Posts by Mamluk
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**CLOSED SETI/BOINC Milestones [ v2.0 ] - XIX CLOSED**
(Message 965451)
Posted 23 Jan 2010 by  Mamluk
Post: In the past few days... >1 million credits >10k RAC <50 country rank |
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THIRD Fundraising Email
(Message 959724)
Posted 31 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: I don't see the problem here. I also received 3 emails from S@H spaced over a period of weeks. If it can help the project, then I am all for it. I get 5 emails a day from people wishing to sell me Viagra. That I find slightly more annoying. |
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Pending Validation AGAIN !!
(Message 958724)
Posted 25 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
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Mine is over 4x. What would be considered "normal"? |
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Will this make a good cruncher?
(Message 958496)
Posted 24 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: [...] The online Windows BIOS update may work better than M-Flash, but looking at the problems on the MSI forums I doubt it. I managed to extract my "corrupt" BIOS before I flashed an uncorrupted one. It turns out that M-Flash does not understand fragmented files, so when I initially flashed the BIOS image, M-Flash counted 1MB of data from the starting point of the file. Unfortunately for me, the BIOS image on the flash drive was not contiguous, resulting in part of MS Word documents, images, XML files etc getting flashed onto the BIOS chip. It even overwrote the BIOS boot block, making recovery through the BIOS impossible. If you are interested, this was the only way to recover: http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=133578.0 |
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Will this make a good cruncher?
(Message 958488)
Posted 24 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: [...] The P6T7 is a great board, meant for mainstream computing. AFAIK you can only populate 4 of the 7 PCI-E 2 slots at a time. Regardless, only 4 double volume GPUs will fit in it. It is also expensive. I have the newer version of the MSI K9A2 Platinum, called the MSI 790FX-GD70. It is on an AMD platform, which is far cheaper than the Intel ones. The current drawback is obviously the AMD CPU that goes with it, but if you are getting a GPU cruncher, this will not be much of an issue. AMD CPUs drive GPUs as well as or even better than the Intel CPUs. Also, I bought myself a cheap AM3 CPU while I wait for the new AMD CPUs to be launced in Jan/Feb. The gap to the Intel CPUs will close, but the question is by how far and for how long. I have also seen motherboards with 7 double volume GPU slots. These are aimed at the commercial market and VERY expensive. From what I gather, the S@H apps/BOINC will "only" recognise 8 GPUs anyway, so that would not be too usefull right now anyway. As an aside, anyone buying MSI motherboards better know their stuff if they wish to upgrade their BIOS. I took me 3 weeks to recover from my attempt, and I got very lucky in the end. |
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-= Merry Christmas =-
(Message 958474)
Posted 24 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: And to you too and all other fellow crunchers, from a very bright and HOT South Africa. Pleased to see you post here, as I see your main cruncher is taking a breather - was afraid you were leaving us... |
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SETI@home Processor Guide - Version 0.4
(Message 958269)
Posted 23 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: Have a look at http://www.cpu-world.com/index.html It may help you in your quest... |
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Crunching for long periods of time..
(Message 958252)
Posted 23 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: I built my computer about 6 months ago, already out dated but trying to protect it as long as possible. Just wondering can crunching for a long period of time like 24 hours straight really do any harm to it? I tend to agree with the view that if the CPU temperatures are reasonable, then the CPU will last for years, regardless of 24/7 use. Like everything else though, more usage = more wear and tear. I suspect that the CPUs will become completely obsolete (like a i486 today) long before they get worn out. |
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Already thinking of Boxing Day - vidcard discussion
(Message 958243)
Posted 23 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: Interesting for me to see how first world economies/retailers work. Almost all online stores in South Africa have closed till mid-January and those that have not as yet are closing tomorrow. Brick and mortar stores are prohibitively expensive. The only bargains to be had are in the classified (second hand) forums, and those might just be busier than usual on boxing day with "unwanted gift" offers. |
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Pending Validation AGAIN !!
(Message 958097)
Posted 22 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: There are a lot of ghost WUs out there as well. I had to take one of my computers off S@H. Before I did that I aborted all the WUs it had. I see the computer is still sitting there with numerous WU with a status of "In Progress". Guaranteed I never received these. I am sure many other WU are in the same state of limbo. It will all wash out in the end though. |
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Quiet NC subforum?
(Message 957802)
Posted 21 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: Where I am, 90% of people on holiday till mid-January. Maybe the same elsewhere... |
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Panic Mode On (27) Server problems
(Message 957799)
Posted 21 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
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Sleeping I guess..
Guess not as there are other processes on the same physical server that appear to be running.
Yes, for the few that go to the web-site, it would be nice |
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Is it just me?
(Message 957752)
Posted 21 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
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The Pending Credits dance.....again?
(Message 957599)
Posted 20 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: I seem to have missed something, but can't find what I have missed. I know curiosity killed the kitties, but can someone tell me where the owner of this thread is? |
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Second CUDA card not crunching
(Message 954257)
Posted 12 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: Solved thank you. Re-installed optimized apps and it started working. I must have messed around with the configs when I first installed S@H on that machine a few months back. |
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How do I stop 1 CPU core?
(Message 954235)
Posted 12 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: I went into the home preference and tried 88% and 87% yet 8 are still being used. Does it need to finish the one it is on first? Not in cc_config. Go into boinc manager under the advanced tab and set your multiprocessor cpu usage to around 88-89%. Edit: Remember to re-read your config file after them. In the messages it should "warn" you that you are not using all processors. |
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Second CUDA card not crunching
(Message 954225)
Posted 12 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: I will try attaching a monitor to the card to see what happens. My son is using the PC at the moment (it is his actually) and it is difficult to get to it :-). My startup info: 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Config: report completed tasks immediately 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Config: use all coprocessors 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Running under account Dom 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6] 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Processor: 6.00 MB cache 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00) 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 3.85 GB virtual 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Disk: 232.88 GB total, 130.21 GB free 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM Local time is UTC +2 hours 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8800 GS (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 384MB, 326 GFLOPS peak) 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GT 240 (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.2, 512MB, 257 GFLOPS peak) 2009/12/12 07:09:16 PM SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform |
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Second CUDA card not crunching
(Message 954187)
Posted 12 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: Before I start, I have read the FAQs and other similar posts but I have not found an answer.. I installed a second CUDA card in my PC. BOINC 6.10.18 is picking up the card according to the startup messages, but only the original card is doing any work. After I installed the card, I extended the desktop to the second card and restarted BOINC. BOINC immediately downloaded a number of new GPU tasks - presumably for the new card/processing capacity. The second card has a dummy plug attached to it. The <use_all_gpus> flag is set and the cc_config file is in the correct directory. Do I need to change anything in the app_info file or do I have another problem? Thanks in advance. |
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Post your BOINC Startup 'CUDA' Info
(Message 952976)
Posted 7 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 240 (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.2, 512MB, 257 GFLOPS peak) Would not matter if you could see my computer in any case... Didn't get to run any WUs before I fried the BIOS. |
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Post your BOINC Startup 'CUDA' Info
(Message 952952)
Posted 7 Dec 2009 by Mamluk
Post: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 240 (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.2, 512MB, 279 GFLOPS peak) |
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