add PCIe devices have the option of installing up 14 Up ((11) x16 and (3) x8), 2x shared ML2 and PCIe x16) as well as two front dedicated-RAID slots.

Redundancy is also a major focus of the SR950. With the XClarity Controller, users can set up Ethernet connection failover capability: If a the primary Ethernet connection goes unexpectedly goes offline, all Ethernet traffic will automatically switch to the optional redundant Ethernet connection without data loss or user intervention. Just be sure to install the specific device drivers are installed.

The SR950 also features redundant cooling and power capabilities (optional build and depending on your configuration). The Lenovo server supports up to four 1100-watt (110V or 220V ac), 1600-watt (220V ac), or 2000-watt (220V ac) hot-swap power supplies as well as 6 or 12 hot-swap fans. If one fails, the redundant cooling fan takes over. The fans themselves are easily removable from the front.

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 review

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Grant
Darwin NT

At the time, IBM’s silicon chip designers were wrestling with complex circuits that would use six transistors to store a single bit of data. They worked. But they were hardly efficient – and it didn’t seem a promising way to build systems capable of storing large volumes of data. But suddenly, that evening in 1966, Dennard had a flash of insight: You could store a bit with a single transistor!

To do so, he realized, would require using tiny amounts of energy to repeatedly refresh the capacitor that held the charge to store the bit. Otherwise, the data would soon be lost, as the charge dissipated. But if you were willing do that, you could achieve the same storage capacity in a far simpler, smaller and more elegant circuit.

From that insight, Bob Dennard invented dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM.

IBM’s Robert H. Dennard and the Chip That Changed the World

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Grant
Darwin NT

+1
Thanks for the link.

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+1
Thanks for the link.

+2

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