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News :
"Power To Give" - volunteer distributed computing for smartphones
(Message 35638)
Posted 3712 days ago by  Coleslaw
Indeed Dagorath, the point is to crunch while charging it overnight. I cannot imagine people crunching during the day and killing their phones battery. Hence why Samsung also calls it power sleep :) This and the default settings of the BOINC app on Google Play is to only run while on charger... So, anyone having Dagorath's issues with phone discharge would have decided to run it that way. Most people are aware of the battery drain while the app is running like most other CPU intensive apps and so can figure out rather quickly that they should only run it while charging. You will also find that by running BOINC while charging only it wont be killing the battery as he describes. Many of us have ran BOINC (or nativeBOINC) on phones for ~2 years now and haven't replaced any of the hardware. There certainly are some ARM devices that probably aren't well suited for BOINC, most I have seen hold up quite well. And before someone pipes up about how it is further dumb to buy a bunch of these to replace their current farms, most people are just adding these devices to them as they purchase them for other uses. They tend to be very efficient when looking at power draw and continue to get better. BOINC may influence which one they purchase, but very few are purchasing just for BOINC. |
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News :
"Power To Give" - volunteer distributed computing for smartphones
(Message 35344)
Posted 3729 days ago by Coleslaw
Samsung Power Sleep was also announced. http://www.samsung.com/at/microsite/powersleep/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLalcVLLbHU The video in English |
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Graphics cards (GPUs) :
Maxwell now
(Message 35239)
Posted 3732 days ago by Coleslaw
I think I might be the one Coleslaw is referring about. I installed a pair of 750Ti cards in my computer yesterday and tried to run GPUGRID. No go, instant fail within a couple seconds. Einstein seems to run just fine. I bought these cards to run GPUGRID and I'm not to happy that they can't. I'm not that interested in running Einstein and other than F@H there isn't much else out there for GPUs. I refuse to participate in F@H anymore. If you need any info feel free to ask. Yes you are. Thanks for volunteering. :) Gilthanis |
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Graphics cards (GPUs) :
Maxwell now
(Message 35236)
Posted 3732 days ago by Coleslaw
One of my team mates has a couple 750Ti's and they keep failing here. They are running good at Einstein. I have encouraged our team members to post in here that have the new Maxwell cards. http://www.gpugrid.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=167781 |
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Number crunching :
SANTI Errors
(Message 34402)
Posted 3796 days ago by Coleslaw
Dagorath, glad you are still trying to make a few suggestions and stick to that very narrow mindset. My reasoning for the app change rather than making users make tweaks locally for one sub project is more focused towards those machines that don't have easy access and can't be tweaked remotely on a day to day basis. As far as giving people the option to choose between SANTI and NATHAN adding more problems, that is yet to be seen. Until then, it is only opinion which really isn't worth arguing. In this case if the option was a choice, GPUGrid would still have 4 more GPU's from me crunching away. I'm sure others who are having difficulty would do the same. I have no idea the true numbers of people experiencing problems because not everyone posts in the forums. I don't even know if the techs here look at the work units I have aborted that were causing the BSOD's because they didn't get to "error out" and therefore would not show up that way. Instead it would show up as a user abort and someone else who didn't have BSOD issues could finish it. I'm not saying my cards might not be overclocked by the manufacturer. So, I can assure you that "point" was not missed. I just didn't address it in my above statement. I have made my choice in regards to tweaking my cards and have expressed my opinions (which is what they are regardless if you like them) on how I feel about the issue at hand. Please choose to ignore them if you don't like my approach. |
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Number crunching :
SANTI Errors
(Message 34395)
Posted 3797 days ago by Coleslaw
You are recommending I downgrade the performance of my "offending" GPU to accommodate Santi WUs. I'm not caring about the points but rather stability of the systems involved. Until now, I didn't have to worry about running GPUGrid work units. I now have three boxes I have had to pull due to these work units. It isn't just 6xx series cards as I have pointed out. It also effects the GT430's as well. I run all of my cards at stock speeds and don't over clock my CPU's either. I have more than enough over head on my Power Supplies. I don't believe someones work around by modifying each machine is a justifiable argument for everyone else to have to go tweak their systems just to run SANTI. This is something that should be able to be fixed within the application. Or GPUGrid should allow users to decide whether to run SANTI or NATHAN work units when available via preferences. Since this is a known error and it is happening to multiple people with different cards, it certainly should be looked at further. |
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Number crunching :
SANTI Errors
(Message 34338)
Posted 3800 days ago by Coleslaw
I had to set my third computer so far to No New Work because of the SANTI work units causing BSODs. So far the systems I have had them on Windows 7 premium and professional x64. The cards were GT430, 650Ti, and 660Ti. From what I could see, it has been caused after the drivers crashing many times in a very short period of time. These devices have run GPUGrid for a while and still run solid on other GPU projects. The BSODs only happen when running GPU Grid SANTI work. Drivers version on these machines: 331.82 320.49 331.82 |
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Number crunching :
SANTI WU Killed My GPU
(Message 33985)
Posted 3824 days ago by Coleslaw
I have a box that has two GT 430's that are having this problem. Q8200 CPU 4GB Ram Win 7 Pro x64 bit Other GPU projects run fine. I also have a BETA from GPUGrid running on it OK too. It is when I resume the SANTI work units that I get a BSOD after drivers crash a few times. This happened with Drivers Ver. 331.82 And of course I kill the BETA by forgetting to exit BOINC when I'm running some updates. |
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Wish list :
Badges by our names under our Team list
(Message 29390)
Posted 4052 days ago by Coleslaw
Other projects include the badges under the team lists. I find this handy for seeing where my team members stand and when they accomplish upgrades. Could you include that option here? |
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