1) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 11 year club (Message 1016240) Posted 16 Jul 2010 by Smariga Post: It's amazing how many of us pioneers are still cranking away. 11 years in this industry is probably equivalent to the difference between my upbringing and my great-grandkids. And I'm not sure I want to go back to that era.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XX CLOSED (Message 991929) Posted 26 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: FINALLY, made my 15,000,000. And with CUDA, assuming there are work units, I'll be at 20,000,000 within 6 months. It only took 11 years to get to this point here. Alex

3) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager Stopping under Win 7 (Message 989572) Posted 16 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: I'll go with the ReSchedule 1.9 likelihood. I added ReSchedule at the same time as updating to 6.10.43, to get rid of the -6 errors. It just happened on an older XP Pro system. But I did change the Advanced Preferences option to "0", as there apperaed to be a slowdown of sorts. Alex

4) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager Stopping under Win 7 (Message 989544) Posted 16 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: Jord, Thanks. I checked all three. Had to add to firewall, and also changed BM to Show Only Active Tasks. Other was OK. Don't like only showing active tasks as I cannot get a sense of how deep the CUDA queue is, but will live with that for a while. Don't know why this only began with 6.10.43, but that's the job of the developers to figure out. Alex

5) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager Stopping under Win 7 (Message 989540) Posted 16 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: Meant to also include the computer which this is happening on. Its 5158235.

6) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager Stopping under Win 7 (Message 989539) Posted 16 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: For the past week, ever since I upgraded Boinc Manager to 6.10.43, it has been cutting out on my Win 7 system. Like tonight, I went to that maching and checked the Boinc Manager status in the task bar, and it showed a big red "X" overtop of BM. If I bring up that running of BM, it shows no tasks, no project selected and no activity. If I start task manager, it shows my 5 tasks running, like I would expect. I can shut down BM and restart it, and it will pick up running fine, but I'm not sure if the communications part was running when it was shut down, as there are tasks waiting to be sent. I can Update and all goes back to normal. How do I figure out why BM is shutting down? And is there a log (other than the Messages Log which is blank), telling me why and when this is happening? Alex

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Why all these ERRORS (Message 986811) Posted 5 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: In looking at my results, I have 1 machine that is throwing a lot of errors. Over the past several days, I have hundreds of these. This is what BOINC Results shows: Name 11fe07ae.31499.21749.7.10.48_0 Workunit 593445748 Created 4 Apr 2010 13:18:55 UTC Sent 4 Apr 2010 15:16:17 UTC Received 4 Apr 2010 20:12:02 UTC Server state Over Outcome Client error Client state Compute error Exit status -6 (0xfffffffffffffffa) Computer ID 4429891 Report deadline 21 May 2010 3:22:57 UTC Run time 2.546875 CPU time 1.0625 stderr out <core_client_version>6.10.17</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> - exit code -6 (0xfffffffa) </message> <stderr_txt> VLAR WU (AR: 0.009402 )detected... autokill initialised SETI@home error -6 Bad workunit header File: ..\worker.cpp Line: 144 </stderr_txt> ]]> Validate state Invalid Claimed credit 0.00369513337878633 Granted credit 0 application version Anonymous platform I have a few that are not exit status -6, but most are these errors. Is it a problem with my hardware, EVGA 260 Or my drivers, just rolled back to 191.07. Or is it a SETI issue?

8) Message boards : Number crunching : Trying to understand differences in machines (Message 986596) Posted 4 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: Names in Task manager are: AK_v8b_win_x64_SSSE3x.exe and MB_6.08_CUDA_V12_VLARKill_FPLim2048.exe *32 So I guess I am using the correct files. I did use the Unified Lunatics x64 installer and changed the selection options to SSSE3 and CUDA. Looks OK from here. I am using the CUDA 2.3 dll's, dated 7/3/09. Looks like I never migrated the 3.0 dll's at all. When I look at the complete(valid) work units, how do I know when they were finished on my machine. Which date is correct so I can see if they are processing faster. Thanks. Alex

9) Message boards : Number crunching : Trying to understand differences in machines (Message 986552) Posted 4 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: Well, I did all the suggestions to the Win 7 machine. Took me a while to find the HT bios option but changed it. Reinstalled the unified Lunitics drivers. How do I readily tell that they are running? The names look the same. CUDA looks good, as BOINC tells me as its starting up. I usually do monitor Task Manager and get rid of a few things that start unwanted. And it looks like RAC is in flight again. We'll see in a day or two. If it works well on this machine, I'll go back to the other and make the changes to it. Thanks all. Alex

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Trying to understand differences in machines (Message 986379) Posted 3 Apr 2010 by Smariga Post: I have 2 machines I made up specific for BOINC work (SETI). One is a Q9300 (ID: 4429891) with an NVIDIA 260-216 and its RAC is 15,150. The other is an I7-860 (ID: 5158235) with an NVIDIA 275 and its RAC is 15,155. The first runs XP-Pro 32 and the 2nd runs Win 7-64. As they both sit all day running only BOINC, I would expect the 2nd machine to significantly outperform the 1st, but that is not happening. These machines have been in these configurations and states for a while, so the RAC should be stable. Also, when I look at valid tasks performed by the machines, the 1st (slower) takes 60-70 secs for an elapsed time of 600-700 sec to achieve 120-150 credits. The 2nd (faster) machine takes twice as much cpu (140-160 secs) for an elapsed time of 750-800 secs to achieve the same 120-150 credits. Is Win7 that much worse than XP Pro? The CUDA drivers are different 196.21 vs 197.13, but both are 3.0 drivers, I think. Can anyone point out elsewhere to change to get better performance, out of either or both. Thanks.

11) Message boards : Number crunching : AVG_NCPUS and BOINC TASKS (Message 983170) Posted 24 Mar 2010 by Smariga Post: I guess my question is why is BOINC TASKS showing that a CUDA task is taking 20-30% of a single cpu (on an 8 cpu system)? My GPU monitor says that it is using 55-60% of the gpu, so the numbers don't jive. I'll change it back to .04 but just doesn't make sense. Alex

12) Message boards : Number crunching : AVG_NCPUS and BOINC TASKS (Message 983100) Posted 24 Mar 2010 by Smariga Post: I've started using BOINC TASKS .44 recently and am wondering about some settings for SETI. In the APP_INFO.XML file, I have upped the avg cpu from .04 to .14 based on the fact that BOINC TASKS shows that running a CUDA task takes on an average 20-22% of a cpu. What are the implications of this update of the avg parameter? From app_info.xml file, I'm now running with: <avg_ncpus>0.140000</avg_ncpus> - this used to be .04 <max_ncpus>0.250000</max_ncpus> - this used to be .04 From BOINC TASKS screen, it shows: On a CUDA task: USE 0.14C + 1NV For a CUDA task: 21.55% CPU Should I change the parameter back? What difference does it make? Alex

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Early SETI contributors - who's still around? (Message 971628) Posted 19 Feb 2010 by Smariga Post: June 13, 1999 with a litle time off for bad behavior. It amazes me how many members have been at it since the first year 1999. And looking at my history, 68,000+ classics and 12+mil current, how work continues to accumulate.

14) Message boards : Number crunching : OT - Win7 edition advice (Message 964839) Posted 20 Jan 2010 by Smariga Post: I have a similar setup, with a home network, prnters, and varying flavors of Windows. I opted for Win 7 Pro, not wanting to fight directions I might go in the future. Its been good so far, and I've been running since beta. I'm actually thinking of upgrading my XP boxes to Win 7 as I like the interface better, now that I've gotten used to it. Can't wait to get rid of Vista off my notebook as it just feels and runs kludgy. And getting Vista to connect was harder than XP. That might be due to my XP familiarity tho. Alex

15) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Utilization (Message 963865) Posted 16 Jan 2010 by Smariga Post: Michael, Thanks for the input. I am running the optimized apps already so that's not going to change. I'll just make sure I put everything back teh way it was and hope over time things get more effective. Alex

16) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU Utilization (Message 963837) Posted 16 Jan 2010 by Smariga Post: I have 2 machines each with an EVGA nvidia card (275 and 260). The machine with the 260 shows with EVGA Precision that the GPU is running ~ 90% all the time. The machine with the 275 only shows ~ 60% GPU utilization. I've played around with the CPU % number in app_info.xml, but that doesn't seem to make any difference. Any suggestions on how I can get that GPU up higher? Or which system parameters I can manipulate? Alex

17) Message boards : Number crunching : Crashed video driver with Overclock (Message 960774) Posted 5 Jan 2010 by Smariga Post: I've only been able to OC my 275 by 8%, no more. What happens with SETI on this machine is that the display will stall for about 5 to 8 seconds, and then there is a Windows popup (on the bottom bar) that says the driver has crashed. Takes my Core Clock from 700 down to 300 or so when looking at EVGA Precision.

18) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI@home Processor Guide - Version 0.4 (Message 957787) Posted 21 Dec 2009 by Smariga Post: Intel QUAD Q9300 at 2.5ghz is a 3015.3

19) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (27) Server problems (Message 957783) Posted 21 Dec 2009 by Smariga Post: Its been disabled for a while. Have plenty of regular workunits to do, but of course am out of CUDA units and none are getting retrieved. With the algotithms for work the way they are, never seem to have enough CUDA to work on. The slightest blip, and my GPU is idle. Alex

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Project servers down? (Message 957781) Posted 21 Dec 2009 by Smariga Post: You're not alone. The SETI home page says the UPLOAD SERVER is disabled at the moment. ALex

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