1) Questions and Answers : Web site : Time of Last Server Contact Incorrect (Message 2037695) Posted 13 Mar 2020 by Earl F. Parrish Post: When I click on a computer to check on the statistics, the page shows the last server contact on the previous day although I just reported results.

2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Changes in Results Reporting.. (Message 2030005) Posted 31 Jan 2020 by Earl F. Parrish Post: I noticed in the last few days the following changes in results reporting: !. All results are missing from some Validation Inconclusive results 2. Only one report shown for some Completed and Validated results 3. Other participants missing from tasks in progress. 4. Tasks shows Completed and Validated with additional task in progress. Is there a reason for the changes? I often use the reports of others to compare the speed of my computers to other similar devices.

3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Cannot Install or Reinstall Any Version of BOINC (Message 2029192) Posted 25 Jan 2020 by Earl F. Parrish Post: I downloaded BOINC 7.16.4 to test it. The installation pointed to a file location I could not access. The attempted installation removed the earlier version of BOINC. When I tried to reinstall BOINC 7.14.2, I received the same error for an inaccessible file location. When I try to uninstall BOINC through Control Panel, the same inaccessible file location error reoccurs.

4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Validations Inconclusive (Message 2027418) Posted 12 Jan 2020 by Earl F. Parrish Post: It may not be just Windows only but there seems to be more work units with validation inconclusive. The most I usually see are ten or less. It is up to fifty-five on work units in which I participated.

5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Double Reporting of Workunit Status (Message 2024227) Posted 21 Dec 2019 by Earl F. Parrish Post: The duplicate listing is gone now. The Work unit which show as in progress was not on my computer but was finally listed as completed at 21 Dec 2019, 9:40:46 UTC, which was several hours prior to my first post in this thread. At that time the work unit was listed as I described in my initial post.. By the time you posted, the duplication had been corrected. The second instance of the work unit was no longer in the listings.

6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Double Reporting of Workunit Status (Message 2024145) Posted 21 Dec 2019 by Earl F. Parrish Post: Workunit ap_20no19ab_B3_P0_00064_20191124_19845.wu_2 is reported as In Progress and Completed, Validation Inconclusive.

7) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Question about ATI HD 5450 GPU (Message 1988652) Posted 4 Apr 2019 by Earl F. Parrish Post: My setup had two Nvidia GPUs which ran with no problems. later I noticed that one of the card was running at a high temperature. I discovered that one of the fans was rubbing against its housing. I replaced that card with an ATI model. I installed the drivers and started BOINC. Two ATI tasks were downloaded. The ATI GPU started on the tasks but keep switching back and forth between the two tasks every minute or so. Is this normal or is there some setting I overlooked?

8) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Longer Time To Complete GPU Tasks? (Message 1977013) Posted 25 Jan 2019 by Earl F. Parrish Post: My RAC used to hover over 15,000 but I cannot break 14,000 since the New Year's maintenance break.

9) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Longer Time To Complete GPU Tasks? (Message 1976996) Posted 25 Jan 2019 by Earl F. Parrish Post: Is it my setup or is it taking longer to complete GPU tasks? My maximum times used to be under twenty minutes for most non-Astropulse tasks but now some tasks take over one hour for non-Astropulse tasks. I have an AMD FX-8350 CPU with a two Nvidia GPUs- an Nvidia GTX-750TI and an Nvidia GTX-760. Both are running the latest drivers from Nvidia. I have thirty-two gigabytes of memory.

10) Questions and Answers : Windows : Validation Inconclusive? (Message 1972965) Posted 1 Jan 2019 by Earl F. Parrish Post: Workunit 3246635500 has been listed with Validation Inconclusive since December 4, 2018. A third task was sent out whose results agreed with one of the two inconclusive results. Why is the validation still inconclusive yet another task has not been sent out to resolve any inconsistencies?

11) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Error in Computation for OpenCl Tasks after Updating Nvidia Drivers (Message 1968752) Posted 5 Dec 2018 by Earl F. Parrish Post: This time when I updated the Nvidia drivers I closed BOIC Manager, BOINC Client and BOINC System Tray for Windows. There were no computation error with any of the OpenCL tasks this time.

12) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Error in Computation for OpenCl Tasks after Updating Nvidia Drivers (Message 1967614) Posted 29 Nov 2018 by Earl F. Parrish Post: I use the clean install option which removes the old drivers before installing the new drivers. I suspect that OpenCL programs is running during the installation although I have turned off BOINC. The OpenCL application apparently tries each task and fails during the time the drivers are removed and there is no mouse and keyboard actions.

13) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Error in Computation for OpenCl Tasks after Updating Nvidia Drivers (Message 1967537) Posted 28 Nov 2018 by Earl F. Parrish Post: During the last two times I updated the Nvidia drivers, all my OpenCL tasks give error before I even sign on to Windows 10 after updating. The last time I had eighty errors. There were about forty for the previous occasion. I closed the BOINC program before updating the drivers to no avail.

14) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Reporting Lost Tasks (Message 1952377) Posted 27 Aug 2018 by Earl F. Parrish Post: There should be a way to report tasks lost through computer failure or operator errors. These tasks could then be assigned to a new person without waiting for a timeout error. I recently had to install a hard drive which was cloned earlier and had tasks which had already been completed. I turned off receiving new tasks on the cloned drive so that I could reset the old completed tasks on that drive. Somehow, the receive new tasks was turned back and I ended up resetting new tasks which had not been completed along with the old tasks which I had already completed previously. So I am carrying thirty-three tasks which are no longer on my hard drive but are due within three weeks..

15) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU missing, Waiting to run (0.209 CPUs + 1 Nvidia GPU (Message 1934409) Posted 8 May 2018 by Earl F. Parrish Post: Tasks performed by the GPU do not require full time CPU services.

16) Questions and Answers : Windows : Reporting Lost Work Units (Message 1703151) Posted 19 Jul 2015 by Earl F. Parrish Post: Is there a way to report lost work units so that the project will not have to wait until the deadlines are missed to assign the work to another user?

17) Questions and Answers : Windows : Short Deadline (Message 1215916) Posted 9 Apr 2012 by Earl F. Parrish Post: I was assigned Workunit 2389552619. I noticed when I checked my results later, I was only given eight minutes to complete the task. The report had timed out. The other user who was assigned the same task was given until May 25, 2012. Why was that?

18) Questions and Answers : Windows : Recent Observations (Message 971151) Posted 18 Feb 2010 by Earl F. Parrish Post: On at least two occasions recently I have had both an Internet Explorer 8 window open at the same time as the BOINC window. When I closed the BOINC window, the Internet Explorer window also closed. I do not recall that happening in the past.

19) Questions and Answers : Windows : Missing Workunits (Message 958819) Posted 26 Dec 2009 by Earl F. Parrish Post: All is well. I did not notice that the "Show All Tasks" was a toggle with "Show Active Tasks." I must have clicked on it when I click on the BOINC Manager window to bring it to the front when it was covered by the browser window.

20) Questions and Answers : Windows : No Waiting to Report (Message 958771) Posted 26 Dec 2009 by Earl F. Parrish Post: I noticed that completed workunits no longer have "Waiting to Report" after being uploaded. Is this a new development or an error?

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