Posts by Keith Myers

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Computer UI really slow.
Message 114646
Posted 3 days ago by ProfileKeith Myers 		I'd guess you are running out of RAM and swapping to disk quite a lot. The current Rosetta tasks are taking 1.5GB of RAM per task. Asteroids uses heavy AVX2 calculations which will put the cpu in thermal distress and probably causes thermal throttling of the clocks. yoyo also uses heavy AVX2 and also considerable RAM usage if you are running the ecm P2 tasks. Your cpu and system is overburdened likely. Reducing the workload suggestion is a good recommendation.

Check your RAM usage with the provided tools in Ubuntu with the System Monitor.
2) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114591
Posted 12 days ago by ProfileKeith Myers
And I tried doing an einstein@home task, but it stopped at 49,500%

You shouldn't have done that. What you saw with progress stopped at 49.5% is NORMAL. The task will stop at 99.5% also. You should just let the computation finish in the time required.

Please read the thread detailing the application design on the Einstein forums with respect the O3AS work.
The two progress stoppages are the point where computation shifts from the gpu onto the cpu for a spell before returning to the gpu to finish up with one final computation back on the cpu at the 99.5 % completion point.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 8.0.2 on MacBook (Sonoma 14.5) running only on Battery
Message 114412
Posted 7 Aug 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		AFAIK Boinc has no native capability of stopping computation when battery levels get low. Though there probably is a way to script something that polls the battery percentage and when it falls below a set threshold, the script then executes a stop and kill command to stop the client. Don't know anything about Macs to offer a specific application.

For example any good UPS controlling software is configured to stop all processes after hitting a set battery level threshold. It sends out a network warning to the users that the UPS will shut down in 3 minutes and for users to exit their programs and logins. Then the control software shuts down the server in safe and controlled fashion.

Something similar is probably available for laptop users.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Overview. What does icon with medal mean?
Message 114395
Posted 5 Aug 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Looks like WCG page. Your percentile scoring among all WCG contributors. Think it is not project wide though, only sub-project. I could be wrong here, best guess.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc - manager screws up video on RPi 4
Message 114373
Posted 30 Jul 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		It's a well known bug in Bookworm. Lots of reports on the issue. I have it too. You can try resizing the window to clear it. I can get even if the initial Manager window opens up legibly, but as soon as I change Manager tabs, the window distorts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/comments/1afsper/boinc_manager_notices_shows_garbage_on_debian/
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : python question
Message 114370
Posted 29 Jul 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		I'd suggest you contact the developers at the GPUGrid project. All of their apps are python based. They are experts at setting up a python environment and Boinc wrapper on client machines. It seems to be as simple as packaging a LARGE python environment for downloading as a task and simply, unpacking it and executing the included python scripts in the package.
7) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 114303
Posted 20 Jul 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		I ran DOS >> Windows 3.0 >> OS/2 Warp > eComstation>> Ubuntu 10 >> Windows 7 >> Ubuntu 18 thru Ubuntu 24

My forays into Windows world lasted for only a year or two each time. My times with OS/2 Warp/eComstation lasted ten years. Ubuntu for over ten years now.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : The GPU usage freeze Ubuntu 24.0.4
Message 114265
Posted 16 Jul 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Don't use the Mesa OpenCL drivers. Use the official AMD ones.
9) Message boards : Web interfaces : Changes to BOINC website
Message 114165
Posted 22 Jun 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		On Ubuntu 24.04 using a Chromium browser, I do NOT have the left-hand target anchor points you mention. There is no navigation to any section at all. It just is one monolithic page and useless as commented.
10) Message boards : News : BOINC client 8.0.2 released
Message 114141
Posted 18 Jun 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers
The 8.0.2 version of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>here</a>. Release notes are <a href=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes>here</a>.

So why no Linux ARM64 packages available? Just for amd64?
11) Message boards : News : BOINC client 8.0.2 released
Message 114139
Posted 18 Jun 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		So no ARM64 versions of Boinc 8.0?
12) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114097
Posted 1 Jun 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Einstein scheduler is back up and running
13) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 114094
Posted 31 May 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Bernd posted in News, that he was shutting the project down for the weekend likely.
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to run the Client on a QNAP or Synology NAS ?
Message 114086
Posted 31 May 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Don't know what NAS software he runs, but one of my teammates runs his homeserver NAS on BOINC Docker.

So likely it is possible depending on your NAS repos.
15) Message boards : GPUs : WIndows 11 Nvidia Geforce GT730
Message 114035
Posted 15 May 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		That would involve a lot more coding for the schedulers to figure out if an app is capable of running on the Boinc reported hardware. And Boinc does not report gpu hardware correctly or in enough depth to know what's on a host. For gpus it only reports the most capable gpu in multi-gpu hosts. And unless you are running very up to date Boinc clients, the client doesn't even report the correct amount of VRAM on Nvidia cards.

So to answer your question, no you are in fact naive about Boinc's capabilities.
16) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 113988
Posted 5 May 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Numberfields has been up and down since the start of the Pentathlon. Down again now.
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC
Message 113947
Posted 24 Apr 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers
I am not enthusiastic about running software downloaded from a random site I never heard of especially with no documentation or description.

Then don't use it and continue to try and wrangle the distro repository versions of Boinc into submission. My previous posts tell the documentation and description of the AIO.
I think the AIO is a valid, no hassle choice. Just giving you more options that is all.
18) Message boards : GPUs : How can i disable the iGPU?
Message 113933
Posted 22 Apr 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		I assume you mean disable the usage of the igpu for Boinc? You will have to be more specific if the igpu is the only video output for your AIO or whether it also contains a discrete gpu for monitor driving.

If the igpu is the only video device you can't disable it in the BIOS because it drives the monitor of the AIO.

If that is the case, then you must have to either configure every gpu project compute preferences to NOT use the igpu of the AIO, whether being Intel, AMD, or Nvidia flavor in the settings.

You can also suspend use of the gpu in the Boinc Manager via the Activity menu. But that is for just the current session and will reset to enabled upon reboot of the AIO and restart of Boinc I believe.
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : 8.0.0 Development version
Message 113912
Posted 18 Apr 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Yes, Asteroids@home project utilizes an avx512 application for period_search.
https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php

I run their app on my two AMD 7950X hosts.

Primegrid is another.
https://www.primegrid.com/home.php

There are probably other math projects also.
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113886
Posted 12 Apr 2024 by ProfileKeith Myers 		Or just install Noble alongside your existing installation instead of upgrading in place. I haven't broken an existing upgrade in place so far. Knocking on wood now. Ha ha LOL.

I"ve even managed to snag two required dependencies from Noble that I needed to upgrade to the latest 6.9.0-rc kernels from the Mainline PPA in my Ubuntu 23.10 installations without breaking anything. A complete kludge fix that has worked out.
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