If when you are cleaning the dust bunnies from the cruncher, your can of air gets so cold it has a layer of ice on it, did you wait to long to clean them out?

Another good drop in Valids, down by almost 2,000 this time.

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Darwin NT

Just got notified of a Boinc Manager update for my Windows box. Downloaded the VM version. Maybe I will explore running Cosmology@Home which is a VM only project on it.

Tom M

Just FYI, if it's 7.16.5 x64 you've updated to, be advised I've been having nothing but trouble with that on my Win box with Einstein jobs, and after 2 trys I just fell back to 7.14.2. Seems CPU jobs just halt. Also apparently trashed the history, to the point where it''s saying I reached my max of 480 tasks per day and threw me into a 24 hour project back-off.

My Windows box is mostly not running and except for S@H its not set to allow any new tasks so I can't offer any opinion. Maybe over the Easter weekend I will "play" with it.
I am interested to see if with the VM installed does using a VM-based project become "turn key"?

Tom M

I added Cosmology@Home yesterday. It started with 4 dockers/threads/apps.

It running 6 dockers on the VM now. And 50% memory when the system is in use caused it a "waiting for memory" status. When I increased the "in use" to 80% and not in use to 90% it went back to crunching.
The load on the cpu is pretty modest too.

Tom M

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One to file under "for those with more money than sense."
New Lian Li desk cases

The aesthetics of the new PC desk cases are nothing short of impressive, as is their ability to hold up to 80 kg of additional hardware on them, but the price tag is still a mystery at this point. Lian Li says these will become available on Newegg on April 16, and judging by the price of the previous models, you'll have to pay upwards of $1,500 for the privilege of owning one.

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Grant
Darwin NT

One to file under "for those with more money than sense."
New Lian Li desk cases

The aesthetics of the new PC desk cases are nothing short of impressive, as is their ability to hold up to 80 kg of additional hardware on them, but the price tag is still a mystery at this point. Lian Li says these will become available on Newegg on April 16, and judging by the price of the previous models, you'll have to pay upwards of $1,500 for the privilege of owning one.

Hi Grant,

For $1500, one could get a decent pre-built system. Or, get items to build a really decent DIY system. Personally, I wouldn't spend that kind of money on just a case. I'd build one from plywood before I spent that kind of money. ;)

Have a great day! :)

Siran

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One to file under "for those with more money than sense."
New Lian Li desk cases

The aesthetics of the new PC desk cases are nothing short of impressive, as is their ability to hold up to 80 kg of additional hardware on them, but the price tag is still a mystery at this point. Lian Li says these will become available on Newegg on April 16, and judging by the price of the previous models, you'll have to pay upwards of $1,500 for the privilege of owning one.

+1

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A new Epyc CPU, an AnnadTech review.

What is interesting is how in certain workloads, the 2P 7F52 setup can make a reach up for the Xeon 8280s, despite the 8280s being 3x the cost each.

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Grant
Darwin NT

A new Epyc CPU, an AnnadTech review.

What is interesting is how in certain workloads, the 2P 7F52 setup can make a reach up for the Xeon 8280s, despite the 8280s being 3x the cost each.

Yumm :)

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Here are some links to websites that have much larger groups of projects (computer/non-computer eg. uses you directly for research) that are Astronomy oriented.

https://spacehack.org/
https://www.zooniverse.org/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/

There is even a Seti@Home link in there :)

Tom M

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Why, if you are going to be attached to 20+ projects, would you set your cache to be 10+ 10? And select other settings because "If they didn't want me to select them then why did they put that option there?"
Arrrgggghhh!

Some people are the perfect argument for birth control.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Why, if you are going to be attached to 20+ projects, would you set your cache to be 10+ 10? And select other settings because "If they didn't want me to select them then why did they put that option there?"
Arrrgggghhh!

Some people are the perfect argument for birth control.

It was put there in the old days so that road warriors, who might not be sure of there next connection, could crunch on their laptop.

Not really intended for at home desktops, which can connect to more than one project, so that crunching never stops.
Also with the short deadlines on many projects, a large cache is the last thing you need, at best the computer will be in "panic" mode trying to beat the deadline and throwing any chances of respecting your resources shares out of the window,

Why, if you are going to be attached to 20+ projects, would you set your cache to be 10+ 10? And select other settings because "If they didn't want me to select them then why did they put that option there?"
Arrrgggghhh!

Some people are the perfect argument for birth control.

It was put there in the old days so that road warriors, who might not be sure of there next connection, could crunch on their laptop.

And for projects such as Seti that weren't always up. I know.
But try getting that through to some people when pointing out that if they didn't have a 10+10 cache they wouldn't be missing deadlines on the project they just attached to as it has no history of their system's actual performance and so the Estimated completion times are no where near reality & it's going to take forever for that to happen, all due to their present settings.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Anyone having any luck mixing Amd and Nvidia cards under Linux?

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You can mix Nvidia and AMD cards for graphics use. But almost impossible to make them coexist for compute use if any work is OpenCL based as the different OpenCL components of both packages can't coexist together.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Anyone having any luck mixing Amd and Nvidia cards under Linux?

You can do that by starting multiple instances of BOINC.
With that you can do any type of mixing.
Each instance a card type.
Then you just have to distribute CPUs.
But you can have all CPU on one instance and only take into account the needed for feeding the GPU on the other.

Greetings,

What's up with this Invalid list having 2 tasks listed as errors? The WU list shows "Too many errors (may have bug) Too many total results" in red text. I have never seen this before. Has anyone else?

[edit]And please, don't say something stupid like "read the red text it tells you". It does not tell me, it's suggestive. Thank you. :) Why aren't they listed in the error list?[/edit]

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

You probably caught it in the middle of being purged, with most of the tasks already gone. The entire thing is inaccessible now.

You probably caught it in the middle of being purged, with most of the tasks already gone. The entire thing is inaccessible now.

Hi Richard,

Drats! Thanks Richard! :)

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

read the red text it tells you ;)

YOUR result was marked as invalid. so it goes in YOUR invalid list. but the entire WU as a whole was marked as an error due to too many other people erroring it out (computation error, abandoned, timed out, etc) which created too many resends. i think it just stops and marks it as an error if it goes out to like 8+ people.

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

read the red text it tells you ;)

YOUR result was marked as invalid. so it goes in YOUR invalid list. but the entire WU as a whole was marked as an error due to too many other people erroring it out (computation error, abandoned, timed out, etc) which created too many resends. i think it just stops and marks it as an error if it goes out to like 8+ people.

Hi Ian,

I knew you were gonna say that. lol ;p

Ok, that makes sense. The task had gone to something like a dozen hosts. It was still in progress at one host though. Thanks :)

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