TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[mstenholm]

I was downloading 2 ARP at a time, but always had 1 fail, so have had to set my system to only download 1 at a time. Not sure if I keep getting dodgy units, or if my system just can't cope with 2.

They know that there is a problem with the downloading but for now it’s in their end. I’m not sure if they are adressing the other issues there might be with some of the units. The APRs are memory greedy as I remember but two should be possible on anything with 8 GB. All that Cyclops say is that they have problems and they will inform when they are ready to send out jobs for real. News from today, well a repeat of old news.

Somehow I’m happy APR wasn’t on my list in Februar but since the changes we make now to our profiles is ignored there isn’t a thing I can do. I just know the day I see a APR unit they have fixed something.

 

[phill]

Been getting quite a few of them but no other work sadly... Maybe they are testing a set work unit at the moment and APR is the current one...

 

[HammerON]

I think I am going back to folding for a while. Not used to my computer sitting idle. Let me know when crunching is back up and running.

 

[debs3759]

They know that there is a problem with the downloading but for now it’s in their end. I’m not sure if they are adressing the other issues there might be with some of the units. The APRs are memory greedy as I remember but two should be possible on anything with 8 GB. All that Cyclops say is that they have problems and they will inform when they are ready to send out jobs for real. News from today, well a repeat of old news.

Somehow I’m happy APR wasn’t on my list in Februar but since the changes we make now to our profiles is ignored there isn’t a thing I can do. I just know the day I see a APR unit they have fixed something.

I have an i7 6700K with 16GB RAM. Just set the CPU back to 4 GHz on all cores, now the heatwave is over. RAM is at 2666 MHz.

I'll try downloading it in pairs if the problem could be with the units. They all download fine, but most times when I get 2, one fails quickly.

When everything is up and running fully, I'll stick to 1 ARP, as that never fails.

 

[phill]

You might be able to limit the tasks to whatever you set it too, that works for me but I'm not sure if that might work now? I'd give it a go

 

[debs3759]

Is anyone else unable to access the wcg website? Seems to be down today.

 

[NastyHabits]

@debs3759 Yes it's down. I double-checked with "is it down", and they say it is also.

 

[debs3759]

Hoping to get a high end Zen3 (or possibly Zen4 by the time I can afford it) system later this year. Skylake is getting a bit tired as my daily workhorse, and wcg will benefit as well

 

[phill]

Sure is acting up today, haven't been able to send back any jobs either that I have had today, here's hoping they can get it back up and running soon I guess someone might have pressed the wrong button.....

 

[debs3759]

It seems to have been a network issue (at least, that's what they say on Facebook). Back up and running now.

 

[mstenholm]

I just noticed that I no longer get a message about changing my profile if I want to get GPU jobs. When WGC stopped back in February I had it off for some reason, maybe because I was folding and running 8 concurrent OPNG jobs for sure would slow that down. Anyways that message is now gone so my new and revised Home profile is now including GPU and ARP. The latter is still sent out I think, so tomorrow I know for sure. Just a heads up if others had problems with the profile.

Edit: I got ONE APR so the changes you make in your profiles are now being carried over. It’s a resend from the 127 series.

 

[debs3759]

I got a couple of ARP 5 hours ago, that are so far running OK. First time I've had 2 run this far without errors.

 

[mstenholm]

The latest news from the official WCG spokesperson is that they had some minor issues with OPNG but got that fixed, so stay tuned WCG forum
In other words make sure that you have GPU work ticked and check that you can do at least Cl 1.2. Look at the top of your log when starting up WCG.

Back when they really sent out ONPG non stop I made +6 Million per day with a few lot more GPUs that I have now, but if you tried folding this can be done at half of the energy consumption or less if you run just one job at the time (default).

 

[80-watt Hamster]

The latest news from the official WCG spokesperson is that they had some minor issues with OPNG but got that fixed, so stay tuned WCG forum
In other words make sure that you have GPU work ticked and check that you can do at least Cl 1.2. Look at the top of your log when starting up WCG.

Back when they really sent out ONPG non stop I made +6 Million per day with a few lot more GPUs that I have now, but if you tried folding this can be done at half of the energy consumption or less if you run just one job at the time (default).

Are they not sending CPU jobs? I run F@H on my GPUs, maybe that's why my queue's been dry.

 

[debs3759]

Are they not sending CPU jobs? I run F@H on my GPUs, maybe that's why my queue's been dry.

They have been sporadically sending out CPU jobs. It's ARP they're testing at the moment.

 

[phill]

Have they started sending out some GPU based work for WCG at all? I'd like to hope that I'd have caught some of them but I don't believe any of the reporting is working at all, so I'm unsure what results/work I have done sadly

 

[mstenholm]

No @phill, OPNG is still absent but I got OPN1 (11) and ARP1 (4+8) at 12:30 UTC. All APR1s are again paired with the same Fedora machine, fifth day in a row that this happened.

Edit/update: OPNG are close, maybe even starting on the 8th, but for sure not before.

 

[phill]

Well as soon as they come, I'll hope that everyone can get them... We'll see!! Thanks for the update @mstenholm !!

 

[mstenholm]

Todays 5 o’clock Charlie, the WCG 12:30 UTC download began at 12:27, got a mix of 22 OPN1, MCM1 and APR1 spilt on two machines. One of the Rosetta guys running a chron job to ask for updates very frequently got +100 Rosetta jobs, I got six. Hmmm.

 

[mstenholm]

12:28 UTC today.

 

[Zachary85]

12:36 for me today. (7:36 am my local time) Got 97 OPN1 and 3 Africa Rain Project.

 

[stinger608]

I've had one of my systems running for weeks and have not gotten any work units.

I'm about ready to just uninstall BOINC at this point.

 

[NastyHabits]

I've had one of my systems running for weeks and have not gotten any work units.

I'm about ready to just uninstall BOINC at this point.

I got an ARP a day on one PC when they first went live. I haven't gotten anything for 13 days. I've taken to snoozing BOINC during the day, and awakening it just before I hit the sack at night. I hope they resume normal operations soon.

 

[Zachary85]

There was an update a couple of days ago. This is the post that gives an update ......

2022-08-05 Update (workunit shortage explanation)​

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Hi everyone, many volunteers have been asking about the continued drought of workunits. We have been working hard to resolve related problems, so we can restart the full scale of WCG, but, here are some challenges that we are still facing.

We have been working on several issues, and finally resolved some of them:

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• fixed the issue whereby OPNG workunits were transitioning into an incorrect state due to repeated pre-emption by higher priority processes when no CPU resources were available to the scheduler.
• provisioned additional servers to resolve multiple issues stemming from insufficient vCPU and oversubscribed services pre-empting processes that would otherwise have completed normally.
• fixed all OPNG batches that had transitioned to a frozen/idle state due to the above going unnoticed for too long.

While technically, we can now push out new workunits, we ran into some network problems at our data center. Unfortunately, vacation schedules of network engineers in the data center dictate that the earliest we might expect a resolution is August 8. Due to recent personnel changes the center does not have anyone on call to assist any earlier. As a result of these circumstances and the current status of the WCG infrastructure, we should be able to start sending an appreciable number of new WUs for you to crunch on or shortly after August 8th, 2022.

We will update you early next week on the status of these issues, as we also hope that once we complete this work we will be able to fully restart.

Thank you for your support, patience and understanding.

Have a great weekend!

 

[mstenholm]

I got an ARP a day on one PC when they first went live. I haven't gotten anything for 13 days. I've taken to snoozing BOINC during the day, and awakening it just before I hit the sack at night. I hope they resume normal operations soon.

I've had one of my systems running for weeks and have not gotten any work units.

I'm about ready to just uninstall BOINC at this point.

They only sent work out at 12:26 to around 12:50 UTC so if you didn’t actively updated in that period the changes of getting work were slim.