Posts by BMaytum
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boinc versions and lunatics
(Message 1727065)
Posted 19 Sep 2015 by  BMaytum
Post: "Mark Wyzenbeek" wrote:I'm running Boinc 7.6.9 with Lunatics 0.43b without any problems. Me three, go for it! [Only non-related issue for me is that I can't upload results on this Saturday AM. And so many to send back that now I can't download any work to Crunch. SAH Server Status page shows lots of work to send, so guess the blockage is in Up/Down network]. |
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Welcome to the 16 year club
(Message 1699869)
Posted 9 Jul 2015 by BMaytum
Post: 16 years was two jobs and a retirement ago! :-) Same for me! I still remember my old overclocked Slot A Pentium II struggling to crunch Classic SETI WUs, it's air-cooler whining away at max RPM trying to keep the CPU temperature reasonable. Congratulations to all my fellow 16-Year crunch buddies. |
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CLOSED** SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XXVIII **CLOSED
(Message 1611823)
Posted 10 Dec 2014 by BMaytum
Post: I finally reached the 4,000,000 Cobblestone mark -whew! Not bragging, just noting it was a personal goal for me. |
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CPU Optimization
(Message 1598990)
Posted 9 Nov 2014 by BMaytum
Post: Hi Fawkesguy, I'll leave your CPU optimization configuration question to the many experts here. But I will make two suggestions: (1) Troubleshoot and resolve the cause of the Invalid and Error work results on both of your two PCs. The experts here can help you with that. When resolved, you'll see better throughput RAC, and your wingmen will appreciate you generating Valid results; (2) So long as your PCs have reasonable CPU & GPU temperatures while crunching, I highly recommend you download and install the Lunatics' Unified Installer from http://lunatics.kwsn.net/ (0.43a is latest ATM). First however, BACKUP your customized config files (the installer will write new ones using it's logic), so you can thereafter copy in your favored config tweaks. The Lunatics' Optimized Apps from their Unified Installer are notably faster than stock SAH apps on both the CPU and GPU crunching, you'll see notable speed increases. I've used their Optimized Apps on both of my PCs for years. Cheerio, -BMaytum http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6890794 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5185956 |
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Help diagnosing a bunch of errors
(Message 1573248)
Posted 17 Sep 2014 by BMaytum
Post: One immediate issue: @ Richard H.: All of the Error results on his computer (for both Astropulse 6.0 & 7.0) are generated by the CPU (not GPU), with Elapsed and CPU times = 0.0 seconds. Can you suggest solution for resolving the CPU errored tasks? -Bruce |
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BOINC add-on -SETIspirit v2.0.0- released
(Message 1571029)
Posted 12 Sep 2014 by BMaytum
Post: Dirk, I wasn't aware of SETIspirit before I saw this thread. Now I've installed v2.4.8 plus the SkyMap and DM Tool, poked around a bit and WOW it is impressive! Thanks for this terrific add-on suite. |
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15th Anni T-shirt discussions
(Message 1469571)
Posted 27 Jan 2014 by BMaytum
Post: Hi Uli, Please sign me up for one 15th Anniversary Tee-shirt, size Large. (I PM'd you earlier when I lacked sufficient Recent Credits to post my T-Shirt request here. You responded affirmatively via a PM, so this is just a reminder - not a second order). TIA, BMaytum |
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Moving on... (Apr 08 2013)
(Message 1357629)
Posted 16 Apr 2013 by BMaytum
Post: The public one, if it runs, will generate waterfall plots. Humans eyeballs need to look at the waterfall plots to figure out if it is BS or ET. ... I'd guess that's what Seti Live is/was attempting to do. Admittedly I didn't spend much time there or at the(ir?) related http://setiquest.org/join-the-quest/software/readme website. Initially I thought I might grab SetiQuest's open source SonATA "waterfall image" software to try on one of my (non-Ubuntu) linux PCs. But I chose not to after inferring from some blogs there that the initial multi-hundreds or thousands of eyeballs looking at waterfalls starting in 2011(?) had declined exponentially since then. I also wondered how they had blown through the $100,000 TED funding already.... Anyway, right after the recent successful S@H colocation, I too thought: "Great, now the SSL scientists can get on with NTPCKR so we longtime crunchers can see some candidates". But in reading the most recent posts in this thread, I'm beginning to wonder what's really going to happen to digesting the millions of S@H results, and when? |
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Validation issue?
(Message 1355321)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by BMaytum
Post: What's to be done now? I am aware of that potential long wait for wingmen. However, my posting pointed out that the 4 WUs I listed above were completed by BOTH me and my wingmen six weeks earlier (Feb 2x, 2013) and had been in "completed awaiting validation" status since that time - so I was questioning why they stayed in that status for so long. See this one for example http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1175024737 I still don't know why the validation action took six weeks, but since they're now "completed and validated" my curiosity has abated somewhat. |
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Validation issue?
(Message 1355208)
Posted 10 Apr 2013 by BMaytum
Post: What's to be done now? Well Grant, I was skeptical that waiting further beyond six weeks would help, but tonight I checked the status of the 4 work units I listed above, and I'm please they are now all validated! Maybe yesterday's outage did it ......? For me, now SOLVED. |
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Gripes and Kudos II
(Message 1354416)
Posted 7 Apr 2013 by BMaytum
Post: Kudos: (1) to members & esp. Richard Haselgrove (his RegEdit methods) for the Windows TCP Fix prior to the more recent Colocation, and (2) to all who chose & implemented the Colocation move. I was at wits end about the WU Download choking & was ready to pull my plug from S@H Project prior to both of these kudo-worthy events. Gripes: Only one ATM, see http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71040&postid=1354413 |
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Validation issue?
(Message 1354413)
Posted 7 Apr 2013 by BMaytum
Post: I have several items a month old waiting on validation, seems like it is taking forever for validation on items. I too have multiple "Completed, waiting for validation" MB work units that both I and my wingmen completed six weeks ago. For example, see these: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1175029664 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1175029658 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1175024797 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1175024737 and more..... What's to be done now? |
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Gripes and Kudos II
(Message 1348737)
Posted 20 Mar 2013 by BMaytum
Post: Since some of you are complaining about the downloads of new tasks here is a solution that has worked for me and many others. Alternatively (rather than using TCPOptimizer) if you're running Windows, see Richard Haselgrove's two easy methods http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71002&postid=1344153 that set a Registry parameter to relieve WU download congestion on your PC. (Other posters recently pointed out that thread here, but apparently some posters haven't yet understood). Check it out, the Registry setting completely relieved WU download congestion for my 3 PCs.[/url] |
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Plz Update "Top GPU Models" page
(Message 1348734)
Posted 20 Mar 2013 by BMaytum
Post: I don't know who maintains the "Top GPU Models" webpage: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/gpu_list.php but it is rather out of date in that Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 and GTX 690 models are not currently included (even though the contemporary GTX670 is listed). Likewise the Quadro series GPUs are absent (and the new GeForce Titan <- I'm assuming Titan GPU crunches S@H). I request the maintainer to update the subject page in their spare time. Thanks! |
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Panic Mode On (82) Server Problems?
(Message 1340938)
Posted 26 Feb 2013 by BMaytum
Post: Well 9-10 days ago, the U/Ls, D/Ls & Reporting throughput was awesomely good, for example: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=70730&postid=1338911. Then S@H had the weekend power maintenance outage, and in the 1-1/2 days since S@H came back up (2/24AM in Berkeley), the Downloads have just been AWFUL. The current D/L constipation is completely painful - WUs now sit in Download:active status (usually in & out between active and Retry in 5,30,45 minutes or more) for interminably long time periods. Exiting and restarting BOINC previously helped get stalled WU downloads moving, but now it rarely gets any WU D/L to budge. Maybe Matt L. needs to re-install his (unspecified) tweaks that got everything flowing so well 10 days ago? Please apply that much needed ExLax! |
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Panic Mode On (81) Server Problems?
(Message 1338911)
Posted 16 Feb 2013 by BMaytum
Post: Bandwidth ... than useless server chatter with no results. Whatever tweaks or adjustments Matt applied recently have really IMPROVED the DL /UL /Report throughput (and now few stalls) for me, just over the hill from SSL. Prior to those tweaks, I seriously contemplated pulling my plug on SAH from so much communications frustration. Now greatly improved, I'll stick around to atleast reach my 14th SAH Anniversary in April. Kudos MATT! |
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Panic Mode On (76) Server Problems?
(Message 1268921)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by BMaytum
Post: Someone change the rules? I'm getting a lot of VLARS in the batch of 6.10 MB cuda tasks that I'm downloading. Thought that was a no-no??? There's a separate thread at present about VLARs being sent to Nvidia GPUs over here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68947 |
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.vlar WUs to NVIDIA GPUs (Problem Solved)
(Message 1268919)
Posted 8 Aug 2012 by BMaytum
Post: Why not give it a try? Possibly it may be working out. I got some VLARS sent to my GPU too today (7Aug 2012) after the weekly scheduled outage. Two of them completed successfuly but took over 8,100 elapsed seconds; two of them terminated with Time Limit Exceeded at 10,161 seconds. Four more were in progress, with over 1hr:40mins elapsed and about 1h:05m estimated remaining but since Estimated remaining was continually Increasing (thus the elapsed + estimated would eventually exceed 10,161 sec ~2hr:48min), I manually aborted them. I'm running a GTX580 with v301.42 nVidia drivers, with count= 0.25 (thus GPU can process 4 concurrent workunits). Using BOINC v 7.0.28, and Lunatics optimized MB applications. When I later got another cache-load of 11 WUs, I manually aborted the 4 GPU VLARs in that batch immediately, given my less-than stellar experince with the prior 6 VLARs on my GPU as noted just above. |
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[error] No start tag in scheduler reply
(Message 1239453)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by BMaytum
Post: Well, whatever those [error] messages werabout earlier, I then git "no tasks available" for awhile, and now just got 12 new WUs to crunch so I'm happy. Maybe the scheduler was just re-acting to the lousy US jobs report, plummeting Treasury yields, and bid drops in US & European stock indices this mornibg.... |
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[error] No start tag in scheduler reply
(Message 1239433)
Posted 1 Jun 2012 by BMaytum
Post: My PC is out of work, so I tried Unsuccessfully to get more WUs: 6/1/2012 6:27:24 AM | SETI@home | work fetch resumed by user 6/1/2012 6:27:30 AM | SETI@home | update requested by user 6/1/2012 6:27:36 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 6/1/2012 6:27:36 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU 6/1/2012 6:27:38 AM | SETI@home | [error] No start tag in scheduler reply 6/1/2012 6:28:59 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 6/1/2012 6:28:59 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU 6/1/2012 6:29:01 AM | SETI@home | [error] No start tag in scheduler reply 6/1/2012 6:32:49 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 6/1/2012 6:32:49 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU 6/1/2012 6:32:51 AM | SETI@home | [error] No start tag in scheduler reply 6/1/2012 6:38:46 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 6/1/2012 6:38:46 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU 6/1/2012 6:38:48 AM | SETI@home | [error] No start tag in scheduler reply This reads like a scheduler server-side problem. I've not made any Preference changes on my side. |
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