Posts by vaughan

1) Message boards : News : Extreme Sports Winter X Games challenge (01/27/2023 01:00 (UTC) - 01/29/2023 01:00 (UTC) (Message 8676)
Posted 28 Jan 2023 by

vaughan

BOINC Games has published the sprint project, SRBase was choosen, unfortunately no one got an info at the right time. Nevertheless we have enough work. Preparing more later.

That was a bit naughty of BOINC Games to not forewarn you but it is good you were prepared rebirther. Could we get some shorter tasks to help my weaker CPUs please?

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Trial Factoring (Message 8650)
Posted 15 Jan 2023 by

vaughan

rebirther, I noticed during the last week that some of my computers are showing a predicted run-time for TF gpu tasks of 1 second. This causes the machines to download large numbers of tasks. Is there a way to adjust the predicted run-time?

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Overview (Message 8588)
Posted 30 Dec 2022 by

vaughan

On the main page there is an item listed called overview

https://www.mersenne.ca/status/tf/0/0/1/10000

but it shows information about TF at Mersenne and not about how we are progressing at SRBase. Can someone explain this chart?

How are we actually going versus SRBase's aims?

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel ARC GPUs (Message 8566)
Posted 25 Dec 2022 by

vaughan

I have given up on the Intel ARC 770 and replaced it with a Gigabyte GTX1660 Super 6GB card.

The Intel card is back in its shipping box.

I experimented running it on Einstein - far too slow, BOINC predicted several days per task. Same over at NumberfieldsAtHome.

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel ARC GPUs (Message 8558)
Posted 25 Dec 2022 by

vaughan

Why won't this computer get Intel ARC tasks?

Under Your Computers it says:
shinobu INTEL Intel(R) Arc(TM) A770 Graphics (13004MB) OpenCL: 3.0

In SRBase preferences:
Use INTEL is check marked (note I unchecked both ATI and nVidia)

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel ARC GPUs (Message 8537)
Posted 23 Dec 2022 by

vaughan

While Rebirther is adding support for intel ARC you can try to run this.
https://www.mersenne.ca/tf1G/

This is a definite put off:

"do not do this work if you are concerned about credit."

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel ARC GPUs (Message 8531)
Posted 22 Dec 2022 by

vaughan

Rebirther will you be adding support for Intel ARC GPUs for the TF application?

8) Message boards : News : New llr2 app test (Message 8407)
Posted 17 Oct 2022 by

vaughan

Same here.
(I don't see "Run test applications" on my pref page.)

9) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 8137)
Posted 19 Mar 2022 by

vaughan

Rebirther we need tasks for Formula BOINC urgently please

10) Message boards : News : planned downtime tomorrow and today for router update (done) (Message 8088)
Posted 28 Jan 2022 by

vaughan

I get download failed.

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 7805)
Posted 30 Jul 2021 by

vaughan

Running low on Sierpinski base tasks to crunch. Could you load some more tasks for CPU please?

12) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 7785)
Posted 24 Jul 2021 by

vaughan

We have run out of CPU tasks.

13) Message boards : Number crunching : server issues / updates (Message 7783)
Posted 24 Jul 2021 by

vaughan

Multiple Windows computers are currently unable to download or upload tasks but server status reports no issues. How is that possible?

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 7717)
Posted 3 Jul 2021 by

vaughan

I'm out of CPU tasks - are there any coming soon? TSC is costly to have hired machines sitting idle!

15) Message boards : Number crunching : Why no new accounts? (Message 7603)
Posted 26 May 2021 by

vaughan

Why isn't SRBase accepting any new accounts?

16) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 7270)
Posted 22 Jan 2021 by

vaughan

We are out of CPU work - could you load some please?

17) Message boards : Number crunching : Download problems (Message 7213)
Posted 8 Jan 2021 by

vaughan

Download fails today for TF tasks.

18) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 4714)
Posted 28 Oct 2018 by

vaughan

Wow so much work to crunch but its in the middle of the Primegrid challenge - bad timing.

19) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 4634)
Posted 1 Oct 2018 by

vaughan

Really hard to get sufficient work to crunch with these 1 second tasks. If I hammer the "update" button in BOINC Manager I might get a dozen tasks occasionally. Cannot do this across all my machines.

Why is the server so reluctant to issue work?

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Work available?? (Message 4575)
Posted 9 Sep 2018 by

vaughan

why is it so hard to get work? I have multiple computers both Windows 7, Windows 10 and Linux trying to get tasks. Cache is set to 0.1 days. I hit update in BOINC Manager and it says no tasks sent. If I repeat this many times I might be lucky and get some tasks. The Server status says >250,000 S Base tasks are available. Well hand them out!!!

Some machines manage to get tasks and build a cache but other machines sit idle for hours. Is this a user setting error? Could it be that BOINC is still a stupid program as it has been since it started (but there is nothing else for DC to use)? Or is it something set by the srbase server?

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