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Message boards :
Wish list :
Donation
(Message 29280)
Posted 82 days ago by  MarkJ 
I have just sent 500 euros their way. Given the situation in Spain (and around the euro zone) I am sure the project need whatever help we can send their way. The donations page allows you to pay via a credit card or use PayPal. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Long Running NOELIA Short Run Task
(Message 28927)
Posted 108 days ago by MarkJ
I just had a NOELIA_TRYP that was sitting on 100% for a fair while. I tried to suspend/resume it but it started back at the beginning, so I aborted it. It was a resend and my two other wingmen seem to have "error while computing". Link to wu here |
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Message boards :
Server and website :
"[Upload] size will go down by a factor [of] 3 in January"
(Message 28865)
Posted 111 days ago by MarkJ
I got a notice today in the BOINC client saying it now has compressed files. Dated the 27th of Feb. Sure enough the work unit it downloaded the files were a lot smaller than normal. Unfortunately transfer speed was normal (around 30-36k/sec). Its a TONI_AGG work unit with a prefix of Ann186 |
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Message boards :
Graphics cards (GPUs) :
Is it possible to run Multiple GPUs in one Tower?
(Message 28790)
Posted 113 days ago by MarkJ
You can use the exclude_gpu to restrict one card from long work units and another entry to do the opposite, so that way the faster card can run the longs and the 640 can run the short WU.. He'd need two exclude_gpu statements, one for each device.
<exclude_gpu>
<url>http://www.gpugrid.net/</url>
<device_num>0</device_num>
<type>NVIDIA</type>
<app>acemd2</app>
</exclude_gpu>
<exclude_gpu>
<url>http://www.gpugrid.net/</url>
<device_num>1</device_num>
<type>NVIDIA</type>
<app>acemdlong</app>
</exclude_gpu>
This says device 0 can't do acemd2 (short tasks) and device 1 can't do acemdlong. He would need to get the device numbers from the BOINC start up messages as to which card is which in his system. If you only have 1 sort of device in your system (ie only Nvidia or only ATI) it says in the doco that you can omit the <type> tag |
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Message boards :
Graphics cards (GPUs) :
Is it possible to run Multiple GPUs in one Tower?
(Message 28758)
Posted 114 days ago by MarkJ
You can use the exclude_gpu to restrict one card from long work units and another entry to do the opposite, so that way the faster card can run the longs and the 640 can run the short WU.. He'd need two exclude_gpu statements, one for each device. You'd probably be better off doing this with the current alpha test BOINC client as it has some fixes around excluded devices and work-fetch issues. That is 7.0.52 at the moment. |
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Message boards :
Server and website :
Server problems
(Message 28740)
Posted 115 days ago by MarkJ
We are having some problems with the server disks. Can you give us an idea of how many drives and what sort they are? Sounds like you might need a replacement program of some sort where the older ones get replaced with new ones. One of the problems with a server is the drives being mechanical tend to wear out. You are lucky to get 3 years out of them these days. |
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Message boards :
Graphics cards (GPUs) :
Is it possible to run Multiple GPUs in one Tower?
(Message 28739)
Posted 115 days ago by MarkJ
Just a point about BOINC. It will allow for multiple graphics cards fine. However it assumes they are all the same. BOINC doesn't actually crunch, all it does is schedule the tasks, so it will get a bit confused by having two different cards in the one machine from the point of view of estimated times jumping all over the place. Because of this most of us tend to try and either use the same sort of cards or restrict them to different projects. To do that you can use the <exclude_gpu> statements in the cc_config file. The 640 is not really suitable for GPUgrid work anyway so maybe best to use if for other projects. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Development BOINC 7.0.52
(Message 28693)
Posted 116 days ago by MarkJ
7.0.52 change log - WINSETUP: Revert my change to interpret the Service Install checkbox as an integer. Internally if the property contains a value it is true, otherwise false. Confirmed by Kevin. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Development BOINC 7.0.52
(Message 28692)
Posted 116 days ago by MarkJ
7.0.51 change log (not released) - client: job scheduler tweak to avoid CPU idleness in situation where GPU jobs use different CPU fractions |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Development BOINC 7.0.52
(Message 28691)
Posted 116 days ago by MarkJ
7.0.50 change log (not released) - WINSETUP: Update the custom actions that use the ENABLEPROTECTEDAPPLICATIONEXECUTION property |
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