TPU's Winter's End WCG Challenge (2/26 thru 3/6/2015)- join us to crunch/fold/win stuff

krusha03 · Feb 27, 2015

thebluebumblebee said:
Did you just start this system?

Yes and I was hoping to load it up with tasks before the downtime....

thebluebumblebee · Feb 27, 2015

krusha03 said:
Yes and I was hoping to load it up with tasks before the downtime....

The client has to know how fast the system is so it knows how many WU's to download for a given time. The system has to finish some (sorry, I don't know how many) WU's first.

krusha03 · Feb 27, 2015

thebluebumblebee said:
The client has to know how fast the system is so it knows how many WU's to download for a given time. The system has to finish some (sorry, I don't know how many) WU's first.

Hmm I thought that's what the benchmark is that runs initially

peche · Feb 27, 2015

11 tasks pending, 8 tasks runing ... 1 ready to report....
how do i put the computer to auto add tasks ?
as son this finishes... new proyect / tasks can come in?

krusha03 · Feb 27, 2015

In the advanced settings there is minimum and maximum buffer. since there is a scheduled 16 hours maintenance you should try and get at least 1 day worth of tasks

thebluebumblebee · Feb 27, 2015

Database Upgrade: Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 03:00:00 UTC
That's just over 3 hours and 40 minutes from now. As @krusha03 just mentioned, it's a good idea to have the client set to at least 1 day of tasks, total between "Minimum work buffer" and "Max additional buffer":

SirKeldon · Feb 27, 2015

I'm searching for the thing via "boinccmd" tool, any Linux user around that uses just the console to set this up? :toast:

All I can find is automated scripts to update once in a while which I don't need cause they won't work at all ...

EDIT:

According tho the BOINC FAQ Commands ... i can see this

--set_debts URL1 std1 ltd1 [URL2 std2 ltd2 ...]
Used to (re-)set the short term and long term debts of any given project. Usage: boinccmd --set_debts http://setiathome.berkeley.edu 0 0 (to reset the short term and long term debts on Seti@Home).

Is the most appropiated setting but I really don't know, any clues? I think limits should be specified in seconds (as linux gives me the information for WUs) but honestly IDK if this is the setting. Throw me some light if you know it for sure! =)

Norton · Feb 27, 2015

@krusha03 a new setup only gets a small batch of work initially. Once that work is done the buffer will load up with work properly.

Also, if you're manually updating in your BOINC Manager you need to wait for the communication deferred timer to time out first- takes 2 minutes to do that

madness777 · Feb 28, 2015

Guys, I have 2x 5870 in CF, can I use them to up the crunching a bit? They're not being used at all, everything is enabled for them to work. Under Properties it says ''Don't fetch tasks for AMD/ATI GPU: Project has no apps for AMD/ATI GPU.''
Does that mean there are just no projects assigned for it at the moment?

SirKeldon · Feb 28, 2015

Can't get the command to work with the number of seconds for a day ... and neither with a lower value at the first one ... lost here on how to improve buffer in Linux

Edit: Guess I'll be up till 3:00 UTC to do the last manual update in the servers

mx500torid · Feb 28, 2015

Always up for a good challenge. Count me in.

thebluebumblebee · Feb 28, 2015

madness777 said:
Guys, I have 2x 5870 in CF, can I use them to up the crunching a bit? They're not being used at all, everything is enabled for them to work. Under Properties it says ''Don't fetch tasks for AMD/ATI GPU: Project has no apps for AMD/ATI GPU.''
Does that mean there are just no projects assigned for it at the moment?

There's no work for GPU's at this time.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 28, 2015

thebluebumblebee said:
Database Upgrade: Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 03:00:00 UTC
That's just over 3 hours and 40 minutes from now. As @krusha03 just mentioned, it's a good idea to have the client set to at least 1 day of tasks, total between "Minimum work buffer" and "Max additional buffer":

I have a 3 day buffer set on all my rigs, so i'm good.

manofthem · Feb 28, 2015

ThE_MaD_ShOt said:
I have a 3 day buffer set on all my rigs, so i'm good.

I usually only have half a day buffer on my rigs, but now it's at 2 or 3 days during the challenge. I keep it low out of old habit. When I first started in, I had quite a few issues with this and that, so I ended up aborting a bit, which made me haz a sad. After that I decided a low buffer just in case, but now it's not as much of an issue

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 28, 2015

manofthem said:
I usually only have half a day buffer on my rigs, but now it's at 2 or 3 days during the challenge. I keep it low out of old habit. When I first started in, I had quite a few issues with this and that, so I ended up aborting a bit, which made me haz a sad. After that I decided a low buffer just in case, but now it's not as much of an issue

When you first started it was right in the middle of the gpu unit's wasn't it?

fullinfusion · Feb 28, 2015

manofthem said:
I think Mr Kermit deserves it because his name is

You could try @FordGT90Concept's little utility which should configure to upload immediately

yup I found it and it worked like a charm.

Norton · Feb 28, 2015

Challenge results Day 1 (2/26/2015)
*note- results will be posted 12-24hrs after each challenge day due to the way WCG updates are done

We did a great job Team and took 2nd place with 8,443,939 points... 1st place goes to SNURK and friends- they increased their daily output by nearly 600% to take 1st Place with 12,424,746 points :eek:

Great job Team- WCG wins with every point generated! :toast:

Arjai · Feb 28, 2015

manofthem · Feb 28, 2015

2 counts of good news:

1) My bro first up boinc on his 4670k late last night so that's a little addition :rockout:

And 2) even better. Heard back from @15th Warlock and he's going to be joining us again too! :rockout:

Stop by Warlock and say Hi when you can, get in on goodness here!

Norton · Feb 28, 2015

manofthem said:
2 counts of good news:

1) My bro first up boinc on his 4670k late last night so that's a little addition

And 2) even better. Heard back from @15th Warlock and he's going to be joining us again too!

Stop by Warlock and say Hi when you can, get in on goodness here!

Awesome to have @15th Warlock and bro_ofthem(?) joining in! :clap:

15th Warlock · Feb 28, 2015

Thank you Matt!

Sorry I'm late to the party, I have no excuse, all my PCs are up and running the BOINC client, will hopefully start spooling with new tasks pretty soon!

OK, it's time to show them who's the boss again guys, let's rock TPU!! :rockout:

manofthem · Feb 28, 2015

Norton said:
Awesome to have @15th Warlock and bro_ofthem(?) joining in!

Lol, that's great, bro_ofthem!

. Bro_ofthem needs a slap for being late though. I texted him repeatedly for days :shadedshu:

15th Warlock said:
Thank you Matt!

Sorry I'm late to the party, I have no excuse, all my PCs are up and running the BOINC client, will hopefully start spooling with new tasks pretty soon!

OK, it's time to show them who's the boss again guys, let's rock TPU!!

It's a pleasure to have you again, thank you for joins us! :respect:

I'm guessing the connection issues have to do with the WCG maintenance. Let us know if it doesn't get resolved in a timely manner!

15th Warlock · Feb 28, 2015

manofthem said:
Lol, that's great, bro_ofthem! . Bro_ofthem needs a slap for being late though. I texted him repeatedly for days

It's a pleasure to have you again, thank you for joins us!

I'm guessing the connection issues have to do with the WCG maintenance. Let us know if it doesn't get resolved in a timely manner!

I'll let you know, I keep getting that "waiting to contact project servers" message in all but one of my clients, hopefully I can start crunching soon! :rockout:

Norton said:
Awesome to have @15th Warlock and bro_ofthem(?) joining in!

It's always a pleasure, I apologize for joining at the 11th hour, haven't been visiting the forum as often as I would like to :/

manofthem · Feb 28, 2015

15th Warlock said:
I'll let you know, I keep getting that "waiting to contact project servers" message in all but one of my clients, hopefully I can start crunching soon!

Keep us up to date on that issue. Hopefully it'll be gone quickly.

It's always a pleasure, I apologize for joining at the 11th hour, haven't been visiting the forum as often as I would like to :/

No apology! It's a pleasure to have you back aboard!

bubbleawsome · Feb 28, 2015

My poor chip has been bouncing around 90-100c for the past 48 hours. I didn't keep a close eye on it because my temp sensors didn't go off, I didn't feel throttle, and the fan didn't ramp up much.
:cry:

It's not dead, but daaaaaaannnngggggg.
I'm going to clean out the machine, but I think I need more fans as I only have one blowing air through the entire case.
Last time I ran it this hard it was only about a month ago and it was in the high 70's, but that is to be expected with a 1.3v OC and the crappiest $40 air cooler ever. (seriously, look at the TPU charts. The NZXT T40 isn't great)

I'll try to keep returning points, but I'm not sure if I will be able to.

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TPU's Winter's End WCG Challenge (2/26 thru 3/6/2015)- join us to crunch/fold/win stuff

krusha03

thebluebumblebee

krusha03

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

krusha03

thebluebumblebee

SirKeldon

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

madness777

SirKeldon

mx500torid

thebluebumblebee

ThE_MaD_ShOt

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

ThE_MaD_ShOt

fullinfusion

Vanguard Beta Tester

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Arjai

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

15th Warlock

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

15th Warlock

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

bubbleawsome

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