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jpotter2005

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Message 94447 - Posted: 22 Dec 2019, 3:43:43 UTC

I'm running 7.14.2 on a 64 bit windows 10 machine. I've signed on for projects with Asteroids, citizen science grid, denis, milkyway, mindmodeling, universe, work community grid, and seti. Of all of those only SETI and Milkyway are actively working, Universe and World Community Grid are sitting under "ready to start" status and have been doing so all day. There are also tons of tasks for milkyway that are sitting under "ready to start (8cpu's) but aren't doing anything. I've got an eight core CPU, 16gb of RAM, and a decent gpu which isn't being used for some reason. I've got the settings set to use 75% of the machine regardless of use 24/7. Anyone have any tips on how to get more activity going on this machine?
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Message 94448 - Posted: 22 Dec 2019, 4:30:04 UTC - in response to Message 94447.  

Immediately above your post is: When requesting help on these forums.
From the first post in that thread:

* Post the first 40 - 100 lines from your BOINC Event Log (CTRL+SHIFT+E), including it showing what your BOINC is doing, which project tasks it is running.

That info may help us to help you.
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Message 94456 - Posted: 22 Dec 2019, 11:11:19 UTC

2019-12-22 4:13:01 AM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
2019-12-22 4:13:01 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.14.2 for windows_x86_64
2019-12-22 4:13:01 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
2019-12-22 4:13:01 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8
2019-12-22 4:13:01 AM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
2019-12-22 4:13:01 AM | | Running under account Jeremy
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 960 (driver version 361.43, CUDA version 8.0, compute capability 5.2, 2048MB, 1636MB available, 2412 GFLOPS peak)
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Host name: DESKTOP-6VHTTNE
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes f16c syscall nx lm avx svm sse4a osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce tbm topx page1gb rdtscp bmi1
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Core x64 Edition, (10.00.10586.00)
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Memory: 15.98 GB physical, 18.86 GB virtual
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Disk: 1.82 TB total, 1.67 TB free
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Local time is UTC -7 hours
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | No WSL found.
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | VirtualBox version: 5.2.8
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 647672; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | Citizen Science Grid | URL https://csgrid.org/csg/; Computer ID 106949; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | DENIS@Home | URL http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/; Computer ID 207308; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | Milkyway@Home | URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 823229; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | MindModeling | URL http://mindmodeling.org/; Computer ID 128878; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 8871143; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | Universe@Home | URL https://universeathome.pl/universe/; Computer ID 540705; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | World Community Grid | URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 6044733; resource share 100
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 21-Dec-2019 20:04:54)
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | World Community Grid | Host location: none
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | World Community Grid | General prefs: using your defaults
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Reading preferences override file
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Preferences:
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | max memory usage when active: 8182.78 MB
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 12274.16 MB
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | max disk usage: 1705.81 GB
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | max CPUs used: 6
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Setting up project and slot directories
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Checking active tasks
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Setting up GUI RPC socket
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | Checking presence of 271 project files
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | Universe@Home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by project.
2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | Universe@Home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; NVIDIA GPU: )
2019-12-22 4:13:05 AM | Universe@Home | Scheduler request completed
2019-12-22 4:13:10 AM | Asteroids@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2019-12-22 4:13:10 AM | Asteroids@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
2019-12-22 4:13:11 AM | Asteroids@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2019-12-22 4:13:11 AM | Asteroids@home | Project has no tasks available
2019-12-22 4:13:16 AM | Milkyway@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2019-12-22 4:13:16 AM | Milkyway@Home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
2019-12-22 4:13:18 AM | Milkyway@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2019-12-22 4:13:23 AM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2019-12-22 4:13:23 AM | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
2019-12-22 4:13:46 AM | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Couldn't connect to server
2019-12-22 4:13:47 AM | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2019-12-22 4:13:49 AM | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
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Message 94457 - Posted: 22 Dec 2019, 11:58:37 UTC - in response to Message 94456.  

2019-12-22 4:13:03 AM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 960 (driver version 361.43, CUDA version 8.0, compute capability 5.2, 2048MB, 1636MB available, 2412 GFLOPS peak)
One specific point from that: you are using a relatively old driver for your graphics card. That, in itself, is GOOD: scientific computing doesn't, in general, need the constant updates that gaming does.

But you are missing a component often used by BOINC projects: there should be a second, similar, line giving details for an 'OpenCL' driver for your GTX 960. Go to nvidia.com (or your local country equivalent), and download one of NVidia's own drivers: that will have all components included.

The very latest drivers have a technical bug which causes problems at some projects. Don't select anything newer than 436.48 - and when you install it, choose the installation which excludes 'GeForce Experience', and choose a 'custom install' and exclude other optional components. All unless you know you need a specific tool for your other, non-BOINC, uses of the machine.
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Message 94458 - Posted: 22 Dec 2019, 14:28:26 UTC

Argh - CORRECTION. My mind was elsewhere.

Don't choose any driver later than 431.60 - it's the 436 series that introduced the problem.
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