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News :
BOINC Needs Votes at a UN Upcoming Forum
(Message 70672)
Posted 21 days ago by Bryn Mawr Post: Done |
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Number crunching :
processors, memory, performance and heat.
(Message 70578)
Posted 1 Mar 2024 by Bryn Mawr Post: At the expense of thermally stressing the CPU which does not happen if you use less cores for 100% of the time.That will have a bigger impact on the throughput (tasks completed per day). A 10% drop in CPU use on all cores is all I need on my older machines to get temps I'm happy with. Taking 1 core away from 4 is the same as a 25% CPU use reduction. I prefer having the finer control of %cpu available. If you’re happy with the reduced life of the CPU then fine, just be aware that you are making that choice. |
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Number crunching :
processors, memory, performance and heat.
(Message 70575)
Posted 29 Feb 2024 by Bryn Mawr Post: Unless its causing WU crashes, it really helps with controlling heat issues on some rigs while still using all cores. At the expense of thermally stressing the CPU which does not happen if you use less cores for 100% of the time. |
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Number crunching :
New Work Announcements 2024
(Message 70347)
Posted 9 Feb 2024 by Bryn Mawr Post: The priority is to get the replacement EAS25 batches out (for aborted 1002-1004) once the troublesome files have been corrected and tested. It's highly likely they will be using the new WaH2 app which has been in development & tested not to suffer from the excessive failures. It has already been added to the main site as v8.29 of the WAH2 Region Independent app (or wah2-ri for short). If you receive a workunit for wah2-ri 8.29, you're running the new app. George (aka geophi) noted in testing the new app is ~10% faster than the old one. Many thanks :-) |
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Number crunching :
New Work Announcements 2024
(Message 70345)
Posted 9 Feb 2024 by Bryn Mawr Post: Copied from old thread from Glen. Any further news of these? I need to return a result to get rid of the spurious RAC figure from the correction that was done months ago (308,000 where my boxes are capable of 80,000 at best). |
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Number crunching :
Relative performance question.
(Message 70038)
Posted 10 Nov 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Presumably the _bl is waiting for memory fetch or disk io a lot more than the _ps which is happily sitting in loops computing and racking up the flops.Nothing to do with memory nor IO. As I said previously they are two very different model configurations. The 'BL' app is running an idealised planet with no land, so all the land surface process code in the model does not run. The PS app is a normal model forecast but with perturbed parameters which potentially gives a different execution time for each individual forecast. It does not matter what a given CPU is crunching on, it will crunch at the same rate unless it is doing something other than crunch, I was trying to work out what that might be. |
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Number crunching :
Relative performance question.
(Message 70033)
Posted 9 Nov 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Presumably the _bl is waiting for memory fetch or disk io a lot more than the _ps which is happily sitting in loops computing and racking up the flops. |
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Number crunching :
Recent Average Credit. Correct for user, zero for computers.
(Message 69650)
Posted 27 Sep 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Since the recent “adjustment” to the credit scores my RAC has been 261384 which is definitely not right. I have processed no tasks since the adjustment so that might be why the RAC is not being recalculated. ETA Hosts 1537273 and 1537133. In looking up my host ids I note that my RAC within CPDN is zero so the erroneous figure is only showing in Boinc Manager and BoincStats and this post probably needs to be ignored. |
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Number crunching :
Credit handed out weekly?
(Message 69596)
Posted 6 Sep 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Confirmation from Andy@CPDN that the export of credit is working again. Please pass on my thanks 🙏 |
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Number crunching :
Credit handed out weekly?
(Message 69589)
Posted 6 Sep 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Boincstats seems confused, it says I haven't changed position in the last day/week/month, and I've received no credits, but I know I have. I was 583rd before the stats stopped exporting, now I'm 520th. As always, BS shows intra-day updates under “Today” and only integrates the accumulation into the day/week/month totals and the team/country/world positions at 15:00 UTC during the daily update. |
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Number crunching :
Credit handed out weekly?
(Message 69585)
Posted 5 Sep 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: It looks as though the credit script has run and the extra points have been released to the stats sites. For the next 60 days my totals are going to look very small on the charts :-) |
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Number crunching :
Credit Question Answered
(Message 68857)
Posted 6 Jun 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: If some extra credit is awarded accidentally, is that a bad thing really? There have been plenty of times where credit are lost accidentally, right? It’s the volume of the extra credits that’s the problem, that and the extreme RAC figures generated that do not appear to be coming down. OK, we occasionally loose a few thousand credits in a glitch but gaining a few million credits is a bad thing. |
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Number crunching :
How big a task can I run?
(Message 68729)
Posted 13 May 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: I’ve always understood it to be the size of your swap file. If that is correct it will not limit the size of task you can run. |
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Number crunching :
Big credit jump!
(Message 68704)
Posted 10 May 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Credit total is up by 20%. RAC, I wish :-) ( My total RAC is running at around 50,000, my RAC for CPDN is now 260,000+). |
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Cafe CPDN :
World Community Grid mostly down for 2 months while transitioning
(Message 68633)
Posted 31 Mar 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: I had a 24 core per region quota limit, though I've not tried to raise it. I was able to just create some 4/8/22 core VMs and they're purring away nicely. The next project to run out of work will be TN-Grid in about 10 days time :-( Of my 5 projects that will be 4 of them without work. |
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Number crunching :
Server Status page questions
(Message 68607)
Posted 19 Mar 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post:
Fourth line down :- Weather At Home 2 (wah2) (region independent) 0 4731 --- 0 They’re Windows tasks not related to your hadam4 WUs |
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Number crunching :
The uploads are stuck
(Message 68154)
Posted 31 Jan 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: I'll mention it and see what response I get, credit is actually quite a pain for a project to have to manage from what I've learnt.Returning valid results for the researchers to analyze is the important matter, credit is a 'nice to have'. Others may think otherwise, but I won't mind if the credit update is rare or doesn't happen. Rather than the absolute credit count (although that is nice as well) I find the RAC a more useful measure of how well the system is performing - not that I’m hinting or anything :-) |
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Number crunching :
One of my computers is hoarding tasks and I don't know why
(Message 68077)
Posted 27 Jan 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Well, I probably should have debugged this first. <work_fetch_debug> did the trick and this likely has nothing to do with version. For the top priority project that was picked, I saw this repeatedly showing up in every fetch cycle. I must have been lucky and done a work fetch during a period of project backoff. During the several periods of upload problems I’ve been receiving tasks as normal. |
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Number crunching :
Why does this task fail ?
(Message 67814)
Posted 17 Jan 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Okay, here is the next failed WU and I ask again, why has this WU failed: https://www.cpdn.org/result.php?resultid=22268795 And return code zero. Does that suggest that it failed in the wrapper? |
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Number crunching :
no credit awarded?
(Message 67754)
Posted 15 Jan 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: BOINC is showing its weekly increase in credit from CPDN today. If not showing on BOINCSTATS, I wonder if CPDN have changed something so BOINCSTATS is looking in the wrong place or the page where it looks hasn't been updated for some reason. If it looks like that is the case I will email Andy. It’s the CPDN account management page that’s not being updated before it goes to BoincStats. I think the delay to BS is just that the update missed the cutoff. |
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