Posts by Jimbocous

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134631)
Posted 19 days ago 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.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134583)
Posted 20 days ago by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Which project our people contributing the GPU power to?

Milkyway and/or Einstein.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134453)
Posted 25 days ago 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 ...
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 2134422)
Posted 27 days ago 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 ...
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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 ...
8) 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.
9) 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) 
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) 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.
13) 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.
14) 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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15) 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.
16) 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.
17) 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!
18) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2043615)
Posted 8 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Another system (from another thread).

In progress 25281
And it's been a week since last contact with the server.

And with the user being Anonymous, for all we know they could have several systems in the same state.

Given it's a spoofed GPU system on 7.16.7, shouldn't be too hard to figure out who it belongs to. Creative bunkering, anyone?
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Setting up Linux to crunch CUDA90 and above for Windows users (Message 2043471)
Posted 7 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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the ONLY problem I ever had was after running the coolbits command and writing an xorg.conf file, sometimes the bus ID gets changed of the GPU driving the monitor. ... just manually edit the xorg.conf file to return device/screen 0 to being the bus ID back to the GPU that shows the BIOS at boot.

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
--make changes to file in nano--
[Ctrl]+X to save changes
reboot

That's been the issue that's plagued me on my HP boxes since day 1. Can't ever count on where the desktop is actually going to show up. The times I tried to change the xorg.conf file I ended up unbootable, and had to go back to the backup.
Must be about time for me to tackle that issue again, now that SETI is wound down and most crunchers are turned off, and figure out how I'm doing wrong something that should be so simple.
For anyone who is interested, I finally figured out my problem with trying to modify xorg.conf, and it was a strange one.
When trying to sort out which GPU was which, as it turns out nvidia writes PCI bus ID numbers in xorg.conf as decimal numbers, but it reports them via nvidia-smi in hexadecimal. On the HP boxes, the dec numbers of one GPU match the hex numbers of a different one, so each time I was editing ID 28h I was changing 40dec, as opposed to 28dec which was of course 1Ch. Wasn't immediately obvious, given that the first 4 GPUs were devs 04-05-06-07, which of course are the same either way.
Always the little things ...
20) Message boards : Number crunching : The Server Issues / Outages Thread - Panic Mode On! (119) (Message 2043468)
Posted 7 Apr 2020 by Profile Jimbocous Project Donor
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Because of systems like this one.
Last contact, April 1
Tasks in progress, 14,409!
Something really messed up here, and I don't think it's the client, but rather the DB.
. Error tasks that timed out in 24 hours?
. MB tasks with a 14 day timeout?
. 14k tasks in progress on a machine with 1 GPU?


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