Has there been any updates in this area? I ask because some of my team have switched from FAH and have came here and to a few other projects. A lot of them had server grade equipment with multiple processors that they were used to running MT apps on. Switching to running several single apps is a big change for them. I just wanted to know if this is possibly the next phase to the recent CPU release.

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Hello I got a multi-threaded CPU test app yesterday and each time I restart BOINC I seem to lose all the progress, is that normal? BOINC estimates 84 hours to complete, so if this is the case I will have to abort as I dont run 24/7.

Thanks.

Hello I got a multi-threaded CPU test app yesterday and each time I restart BOINC I seem to lose all the progress, is that normal? BOINC estimates 84 hours to complete, so if this is the case I will have to abort as I dont run 24/7.

The app is checkpointng correctly but the progress reporting is broken, so the end estimates are incorrect. WUs should complete in between 1 and 8hr depending on your CPU.

Matt

Yes you are correct, it completed, thanks.

MJH,

Are you absolutely sure it's checkpointing correctly? I'm getting these multithreading tasks too now, on some of my laptops, and... well, they'll go for hours, and if I look at the "CPU time last checkpoint" it'll indicate that it has never checkpointed!

I don't think checkpointing is working correctly -- is it?

Jacob,

the app does checkpoint every 15 minutes, but it doesn't do it through BOINC so BOINC doesn't know about it.

Yes, it is. 845 and earlier don't report that they've checkpointed to BOINC. 846 will fix that.

Matt

Ah, so, it is checkpointing, but it's just not reporting it correctly to BOINC. I'd consider that "not working", but either way, it sounds like you guys are working to fix it. Thanks!

PS: It's nice to have my non-GPU laptops doing work for GPUGrid.

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