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Message 83768 - Posted: 11 Dec 2017, 14:38:58 UTC

Hi folks, first post though I've been a BOINC user for many years. Just got a new PC (Intel i7-8700K, Corsiar H110i liquid CPU cooler, NVIDIA 1080 GPU) last week and have been toying around with stress tests and benchmarks to make sure everything's behaving correctly. Prime95 (with AVX enabled) returns errors after only a few minutes, which alarms me, although according to forums this seems to be occurring widely with this CPU and AVX enabled. Other benchmarks and apps work fine, except for this error in BOINC. So I am not sure if I should be A) concerned with my hardware, or if this error I am seeing in BOINC is a B) configuration issue or a C) project specific issue. Here's some info, glad for any advice.
BOINC 7.8.3 x64, VBOX 5.1.26, Win10 home x64.
Running Cosmology@Home and WorldCommunityGrid.

Problem: All the C@H workers try to start and then fail, with this note in the Status field of BOINC Advanced viewer: "Computation Error (12 CPUs)." Also important to note that WCG seems to run fine, it completed a few worker tasks then tried C@H tasks again and goes into the "Computation Error" thing again trying different tasks. I have restarted the PC a couple times, exited BOINC, stopped computing, all a few times to no avail.

BOINC as a service? I have no idea. Didn't do anything special except download and install.

Background. This BOINC event log captures the succesful completion of a few WCG tasks and another unsuccessful start of the C@H work (CPU VM extensions disabled?). Also I'm trying to post screenshots of the BOINC task manager (long list so I segmented it, but all snips are from the same moment) and the VBOX with errors highlighted (I can't interpret this, but wonder if C@H isn't working with VBOX correctly?) - will update this thread when I can upload the image (I'm not experienced with posting...).

Event log:
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1080 (driver version 388.13, CUDA version 9.1, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3555MB available, 9070 GFLOPS peak)
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1080 (driver version 388.13, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8192MB, 3555MB available, 9070 GFLOPS peak)
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | Host name: Slade
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | Processor: 12 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz [Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10]
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 vmx smx tm2 pbe fsgsbase bmi1 hle smep bmi2
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Core x64 Edition, (10.00.15063.00)
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | Memory: 31.93 GB physical, 37.68 GB virtual
12/11/2017 8:02:07 AM | | Disk: 442.08 GB total, 383.46 GB free
>>>>>
12/11/2017 9:06:34 AM | World Community Grid | Computation for task FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000006_000020_015_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:34 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_12396_1512994941.607965_0
12/11/2017 9:06:36 AM | World Community Grid | Started upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000006_000020_015_0_r687055641_0
12/11/2017 9:06:36 AM | World Community Grid | Started upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000006_000020_015_0_r687055641_1
12/11/2017 9:06:37 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
12/11/2017 9:06:37 AM | Cosmology@Home | Computation for task camb_boinc2docker_12396_1512994941.607965_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:37 AM | Cosmology@Home | Output file camb_boinc2docker_12396_1512994941.607965_0_r1272383869_0 for task camb_boinc2docker_12396_1512994941.607965_0 absent
12/11/2017 9:06:37 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_11002_1512994902.939594_0
12/11/2017 9:06:38 AM | World Community Grid | Finished upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000006_000020_015_0_r687055641_0
12/11/2017 9:06:39 AM | World Community Grid | Finished upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000006_000020_015_0_r687055641_1
12/11/2017 9:06:40 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
12/11/2017 9:06:40 AM | World Community Grid | Computation for task FAH2_001673_avx38789-0_000001_000060_012_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:40 AM | Cosmology@Home | Computation for task camb_boinc2docker_11002_1512994902.939594_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:40 AM | Cosmology@Home | Output file camb_boinc2docker_11002_1512994902.939594_0_r651899261_0 for task camb_boinc2docker_11002_1512994902.939594_0 absent
12/11/2017 9:06:40 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_10867_1512994900.297112_0
12/11/2017 9:06:42 AM | World Community Grid | Started upload of FAH2_001673_avx38789-0_000001_000060_012_0_r25481867_0
12/11/2017 9:06:42 AM | World Community Grid | Started upload of FAH2_001673_avx38789-0_000001_000060_012_0_r25481867_1
12/11/2017 9:06:42 AM | World Community Grid | Computation for task FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000005_000041_008_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:43 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
12/11/2017 9:06:43 AM | World Community Grid | Finished upload of FAH2_001673_avx38789-0_000001_000060_012_0_r25481867_0
12/11/2017 9:06:43 AM | Cosmology@Home | Computation for task camb_boinc2docker_10867_1512994900.297112_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:43 AM | Cosmology@Home | Output file camb_boinc2docker_10867_1512994900.297112_0_r1815425575_0 for task camb_boinc2docker_10867_1512994900.297112_0 absent
12/11/2017 9:06:43 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_11463_1512994915.922561_0
12/11/2017 9:06:44 AM | World Community Grid | Finished upload of FAH2_001673_avx38789-0_000001_000060_012_0_r25481867_1
12/11/2017 9:06:44 AM | World Community Grid | Started upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000005_000041_008_0_r2011904743_0
12/11/2017 9:06:44 AM | World Community Grid | Started upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000005_000041_008_0_r2011904743_1
12/11/2017 9:06:45 AM | World Community Grid | Finished upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000005_000041_008_0_r2011904743_0
12/11/2017 9:06:46 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
12/11/2017 9:06:46 AM | World Community Grid | Finished upload of FAH2_001670_avx38788-2-1_000005_000041_008_0_r2011904743_1
12/11/2017 9:06:46 AM | Cosmology@Home | Computation for task camb_boinc2docker_11463_1512994915.922561_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:46 AM | Cosmology@Home | Output file camb_boinc2docker_11463_1512994915.922561_0_r1241698559_0 for task camb_boinc2docker_11463_1512994915.922561_0 absent
12/11/2017 9:06:46 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_8881_1512994828.041212_0
12/11/2017 9:06:48 AM | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
12/11/2017 9:06:48 AM | World Community Grid | Reporting 3 completed tasks
12/11/2017 9:06:48 AM | World Community Grid | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; NVIDIA GPU: )
12/11/2017 9:06:49 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
12/11/2017 9:06:49 AM | Cosmology@Home | Computation for task camb_boinc2docker_8881_1512994828.041212_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:49 AM | Cosmology@Home | Output file camb_boinc2docker_8881_1512994828.041212_0_r597538261_0 for task camb_boinc2docker_8881_1512994828.041212_0 absent
12/11/2017 9:06:49 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_8764_1512994825.537702_0
12/11/2017 9:06:50 AM | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed
12/11/2017 9:06:52 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
12/11/2017 9:06:52 AM | Cosmology@Home | Computation for task camb_boinc2docker_8764_1512994825.537702_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:52 AM | Cosmology@Home | Output file camb_boinc2docker_8764_1512994825.537702_0_r1339871995_0 for task camb_boinc2docker_8764_1512994825.537702_0 absent
12/11/2017 9:06:52 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_10369_1512994888.472819_0
12/11/2017 9:06:55 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
12/11/2017 9:06:55 AM | Cosmology@Home | Computation for task camb_boinc2docker_10369_1512994888.472819_0 finished
12/11/2017 9:06:55 AM | Cosmology@Home | Output file camb_boinc2docker_10369_1512994888.472819_0_r852235262_0 for task camb_boinc2docker_10369_1512994888.472819_0 absent
12/11/2017 9:06:55 AM | Cosmology@Home | Starting task camb_boinc2docker_11852_1512994927.753324_0
12/11/2017 9:06:58 AM | | Vbox app stderr indicates CPU VM extensions disabled
>>>>>>
[will update with screenshots when I can figure it out]

-Thanks in advance!
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Message 83769 - Posted: 11 Dec 2017, 15:05:13 UTC - in response to Message 83768.  

This sort of question is far better asked, and answered, at the project's own website.

Taking your most recent failed task, http://www.cosmologyathome.org/result.php?resultid=61598493, you can read:

2017-12-11 07:52:57 (9448): Hardware acceleration failed with previous execution. Disabling VirtualBox hardware acceleration support.
2017-12-11 07:52:57 (9448): ERROR: Invalid configuration. VM type requires acceleration but the current configuration cannot support it.
2017-12-11 07:52:57 (9448): Could not create VM
2017-12-11 07:52:57 (9448):
NOTE: VirtualBox has reported an improperly configured virtual machine. It was configured to require
hardware acceleration for virtual machines, but your processor does not support the required feature.
Please report this issue to the project so that it can be addresssed.
Error Code: ERR_CPU_VM_EXTENSIONS_DISABLED
They are far better equipped to deal with that than we are.
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Message 83770 - Posted: 11 Dec 2017, 15:38:33 UTC - in response to Message 83769.  

Richard, thanks very much! I will consult the project forums and report my error. In fact over the last hour I just noticed the "Application" column in BOINC task manager showing the failures under the "camb_boinc2docker 2.05 (vbox64_mt)" but I'm now succesfully running C@H project tasks with "camb_legacy 2.17" which I'll also report to the project.
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Message 83771 - Posted: 11 Dec 2017, 15:53:52 UTC - in response to Message 83770.  

It might be worth asking if there is anything you can do to rectify the reported problems. In some cases, it's settings in the computer's BIOS which prevent the VM running, rather than the chip's capabilities themselves: that would be worth other readers here reading about, if you could come back and report what they say.
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