TPU's Rosetta Milestones and Daily Pie Thread

[phill]

I’m not a Robetta fan (recognize the jobs by rb_date, not the official Rosetta ones but kind of a schematic for other project, I think) since the way of using our CPUs is more how to use your RAM and then your CPU speed and other qualities is less important. This is from a person that is underpowered in RAM. My 24 threads are down to 9 due to RAM restriction. That CPU was ranked 9th a week ago and now my 2700X 32 GB will overtake It.

I started this ramble just to say that with three CPUs commutating (jobs completed and the normal 31 second growing to 2-3 hours) I got more than 100 rb units dated 28 march without asking. I will not ask for more jobs when they run empty on two of the the three until normal operation resumes or the team beats me in points. Come on, we were in top 30 recently.

Edit many hours later. Noticed that you did complete one of the 19 jobs sent to you @phill . What happened to the rest? Testing one thread performance or ? If you don’t want to be part of Rosetta just say instead of letting your jobs being late. As it is Rosetta sucks and it will with without you. Just don’t pretend you are a part of the team!

2 edit: team captain offers no defense . Bye TEAM.

Well I was surprised I actually got the work on my 6700k but since the 2700 was on at the same time, I had hoped they'd both get work. It seems that the 6700k is favourite because the 2700 is never getting any work of late.

I noticed one of the jobs had done but the weather wasn't playing ball and I shut down quite a few rigs at the time. No point them being on with no sun for me or if they have no jobs to do in the first place.

I've not been online on the forum much this evening (actually first time now as I've actually been having a relax with a game or two on Steam) so apologies everyone for not replying sooner. Normal service will carry on tomorrow, even if its just with the 6700k being on and not the 2700. Its meant to be raining here so that's never good for the solar production but still, I'll get on whatever I can even if it means me not folding as much

 

[Arjai]

OK, so, I uninstalled BOINC (standard version). Went to BOINC's web and got the manager /w Virtual Box. I had to up the memory use, in Computing Options, to 95%. Then, I got 17 jobs. So, easy peasy, Thanks to @mstenholm for the link to the forum post. That put me on the right track.

Gonna bring my Orange box on, another 2700, now that I know how to easily do it. The 3700 (Grey Box) will have to wait, a day or so, I have some other things to currently do, before work.

P.S. had to set Orange Box to 100% memory usage, to get it to grab jobs but, it worked and it is downloading 19 jobs, now.

So, 2 2700 CPU's online. Hopefully, all goes well and it starts to show points soon!

 

[Arjai]

Not sure what is wrong. I have Boinc + Virtual Box installed. I have plenty of memory allocated, 100%! Longest runtime, right there at the top 136 seconds. I did get 20, or so, 420 jobs and they ran fine, of course.

 

[phill]

@Arjai had something similar last night, saw a work unit come down on my 2700 just the one, then it errored and that was that. Turned on the rig this morning and its downloaded about 5 work units and they seem to be going ok for the moment. Will report back soon I hope

 

[phill]

Well here we are for the 28th March 2022 Rosetta Pie update for us......

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day!!.....

@Arjai !!

Great work to our lone stoner for the day!! Nice to see you getting some work through there @Arjai !! Any progress on the above issues?? Have you had any more work through at all??

Managed to get one result in as Mstenholm mentioned.. I will not be pushing people to do more than they are able to do for whatever reason it might be. Please do not over stretch yourself with the contributions if you have high electric costs or just are unable to return many results, a result is more important no matter how many there might be. It's just great in my eyes that people are able to get some work and return it. Rosetta seems to really have a few issues with its work units as @Arjai has mentioned above... It's frustrating I think more so for the end user who's trying to help but is given poor units to do.. I hope that they get them fixed sooner rather than later....

Now that's out the way, keeping on crunching and I hope to see everyone in the next one!! I hope that you are doing well and are all ok everyone!!

 

[phill]

And now here we are for the last update and catch up for the Rosetta Pie.... 29th March 2022.......

And as for our milestones and stoners for the day......

@Zachary85 !!

Amazing effort from Zachary and massive thanks to you for being able to return some work units for our team Seems I've been able to put a few more points on the board for once, happy days!!

I hope everyone is doing well and is more so, ok Take care everyone and I hope to see you all again tomorrow for the next update

 

[Zachary85]

I ordered some more memory for my Rosetta machine. I can run four of the rb units at once, but only two of the python units with the memory I currently have in that PC.
I had one python unit that shows it was cancelled by the server this morning. No run time, no cpu time. First time I've seen that message.

 

[phill]

Has anyone else been getting any problems with their Rosetta work units at all? I don't think I've had any reportedly failed aside from the one earlier this morning (about 1230am...) My 2700 rig is now dry and the 6700k rig won't be doing much tomorrow I doubt either...

Might see if its a good time to upgrade the Linux install on that one

 

[mstenholm]

1184 hours in progress is back. That‘s based on the simple calculation - (27+47)*16 hours asked, the final number will be less but still +55k in the next full day. You do know that once a job is downloaded and not started the run-time can be changed? You should since I told you before. There is a twist when you pass the deadline. Please ask.

@phill if I see one more emoji in a post about how you tried to get a job and let them time out I’m out.

 

[mstenholm]

Now is the time to download new jobs….if you are interested

Edit: since I already had jobs running I didn’t know about the quality of the zils. @Bow and @xrobwx71 seems to have problems, Windows problems? Wouldn’t be the first time. I have Linux jobs starting and running but who know for how long. I will climb the stairs and report back.
2nd edit: the first 25 minutes went fine on Linux.

 

[phill]

Well here we are again for the Rosetta Pie Stats update for the 30th March 2022......

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day........

Sadly no milestones today so hopefully we'll manage to get a few sorted out soon enough

Nice solid day of contributions again guys, it seems we have Mstenholm back.... Not sure what's going on @mstenholm but let me know if I can change something then I will do my best

As for work units, well....
As I'm up passed 1am sorting out another rig and I get a message about jobs coming out, I put my 2700 rig on and short version is that its picked up about 41 jobs, which is awesome 3 of the first ones that got downloaded seemed to have crashed/been no good, but the rig was on for about 15 minutes (I'll wait for some sun in the morning with some luck!) and they where fine, so here's hoping the rest of them will be good and I can get some good points. Reckoning they'll take 8 hours a unit, so we'll see Hopefully have some more points to give when I get the 6700k on in the morning with some luck!!

Catch you all soon!!

 

[mstenholm]

As for work units, well....
As I'm up passed 1am sorting out another rig and I get a message about jobs coming out, I put my 2700 rig on and short version is that its picked up about 41 jobs, which is awesome 3 of the first ones that got downloaded seemed to have crashed/been no good, but the rig was on for about 15 minutes (I'll wait for some sun in the morning with some luck!) and they where fine, so here's hoping the rest of them will be good and I can get some good points. Reckoning they'll take 8 hours a unit, so we'll see Hopefully have some more points to give when I get the 6700k on in the morning with some luck!!

Catch you all soon!!

Yes it seems like the YIL WUs have a problem with Windows, as I wrote in the PM. Linux seems good, as I also wrote and they were available for download for a good time after that. Remember that Rosetta is US based and that all of the big releases happens their working hours. I just been lucky to be awake when it happened. Don’t expect to wake up and download new jobs. See a whole post and no teenager wall to wall emoji.

 

[phill]

Yes it seems like the YIL WUs have a problem with Windows, as I wrote in the PM. Linux seems good, as I also wrote and they were available for download for a good time after that. Remember that Rosetta is US based and that all of the big releases happens their working hours. I just been lucky to be awake when it happened. Don’t expect to wake up and download new jobs. See a whole post and no teenager wall to wall emoji.

I'll report back tomorrow as the machine will be back on then, hopefully no failures. Won't be changing the rigs OS as its the Mrs's and she won't want Linux on there lol

As for the emoji's that's just me Still 2am and I'd best get some sleep, little one will have me up in a few hours I'm sure

 

[phill]

Well here we go everyone, Rosetta Pie Stats update for the 31st March 2022.....

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day......

Sadly no one else today but I think if we've been able to get 7 members contributing today, anything is possible over the next few days with the amount of work units flying about Hopefully not a lot of you have been having issues with the computation errors I've seen on a few of mine today??
Not had any issues with my Linux cruncher but the 2700 rig runs in Windows and I've seen a fair few of the work units error out in a 10 to 20 seconds of starting. Some might have gone longer but most of them errored sooner rather than later, which I think is a blessing in disguise.

If anyone has any feed back fire away, its always great to hear from you all on how you are finding Rosetta

Thank you everyone for the great contributions!! Until tomorrow, I'll see you then!!

 

[phill]

@mstenholm here's a few screen grabs from the 2700 rig today, I've got some from the 6700k but need to get that setup with my server details properly...




Its been going through them pretty quickly but some erroring pretty soon into starting it as mentioned via the PM... I don't think the 6700k has missed a beat today, I've not checked with the valid jobs or not. I'm hoping tomorrow for a good score!!

 

[mstenholm]

@mstenholm here's a few screen grabs from the 2700 rig today, I've got some from the 6700k but need to get that setup with my server details properly...


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Its been going through them pretty quickly but some erroring pretty soon into starting it as mentioned via the PM... I don't think the 6700k has missed a beat today, I've not checked with the valid jobs or not. I'm hoping tomorrow for a good score!!

Your details, at least status and points for your jobs are public when your PC communicate with then result servers. Yes this is a Linux optimized project. I assume it was tested on a Linux PC and since there is few jobs and plenty of “free” Linux CPU cycles they call it a day. There has been zero official on this ZIL project and the Windows woes.

Well you and me are good with some Linux machines but the team as a whole suffers. The points are decent for my 2700Xs, 45/hr, the 3900X as a whole is doing better once I completed the rb jobs and can run 24/24. I was down to 14 of 24 threads due to lack of memory but points were around 75-80/hr.

Edit: @phill you did complete 30 Zil jobs on your Windows 2700 so there is some hope for the Windows people.

 

[Arjai]

I've got a ton of rb jobs...haven't been around to see if any ZIL's stopped in for an error.

edit: just checked the event viewer, no ZIL to be found. So, glad I haven't wasted comp time on them, yet...

 

[mstenholm]

I've got a ton of rb jobs...haven't been around to see if any ZIL's stopped in for an error.

edit: just checked the event viewer, no ZIL to be found. So, glad I haven't wasted comp time on them, yet...

Well some of the ZILs did complete on Windows machines but Linux seems to be a better bet for constant performance. Talking about that we as a team were #10 for the 3rd of April, not bad!

I’m down to around 200 jobs in progress or queued up so I can’t run 100% for the next days. It’s cold enough in Denmark to justify it but….

Edit: after one of the most sunny March in recent history the weather had to change to the worse and the need for supplementary room-heating returned and I have to eat the extra cost for electricity. It so happen that Rosetta decided to play nice, now that WCG isn’t, for an extended period of time and I was graced with more work. Queue and in-progress grew since the morning and I look into at least one more full day of work.

I noticed that some of you got lucky as well but is our combined effort/luck enough for one more day in top 10?

 

[Arjai]

Looks as though I have 3 "YIL" jobs in the bottom of my queue. Is that gonna be simiular to "ZIL"?

I am so confused with Rosetta, now. Some jobs for 100GB Ram machines, Some jobs for Linux machines, These folks needs some help from the WCG team. They have managed to make it all work, better than this, anyway!

No matter, I will just do what I can with what I have. That reminds me, I need to remote in to my White box...see what it has been doing. Plus I never got my Grey box rosetta-ing... gotta run, so perhaps in the morning, tomorrow, I will attend to all that. Or, Wednesday?

 

[phill]

Well here we are everyone, apologies, for the delay with the updates, but I'm on it now!! Damn glad I keep everything!! So here we go for the Rosetta Pie Stats for the 1st April 2022......

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day.....

@xrobwx71 !!

Great work there @xrobwx71 !! Glad you have been able to make some magic happen for the jobs to get done!! I do believe also, that this is or has been, our best day for contributors as well, 9 today everyone, well done indeed!!
I see @Arjai has signed himself into two different accounts again, I believe you are all sorted out now??

Best get myself moving and on to the next couple updates for everyone!!

 

[phill]

And here we go for the 2nd April 2022 for the lovely Rosetta Pie Stats....

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day.....

@agent00skid !!

Great work again there sir!! Glad to see you have been able to get some work units and been able to complete them!! It does seem the Windows is having issues with these work units, I'm not sure if @mstenholm has heard anything from the Rosetta site at all as to what's going on??

Great work everyone, awesome efforts and brilliant support as always!! Hope to see you on the next update!!

 

[phill]

And so here we are for the last update for the 3rd April 2022 for Rosetta Pie Stats....

And now for the milestones and stoners for the day.....

@Arjai !!

Congrats for hitting your next milestone Arjai!! Great to have you on board with us with the Rosetta work!!
I also see we have a new member in the team today, @James ??!! If anyone know's of his username, please do tag him for me!! Otherwise, if 'James' you are reading the forum page, please feel free to join up and post away!!

Had a few jobs left over on the 6700k rig from yesterday but I don't think there was anything much that was on the 2700. After all, today has been even worse for me, since the weather has been pants and I've reinstalled one of my other crunchers downstairs but that just picked up two jobs and that was it. I managed to complete one, but I'll finish the other tomorrow. Regret putting on Windows 10 on that one, so I'm going to switch over to Linux I think, hopefully if at least I can get Rosetta working on it better its worth a go. For any of the other machines that run FAH they'll have to stay on Windows I think.... Ah well, lets see that tomorrow hopefully everyone had more luck than me getting more work today!!

Awesome efforts everyone, really well done indeed!! Also whilst I think of it, how many days worth of work, do you all get 'buffered'??

Hope to catch up with you all tomorrow for the update!!

 

[Nordic]

I think you are aware but I am James for Rosetta.

 

[mstenholm]

@phill Windows/Linux might tip to Linux for the obvious reason of less wasted CPU time, @Arjai I’m looking at you as an example with 90.2% CPU cycle going towards the job as a example from our team. But Arjai with his Win10 has way less errors then I have with my Linux systems (99.68% CPU cycles for the job on the one that run 100% Rosetta). Errors are awarded points, 32.5 points/hour regardless of system so slower CPUs loses next to nothing. My three machines get the same 32.5 or there about but when the jobs run to the end I get 70.6, 63.5 and 54.7 points/hour for the current rb units.

We don’t get all the jobs we like to receive but the more up-time and communication with the work servers the better chance we have to receive work. Right now it doesn’t matter much if you run Windows or Linux. An errored Windows job is assigned to a Linux machine for the second try and vice versa.

We didn’t manage to hold on to the 10th place, but 12th place yesterday is fine I think for a team with so few active members.

Edit: inventory - 138 jobs on three people. Well most of the rb_04_04 is dead now and the amount of jobs in circulation is about the level where they normally releases new if they have them. I keep one machine of since it’s empty. The others got longer run-times….you know the way to keep getting your CPU warm.
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[Nordic]

Is it normal for Rosetta to sometimes not send tasks? I told Milkyway to not fetch any new tasks to focus on Rosetta for that sweet sweet pie action but Rosetta ran out of tasks. I allowed new MilkyWay tasks to keep my CPU busy.