1) Message boards : Server and website : New max WU in progress (Message 11468)
Posted 5356 days ago by Scott Brown

Pentium D 830 (2 cores) with single 9600GSO. Just downloaded 3 workunits...looks like the error is not due to a 2 per CPU rather than GPU call or my machine would have gotten 4.

BOINC 6.5.0
2) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Time To Quit? (Message 11281)
Posted 5362 days ago by Scott Brown
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but in case he does; you(scott) mean something like this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835150085


Yes, that is a nice looking unit. If a bit less eye-pleasing (and a bit more noise) are okay, I found the 3-fan Antec unit here.

3) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Time To Quit? (Message 11274)
Posted 5362 days ago by Scott Brown

Another additional fan that might help is a drive bay fan in an empty slot. Antec used to make a nice 3-fan unit that had good airflow. In a tower, put it in the top drive bay slot to pull in cool air where the case is hottest.

4) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Video Card Longevity (Message 11254)
Posted 5363 days ago by Scott Brown
Both these research teams took the inverted smart approach. If something is essential for life, they want to kill it.


Neither of these were research teams doing work on telomerase and cancer. Both were review articles (from 1996 and 2001) demonstrating that at least theraputic research in this area has been going on for quite some time and were provided by me to counter your statement that "It’s such a pity nobody is studying this Cure for All Cancers Solution".

...publish in a few obscure journals...


Though I probably wouldn't really call "Scientific American" a journal (the first review piece), it is hardly obscure. "Human Molecular Genetics" (the second review piece) is a prominent journal in the area.

Unfortunately this sort of research undermines science and interferes with the work of descent scientist that are really trying to do something positive.


I am really at a loss with this kind of statement. Are you really suggesting that the U.S. and Japanese researchers from the second article are not descent scientists?


Anyway, this has gone way off topic, so I apologize for Hijacking the thread.

5) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Video Card Longevity (Message 11204)
Posted 5365 days ago by Scott Brown
...Without Telomerase DNA stays damaged, so there is a greater risk of Cancer and other illnesses.

Just because someone is researching something does not mean they are looking for a cure. They might just be looking!


Just an FYI...see here and here for example.


Anyway back to the topic – Video Card Longevity

It’s a good idea to use a fine mesh fan filter...But they don’t just keep the dust off your components. I looked at a system about 2 years ago and was told it made a loud pop/bang noise and stopped suddenly. There was a bluebottle fly lying at the bottom of the case.




Dust is definitely not the only problem. I saw a system about 5 years ago that had the same "pop/bang" noise problem...opened the case only to find a nice colony of ants (some rather toasted)! I doubt even the fine mesh would have kept them out.
6) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Video Card Longevity (Message 10989)
Posted 5379 days ago by Scott Brown

Humans have a protein called telomerase that repairs such damage when it occurs in DNA, but Computers don’t have an equivalent just yet.
We might all live for much longer if the Telomerase gene was not stuck at the end of a Chromosome (which shrinks with age)! Cancers would probably not be such the problem either. It’s such a pity nobody is studying this Cure for All Cancers Solution.


The "shrinking with age" regarding telomerase probably has little effect on how long we live currently given upper population life expectancies of around 85 years for Japanese women. Essentially, this repair process and shrinking is related to the "Hayflick Limit" in cell division, which places a finite limit on natural human life span at around 250 years (when "shrinking" results in lengths too short for the division to occur properly). Research on telomerase (and related issues) has been ongoing for three or more decades, including some work on cell division in some cancers.
7) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Expressing my displeasure (Message 10800)
Posted 5392 days ago by Scott Brown
Do I notice correctly that the change has been rolled back ? I am still running 178.13 and it seems to work.


I am also using an older driver, 178.24, on at least one machine with no problems reporting and validated. Could this be because I am using BOINC 6.5.0 which does not report the dirver version, and therefore, is not subject to driver version enforcement?


8) Message boards : Number crunching : Cancelled by Server - Suggestion (Message 10051)
Posted 5425 days ago by Scott Brown
Regarding load balancing, there is already an option for the user to check to accept other types of work if the preferred work is not available. Make this an always on option (or perhaps switched on automatically for reliable hosts), and that might solve the load balance issue.


9) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : Recent problems for WUs on older GPUs (Message 10000)
Posted 5426 days ago by Scott Brown
we are running this set of workunits called

x-GIANNI_newFB-...

If they go on ok, then we have isolated the problem with G90 chips. It is not solved yet but still at least we would know where to look.

gdf



These hang on my Pent D 830 with a 9600GSO. See here for a hung result that was aborted after more than 24 hours of no progress (hung at about 21%).

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Cancelled by Server - Suggestion (Message 9966)
Posted 5427 days ago by Scott Brown

That's exactly what I was referring to... different sub-projects.

How can it not be separated like that?
There are several different types of work going on right now so why could it not be set so that (for example) 79-KASHIF_HIVPR is run on slower cards with longer deadlines and p780000-RAUL on the faster cards with shorter deadlines.

As an added bonus this could help with issues such as the current problems with G90 GPU's...



Many projects have setup different projects (i.e., different stats, website, servers, etc.) for different sub-projects such as Beta versions or, in the case of Milkway@home, separate cpu and gpu projects--your original post seemed to sound more like this...sorry if I misread it.

Yes, there are numerous different types of workunits, and in my few months here, I have seen no less than a dozen workunit types (maybe more). I think that this fairly rapid change in workunit types is what prevents the different subproject setup.



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