Posts by Yavanius

1) Message boards : Projects : WCG - Dr Jurasica provides some insights in downtime events (Message 111324)
Posted 16 Mar 2023 by Profile Yavanius
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WCG's Dr Jurasica finally offered some detailed insights into their troubles with operating the project.

Start off here at the news article: https://tinyurl.com/WCGInsight
then follow the link to the forum topic. On the 3rd set of messages he goes into the real challenges they face...

So, if you are peeved or royally upset with them (part of that camp too), it bears at least a reading and perhaps a little forgiveness on our part.
2) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 111271)
Posted 12 Mar 2023 by Profile Yavanius
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Asteroids@home is back online.


Asteroids@home periodically runs out of work. They just came back to activity rather recently after a hiatus of a few years after their old hardware bit the dust. It's one person who is running the project probably on a shoe-string budget. I'm sure he'd be ecstatic if he got the rounding error of the budget LHC has. ^_^
3) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 111270)
Posted 12 Mar 2023 by Profile Yavanius
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[Dennis currently telling me it has no work available.


(Wonders if anybody ever reads anything on the projects or just connect blindly...)


DENIS is realizing work in large batches as they fine-tune their models. They just finished the last batch and posted the results to News.


Ironically, it's one main researcher who is overseeing the project and he is a professor at the University (there seem to be a team in the background analyzing things though). He posts and communicates more than the whole Krembil team... I do wonder if the communications intern doesn't know what to post or they aren't letting her post.

Someday I see in an interview: I was a communications intern at Krembil but they never wanted to let me post updates about failures occurring at the project...
4) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 108100)
Posted 16 May 2022 by Profile Yavanius
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What's up with Einstein@home? Gettings 503 error (which was more than I got earlier this afternoon) on website and SSL error on BOINC.
5) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 108099)
Posted 16 May 2022 by Profile Yavanius
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there was an update I can no longer find, all the transition is done, final testing "can start" as of a week ago.


Previous updates are under "Migration updates →" (also at top of page)

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/news


The news link in BOINC client won't take you to this page though. It'll just land you on the home page as well all the other links will to.

~Yav
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc Combined Statistics -How to register? (Message 100273)
Posted 11 Aug 2020 by Profile Yavanius
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Checkout BOINCStats and Free-DC too for more statistics data.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : nVidia not detected on MXLinux (Debian) (Message 100271)
Posted 11 Aug 2020 by Profile Yavanius
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Still no luck. Rebooted just to make sure.


I don't what it could still run. Last I checked it could do SETI but that's gone. Einstein went to a minimum of 1 gb of VRAM some years ago. I'd like to see what it might run still.

Yav
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : nVidia not detected on MXLinux (Debian) (Message 100249)
Posted 9 Aug 2020 by Profile Yavanius
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Have a Latitude E6420 notebook with an NVS4200M chipset (Optimus) with current MXLinux.

I installed the 390 legacy drivers then installed BOINC. Both are from Stable. The GPU wasn't detected. I tried adding the BOINC CUDA package which has worked before on Ubuntu based distributions. Most recently I was testing Bodhi and after I installed the Legacy package BOINC picked it up right away.

I tried restarting BOINC and rebooting to no effect. I can't seem to find anything on my searches to resolve this especially since a lot info is several years old.

I tried: adduser boinc render (I remember that from Ubuntu many years ago) to no effect either.

The MXTool shows the driver is installed. I don't see a way offhand to verify it's active though.

If you need more info, you'll have to point me in the right direction as my Linux troubleshooting is not that in-depth. Otherwise, TIA for any aide you can provide.
9) Message boards : News : BOINC Workshop 2018 (Message 87314)
Posted 26 Jul 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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I also want to ask David Anderson that, don't you think it'd be beneficial for BOINC and Folding@Home if the two projects were merge? Same goals, similar technology, but currently they compete with each other. The development cycle would be much faster if the two teams were working on a single project. Thoughts?


The problem is the two systems are incompatible with one another. Furthermore, the Pande Group does not have the resources to do any kind of port to interact with BOINC.

There's been a number of posts at the Folding Forum in regards to BOINC if you want to explore the topic more.

What I am interested though is Science United. Since there is no credit system, I think it might be possible to do something as an 'Anonymous' Folding@home user (basically, you fold without creating any account and it dumps into the generic Anonymous 'account'). Of course, there is still the problem that Stanford (Pande) doesn't have the extra resources to work on that so somebody would have to be willing to do that on their own dime assuming they got the necessary permissions.

Yav

P.S. Also, Stanford is revamping their website including the stats too which would hamper efforts till such time as they ever got it completed (not a negative reflection, just a fact).
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : Computing Preferences unable to set daily schedule as needed for TOD power (Message 85410)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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It might be that the client is using project settings that are overriding your local settings.
11) Message boards : News : DENIS@home returns (Message 85409)
Posted 24 Mar 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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If you're using BAM! (BOINCStats), it was never delisted there.
12) Message boards : GPUs : CUDA Toolkit (Message 85105)
Posted 10 Mar 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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Oops. I didn't see the CL. I just glanced at it and mind went GL.


It appears the CUDA unit for Asteroids completed successfully, so that verified things and answered my own question too.

I just wished I noticed the online option before I started downloading the toolkit... O.o

Do any distros ship using actual nVidia drivers and full support loaded?
13) Message boards : Promotion : BOINC OS Beta announcement (Message 85103)
Posted 10 Mar 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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I had no luck getting it to run either under VirtualBox or Natively.

There doesn't seem to be an actual boot system configured for the standard distro. My machines just glance right over it and VirtualBox can't find a boot system.
14) Message boards : GPUs : CUDA Toolkit (Message 85024)
Posted 6 Mar 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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That's what I figured, but the page linked from BOINC was for installing the full Tool Kit Package. GPU computing on BOINC needs a good clean-up and round-up. :) It appears it may be a lot more straight-forward than it use to be.

I was trying to test it last night but SETI was only serving me OpenGL work so I couldn't tell if CUDA was properly installed and detected. I just tried testing with Asteroids and it gave me a CUDA WU and looks it's running it okay.

Yav
15) Message boards : GPUs : CUDA Toolkit (Message 85007)
Posted 6 Mar 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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There are instructions for Linux nVidia CUDA support at Ubuntu, although outdated, linked from install info on the BOINC Wiki.

I've seen notes about installing the Toolkit on other sites in regards to CUDA.

I came across official CUDA installation page at nVidia.
http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html

Do we actually need the TOOL KIT or only the drivers for CUDA? It seems you would only need the Tool Kit if you wanted to develop something with CUDA... however, I know sometime something is needed in a tool kit to run (in general).

Irregardless, I have a 1 gb download before I can install anything. That's an offline install. I don't know if an online install (which I didn't see till after I was already downloading) with just drivers would be smaller, although I would think so.

TIA ~Yav
16) Message boards : GPUs : Question on installed GPU (Message 85006)
Posted 6 Mar 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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Einstein is out due to the memory requirements. Albert is still on the 4G tasks when there are some available. I don't recall how much vram those need.



Einstein requires 1gb of VRAM. :/ Once upon a time it didn't but at some point they upgraded the requirements.
17) Message boards : Promotion : BOINCOS Minimal Spin Beta Announcement (Message 84834)
Posted 19 Feb 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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Cool. I'll have to give it a try. Have you established a minimum spec to run it?

Also, is this 32 or 64 bit?
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : Is it possible to switch task from GPU to CPU? (Message 84833)
Posted 19 Feb 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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No, they are completely different applications. The CPU component is what's required to "feed" the GPU and handle trasnfers to/from storage.


Why is that the CPU % varies on different systems for the same GPU app?
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc Screensaver loading (Message 84832)
Posted 19 Feb 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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I think that's been reported on the BOINC testing group and it's something under investigation so you're not alone. Beyond that, I don't have any more info beyond it's some weird idiosyncrasy with Windows.
20) Message boards : Projects : How to avoid CPU based projects to cannibalise GPU based projects ? (Message 84831)
Posted 19 Feb 2018 by Profile Yavanius
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Einstein requires a minimum of 1gb of video memory. I have a Dell Latitude that has an NVS4200M GPU chip. But it is only 512mb of memory.

Somewhere, probably in the forums, a project ought to have info on how much memory you need with your GPU chip/card.

SETI probably the most forgiving of the projects, but there might be another project that fits that bill.

There is no global setting in the manager for NO CPU. IIRC you can modify your config file manually though.

You CAN set it per project though in the PROJECT preferences.

There's a post about running GPU here. It's identical to the one at SETI. I suggest you run through it if you haven't already.

Have you looked at the official (non-exhaustive) list of BOINC projects?
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php


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