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by Hal Bregg
Sun Mar 01, 2020 4:23 pm
Forum: SRBase
Topic: Project's down
Replies: 2
Views: 2558

Re: Project's down

Rebirther did good job restoring points and badges.
I got a feeling similar crash will happen again.
by Hal Bregg
Sun Mar 01, 2020 4:21 pm
Forum: MindModeling
Topic: New work available
Replies: 4
Views: 4712

Re: New work available

Gibson Praise wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:25 pm .. and the work is gone :(
Exactly. There were some WUs for Linux but they were gone in a flash, too.
Let's be patient, people.
by Hal Bregg
Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:36 pm
Forum: MindModeling
Topic: New work available
Replies: 4
Views: 4712

Re: New work available

WUs seem to be trickling steadily.
by Hal Bregg
Sat Feb 22, 2020 8:23 am
Forum: MindModeling
Topic: New work available
Replies: 4
Views: 4712

New work available

Project removed beta status from description and some new work is available at the time of writing this post.
by Hal Bregg
Sat Feb 22, 2020 8:19 am
Forum: SRBase
Topic: Project's down
Replies: 2
Views: 2558

Project's down

SRBase suffered serious crash few hrs ago. No new work is send out and DB has been restored from 2nd February.
Naturally all stats went tits up :x

Admin is working on the fix.

Edit:

Project is up and running.
by Hal Bregg
Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:20 am
Forum: Kudos
Topic: Congratulations to JockMacMad TSBT on passing 9 digits.
Replies: 17
Views: 3649

Re: Congratulations to JockMacMad TSBT on passing 9 digits.

Another TSBT hero!. Congrats, JockMacMad :clap: . Impressive work.
by Hal Bregg
Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: All TSBT registered forum users, please read and act.
Replies: 16
Views: 7790

Re: All TSBT registered forum users, please read and act.

I am glad to hear that something is happening regarding inactive users.
by Hal Bregg
Sun Jan 12, 2020 3:23 pm
Forum: Cosmology
Topic: No work available?
Replies: 3
Views: 2116

Re: No work available?

davidBAM wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:10 am were you getting work and it stopped, or was this a new 'attach'
I was getting work some time ago but other projects got in the way and I simply put no new work.
Funny thing is that everything works just fine on another host under Linux.
by Hal Bregg
Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:36 am
Forum: Cosmology
Topic: No work available?
Replies: 3
Views: 2116

No work available?

I am not able to download any tasks for Cosmo on Windows host. All I get is this 12/01/2020 09:26:59 | Cosmology@Home | No tasks sent 12/01/2020 09:26:59 | Cosmology@Home | No tasks are available for camb_boinc2docker Checked all possible settings in BOINC manager and project. I even restarted, remo...
by Hal Bregg
Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:28 am
Forum: Moo! Wrapper
Topic: Optimizing app
Replies: 5
Views: 1734

Re: Optimizing app

I will look into it, Bryan.
by Hal Bregg
Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:19 am
Forum: Moo! Wrapper
Topic: Optimizing app
Replies: 5
Views: 1734

Re: Optimizing app

It seems like it.

After what you wrote I checked again mine results and noticed that nvidia_101 tasks pay over 6k per WU (approx 44min runtime) on GTX950. Had some cuda31 WU for slightly over 1k for each WU (approx 16min runtime).
by Hal Bregg
Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:33 pm
Forum: Moo! Wrapper
Topic: Optimizing app
Replies: 5
Views: 1734

Optimizing app

Guys,

I was wondering if changing those settings would improve crunching speed.

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by Hal Bregg
Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:31 am
Forum: QuChemPedIA
Topic: QuChemPedIA@home
Replies: 29
Views: 9227

Re: QuChemPedIA@home

30 hours with no checkpointing !!!!! Sounds as bad as SRbase I'll maybe try it on one 2990wx with HT off but, man, when I said 'difficult', I didn't realise how bdooly difficult. SRBase has checkpoints. The progress bar doesn't reflect actual percentage of work done if you restart the task (see std...
by Hal Bregg
Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:24 am
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Greetings ... and welcome ...
Replies: 838
Views: 446139

Re: Greetings ... and welcome ...

please, take a look at our' Comapny ... Save the World ... mission website : https://savetheworld.org.pl/ ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ... I get it now. I would rather expect volunteers with significant hardware and financial resources to keep a low profile. I honour Your's point of vie...
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:33 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?
Replies: 10
Views: 2513

Re: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?

Gibson Praise wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:28 pm
Hal Bregg wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:12 pm The only solution is to have another rig ..
I'm always in favor of this. My wife .. has other opinions. :(
:lol:

Like david said earlier above life is never easy.
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:24 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Greetings ... and welcome ...
Replies: 838
Views: 446139

Re: Greetings ... and welcome ...

Granowski wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:09 pm please, take a look at our' Comapny ... Save the World ... mission website :https://savetheworld.org.pl/ ... sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ... ...
I get it now. I would rather expect volunteers with significant hardware and financial resources to keep a low profile.
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:12 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?
Replies: 10
Views: 2513

Re: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?

Right now I am running Collatz and the estimated finish time will be around 1h30min. I didn't optimize the app though. Speaking of MooWrapper I planned to hit 1 million and focus on other projects, mainly Milkyway and Einstein. If things go well next year I might get something better than this anci...
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:05 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?
Replies: 10
Views: 2513

Re: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?

davidBAM wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:00 pmmoment
:?
:?:
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:01 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Greetings ... and welcome ...
Replies: 838
Views: 446139

Re: Greetings ... and welcome ...

davidBAM wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:54 pm benchmark times for OC 2080 here https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 229#p74344
The only thing I can say is... wow! :lol:
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:57 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?
Replies: 10
Views: 2513

Re: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?

very much depends on project, I'd say. No real problem on Collatz, but Moo could suffer Right now I am running Collatz and the estimated finish time will be around 1h30min. I didn't optimize the app though. Speaking of MooWrapper I planned to hit 1 million and focus on other projects, mainly Milkyw...
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:48 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Greetings ... and welcome ...
Replies: 838
Views: 446139

Re: Greetings ... and welcome ...

Granowski wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:31 pm Dear The Scottish Boinc Team Members ... I've switched GPU power ... 12 x 2080 ti oc and 2 x 1080 ... all to Collatz ... hopefully it wil help us get ... a high place in Leaugue 1 Competition ! sincerely, Gregg Roman Granowski ...
F...ing hell, Gregg! Did you just say twelve GTX 2080?!
by Hal Bregg
Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:44 pm
Forum: Benchmarking and Hardware
Topic: Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?
Replies: 10
Views: 2513

Does CPU matter when crunching with GPU?

As in the subject, guys.

I'm testing GTX 660 2GB along with i3-2100 at the moment and was wondering if CPU would be way too weak and bottleneck GPU?
by Hal Bregg
Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:34 pm
Forum: SETI
Topic: Tasks postponed for 30 seconds
Replies: 4
Views: 2244

Re: Tasks postponed for 30 seconds

What is the Intel GPU, and what driver are you using under Linux? You might be interested in this thread at Seti@Home Beta I followed your posts to get Intel GPU drivers. Boinc was seeing GPU and I didn't have the option turn on to suspend GPU when the computer in use. And here's the log from fault...
by Hal Bregg
Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:46 am
Forum: SETI
Topic: Tasks postponed for 30 seconds
Replies: 4
Views: 2244

Tasks postponed for 30 seconds

Hello guys,

I am trying to run some tasks on Intel GPU while I still have the rig but all I get is

Code: Select all

Tue 03 Sep 2019 10:33:48 BST | SETI@home | Task 05ja12ab.27934.4979.9.36.88_1 postponed for 30 seconds:
This is happening on Linux Mint 19.
by Hal Bregg
Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:30 am
Forum: LHC
Topic: Native Theory and Native Atlas
Replies: 7
Views: 3278

Re: Native Theory and Native Atlas

scole of TSBT wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 12:13 am Thanks. That's the one I was thinking about. I have it running. I'm looking for a good Native Theory How-To also.
Have a look at this post on LHC website

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/for ... 4971#38259
by Hal Bregg
Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:27 am
Forum: Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Topic: RTX 2080 best use?
Replies: 47
Views: 8123

Re: RTX 2080 best use?

Not exactly down. GPUgrid doesn't yet have support for the Turing cards though. I think Einstein and Milkyway do better on AMD cards (floating point). Not sure about Asteroids. Mind you, your card will get good scores anyhow Not with all Radeons. I hate to see that only a handful of GPUs is support...
by Hal Bregg
Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:02 pm
Forum: Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Topic: RTX 2080 best use?
Replies: 47
Views: 8123

Re: RTX 2080 best use?

You could try to crunch for Einstein, Asteroids or Milkyway if I were you. With such firepower, you could bring a healthy contribution to those projects.
by Hal Bregg
Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:55 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Greetings ... and welcome ...
Replies: 838
Views: 446139

Re: Greetings ... and welcome ...

Hi Gregg and SolidAir79

Good to see you both joining TSBT.
by Hal Bregg
Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:48 pm
Forum: Non-BOINC Projects
Topic: Evolution@home
Replies: 5
Views: 4743

Re: Evolution@home

Alez wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:07 am Is that the one that was a sub project of Yoyo ? I thought that was finished.
Yes, it did. I was curious if any of you tried to run it outside of BOINC
by Hal Bregg
Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:44 pm
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: The Odroid SBC Family
Replies: 7
Views: 7728

Re: The Odroid SBC Family

Well, I was thinking about Universe, Cosmology and maybe one of the maths projects. I am guessing LHC might be too heavy for those units.
by Hal Bregg
Wed Aug 14, 2019 10:30 am
Forum: Kudos
Topic: davidBAM our latest Deca-Billionaire
Replies: 17
Views: 2588

Re: davidBAM our latest Deca-Billionaire

:clap:
Congrats david. Congrats
:clap:
by Hal Bregg
Wed Aug 14, 2019 10:23 am
Forum: Non-BOINC Projects
Topic: Evolution@home
Replies: 5
Views: 4743

Evolution@home

As in the tile.

Did you have any experience with this project?
by Hal Bregg
Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:07 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC
Replies: 13
Views: 7523

Re: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC

Something tells me you ran the ./amdgpu-pro-install not in the directory where the amdgpu-pro-install script is (/Downloads/driver/version), as it will install all the files you installed with synaptic, and more. Believe me, Dirk, I did run install command in directory containing all unpacked files...
by Hal Bregg
Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:12 am
Forum: archive
Topic: 14/8-21/8 Competition in speeding up project OGR-28 - yoyo
Replies: 37
Views: 3596

Re: 14/8-21/8 Competition in speeding up project OGR-28 - yoyo

Guys, do I block this IP address 116.203.62.4 to stop yoyo uploading tasks?
by Hal Bregg
Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:09 am
Forum: Help
Topic: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC
Replies: 13
Views: 7523

Re: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC

The -y argument sets all questions during the install to a default 'yes'. The install of OpenCL depends heavily on the --opencl=pal,legacy argument. Without it you will get the infamous 'no useable GPU detected'... ./amdgpu-pro-install -y --opencl=pal,legacy --headless --headless will drop Accelera...
by Hal Bregg
Mon Aug 12, 2019 4:26 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC
Replies: 13
Views: 7523

Re: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC

Try this the add the user 'boinc' to the video group instead: sudo usermod -a -G video boinc I have done this without any success. PS This is what I get when I issue ./amdgpu-pro-install -y command ./amdgpu-pro-install -y deb [ trusted=yes ] file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/ ./ Get:1 file:/var/opt/am...
by Hal Bregg
Mon Aug 12, 2019 1:53 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC
Replies: 13
Views: 7523

Re: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC

Did you install using ./amdgpu-pro-install -y --opencl=pal,legacy ? OpenCL is an optional component of the Pro variant and is installed only if it is specifically requested. Here's how you add boinc user to Video group: gpasswd -a boinc video So first thing I tried to do was add boinc to video grou...
by Hal Bregg
Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:44 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC
Replies: 13
Views: 7523

Re: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC

Activity menu didn't have option to suspend or run GPU apps. I tried the card on another host with Lubuntu 18.04 installed but after installing drivers system won't boot up (error about invalid signature or something like that). Can you tell me what would be the command line syntax to add boinc to v...
by Hal Bregg
Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:01 pm
Forum: Help
Topic: Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC
Replies: 13
Views: 7523

Radeon R7 250X not detected by BOINC

Hello all, I tried today to utilize Radeon R7 250X 2GB but neither Collatz nor Amicable Numbers did not pick up new card. Official GPU drivers from AMD website were installed without any errors on Linux Mint 19 Tara yet BOINC still doesn't see the card :evil: Please, share your thought on how to res...
by Hal Bregg
Wed Aug 07, 2019 7:16 am
Forum: Single-board Computers
Topic: The Odroid SBC Family
Replies: 7
Views: 7728

Re: The Odroid SBC Family

Hi guys,

Which projects would be suitable for those little crunchers? And are there any new models available to buy in UK?
by Hal Bregg
Sun Jul 21, 2019 5:51 pm
Forum: yoyo
Topic: WUs with missed deadline
Replies: 4
Views: 1770

Re: WUs with missed deadline

Thanks for advice. I will try it next time.
by Hal Bregg
Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:59 pm
Forum: yoyo
Topic: WUs with missed deadline
Replies: 4
Views: 1770

WUs with missed deadline

I need quick advice, gents.

I have some yoyo Siever WUs going to pass deadline. Should I cancel them, let them run or they will be cancelled by project?
by Hal Bregg
Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:35 am
Forum: Collatz Conjecture
Topic: VERY long wu
Replies: 23
Views: 7900

Re: VERY long wu

scole of TSBT wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:33 pm A bad WU is not unheard of. You should add a feature to your BT tool to set a max time limit for WUs on projects and abort them if they run longer than the max.
BT tool? Please, can you elaborate?
by Hal Bregg
Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:31 am
Forum: yoyo
Topic: Another new Yoyo application: Siever
Replies: 9
Views: 3197

Re: Another new Yoyo application: Siever

Sorry guys for going off topic. And thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Like Bryan said above "There just isn't a SMART answer to it" so let's close this topic and get back to crunching.
by Hal Bregg
Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:57 pm
Forum: yoyo
Topic: Another new Yoyo application: Siever
Replies: 9
Views: 3197

Re: Another new Yoyo application: Siever

@Hal Bregg this is an ancient topic and has been going around every since GPU crunching 1st came out. Credit Screw, which Yoyo uses, was David Anderson's approach to "socialized" crunching. If he totally had his way it wouldn't matter if you were running a single Pentium computer or a 299...
by Hal Bregg
Wed Jul 17, 2019 1:47 pm
Forum: yoyo
Topic: Another new Yoyo application: Siever
Replies: 9
Views: 3197

Re: Another new Yoyo application: Siever

I was equally unimpressed with M-Queens https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=13798 I'll be off this project like snow off a dyke as soon as the FB sprint happens. I am only running it as I can bunker yoyo speculatively for a month ahead I completely don't understand this whole BOINC c...
by Hal Bregg
Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:16 pm
Forum: yoyo
Topic: Another new Yoyo application: Siever
Replies: 9
Views: 3197

Re: Another new Yoyo application: Siever

I gave this project a shot on my Linux PC and I'm disappointed by the amount of credit awarded for successful work. For example one task took over 8 hrs to crunch, 2,044.25 points were claimed and only 599.06 were given? Why?
by Hal Bregg
Sun Jul 07, 2019 9:14 am
Forum: Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
Topic: 1 million + projects
Replies: 226
Views: 235143

Re: 1 million + projects

How low they pay and how fast are the WUs?
by Hal Bregg
Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:42 am
Forum: Collatz Conjecture
Topic: Intel HD400 GPU optimization
Replies: 5
Views: 4264

Re: Intel HD400 GPU optimization

Collatz does have a GPU app for the Intel onboard GPUs. You just need to get the OpenCL drivers installed. It's not nearly as powerful as the gaming cards but it is faster than CPU. Beware though. The GPU is in the CPU die correct? So you need to watch the CPU temps really close? No multi-threaded ...

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