Posts by Dr.Diesel

1) Message boards : Number crunching : High performance Linux clients at SETI (Message 1986874)
Posted 24 Mar 2019 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Many thanks TBar.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Real time number crunching? (Message 1973861)
Posted 6 Jan 2019 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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The files we are processing now (58406) is Nov 15, 2018 , so we aren't processing very old data.


That is interesting, if we are really that far in a processing deficit, one would think we'd be way behind, years even, or the data is not loaded chronological order.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Real time number crunching? (Message 1973800)
Posted 6 Jan 2019 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Any rough guess how much hardware it would take to crunch real time? If we assume WUs are uploaded directly and ignore any of the backend issues, how many let's say Nvidia 1080s would it take?

Let's also assume all of these 1080s would scale linearly to make it easy, and some normalizing of per year data coming in, averaging of WU types.

Lots of assumptions, but would that number be 10k, 100k, 1M, some really rough calc or guess would still be an interesting conversation.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 1969884)
Posted 11 Dec 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Hope he comes back and keeps going! I know it's a ton of work and likely a PITA most of the time, but I/we sure do appreciate his efforts!
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 1952396)
Posted 27 Aug 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Big thanks to TBar and anyone else that supports this effort!
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Welcome to the 19 Year Club! (Message 1948603)
Posted 9 Aug 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Count me in, I'm still here!
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1923054)
Posted 6 Mar 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Mmmmm, no outage notification on the main page for tomorrow. (yet anyhow)
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1920263)
Posted 21 Feb 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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WooHoo, somebody really crammed the jukebox full:

total channels to do: 11322
9) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1917214)
Posted 5 Feb 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Hello! Anyone like me that no new task available? I have nothing to work on!


Give it some time, work is being snatched up the second it is produced. The extended outage left a ton of machines dry, lots of catching up to do.

Probably several hours before any surplus is realized.
10) Message boards : News : Slow network connection to Green Bank (Message 1916316)
Posted 1 Feb 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Yup, available work is dropping fast.

Too bad the WU cache/store is also broken, my GPU boxes will run dry within about 4-5 hours.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1915791)
Posted 29 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Looks like it's going to be an early Tuesday!
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1914652)
Posted 22 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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I approved the account fairly soon after you created the account.


Thank you Sir, I was just able to log-in now, don't know what happened before. :)

Onward with Panic Mode, ha ha.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1914576)
Posted 22 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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[quote]as well as 1CPU core (thread) for each GPU WU being processed to keep those GPUs fed


Is this necessary with the low CPU CUDA80 apps?


. . That depends on whether you run with blocking sync on or off. With it on then you can get away with just the one free CPU core per 2 or 3 GPU tasks, with it off you will need 1 CPU core per GPU task plus one more CPU core free. With all the high thread count CPUs out there that should not be a problem. Even on my core 2 Duo that means no crunching at all on the CPU, but it works well. This is much the same as having sleep on or off running SoG. It is purely up to you, but there is a speed gain with it off.

Stephen

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Thanks to all for the help! Wish there was a wiki for this info!

I applied for an account over at Crunchers Anonymous a few weeks ago, but so far nobody has approved my request. :(
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (110) Server Problems? (Message 1914318)
Posted 21 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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[quote]as well as 1CPU core (thread) for each GPU WU being processed to keep those GPUs fed


Is this necessary with the low CPU CUDA80 apps?
15) Message boards : News : Projects are (no longer) down (Message 1913585)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Has any other person been at this longer than I have?


I have you by a few months!
16) Message boards : News : Projects are (no longer) down (Message 1913555)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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I am still unable to get any new files to work on. Is there still a problem or is it on my end??


There is still a problem, no news on what or how long.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (109) Server Problems? (Message 1913540)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Somebody just started tickling the splitters.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (109) Server Problems? (Message 1913494)
Posted 17 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Actually, Seti@Home is not much fun any more, with the outages, droughts, problems, speculations...and CreditScrew.
Sorry about being so pessimistic, folks.... ;-)

...Ghia...


I reluctantly admit to similar feelings.

Though I'm not quite ready to jump ship yet, any other Space/SciFi/Alien projects that more or less provide 24-7 work with an interactive project staff? (and Linux GPU support)
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Are all CUDA GPUs supported? Is the GT 1030 unsupported? (Message 1910879)
Posted 5 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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The other benefit to this, it's a modern/cheap card at 30 watts that increases your WU cache by 100.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (109) Server Problems? (Message 1910814)
Posted 5 Jan 2018 by Profile Dr.Diesel Crowdfunding Project Donor*Special Project $75 donorSpecial Project $250 donor
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Said in the most humble method possible:

If the WU cache/deadline scenario was revamped most of us could easily ride out these issues, my fast GPU boxes run out of work fast!

Being able to sustain my 1080/1070 boxes for 2 days would capture 95%+ of the server issues I'd bet.

In any case, big thanks to the guys banging their heads against the table trying to get all of this fixed up.


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