Posts by Dirk Broer

1) Message boards : News : Citizen Science SETI Project at UCLA. (Message 2115204)
Posted 24 Feb 2023 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Make it a Seti sub-project, within BOINC
2) Questions and Answers : GPU applications : Linux Issue: GPU Missing Waiting to Run (Message 1943381)
Posted 8 Jul 2018 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Did you install boinc-client-nvidia-cuda?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home v8.22 Windows GPU applications support thread (Message 1935324)
Posted 12 May 2018 by Profile Dirk Broer
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BTW: I am running Collatz

That project made me feel stupider than normal.

Fact is that you can run a GPU project using the Linux Open Source drivers, whether it makes you feel stupid or not.
BTW: it is Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia that can do it (and Einstein@Home too, if that makes you feel smarter)
4) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home v8.22 Windows GPU applications support thread (Message 1935259)
Posted 12 May 2018 by Profile Dirk Broer
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With your host hidden its hard to say.
I assume you are running Linux with Mesa drivers installed.
Install AMD GPUPro drivers instead.

Not when he is using AMD Turks or Caicos....AMDGPU-PRO is only for the latest and greatest, not for Caicos or Turks (HD6xxx family)

BTW: I am running Collatz on a Linux Mint 17.3 system, using the Open Source driver. It is just that the application should not search for OpenCL by vendor, but by the OpenCL that is available, POCL in this case.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Anyone using an ASUS Tinker Board? (Message 1899200)
Posted 4 Nov 2017 by Profile Dirk Broer
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I've looked into it, but I'm not sure if the Seti servers would send work units to an ARM device with a Open CL GPU app either


As you can see here there are only OpenCL applications for AMD/ATI, Intel and nVidia GPUs.
Given the lack of (video)RAM on the various ARM boards, it will be quite a job of porting the existing code to the ARM platform.
For the time being, you will have to do with the power of the quad-core ARM Cortex A17 that the Tinker Board offers.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (100) Server Problems? (Message 1730842)
Posted 1 Oct 2015 by Profile Dirk Broer
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01-10-2015 10:29:48 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 10:29:49 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 10:30:16 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 10:30:17 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 12:24:57 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 12:25:19 | | BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.
01-10-2015 13:03:00 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 13:03:12 | | BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.
01-10-2015 14:13:16 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 14:13:17 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 16:56:25 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 16:56:47 | | BOINC can't access Internet - check network connection or proxy configuration.
01-10-2015 17:06:35 | SETI@home | update requested by user
01-10-2015 17:06:37 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
01-10-2015 17:06:37 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: not highest priority project; Miner ASIC: not highest priority project; AMD/ATI GPU: job cache full)
01-10-2015 17:06:58 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
01-10-2015 17:06:59 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 17:07:00 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 17:07:32 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 17:07:33 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 17:09:20 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 17:09:21 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 17:11:33 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 17:11:34 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 17:15:04 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 17:15:05 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 17:21:01 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 17:21:02 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 17:32:29 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 17:32:30 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 18:03:23 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 18:03:24 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 18:28:37 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 18:28:38 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 18:43:35 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 18:43:36 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 20:45:55 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 20:45:57 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 21:45:17 | SETI@home | update requested by user
01-10-2015 21:45:22 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
01-10-2015 21:45:22 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: not highest priority project; Miner ASIC: not highest priority project; AMD/ATI GPU: job cache full)
01-10-2015 21:45:44 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
01-10-2015 21:45:46 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 21:45:48 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 21:46:14 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 21:46:15 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 23:22:16 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 23:22:18 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 23:22:43 | SETI@home | update requested by user
01-10-2015 23:22:47 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
01-10-2015 23:22:47 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; Miner ASIC: not highest priority project; AMD/ATI GPU: job cache full)
01-10-2015 23:23:09 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
01-10-2015 23:23:10 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 23:23:11 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
01-10-2015 23:23:37 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
01-10-2015 23:23:38 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
7) Message boards : News : SETI.German announces fourth Wow! event (Message 1709878)
Posted 7 Aug 2015 by Profile Dirk Broer
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How about making sure that there is AP's available during the Wow!-event?


Nice one, Grumpy!
8) Message boards : Number crunching : New card coming - Please point me in the right direction (Message 1327670)
Posted 14 Jan 2013 by Profile Dirk Broer
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My own retail ASUS GT 630 is indeed a Fermi card as can be seen in GPU-Z, having a GF108 chip.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting new work: "project is not highest priority" (Message 1316007)
Posted 16 Dec 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Normally within the day Seti will be highest priority in fetching work again, and always at least before your complete cache ran out. You just need to have the patience.


My point is that I had PC's waiting hours for a GPU WU and not getting any, while Seti is set to be the only GPU project running on that PC. I just do not have that much patience.

By the way, resource share is just a value. All resource share values added up together is 100%. An RS value can be anything between 0 (zero) and 75 trillion (my guestimate). You want to call that percentages?


You say yourself "All resource share values added up together is 100%", so why not call that percentages when they add up to one?
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting new work: "project is not highest priority" (Message 1316000)
Posted 16 Dec 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Boinc 7.10.28 and 7.10.31 using Win7 and Win8 64bit. The solution appears to disable all other projects, even the CPU-only projects, in order to get Seti GPU work.
The 'priority', as spoken off in the log, appears to be the internal priority of the BOINC scheduler, and not the percentage of resources you set yourself.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting new work: "project is not highest priority" (Message 1315625)
Posted 15 Dec 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Resource Share != priority.


When there is only one GPU project active on my PC, it should not matter how high the resource share is. 100% boils down to 9.88%, as I have some 30 projects running on a given PC, but not all active at the same time. And I just want work for the GPU, where Seti at the moment has the only active resource share (others 1.98%, and set to both suspend & no work anymore).
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting new work: "project is not highest priority" (Message 1315512)
Posted 15 Dec 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Increasing RS on Seti doesn't help. Eventually there comes a time that Seti isn't the highest priority and that it has to wait for the other (non-zero RS) projects to have had their scheduler requests, work requests etc.


So essentially the only solution is to suspend/disable all other work in the hope that the scheduler might start to think that seti needs more work -if the scheduler does not see the suspended work as work that needs te be done first. How quick does the scheduler respond to this in terms of hours? In my experience the artificial intelligence of the scheduler needs to be either lowered or raised significantly in order to be able to live with it.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting new work: "project is not highest priority" (Message 1315508)
Posted 15 Dec 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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If your main project has a very high priority (say 1000), an SETI@Home has a very low priority then you may get such messages if BOINC thinks you have a fair balance of credit between the two. If you look on the resource share tab on the BOINC manager you will see a column "resource share", what are the figures against each of your projects?
The solution is to either increase the share (priority) given to S@H or reduce the share given to your main project. As far as I am aware this has to be done via the website, although some of the BOINC project managers might do it for you.


You did not read my message. I stated clearly that Seti has the highest priority (100%), is the only GPU project running and that other projects have a resource of 20%. Why do I get the silly message "project is not highest priority" when it IS the highest priority?
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting new work: "project is not highest priority" (Message 1315339)
Posted 15 Dec 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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When I update the project, having set Seti as only GPU project, I get this:

15-12-2012 01:25:18 | SETI@home | update requested by user
15-12-2012 01:25:19 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
15-12-2012 01:25:19 | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks: project is not highest priority

Seti is set at 100%, other projects have 20% resources.
So I have nVidia and Ati/AMD systems waiting for hours on WU that never come.

Who invented the "project is not highest priority" parameters?
And can he/she recall them or set them a bit more lenient?
15) Message boards : News : We are thankful for.... (Message 1310001)
Posted 25 Nov 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Could a seti-message be hidden amongst the server crashes? Could they be morse-like code (e.g. long crashes vs short crashes)?
16) Message boards : Number crunching : I have not been able to d/l new work since early this morning (Message 1198197)
Posted 21 Feb 2012 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Ran out of work a few days ago and not getting any new, CPU or GPU. That's on six machines.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Stats haywire? No export? (Message 1171552)
Posted 17 Nov 2011 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Yeah, but it was showing the same value for 4 days in a row, while I kept adding results and my score kept increasing.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Stats haywire? No export? (Message 1171497)
Posted 16 Nov 2011 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Why is it that I know to have 1.053.866 points while only 1.049.950 show?
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Only CUDA new work???? (Message 1054230)
Posted 9 Dec 2010 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Strange, since I let my GPU's also work at PrimeGrid I do not get *any* CUDA work?
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Anybody uploaded since 9th Dec? (Message 210943)
Posted 12 Dec 2005 by Profile Dirk Broer
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Downloading is not the problem, but I haven't been able to upload a single WU since the 8th of December on any of my PCs or so it seems. That's tens of WUs waiting to get uploaded for me alone. Other projects seem to get affected as well, one Rosetta WU crashed (did not get past the 1% mark), one failed seti download blocked the rest of my projects for hours.


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