WCG-TPU Cruncher's Hardware/Tech Support Discussion Thread

jboydgolfer · May 21, 2017

Caring1 said:
Did you get the notice to update the web address a while back?
It's easier to remove WCG from BOINC, then reinstall.

will i lose my work? what do i do? just uninstall the Boinc manager?

Also, My other Pc is working fine, uploading with no issues?

THAT DID IT!!!
thanks @Caring1 i DL'ed and repaired & Vioala! all set. thank You

I was so worried because some of those work units were 4+ hour long and I'd rather not lose them if it all possible. As limited as my contribution to the challenge is, I still rather tpuwcg get credit for every unit completed

manofthem · May 21, 2017

Chicken Patty said:
hello everybody! Quick question, I keep seeing that for F@H it is recommended to leave 1 CPU core free per GPU. Does that mean have 7 cores crunching, and one core free while I fold? Been a while since I last crunched and folded and the same time. Help me out here

Chicken Patty said:
So I tried 87.5%, and even 75%. Thing is it doesn't free up any particular core, it just reduces the usage across all cores. Am I missing something here or is this the way it should be?

@infrared nailed it. On my 2600k, I use 1 thread for folding and 7 threads crunching (however currently all 8 threads crunching for challenge). That said, I believe that just 1 thread (87.5%) does bottleneck the folding process at times, whenever it maxes cpu for checkpoints or whatever, and my 980 nets a little less ppd because of it. But that's getting nitpicking.

I see @mstenholm in here too he's much more acquainted with f@h and is far more knowledgeable in this regard. He can answer better.

Chicken Patty · May 21, 2017

jboydgolfer said:
is anyone else having Connection issues with Boinc currently? im getting connection notices. my internet is fine, as im having no other issues, maybe a restart?

No issues here. I do know however, that having the date/time from your PC off will cause issues. Happened to me years ago, and I was over looking it.

manofthem said:
@infrared nailed it. On my 2600k, I use 1 thread for folding and 7 threads crunching (however currently all 8 threads crunching for challenge). That said, I believe that just 1 thread (87.5%) does bottleneck the folding process at times, whenever it maxes cpu for checkpoints or whatever, and my 980 nets a little less ppd because of it. But that's getting nitpicking.

I see @mstenholm in here too he's much more acquainted with f@h and is far more knowledgeable in this regard. He can answer better.

What infrared suggested did the trick, was working great till I had to shut down folding due to my room becoming an oven during the day :roll:

Caring1 · May 21, 2017

jboydgolfer said:
will i lose my work? what do i do? just uninstall the Boinc manager?

Sorry for not getting back sooner, from memory the tasks remained and continued once I added WCG again to the BOINC manager.
I'm glad it was a simple fix for you :toast:

jboydgolfer · May 24, 2017

Work not reporting?? i have a evergrowing list of work that wont upload....

ive tried restarting, updating, i see no notices about down time.....any ideas?

these transfer %ages have been @ those readings for Hours now

Norton · May 24, 2017

jboydgolfer said:
Work not reporting?? i have a evergrowing list of work that wont upload....
ive tried restarting, updating, i see no notices about down time.....any ideas?

these transfer %ages have been @ those readings for Hours now

My rig was stuck also

Go to the Transfers tab and click on Retry Now

jboydgolfer · May 24, 2017

Norton said:
Go to the Transfers tab and click on Retry Now

Yeah I tried that about 1500 times too no luck. I've disabled and re-enabled my network adapter, I have rebooted my router and modem I've tried everything I could think of

*edit*
just reported close to 30 jobs all @ once :laugh:

@Norton Thanks

stinger608 · May 24, 2017

I just checked my rig and all seems well.

I'm running down to check my other crunchers now.

EDIT: Just checked on my other 4 systems, and it seemed there were a lot of "100%" WU's. I did an update and they all uploaded so all is good in the big town of Crunchville.

stevorob · May 24, 2017

My main was having issues with the WUs just sitting at Ready to Report, didn't have anything in Transfers - restarting the client seemed to have gotten them to go through.

Just rebooted the rigs downstairs, and hopefully that fixes them if they had the same issue, didn't bother to check beforehand.

jboydgolfer · May 24, 2017

It wasn't announced to my knowledge (at least not through notices) but I did happen to try to access WCG's website today and it was down for about 10 or so minutes , maybe that's the reason for getting these frozen work units.... it wasn't the normal website message though it said "you do not have sufficient privileges to access this page" when i tried to navigate to my contribution

manofthem · May 24, 2017

jboydgolfer said:
I did happen to try to access WCG's website today and it was down for about 10 or so minutes , maybe that's the reason for getting these frozen work units

Not sure what time you tried, but the WCG site is always unavailable every night around 8:30 or thereabouts and lasts for usually an hour or so. That's when it does its daily update. So. If you can't access the WCG site at that time, no worries.

Also, there are random times when I see tasks are done but not uploading. You can try Ford's utility which allows for the option for immediate upload.

Norton · May 24, 2017

stevorob said:
My main was having issues with the WUs just sitting at Ready to Report, didn't have anything in Transfers - restarting the client seemed to have gotten them to go through.

Just rebooted the rigs downstairs, and hopefully that fixes them if they had the same issue, didn't bother to check beforehand.

jboydgolfer said:
It wasn't announced to my knowledge (at least not through notices) but I did happen to try to access WCG's website today and it was down for about 10 or so minutes , maybe that's the reason for getting these frozen work units.... it wasn't the normal website message though it said "you do not have sufficient privileges to access this page" when i tried to navigate to my contribution

WCG had a brief outage at the same time you reported the issue (lasted less than an hour):
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,40022

We are currently experiencing an issue with our filesystem. As a result we have stopped accepting file uploads at this time. We have also stopped the scheduler so that there are fewer download attempts. We will update you as we get further into our investigation

Everything is back online now. Thank you for your patience.

thebluebumblebee · May 24, 2017

It happened. I saw it.

manofthem · May 24, 2017

Norton said:
WCG had a brief outage at the same time you reported the issue (lasted less than an hour):
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,40022

It must have been a problem in the new cloud....

thebluebumblebee · May 24, 2017

manofthem said:
It must have been a problem in the new cloud....

Okay, who pissed off the cloud?

stevorob · May 24, 2017

Too many results because of the challenge

jboydgolfer · May 25, 2017

i know im a Noob when it comes to WCG, but are 12+ hour Work units common? the job in question is part of the Fa@H

thebluebumblebee · May 25, 2017

jboydgolfer said:
i know im a Noob when it comes to WCG, but are 12+ hour Work units common? the job in question is part of the Fa@H

Yep.

Norton · May 25, 2017

jboydgolfer said:
i know im a Noob when it comes to WCG, but are 12+ hour Work units common? the job in question is part of the Fa@H

Some go over 24 hrs depending on the work unit and the rig used

Arjai · May 25, 2017

Funny, I didn't have any issues yesterday. Of course, I also was not paying any attention to it! Sure, I spend about a minute, or two, looking at the BOINC Mgr. each day. But, that's it! Aside from rebooting the computer, every couple of days and the occasional snooze ( while running scans and such ), this is a no brainer.

It's so easy. It means so much. I wish Life were as well run as this program!

Just let it roll out the miracles, and reboot once in awhile.

:lovetpu:

Chicken Patty · May 25, 2017

I'm still working on my overclocking so I had some downtime recently. but I'm up now and running now!

jboydgolfer · May 25, 2017

Ive got my "new" 4790 installed & crunching now. really cold too.

Norton · May 26, 2017

jboydgolfer said:
Ive got my "new" 4790 installed & crunching now. really cold too.

Looking good! :toast:

Note- a lot of these posts fit better over in the Team thread

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-wcg-boinc-team.85784/

Norton · May 29, 2017

@jboydgolfer - please move your post over to this thread:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/crunchers-helping-crunchers.101191/

Nice offer btw :toast:

jboydgolfer · May 29, 2017

Norton said:
Looking good!

Note- a lot of these posts fit better over in the Team thread

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-wcg-boinc-team.85784/

Norton said:
@jboydgolfer - please move your post over to this thread:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/crunchers-helping-crunchers.101191/

Nice offer btw

Sorry. I deleted it, i cant delete the other.

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WCG-TPU Cruncher's Hardware/Tech Support Discussion Thread

jboydgolfer

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Chicken Patty

Caring1

jboydgolfer

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

jboydgolfer

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

stevorob

jboydgolfer

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

thebluebumblebee

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

thebluebumblebee

stevorob

jboydgolfer

thebluebumblebee

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Arjai

Chicken Patty

jboydgolfer

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

jboydgolfer

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