Posts by Jimbocous

1) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The continuing of life's adventures of the kittyman. (Message 2140740)
Posted 16 Sep 2024 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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For both those who care and those who don't.

The kittyman underwent open heart surgery last Friday.
3 bypasses were done, with veins taken out of my chest.

The operation was done last Friday, and I was kicked out of the hospital Monday afternoon.
Much rest is prescribed, and kitty is advancing rapidly.

Why the Lord did not take me that day, I do not know.
But I know that He had his reasons.

Congrats on pulling through. Good to hear from you.
2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : A "How to install" a version of Linux (Lubuntu) and the "All in one CUDA90" from Tbar. (Message 2136292)
Posted 26 May 2024 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Just in case anyone is out searching this, here's a current link that as of May 2024 provides current info on how to install the AIO for BOINC.
Obviously the SETI-specific stuff is deprecated, but getting BOINC up and running on a Linux box is still a very relevant topic.

I've recently gone through, redone the installation instructions, tested it all, and updated the package to more current versions of BOINC.
Legacy support for Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04 is still included, as are detailed instructions for 18.04, 19.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04.
Feel free to drop in, take a peek and grab whatever from this web page. I'll be around for questions, if needed, and welcome comments and suggestions as well.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2136291)
Posted 26 May 2024 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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I have to admit that i already thought it was long dead.
Iconic 90s messenger ICQ logs off for good after nearly 30 years.

Geez, me too. Seems to me I tried to get on it a while back, and couldn't.
Yet another app sucked into the giant Google vortex, I guess.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134631)
Posted 7 Apr 2024 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Which project our people contributing the GPU power to?

Milkyway and/or Einstein.

Thanks for the feedback.
According to the application page at MilkyWay there is no GPU application. Is the application page wrong?

Lol. Probably why I'm not getting any:)
Initially I misread the original message as CPU, not GPU. There are indeed no current MW GPU apps. Sorry for the confusion.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134583)
Posted 6 Apr 2024 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Which project our people contributing the GPU power to?

Milkyway and/or Einstein.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134453)
Posted 1 Apr 2024 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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The AIO was made by TBAR. You can just download the .deb files from Boinc and unpack the binaries from them in /Downloads and then copy them over into your AIO directory.

The deb files are located here. Take your pick of versions. Either the 7.24 you were looking for or even the 8.0 Alpha. The alpha is available from Boinc versions web page but of course that is the standard installation type and install directories and not the AIO directory location.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/jammy/pool/main/b/

(Not getting notifications of messages here, hmmm...)
Thanks, Keith. I did get it figured out.
It escaped me for a bit that I needed to be logged in to Github in order to download files.
As always, thanks. Hope you're doing well. l8r, Jim ...
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134422)
Posted 30 Mar 2024 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Anybody still copying the mail here?
Have been running the old all-in-one Linux BOINC package for quite a while. (Wish I could recall who put that together)
Still on 7.16.5, but looking to see if anyone could hook me up with the newer executables, as the CPU overscheduling of multi-thread CPU tasks is giving me grief. This issue is fixed on 7.24, I believe.
Supposedly it's possible to download them directly off Git Hub, but I never could make that work.
Specifically, iirc all that is needed is to replace the Linux executables:
boinc
boinccmd
boncmgr
boincscr
switcher
Any chance someone could help out?
Thanks in advance, Jim ...
8) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2053257)
Posted 13 Jul 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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And even after all that time, the last of my Valids haven' been cleared.

None of those stats have updated since 16 June
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2052900)
Posted 29 Jun 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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. . I just thought I would keep this thread from oblivion ...

. . I miss the conversations that were so much a part of S@H, E@H is dead quiet by comparison. And it gets dead boring just humming along with my NVidia cards trundling along in OpenCL mode. Oh for the excitement of gurus making apps that lifted the productivity of those cards and the fun of tweaking them to get it right ...

Stephen

+1
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2050770)
Posted 1 Jun 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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i still seeing some flying spots here ... http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/kiosk/

Bogus, if I understand that cute little graphic correctly. The numbers sure don't add up.
Maybe a year ago ...
11) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI orphans (Message 2049223)
Posted 15 May 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Some projects will only allow you to register via BOINC Manager
If this doesn't work, try to find an HTTPS version of the site

Yeah i was going through web browser on their website using https and it gave me a captcha, and after 15 "failed" attempts, I gave up on MW.

Captcha said I answered correctly, otherwise it wouldn't have given the green check mark saying "you are human and answered correctly," but then the MW website kept saying invalid captcha.

So..... MW doesn't get my CPU cycles. They obviously don't want them.

I had a similar problem. I think it doesn't like certain web browsers. Try a different one if you have another option.

I'm running E@H for GPUs and MW for CPUs on the few machines I have left running, since current BOINC workshare is borked.
I created the MW account via BOINC Manager after being unable to do so via Firefox. Don't recall why, but it was easier that way.
Have had no issues for over a month now.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2047902)
Posted 2 May 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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State: All (5188) · In progress (0) · Validation pending (0) · Validation inconclusive (10) · Valid (5091) · Invalid (85) · Error (2) 
13) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2047757)
Posted 1 May 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Looks like someone has messed with the back-off parameters again. Instead of a consistent 30 minutes, it's now 15 minutes for a couple cycles then bounces you out to 24 hours.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2047484)
Posted 29 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Brings back fond memories of using TheDraw to do ANSI graphics for BBSes.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2046807)
Posted 24 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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. . I recommend a Sci-Fi short story called 'The Marching Morons' by C.M.Kornbluth (also nicely subtle in the title 8-})

Stephen

:)


+1 I have always liked that story :)

Tom M

+1
Nice to see it's online now for free reading.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : SETI orphans (Message 2046590)
Posted 23 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13847&postid=95212

(facepalm)....

I'm starting to think if participants ever really realised how carelessly their computational resources and donated energy are used... BOINC would be turned off :/

Interesting that no one who responded to you actually addressed the point and question you raised.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2045516)
Posted 18 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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18) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2044422)
Posted 12 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Let the cleanup commence on Monday afternoon.

For the cleanup to commence do we not require tasks to timeout and then be re-sent?


It depends on "bunkering" hosts like this https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=8652081&offset=52360&show_names=0&state=1&appid=

Over 52K tasks in progress, with the oldest ones from 4th March !
And as far as GPUs, 1337 reported via spoofing, only 1 actually installed. What a special guy.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2043791)
Posted 9 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Just got notified of a Boinc Manager update for my Windows box. Downloaded the VM version. Maybe I will explore running Cosmology@Home which is a VM only project on it.

Tom M

Just FYI, if it's 7.16.5 x64 you've updated to, be advised I've been having nothing but trouble with that on my Win box with Einstein jobs, and after 2 trys I just fell back to 7.14.2. Seems CPU jobs just halt. Also apparently trashed the history, to the point where it''s saying I reached my max of 480 tasks per day and threw me into a 24 hour project back-off.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2043635)
Posted 8 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Well, the replica has finally caught up and is back in synch.

Meow meow meow.

Wee Haw meow!


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