I have used BOINC for several years without a problem. However now I can get no work from several projects which include SETI, Einstien, Milkyway and Cosomology. I can't believe all of these projects have no work. Below is my message listing:

3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_x86_64
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Running under account Brent
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5]
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Processor: 256.00 KB cache
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, (06.01.7600.00)
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Memory: 7.99 GB physical, 15.98 GB virtual
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Disk: 1.36 TB total, 1.15 TB free
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Local time is UTC -7 hours
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD5700 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.553, 1024MB, 1008 GFLOPS peak)
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Not using a proxy
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Einstein@Home URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 2503670; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Milkyway@home URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 160569; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5268240; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Cosmology@Home URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 86370; resource share 100
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 23-Mar-2010 19:19:24)
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home Computer location: home
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Reading preferences override file
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 4091.53MB
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 7364.75MB
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Preferences limit disk usage to 100.00GB
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Cosmology@Home Restarting task wu_032310_051858_2_0_0 using camb version 216
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Milkyway@home Restarting task ps_13_3s_const_v3_8371350_1269904435_0 using milkyway version 19
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM Einstein@Home Restarting task p2030_54147_57194_0154_G66.83-02.64.C_5.dm_112_0 using einsteinbinary_ABP2 version 308
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home Starting 21mr07ag.5108.18068.15.10.146_1
3/30/2010 7:24:38 AM SETI@home Starting task 21mr07ag.5108.18068.15.10.146_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 603
3/30/2010 7:25:37 AM Einstein@Home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:39 AM Milkyway@home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:39 AM Einstein@Home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:25:39 AM Einstein@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/30/2010 7:25:41 AM SETI@home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:43 AM Cosmology@Home update requested by user
3/30/2010 7:25:45 AM Einstein@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/30/2010 7:25:45 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: No work sent
3/30/2010 7:25:45 AM Einstein@Home Message from server: Your computer has no NVIDIA GPU
3/30/2010 7:25:50 AM Milkyway@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:25:50 AM Milkyway@home Not reporting or requesting tasks
3/30/2010 7:25:55 AM Milkyway@home Scheduler request completed
3/30/2010 7:26:00 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:26:00 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/30/2010 7:26:05 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/30/2010 7:26:05 AM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
3/30/2010 7:26:10 AM Cosmology@Home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
3/30/2010 7:26:10 AM Cosmology@Home Requesting new tasks for GPU
3/30/2010 7:26:15 AM Cosmology@Home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Brent

It's not that they have no work, it's your BOINC client that doesn't ask for work. At least SETI and Einstein don't have applications for ATI GPUs, but your client does only ask for GPU tasks, not CPU ones.

Can you find any hints in the project properties on the Projects tab? I think it works with a right click.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Gundof,

I don't see anything significant in project properties except SETI does show some values for GPU. However, in my SETI account preferences I have use CPU as YES and use GPU as NO.

Gundolf,

I don't see anything significant in project properties except SETI does show some values for GPU. However, in my SETI account preferences I have use CPU as YES and use GPU as NO.

I can't point you to exact wording just at the moment, because SETI's weekly maintenance has just started: but SETI doesn't have a 'use GPU' preference.

It does have a 'use NVIDIA GPU' option, but the matching 'use ATI GPU' option is hidden - automatically - because SETI doesn't have any ATI applications yet. So in your configuration, and with that option set, BOINC will continue to check periodically to see if any ATI application, plus work for it, has materialised yet. It won't have.

BOINC will continue to check periodically to see if any ATI application, plus work for it, has materialised yet.

Not as answer to Richard, as he knows this, but to Brent and anyone else reading this: Normally this GPU work request will peter out, going into a 24 hour back-off. Meaning that only once every 24 hours, BOINC will check for work for the (ATI) GPU.

This 24 hour back-off will be reset to zero when you manually request work, then you'll continually see that request for work for the (ATI) GPU again. If left alone, it'll peter out again to a 24 hour back-off, yet each time you click Update, this back-off will be reset and everything will start from the beginning again.

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