I had the system configured wrong so I received computational errors when attempting to crunch. I believe I have it set up correctly now, but the client won't give me any more work units because it says I have already reached my daily quota of 4 (quad core system). What is the rationale for limiting how much work people can do in a day? Will this limit be waived in the future? Why not let people crunch as much as they want?

I had the system configured wrong so I received computational errors when attempting to crunch. I believe I have it set up correctly now, but the client won't give me any more work units because it says I have already reached my daily quota of 4 (quad core system). What is the rationale for limiting how much work people can do in a day? Will this limit be waived in the future? Why not let people crunch as much as they want?

...What is the rationale for limiting how much work people can do in a day? ...

> if there wouldn't be a limit people with misconfigured computers could produce hundrets or thousands computeational errors per day, which would slow down the whole projects because of resends.

Uhhh... 'scuse me! Shouldn't the quota be set HIGHER than any user could legitimately process? Has it occurred to "management" that they're throwing away precious resources?

Has it occurred to them to have the software notice when a user is error flooding, lock out just that user, and send the user an email about it?

128 shader units blast through my quota in 6 hours. If my GPU is going to sit idle 18 hours a day, then I'm gonna go back to rosetta@home on my main CPU.

Who can I email about this who has the power to reevaluate this policy?

--flk
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The quota only applies if one is returning back to much error units.
If you would build a card that computes a unit in 1 hours and validates without problems, I assume it would be no problem for the project to hand out at least 24 units each day. But if your computer errors out each unit within seconds, then the system will not give you more work. what for?

I'm not speaking about 1 or 2 units which can always fail, due to various reasons. Today I had to kill 2 units that where close to the deadline, but I got new ones. If I would have killed them also, maybe I wouldn't get more for that day.

This is a simple technique to protect the project. As each work unit is ~8MB right now, imagine some dozens of users (that might not even know) whose machines are aborting each and every work unit and hence loading more and more units. This could easily degrade the webservers performance. Additionally every unit given to some user creates entries in die projects database. An extreme was the milkyway@home project. They had units that completed within few minutes, so one computer could calculate several hundreds of units each day. Take this and multiply it by some thousand users and the database would grow like insane...
To stand this, they gave only 8 units to each computer at the same time and deleted old DB entries within 5 minutes after the WU was validated.

The last point is not the problem on this project, but just one example what BOINC admins have to take care of.
It's not that want to frustrate users, that would be stupid, as they would disappear quickly...

So if you manage to solve the problem your computer has with this project, and it will finally return valid results, you'll get enough work to process ;-)

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128 shader units blast through my quota in 6 hours. If my GPU is going to sit idle 18 hours a day, then I'm gonna go back to rosetta@home on my main CPU.
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--flk

I don't think that this is the problem here, as there are three indicators of a compatible G92 chip :)

- 128 shaders
- shader clock speed of 1620MHz which is 400MHz above G80 based GTS level
- Device 0: "GeForce 8800 GTS 512" string and all 512MB GTS cards are based on G92

Maybe some driver issue, not Cuda 2.0 capable or like that...

there really isn't need for more than the current amount of work, for most people here who can run this project have 1 graphics card and a dual or quad core computer. They then have 2 or 4 WUs, but can only run one at at time, so there is plenty of time to download another WU before running out.

This will all be a mute point when this project goes into non_CPU_Intensive mode, for there can be a set number of WUs per host of say 7 or whatever.

I don't think that this is the problem here, as there are three indicators of a compatible G92 chip :)

- 128 shaders
- shader clock speed of 1620MHz which is 400MHz above G80 based GTS level
- Device 0: "GeForce 8800 GTS 512" string and all 512MB GTS cards are based on G92

Maybe some driver issue, not Cuda 2.0 capable or like that...

Indiana74 from our team has an overclocked GTX280, running at 684Mhz chip / 1458Mhz shader / 1296Mhz memory. Times are around 25100 seconds...

Okay, I finally located the problem. It wasn't my G92 chip (the card was O/C'd at the factory and is stable); it was a spurious error in one of my memory modules that has been causing my system to screw up and sometimes crash for a couple of weeks. It is a one-bit error which occurs only now-and-then, so it's hard to tell when an app has been corrupted (apparently BOINC detects it every time it happens, which is great).

I haven't replaced that mem yet, but when I do, how will I get a normal quota again? Do I have to request it, or what?

thanx,

flk

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I haven't replaced that mem yet, but when I do, how will I get a normal quota again? Do I have to request it, or what?

thanx,

flk

I had the system configured wrong so I received computational errors when attempting to crunch. I believe I have it set up correctly now, but the client won't give me any more work units because it says I have already reached my daily quota of 4 (quad core system). What is the rationale for limiting how much work people can do in a day? Will this limit be waived in the future? Why not let people crunch as much as they want?

I have just installed 2 Nvidia GTX280 in my PC running under Vista 32 bits and, after doing all needed stuff (extend desktop, etc) I have gotten it to work properly. But I have a problem:

My CPU is a Core 2 Duo, and I only have two workunits at anytime, as I had when I had only one GPU. The problem is that when one WU is done, the GPU has to wait until a new one is downloaded because the other one is being crunched by the other GPU. The last time, one GPU was 45 minutes doing nothing, because there was any WU to do.

NOTE: I have NO error unit in this PC that can limit me to a low quota.

The number of WUs is limited by the number of cores of your CPU. If you own a Quad-core, you get 4 WUs at the time. At the moment the CUDA-supportet BOINC-version is experimental and in beta test. The only way top get more is at the moment to change the CPU to a Quad or Triple-core CPU.
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Well, I have no intention to change my recently buyed Core 2 Duo, so I'll wait until BOINC allows to have more WUs downloaded at a time. In the meanwhile, it would be interesting for me to have only one GPU in GPUGRID, so I can have the other one crunching for FOLDING. My question is:

Can I limit GPUGRID to work only in one GPU in a two GPU PC?

If it is possible: How can I do it?