It's taken me darn near forever, but I have managed to complete 1 Million units. Now I want to sign on to a few projects other than SETI. I am trying to log onto Einstein, but when I try to use the BOINC manager to add a project, I don't see Einstein OR folding listed.

Is it a GPU thing? I'm using a Athelon II 4630, but I figure that that the big programs should be able to run on most GPUs. What am I missing?

It's taken me darn near forever, but I have managed to complete 1 Million units. Now I want to sign on to a few projects other than SETI. I am trying to log onto Einstein, but when I try to use the BOINC manager to add a project, I don't see Einstein OR folding listed.

Is it a GPU thing? I'm using a Athelon II 4630, but I figure that that the big programs should be able to run on most GPUs. What am I missing?

Folding isnt a BOINC project, Einstein should be listed but you can go to the einstein@home homepage and copy the link there and paste it.

Got it. It's up and going.

It looks like einstein has blocked out my SETI. The SETI cpu units are showing "waiting to run" and the SETI GPU unit is saying "GPU missing". The work clock is running for none of them. The Einstein units are chugging along like champs, I think.

I set up this computer to run them 50/50. Is that divided up by time, so that in 12 hours or so the SETI stuff will be running and the Einstein stuff cooling its heels?

It looks like einstein has blocked out my SETI. The SETI cpu units are showing "waiting to run" and the SETI GPU unit is saying "GPU missing". The work clock is running for none of them. The Einstein units are chugging along like champs, I think.

You shouldn't get a GPU missing entry.

Please post your Boinc startup from the Event Log, the first 30 lines or so should do.

Claggy

Here you go.

2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | No config file found - using defaults
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Running under account Ray
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 630 Processor [Family 16 Model 5 Stepping 2]
2/2/2014 9:38:36 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 cx16 popcnt syscall nx lm svm sse4a osvw ibs skinit wdt page1gb rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Memory: 12.00 GB physical, 24.00 GB virtual
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Disk: 686.46 GB total, 449.94 GB free
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (CAL version 1.4.1720, 1024MB, 991MB available, 1248 GFLOPS peak)
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (driver version CAL 1.4.1720 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (923.1), 1024MB, 991MB available, 1248 GFLOPS peak)
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | SETI@home | Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | A new version of BOINC is available. (7.2.33) <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>Download</a>
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | SETI@home | URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6560195; resource share 100
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 08-May-2012 21:16:25)
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | SETI@home | Host location: none
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: using your defaults
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Reading preferences override file
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Preferences:
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | max memory usage when active: 6143.64MB
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 9215.46MB
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | max disk usage: 20.00GB
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | max CPUs used: 2
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
2/2/2014 9:38:36 AM | | Not using a proxy
2/2/2014 9:38:38 AM | | Running CPU benchmarks
2/2/2014 9:38:38 AM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
2/2/2014 9:39:10 AM | | Benchmark results:
2/2/2014 9:39:10 AM | | Number of CPUs: 2
2/2/2014 9:39:10 AM | | 2178 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2/2/2014 9:39:10 AM | | 6297 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2/2/2014 9:39:11 AM | SETI@home | Restarting task 27my13aa.27453.8656.438086664204.12.211_1 using setiathome_v7 version 703 (opencl_ati5_sah) in slot 2
2/2/2014 9:39:11 AM | SETI@home | Restarting task 29no13ab.21608.67.214748364813.12.105.vlar_2 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 1
2/2/2014 9:39:11 AM | SETI@home | Restarting task 11ap13ac.21085.19050.438086664200.12.154_1 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 0
2/2/2014 9:58:40 AM | SETI@home | Computation for task 29no13ab.21608.67.214748364813.12.105.vlar_2 finished
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2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 08-May-2012 21:16:25)
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | SETI@home | Host location: none
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | SETI@home | General prefs: using your defaults
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | Reading preferences override file
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | Preferences:
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | max memory usage when active: 6143.64MB
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | max memory usage when idle: 9215.46MB
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | max disk usage: 20.00GB
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | max CPUs used: 2
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | don't compute while active
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | don't use GPU while active
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | Suspending computation - computer is in use
2/2/2014 10:03:45 AM | | Suspending network activity - computer is in use
2/2/2014 10:37:52 AM | | Resuming computation
2/2/2014 10:37:52 AM | | Resuming network activity
2/2/2014 11:21:12 AM | | Suspending network activity - computer is in use
2/2/2014 11:36:19 AM | | Resuming computation
2/2/2014 11:36:19 AM | | Resuming network activity
2/2/2014 11:36:19 AM | | GPUs have become unusable; disabling tasks
2/2/2014 12:38:04 PM | SETI@home | Computation for task 11ap13ag.25755.154412.438086664199.12.231_1 finished
2/2/2014 12:38:04 PM | SETI@home | Starting task 11ap13ag.25755.154412.438086664199.12.210_0 using setiathome_v7 version 700 in slot 1
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2/2/2014 1:54:26 PM | | Suspending computation - computer is in use
2/2/2014 1:54:26 PM | | Suspending network activity - computer is in use
2/2/2014 2:21:24 PM | | Fetching configuration file from http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/get_project_config.php
2/2/2014 2:21:52 PM | Einstein@Home | Master file download succeeded
2/2/2014 2:21:57 PM | Einstein@Home | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
2/2/2014 2:21:57 PM | Einstein@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and ATI
2/2/2014 2:21:59 PM | Einstein@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 2 new tasks
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 08-May-2012 21:16:25)
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | SETI@home | Host location: none
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | SETI@home | General prefs: using your defaults
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | Reading preferences override file
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | Preferences:
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | max memory usage when active: 6143.64MB
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 9215.46MB
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | max disk usage: 20.00GB
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | max CPUs used: 2
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | Resuming computation
2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | | Resuming file transfers
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2/2/2014 2:25:32 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of einstein_S5R6_3.01_graphics_windows_intelx86.exe
2/2/2014 2:25:35 PM | Einstein@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:25:35 PM | Einstein@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and ATI
2/2/2014 2:25:40 PM | Einstein@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 7 new tasks
2/2/2014 2:25:45 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:25:45 PM | SETI@home | Reporting 9 completed tasks
2/2/2014 2:25:45 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
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2/2/2014 2:26:34 PM | Einstein@Home | update requested by user
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2/2/2014 2:46:22 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 2:51:28 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:51:28 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:51:30 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 2:56:35 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:56:35 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:56:37 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 3:01:42 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 3:01:42 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 3:01:44 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 3:06:49 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 3:06:49 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 3:06:51 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 3:08:23 PM | | GPUs have become unusable; disabling tasks
2/2/2014 3:38:49 PM | | GPUs have become usable; enabling tasks
2/2/2014 3:38:50 PM | Einstein@Home | Restarting task PA0061_00281_104_1 using einsteinbinary_BRP5 version 139 (BRP5-opencl-ati) in slot 3

2/2/2014 2:30:57 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:30:57 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:30:59 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 2:36:04 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:36:04 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:36:08 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 2:41:13 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:41:13 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:41:15 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 2:46:20 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:46:20 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:46:22 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 2:51:28 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:51:28 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:51:30 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 2:56:35 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 2:56:35 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 2:56:37 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 3:01:42 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 3:01:42 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 3:01:44 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 3:06:49 PM | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/2/2014 3:06:49 PM | SETI@home | Not requesting tasks
2/2/2014 3:06:51 PM | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed
2/2/2014 3:08:23 PM | | GPUs have become unusable; disabling tasks
2/2/2014 3:38:49 PM | | GPUs have become usable; enabling tasks
2/2/2014 3:38:50 PM | Einstein@Home | Restarting task PA0061_00281_104_1 using einsteinbinary_BRP5 version 139 (BRP5-opencl-ati) in slot 3

Two things, you're running Boinc 7.0.64, as you see it is trying to ask for work, but not ask for work, Boinc 7.2.33 should fix that.

Are you trying to use Remote Desktop? That uses different drivers rendering the GPU unusable, try using tightVNC or TeamViewer instead, they allow GPU crunching when connected.

Claggy

I know this will sound dumb and superstitious, but I had been putting off upgrading to 7.2.33 until I hit 1,000,000 for fear that it would bugger up my count. Weirder things have happened.



I'm not using remote desktop.

I'll upgrade to the current version in the morning. Thanks for the help.

I set up this computer to run them 50/50. Is that divided up by time, so that in 12 hours or so the SETI stuff will be running and the Einstein stuff cooling its heels?

IIUC, The BOINC client tries to keep projects balanced based on how much credit they've earned in the 10 days prior to the current time. When you add a new project, it tends to get a lot of work the first few days until it catches up with the existing projects.I believe this is called the creditnew system.

Since SETI awards lousy credits for GPU work, I believe there is some workaround that other projects have developed to trick the BOINC client into thinking they award the same credits as SETI so that the percentages become time based rather than credit based. In this case, Einstein will run a lot until it catches up with SETI on the amount of time spent on it in the 10 days prior to the current time.

FYI, the BOINC client does keep track of when work units are due and will give them priority on running if it thinks that they might miss their deadlines. Those SETI work units that you already have sitting on your machine waiting to run should run in time to meet their deadline.

I use some debug options to get the BOINC client to log a bunch of work fetch stuff. The following is how it calculates the priority for work fetch. Please note that this machine has some projects suspended and some configured not to run the CPU or GPU on this machine because this is the machine where I monitor the totals from my dedicated crunchers. Just ignore anything with a prio of zero since those projects are either suspended or haven't had any work available in the last 10 days. I believe that REC stands for recent credit. The prio is calculated using the recent credit and project percentage. I'm not sure but I think the projects that want to be time based rather than credit based lie to the BOINC client about the recent credit so that it will match the recent credit that SETI would have gotten if it had run the same number of hours as that project did.

2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | | [work_fetch] --- project states ---
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | RNA World | [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio -0.000000 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | malariacontrol.net | [work_fetch] REC 86.647 prio 0.000000 can't req work: suspended via Manager
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | BURP | [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio 0.000000 can't req work: suspended via Manager
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | climateprediction.net | [work_fetch] REC 0.133 prio 0.000000 can't req work: suspended via Manager
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | correlizer | [work_fetch] REC 0.001 prio 0.000000 can't req work: suspended via Manager
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | ralph@home | [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio -0.000000 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | QMC@HOME | [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio 0.000000 can't req work: suspended via Manager
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | ABC@home | [work_fetch] REC 0.053 prio -0.001615 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | fightmalaria@home | [work_fetch] REC 0.283 prio -0.008621 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | EDGeS@Home | [work_fetch] REC 4.950 prio -0.042653 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | boincsimap | [work_fetch] REC 39.207 prio -0.042673 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Poem@Home | [work_fetch] REC 28.034 prio -0.042717 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | The Lattice Project | [work_fetch] REC 22.506 prio -0.042866 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | MindModeling@Beta | [work_fetch] REC 11.478 prio -0.043724 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] REC 60.627 prio -0.046190 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | NumberFields@home | [work_fetch] REC 62.516 prio -0.047462 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Docking | [work_fetch] REC 91.761 prio -0.049109 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | NFS@Home | [work_fetch] REC 11.175 prio -0.049547 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | SZTAKI Desktop Grid | [work_fetch] REC 6.709 prio -0.051110 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | rosetta@home | [work_fetch] REC 6.638 prio -0.053851 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Constellation | [work_fetch] REC 22.359 prio -0.056946 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | yoyo@home | [work_fetch] REC 31.629 prio -0.060242 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | LHC@home 1.0 | [work_fetch] REC 28.811 prio -0.063497 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Enigma@Home | [work_fetch] REC 53.566 prio -0.081620 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | eon2 | [work_fetch] REC 11.535 prio -0.087880 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | ibercivis | [work_fetch] REC 26.971 prio -0.102740 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Cosmology@Home | [work_fetch] REC 4.603 prio -0.159499 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Asteroids@home | [work_fetch] REC 245.682 prio -9.802925 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | GPUGRID | [work_fetch] REC 1482.959 prio -75.321246 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Milkyway@Home | [work_fetch] REC 430.184 prio -81.946944 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | SETI@home | [work_fetch] REC 2191.641 prio -83.487043 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | Einstein@Home | [work_fetch] REC 2196.842 prio -83.699040 can req work
2/3/2014 4:18:05 PM | PrimeGrid | [work_fetch] REC 3426.611 prio -130.563302 can req work

Basically, this is the reason your machine is running a lot of Einstein@Home currently. When Einstein was added, it's REC was zero. When Einstein catches up on the amount of time spent on it during the previous 10 days, it should run 50/50 as you've selected. As long as Einstein has work available each time it's asked for it, you might see it run Einstein for 5 days before it starts fetching Einstein and Seti work units equally.

If a project is asked for work and doesn't return anything, it will ask for work from the next lower priority project. Since projects have to do a lot of maintenance on their servers and occasionally move to new servers or have server failures, don't expect it to ever be perfectly even. For instance, malariacontrol is usually extremely reliable but it has some kind of problem and has been down for almost 10 days. Many of my machines have work they fetched before malariacontrol went down and are still trying to upload or report that work. Some of the smaller projects like correlizer, Volpex, or fightmalaria may go several weeks without having work available.

Hope this helps.

That's the theory, but note that the documentation states that they found it impracticable in practice.

So REC stands for 'Recent Estimated Credit', and the estimation is based on speed and time, same as it always was. The actual credit awarded by SETI - lousy or otherwise - doesn't come into it, despite what some paranoid project admins (and users) think.

... Hence we will use a surrogate called estimated credit, maintained by the client.

Thanks for the correction. For some reason, I had never seen that page, just observed the extended log info and read about it in various forums.

Actually, on my dedicated crunchers that do have GPUs, I tend to set CPU/GPU projects to GPU only and then assign then resource shares that add up to 1.00 so that I can schedule GPU usage separate from CPU projects. For instance, I might have:

project resource share

SETI 0.34
Einstein 0.33
GPUGRID 0.33
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Total 1.00


Then I set my CPU only projects so that they total 99.00 which basically lets me set the percentage I want them to use as the resource share.

Unfortunately, I don't recall how I had WCG setup when it had several CPU only subprojects and 1 GPU capable project.

I had been hoping that BOINC would eventually assign separate CPU and GPU resource shares but after reading that document page I can see why they have it like it is.

Thanks!

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David Ball