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Message 1988136 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 13:56:36 UTC
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I am using BOIC Manager 7.2.42 from OpenSuse Leap 42.3 (yes, I have to and I will upgrade this summer).

Two tasks:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=7405624489
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=7405624487

One is computing for about 1 minute. Then BOINC decides to switch over to the other task. Switching that task means: Starting from beginning. So it happens. The second task is computing for about a minute. Then BOINC decides … see above.

Nice endless loop.

Sorry. I have to kill those jobs.

BTW: Looking at the statistics graph in the BOINC Client, this behavior seems to happen since March 19th.
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Message 1988140 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 14:37:04 UTC
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I am usin BOINC 7.8.3 on SuSE Leap 15.0, which I recommend. On another CPU, a Virtual Machine on a Windows 10 host, SuSE insists in sending me Tumbleweed as an update of Leap 15.0. BOINC manager 7.14.2 does not work in Tumbleweed and I have connected Einstein@home by a manual installation.
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Message 1988187 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 19:47:26 UTC - in response to Message 1988140.  

Maybe it is important, that these workunits are done on the graphics card, they are not CPU-only. And these seem not to save some checkpoint from where they can continue the computing.

Pure CPU-jobs run fine.
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Message 1988201 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 20:37:11 UTC

A couple of thoughts - which source did you use to get the drivers - if it was from MS then there is a fair possibility that they do not have all the computation support needed.
Second, check the GPU to make sure it isn't full of dust and is seated properly.
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Message 1988204 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 21:04:52 UTC - in response to Message 1988201.  

rob, this is LINUX. MS is not allowed on my machine.

The problem is task switching without the ability to continue, not computation errors.

BTW: Now It runs its main job: Einstein@Home and since the start post it has done 9 workunits without errors, all running on the GPU. So no dust.
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Message 1988206 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 21:14:40 UTC

All tasks have been aborted, up to 7 weeks after issue. All tasks for computer 4990496.

No evidence retained in std_err, event log could still be queried via stdoutdae.txt.
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Message 1988209 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 21:20:22 UTC - in response to Message 1988204.  

You are trying to run the stock SoG OpenCL gpu application. Do you have the Nvidia OpenCL drivers loaded? Does the Event Log at startup show two lines of detection for your GTX 950? You should see one line showing the Nvidia driver level with the CUDA detection. Followed by another line showing the Nvidia driver level with OpenCL detection. If you don't have that second line that is why all your gpu tasks fail.

You might want to reset the project in case the application entries in the client_state.xml are corrupted or something.
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Message 1988211 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 21:48:18 UTC - in response to Message 1988209.  

I think that Raistmer's SoG application goes into 'temporary exit' and retries if certain types of driver error are encountered - lack of OpenCL might be one of them, but I don't have the documentation to hand.

That would explain the symptom in the thread title, but should be checked in both the Event Log and stderr.
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Message 1988212 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 22:04:35 UTC - in response to Message 1988211.  

IIRC the Einstein Nvida app is open CL
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Message 1988213 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 22:10:12 UTC - in response to Message 1988204.  

rob, this is LINUX. MS is not allowed on my machine.

The problem is task switching without the ability to continue, not computation errors.

BTW: Now It runs its main job: Einstein@Home and since the start post it has done 9 workunits without errors, all running on the GPU. So no dust.
It would be much easier to just run the current LTS version of Ubuntu with the BOINC-All-In-One package. Just install Ubuntu, the Repository 390 driver, and the BOINC package to your Home folder. Then you could be like all these people, https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/top_hosts.php, except for that one Mac that seems to be hanging in there...
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Message 1988221 - Posted: 31 Mar 2019, 23:12:17 UTC - in response to Message 1988212.  

IIRC the Einstein Nvida app is open CL

Yes, I see that now in his OP. But I think that the Einstein OpenCL app can run on the Mesa OpenCL package drivers. Not sure, I would have to read through the forum threads. There can be instances where two platforms are loaded for graphics drivers. The Mesa and Nvidia, the Mesa and Intel and Mesa and AMD. Each would try an load their OpenCL component. I remember a thread where the Mesa drivers unloaded the AMD OpenCL component and vice versa. Supposedly impossible for both to co-exist on the same system. Could be the case. A check with clinfo would clear things up since it lists all detected platforms and their respective components.
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Message 1988265 - Posted: 1 Apr 2019, 5:25:37 UTC

I've learned that a Virtual Machine cannot use the GPU of its host. In a Linux Virtual Machine on a Windows 10 PC with a Nvidia board the hwinfo --gfx command reports I have a VMWare board, which does not exist. This is probably why LHC@home does not use GPUs, because all its programs, except the"native" ones use a Virtual Machine.
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Message 1988278 - Posted: 1 Apr 2019, 7:59:55 UTC - in response to Message 1988221.  

I have nvidia drivers installed. Cannot install clinfo, since this would cause a conflict.

However, when there is an error, the workunit shall stop with that error. It shall not try to restart (causing the same problem again, and ending up in an endless loop).
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Message 1988281 - Posted: 1 Apr 2019, 9:25:46 UTC

BOINC has a built-in feature that traps tasks that re-start too often, I can't remember what the trigger number is, but seeing the real error report of a task that has undergone a number of re-starts might actually give a hint as to what the problem is.
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Message 1988284 - Posted: 1 Apr 2019, 9:57:39 UTC - in response to Message 1988281.  

Limit is 100. But stderr is limited to last 64KB, and with the amount of SoG output, the initial iterations and initial start data will be lost.
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