Posts by Ian&Steve C.

1) Message boards : GPUs : Ubuntu 23.10 All 5700XT GPU tasks computation error (Message 113749)
Posted 8 Mar 2024 by Ian&Steve C.
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Mesa drivers are your issue almost certainly. Mesa is fine for desktop graphics and window manager acceleration, but insufficient for most computational tasks needed by BOINC projects.

install the AMD drivers from their website, or install the ROCm drivers that are appropriate for your hardware and OS version.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC calculation on custom event? API? (Message 110907)
Posted 11 Jan 2023 by Ian&Steve C.
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use the boinccmd tool.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool

you should be able to script basically anything you want.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : SmartHome integration (Message 110443)
Posted 14 Nov 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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sounds like something that IFTTT can do fairly easily.
4) Message boards : GPUs : New graphics cards. (Message 110362)
Posted 7 Nov 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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the largest factor will be your budget. how much are you willing to spend?

does your monitor accept different inputs? what you described is the VGA connector, which is the old analog. no modern GPU supplies this anymore. does your monitor have DVI? or HDMI? HDMI would be ideal since most modern GPUs still have this connector, but even DVI would be OK since you can adapt display port or HDMI from the GPU to DVI at the monitor quite easily.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Linux automatic CPU temperature regulation (Message 110100)
Posted 14 Oct 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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CPU temperature control should be down to the cooling solution. if you have to limit application execution/performance then there's something wrong with your cooling solution.
6) Message boards : Projects : World Community Grid has announced an extended outage from Feb 14 to April 22, 2022 (Message 109989)
Posted 4 Oct 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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WCG runs their own custom server software. they are not a normal BOINC project.

wondering if it is "outdated" or not isn't even applicable being how different they are.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : "job cache full" due to indicated unrealistic high remaining runtimes of GPUGRID Python tasks (Message 109986)
Posted 4 Oct 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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change your cache settings to 1 day + 0.1 day
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Unable to launch BOINC CLIENT/MANAGER since upgrade (Message 109908)
Posted 28 Sep 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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7.18.1 was working fine for me on one of my systems (a Docker image, running on Linux x86_64). but the maintainer/automation has since upgraded it to 7.20.2 now.
9) Message boards : Projects : BOINC Project Collatz Conjecture is FAKE? (Message 109881)
Posted 27 Sep 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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1. I agree with poppinfresh’s point/analysis.

2. I do not believe this conjecture can be disproven. Akin to finding the last digit of Pi or the largest Prime. It will never end. Exercise in futility.

3. No I don’t believe it’s harsh.
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC using only 4 of all 8 processors (Message 109877)
Posted 26 Sep 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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this is why:

suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 40%


you can increase this in your settings, or preferably stop whatever else on your system is using >40% of the CPU.
11) Message boards : Projects : BOINC Project Collatz Conjecture is FAKE? (Message 109824)
Posted 13 Sep 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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the project isnt "fake". it exists (or did). whether it comes back or not remains to be seen.

but their methodology was shown to be flawed in the referenced old post, and the project admins refused to change anything about it when it was brought to light. they were more than happy to continue on crunching numbers uselessly.

people are free to waste their compute power there if they wish. it's just a points faucet for low powered systems after all.
12) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 109699)
Posted 26 Aug 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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Einstein@Home is down due to a (Uni Hanover) campus-wide power outage. The machines keep running on UPS, but the UPS that powers the network failed. It is unclear when power and operation can be restored, but it should be a matter of hours rather than days.


thanks for coming over here and letting us know Bernd! good luck on the recovery.
13) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 109695)
Posted 26 Aug 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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Major issue at Einstein it seems. site unreachable.

https://einsteinathome.org/server_status.php
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : Broken version of boinc in some repositories?? (Message 109674)
Posted 20 Aug 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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you'll have to take it up with the maintainer of those repositories, either the Mint/Ubuntu devs, or whoever runs the PPA if it's a PPA.

the BOINC team just provides the code, but have nothing to do with what's built and put in various repos.
15) Message boards : The Lounge : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 109461)
Posted 28 Jul 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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he was dealt with on the Einstein boards as well.
16) Message boards : The Lounge : Don't know where it should go? Stick it here! (Message 109432)
Posted 25 Jul 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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Sounds more like she is still a she, but sympathetic to the trans community. She was offended at your link, and is trying to get back at you by making it more personal.
17) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 109405)
Posted 20 Jul 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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Or all stop reacting to his posts. If he doesn't get any reactions, he'll go elsewhere where he will find people to react to him. Simple as that.


it's clear that this isn't the case. he continues to spew his vitriol, reaction or no reaction. this is shown time and time again.

victim blaming and forcing everyone else to bend to his will is not only exactly what he wants, but doesn't solve the root of the problem. you know the root cause and source, and refusing to act on it in a permanent way seems illogical.

would you leave live electrical wires sticking out of the walls in your home and just tell your kids not to touch them? would you leave massive potholes in the road and tell drivers to just go around? no. you fix the problem. and these are much more serious issues that just banning someone on a forum.
18) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 109402)
Posted 20 Jul 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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yeah I don't really get why he hasn't been permanently banned at this point. he gets vacations often. but you keep letting him back over and over. why?
Because by the forum's moderation rules we're only allowed to permaban spammers immediately, the rest of the time we have to look at the severity of what's said and what consequences it has on the discussion and decide upon things without our mood allowing interference. And that's not easy. As some of you flame bait him into saying things as well, so if I were to permaban him over an answer he gave, I should do that to those who flame baited as well.

Rest assured, yesterday was no flame bait, but post after post from him with deliberate misinformation.


I think his constant posts and misinformation (your own words) can and should be classified as "spam" to fit the needed criteria.

if not, sometimes exceptions should be made for the sake of sanity of the board. otherwise you're just being complicit to the consequences of lifting the bans. you KNOW what will happen when the vacations are over, and you KNOW he will just keep doing it again and again to inevitably result in another ban/vacation. and by this point he knows it too and he revels in knowing he'll be back eventually. you need to not only ban the account, but also the IP range, as he's been known to create several aliases.
19) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions (Message 109396)
Posted 20 Jul 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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yeah I don't really get why he hasn't been permanently banned at this point. he gets vacations often. but you keep letting him back over and over. why?

there's the old quote (misattributed to Einstein) - "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Let's talk politics (Message 109269)
Posted 16 Jul 2022 by Ian&Steve C.
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No worries, your self projections are very insightful.


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