When using the boincstats account manager, requesting the gpugrid project causes ps3grid to be assigned to the host. Is is not possible to change the url to gpugrid.net unless I detach from the account manager. I posted about the problem on their forum. It would appear (this is just a guess) that there are two projects they need to manage, not just one. ie: they need to have both ps3grid and gpugrid I would think.

here are the error messages that I got after requesting that boincstats manage gpugrid.net

GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Message from server: No work sent
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM When convenient, detach this project, then reattach to http://www.gpugrid.net/
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Using the wrong URL can cause problems in some cases.
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM The correct URL is http://www.gpugrid.net/
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM You used the wrong URL for this project

GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

It sounds like in another thread that this occurs when no GPU work is available. The specific mention of the Cell processor indicates that work is available for the PS3, but won't be sent to you since it can't run on the GPU. It appears this issue generally resolves itself in short order. Try to click "Update" or "Reset Project" for GPUGrid and see if it speeds up the process. I've not had any issues downloading work, but obviously from the link below it happens occasionally.

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=440


You didn't mention what type of graphics card you have, but it should be identified as something like:

10/31/2008 9:40:10 PM||CUDA devices found
10/31/2008 9:40:10 PM||Coprocessor: GeForce 8800 GT (2)

Double-check it will run GPUGrid if the above ideas do not work.

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=316

New problem - all my workunits are reporting computation error. This happened when I followed the instructions and detached from the account manager and then manually attached to www.gpugrid.net. All work units were terminaintg within seconds giving a computation error. I also saw a similar message about getting cell data.

I have stopped taking new work units as it appears to be a waste of time.

My gpu is a 9800gtx+ and my first work unit completed and gave the 2000+ credits. All subsequent failed with either Cell Processor expected or computation error.

looking at http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?userid=8911 you can see there over just 2 minutes there were about 6-7 work units that terminate due to computation error. This was after just attaching to www.gpugrid.net

I did not get computation errors when I was erronously (?) attached to ps3grid.net by the boincstats server.

something is FUBAR.

Don't reset or detach. As soon as you detach or reset then any wu's in your cache will be trashed!

When using the boincstats account manager, requesting the gpugrid project causes ps3grid to be assigned to the host. Is is not possible to change the url to gpugrid.net unless I detach from the account manager. I posted about the problem on their forum. It would appear (this is just a guess) that there are two projects they need to manage, not just one. ie: they need to have both ps3grid and gpugrid I would think.

here are the error messages that I got after requesting that boincstats manage gpugrid.net

GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Message from server: No work sent
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM When convenient, detach this project, then reattach to http://www.gpugrid.net/
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM Using the wrong URL can cause problems in some cases.
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM The correct URL is http://www.gpugrid.net/
GPUGRID 10/31/2008 7:14:01 PM You used the wrong URL for this project

If your are using BAM, contact them to update the url.

Having the wrong url causes no harmful problem other than a bunch of error messages.

I get since some days the following message:

01.11.2008 07:24:16|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
01.11.2008 07:24:16|GPUGRID|You used the wrong URL for this project
01.11.2008 07:24:16|GPUGRID|The correct URL is http://www.gpugrid.net/
01.11.2008 07:24:16|GPUGRID|Using the wrong URL can cause problems in some cases.
01.11.2008 07:24:16|GPUGRID|When convenient, detach this project, then reattach to http://www.gpugrid.net/


But all runs ok.

I still have hosts connecting to the wrong url at Cosmology over a year now with no side effect ;)

I still have hosts connecting to the wrong url at Cosmology over a year now with no side effect ;)

It is meant as a temporary measure.

The only bad thing is it puts out an extra requests each time you communicate with project to get the correct url, wasting a little bit of bandwidth and cpu time from your connection, the internet and the project server.

At some point if the project shuts down the url redirect, you will not get work.

You should change to the correct url as soon as you can.

*set no new work for the proejct
*wait for all work to complete and report.
*on projects tab, select project and update.
*on task tab, make sure no tasks for project are listed. If any are listed as ready to report, update to clear them, otherwise you will loose credit in next step. If any are running the server will mark them as over, you will also loose credit.
*detach
*attach to correct url