TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[NastyHabits]

@phill Late last night, I received some Open Pandemic, and Smash Childhood Cancer WU's. Plus three jobs from Rosetta.

 

[mstenholm]

Three betas here as well and +1000 SCC and five OPN1s. According to posts on the WCG forum all of the OPNGs errors out….but since I didn’t ask for any I didn’t test it myself. Before the involuntary pause, the hosting company meltdown days before the planned 25th of July maintenance, 95% of all my SCCs were without a wingman, now 95% have one. Strange.

 

[windwhirl]

Lots of small jobs for me. Most WU I'm used to receiving take around 2 hours to complete. Now I got a ton of WUs that take around 40 minutes

 

[mstenholm]

Lots of small jobs for me. Most WU I'm used to receiving take around 2 hours to complete. Now I got a ton of WUs that take around 40 minutes

I assume that you are running under Windows (hidden host, tsk tsk). I run under Linux and the runtime is unchanged or maybe a bit longer than before the mishap. Currently 44 minutes predicted by WCG, so around 45 minutes in average. You are not the only one reporting about smaller tasks.

 

[Arjai]

Hmmm, I just looked at my BOINC Mgr. and it was blank, and said it was "disconnected". Not seen that before. Anyway, I closed it out and re-booted it and it was all there like nothing was wrong. Weirdness, seems to follow this new group of host's.
Oh well, probably lost, at least, a day of crunching. I have no idea when it decided to disconnect.

 

[AusWolf]

Hi fellas,

I've just discovered BOINC, and was wondering which projects have a TPU team. I've noticed MilkyWay@home has one, but I can't find it on Universe@home. Any others?

 

[windwhirl]

Hi fellas,

I've just discovered BOINC, and was wondering which projects have a TPU team. I've noticed MilkyWay@home has one, but I can't find it on Universe@home. Any others?

AFAIK, TPU has a World Community Grid team, and a Folding@Home one. There's a Rosetta thread as well in this subforum, but I'm not sure what that one's about or the state of it.

 

[stinger608]

Hi fellas,

I've just discovered BOINC, and was wondering which projects have a TPU team. I've noticed MilkyWay@home has one, but I can't find it on Universe@home. Any others?

AFAIK, TPU has a World Community Grid team, and a Folding@Home one. There's a Rosetta thread as well in this subforum, but I'm not sure what that one's about or the state of it.

@windwhirl is correct. We have all three that he mentioned.

 

[AusWolf]

AFAIK, TPU has a World Community Grid team, and a Folding@Home one. There's a Rosetta thread as well in this subforum, but I'm not sure what that one's about or the state of it.

Apparently, there is one at MilkyWay@home:

Members of TechPowerUp!

 

[mstenholm]

Apparently, there is one at MilkyWay@home:

Members of TechPowerUp!

I’m sure that both MilkyWay and other BOINC projects have participants that are also members of Techpowerup but we don’t have an official captain and no sub-forum. You can suggest it if you want but be sure that @phill will pass on that extra title

 

[phill]

Will reply when I'm back from work, but yep, I'm trying to report less than I am at the moment but no one has come forward yet! Any offers??

 

[phill]

Well everyone, I've got hopefully something for a start of a giveaway coming... I'm trying to get some fairly decent hardware, hopefully GPUs and depends on what I can manage, some CPUs too if possible... I'm looking to try and do a giveaway of a system or parts and its a case of picking and choosing what parts you'd like...

If anyone else wishes to do some donating etc. then please do I will expect members to be putting names down for this hardware that have WCG history but I also wondered, what everyone else thought if we opened it up to the rest of the forum and said maybe if you wished to enter, to put in some cash towards the cost of the hardware, so like a token gesture or something?? What does anyone think?? The more time you've spent in WCG or FAH or Rosetta with TPU, the less or 'free' I'd expect but if you still wished to do a donation or something, that's always welcome with open arms Goes for anyone putting in hardware, if they'd like something for it (token gestures etc....) I'm more than happy for this to happen. I'll try and do some higher 'spec'd' winnings and then maybe some SSDs or something for like 3rd/4th or something??

We are most certainly doing this for @Kreil thread, so I'll put this text in there as well just in case people don' visit this thread Any thoughts, ideas or whatever you wish to add, please please step up and speak I mean if I'm speaking, I'm more a dribbling idiot than anyone, so if I can put a few words together, I'm happy!!

Take care everyone!! Hopefully hear from you soon!!

 

[phill]

I was wondering everyone (Apologies for my absence!!)

Has anyone else been having issues with getting work and getting any points updated?? I've ran out of work and well, not getting anything in return..... Just thought I'd ask

 

[thebluebumblebee]

My 6500T's case is cool, so yeah, no work for me.

 

[NastyHabits]

Nothing for me either. But it is Sunday. This used to happen before the move to Kremble.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

I was wondering everyone (Apologies for my absence!!)

Has anyone else been having issues with getting work and getting any points updated?? I've ran out of work and well, not getting anything in return..... Just thought I'd ask

My queue is likewise dry.

 

[phill]

I've got some work on one of my 3900X's and a little on my 3970X, but otherwise, everything else is off or dry.. I've even managed to find a Milky-Way log in I forgot I had, so doing a little bit to that as well in between...

Hopefully this gets resolved soon, its wearing a bit thin that nothing seems very stable of late with them.... Sadly no daily amounts to update or WCG Pie stats either... Hopefully tomorrow might change it

 

[Nordic]

I turned on boinc for the winter this morning. I downloaded WCG tasks just fine. I have WCG at 65% resource share, Rosetta at 30% resource share, and Milkyway@home at 5% resource share. This resource allocation means I will never run out of work but WCG will be prioritized if work is available.

It appears it is that time of year again. It is cold and I want my PC's heat.

 

[Toothless]

Anyone else having BOINC not giving jobs automatically? A bit annoying having to hit update to make it be like "oh hey we can do stuff."

 

[NastyHabits]

Anyone else having BOINC not giving jobs automatically? A bit annoying having to hit update to make it be like "oh hey we can do stuff."

@Toothless No problems here, although last week I went 36 hours with no jobs available.

 

[phill]

Anyone else having BOINC not giving jobs automatically? A bit annoying having to hit update to make it be like "oh hey we can do stuff."

@Toothless No problems here, although last week I went 36 hours with no jobs available.

I've been noticing that they are very slow to distribute the work at times... My Threadripper was out of work and one of my daughters machines, they have been without any work at all even when I've been clicking update regularly... Is a little frustrating....

 

[Toothless]

I've been noticing that they are very slow to distribute the work at times... My Threadripper was out of work and one of my daughters machines, they have been without any work at all even when I've been clicking update regularly... Is a little frustrating....

I miss my threadripper tbh. While yes the 3900x was to replace it I miss the PCI lanes and whatnot.

 

[phill]

I miss my threadripper tbh. While yes the 3900x was to replace it I miss the PCI lanes and whatnot.

It's pricy to run for when there's not much sun but my word its lovely and powerful Sadly not quite the top dog CPU and 2 gens old now, but its very much hard as hell to be able to say to yourself, go on, spend £5000 on a CPU, then buy the RAM And motherboard etc..... but sadly I'm not even making money from owning the system, so value needs to happen with hardware now lol That said, I can't really see me upgrading from it any time soon.....

 

[Toothless]

It's pricy to run for when there's not much sun but my word its lovely and powerful Sadly not quite the top dog CPU and 2 gens old now, but its very much hard as hell to be able to say to yourself, go on, spend £5000 on a CPU, then buy the RAM And motherboard etc..... but sadly I'm not even making money from owning the system, so value needs to happen with hardware now lol That said, I can't really see me upgrading from it any time soon.....

That's why I went with older Xeons on the server. Wanted to at least double from the previous so 2x 2680v2 to 2x 2698v4 and everything else. Sure it clocks low but 80 threads that can chooch through WCG and the likes while enough left over for my personal stuff. Funny my 5950x beats it in multithread.

On and used is cheap. That was big part cept' for the board. Standard ATX for dual socket is spendy.

 

[NastyHabits]

I've been noticing that they are very slow to distribute the work at times... My Threadripper was out of work and one of my daughters machines, they have been without any work at all even when I've been clicking update regularly... Is a little frustrating....

Here's a hint. After trying a manual update, click on "Tools/Event Log" and you'll see status messages like "Mapping Cancer Markers not available". Saves you endless clicking.