Posts by Bernie Vine

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21) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 97177 Posted 30 Mar 2020 by Bernie Vine	Seti back up to speed and all my machines have full caches. Might as well keep going to the end. I will then have 2 perfectly good Linux PC's that were built specifically for Seti and will have nothing to do. If I crunch for another project the 2 Windows machines will be sufficient I think.
22) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 96956 Posted 21 Mar 2020 by Bernie Vine	Also if the cafe/restaurant provides take away/delivery only then they can still open. My small but very popular cafe across the road has set up a table in the doorway and are doing a "take away service" from there
23) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and Covid-19 Message 96920 Posted 19 Mar 2020 by Bernie Vine	They dang well better not make this go on for long or an awful lot of people won't have jobs to go back to. 3-6 months was one estimate I saw, Of course that would need the food distribution network to not succumb, if it does all bets are off !!
24) Message boards : Projects : Seti@Home in hibernation Message 96732 Posted 13 Mar 2020 by Bernie Vine	When Seti@Home goes away at the end of the month, can we continue to use it as a screen saver? As the screensaver is a visual representation of the work being processed, I am afraid not. With no work the screensaver will not start.
25) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 95528 Posted 26 Jan 2020 by Bernie Vine	Ravi Shankar dies age 92. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20690632 Did you not notice the date "12 December 2012"
26) Message boards : Questions and problems : Memory limit ignored? Message 94806 Posted 9 Jan 2020 by Bernie Vine	I was going to ask this in Amicable numbers, but they have a spam filter on their forum, I can't post before I have average credit, catch 22. I can't get credit until I can complete tasks. Doh! Amicable Numbers have a "getting started" forums where you do not need credit to post. https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_forum.php?id=5
27) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 94426 Posted 20 Dec 2019 by Bernie Vine	Main may be up but Beta is down. Yes and may be for a while Eric posted "It's the Friday before a holiday week and the servers know it. The file system containing the beta project uploads directory is having problems, so beta is down until further notice. This problem may be affecting the rate at which the main project can handle results, so the validation and assimilation queues are getting large, which may affect the rate of work generation."
28) Message boards : GPUs : Nvidia GPU keeps getting stuck at 0.595% ot 0.610% of Progress done. Message 94266 Posted 14 Dec 2019 by Bernie Vine	Hopefully a new driver comes out soon that fixes this or BOINC updates their software to accommodate the changes from NVIDIA. It is not BOINC that needs to update, it is SETI@Home apps that have the problem with the Nvidia drivers. Specifically the OpenCL app If you look here you will see it is a well know problem https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84694 Personally I have dropped OpenCL and am using the CUDA app, no problems so far, except they take much longer to run. If Nvidia do not feel it is worth updating then SETI@Home will need to update their app. Boinc does not process the work units that is done by each projects applications.
29) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 93907 Posted 26 Nov 2019 by Bernie Vine	Hmm it appears to be down
30) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc SETI@home not "running" Message 93511 Posted 4 Nov 2019 by Bernie Vine	The problem is the latest Nividia drivers If you look on the SETI@Home forums you will see the problem is well known https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84694 The quickest fix is to re-install the 431.60 drivers
31) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 93210 Posted 15 Oct 2019 by Bernie Vine	Down at 15:26 UTC
32) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 93187 Posted 13 Oct 2019 by Bernie Vine	Actor Stephen Moore, who was the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy, aged 81
33) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 92831 Posted 17 Sep 2019 by Bernie Vine	Since Jord is on holiday and Richard is the mod, Whilst I may not post here that much, I can assure you I do read everything ;-) So if "modding" is necessary in any form, there are other willing hands
34) Message boards : Questions and problems : need help debugging a problem: Linux 7.16.1 Message 92580 Posted 25 Aug 2019 by Bernie Vine	Risers and cables is a symptom of adding more GPUs on a motherboard than it was designed to use or the OS to manage or the drivers to handle. The computer I was describing has 2 PCIe 16 slots,on a new motherboard, however there is not really enough space to mount the two cards also it would cause airflow problems, so I use a riser to move it outside. This machine has had several of these failures. I have 3 machines with much older motherboards that do not have 2 PCIE16 slots so I am using risers in other PCie slots and they have no problems. I don't think running two GTX 1060's GPU's on Ubuntu 18.04 on a 4 month old MB with a new Corsiar 650 watt PSU is the problem.
35) Message boards : Questions and problems : need help debugging a problem: Linux 7.16.1 Message 92574 Posted 25 Aug 2019 by Bernie Vine	I'd be prepared to place a small bet that this is a hardware problem, not related to the software version (of either BOINC or SETI) in use. I agree 100% as this has never happened to me on a machine without GPU risers card and cables.
36) Message boards : Questions and problems : need help debugging a problem: Linux 7.16.1 Message 92572 Posted 24 Aug 2019 by Bernie Vine	I have one machine running 2 GTX1060's one on a riser and I get this same error about once a week. It always seems to be the card on the riser. First time it was cured by swapping to a "better" riser. It has failed 3 time since and each time it is cleared by shutting down the machine and unplugging/re-plugging the Pcie "USB" type cable. I have also seen it once one another machine. On that one a new riser and cables seems to have cleared the problem. I am using Boinc 7.14.2
37) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 92526 Posted 19 Aug 2019 by Bernie Vine	Bluestar is gone from Seti. 6 hour ban, just ended.
38) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 92329 Posted 30 Jul 2019 by Bernie Vine	I have just realised I have a Linux machine that runs out of work during an outage, oh no what shall I do!! Spoofing here I come ;-)
39) Message boards : Questions and problems : Completing tasks but project information not updating Message 92307 Posted 28 Jul 2019 by Bernie Vine	What user name have you used at SETI,as a quick check shows no users with the name you used here. Also the Questions and Answers forum at SETI does not require credit to post. This is so new user can ask questions there Edit, OK I think I have found your SETI@Home account. You have one computer which downloaded 9 tasks about 5 hours ago but has not yet returned any results. Until it does, and those results are validated you will not receive credit.
40) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 92280 Posted 23 Jul 2019 by Bernie Vine	Oh dear, now getting This site can’t be reached setiathome.berkeley.edu unexpectedly closed the connection. So as I post that, it's back, if a bit slow

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