Posts by [B^S] Elphidieus

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC for M1 Macs (Message 102636)
Posted 21 Jan 2021 by [B^S] Elphidieus
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Slight OT: BOINC can run natively on M1 Macs...?
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not Cylcing through GPU tasks properly (Message 30923)
Posted 8 Feb 2010 by [B^S] Elphidieus
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Aborting all the tasks appears to have resolved the problem, at least for now. My BOINC finished all the tasks, and is now only downloading one at a time.


Let me rephrase that. It's downloading one at a time at a 5-minute scheduler request interval.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not Cylcing through GPU tasks properly (Message 30853)
Posted 6 Feb 2010 by [B^S] Elphidieus
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I've just reported the problem on the BOINC_alpha mailing list. I hope the rest who encounters the same problem to do the same as well.

I've just downloaded a few CPU workunits today, and they've got extra long completion times, over 100 hours, and now BOINC is treating them as high priorities and running them once they've completely downloaded from Collatz servers. It has made things worse as older workunits are made "waiting to run". I have to babysit my Mac Pro from now on just to manually suspend new workunits so that older workunits are completed first before resuming the former.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not Cylcing through GPU tasks properly (Message 30827)
Posted 5 Feb 2010 by [B^S] Elphidieus
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Hmm...that leads me to believe that it's an issue with this Alpha/Beta release of BOINC. I'd roll back normally, but the latest "stable" release of BOINC doesn't let me run GPU tasks. A conumdrum indeed.


Noticed your first post, I've also got an earlier session of Collatz running on GPU only alongside Einstein@home CPU units, but it downloaded 150 Collatz GPU workunits, and my GT 120 completes one unit every 3 hours. With 14 days time frame, it was impossible to complete all 150 workunits. That was with BOINC 6.10.29 installed.

BOINC scheduler in a mess...?
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not Cylcing through GPU tasks properly (Message 30825)
Posted 5 Feb 2010 by [B^S] Elphidieus
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I have the same problem here, and it's not only limited to GPU, but CPU as well in Collatz.

At time of writing, I have over 60 CPU and 6 GPU workunits in a state of "waiting to run" hovering between 20% to 99% completion. This has caused me difficulty to download further workunits and maintain a cache of 1 week since my computer rarely go online.

My computer is a Mac Pro with nVidia GT 120 running 10.6.2 with BOINC 6.10.33 installed.

I have another Mac Pro at work, without any means of CUDA, so it run solely on CPU workunits. It's running 10.6.2 but with BOINC 6.6.36, and it has no issues of "waiting to run" whatsoever, and these workunits are completed sequentially as they are downloaded.



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