Hi All,

I've just submitted our first large batch of work units for the CPU application, named "DUDHIVPR*". The purpose of these WUs is to test the correctness of operation of our application by attempting to reproduce published benchmark data.

Matt

1) When I suspend the GPUGrid "CPU Only" tasks in BOINC, they are actually still running, according to Task Manager and Process Explorer. Surely this is a huge bug?

2) How often do these tasks checkpoint? I had several running for 20 minutes, I think, then restarted BOINC, and lost all of that work. :(

Windows 8.1 Update 1 x64, BOINC 7.3.11 x64

Hi Jacob,


These particular WUs don't checkpoint - the code doesn't currently support it, and the WUs shouldn't last for more than 30mins or so.

However, suspending ought to work. I'll check it out.

Matt

Regarding run time, I'm running several on my high-powered i7-965-XE (overclocked to 3.7 GHz).... and after a full hour, they're only 61% done. That's quite a long time to go without checkpointing.

Regarding run time, I'm running several on my high-powered i7-965-XE (overclocked to 3.7 GHz).... and after a full hour, they're only 61% done. That's quite a long time to go without checkpointing.

There's variation as the runtime depends on the complexity of the input molecualr (all WUs being different).

Future WUs will be shorter, I hope. Part of the test here is to determine how long WUs have to run for before converging on reproducible results.

We can't practically add checkpointing to this code, its design makes it difficult to retrofit.

MJH

Any chance we can get more than one per core?

Any chance we can get more than one per core?

No sure what you mean. The tasks are serial (they'll use a single core) but you can have one on every CPU core you wish to allocate to the project.

Matt