What happens ?

Most probably: vacation time :-)

the problem with the absence of GPU tasks for such long time is, of course, that if people change to other project in the meantime, like e.g. Folding@Home, they stick to the new project for the future and won't come back to GPUGRID.

This the GPUGRID people should be aware of.

My GPUs have been happily doing work for my 0-resource-share backup projects, and will happily switch back to doing work for my 100-resource-share GPUGrid project when work is available. All automatically.

I highly recommend adding some backup projects, and letting BOINC do its thing (SCIENCE!), and being patient while the scientists figure out the best time to queue up more work.

It's that simple.

Both my Linux hosts are crunching GPUGRID tasks.
Tullio

Tullio,

Those are Linux-only CPU tasks - Application:
- Quantum Chemistry v3.30 (mt).

The majority of GPUGrid users are looking for Windows GPU tasks, I think - Applications:
- Short runs (2-3 hours on fastest card)
- Long runs (8-12 hours on fastest card)

Do you understand the difference?

https://www.gpugrid.net/server_status.php
https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php

PS: Also, you can look at the original poster's computer, by clicking their name, then View Computers - It is clear they want GPU tasks. Other users in the thread are, to my knowledge, wanting Windows GPU tasks.

I only know that I get far more credits on a GPU task than on a CPU task. But I don't give a damn about credits.
Tullio

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what would not hurt, though, is if the GPUGRID people could give us crunchers some kind of time schedule, or at least a rough idea, when new GPU tasks will be available again.

Maybe something like "we will be on vacation until ..."

what would not hurt, though, is if the GPUGRID people could give us crunchers some kind of time schedule, or at least a rough idea, when new GPU tasks will be available again.

Maybe something like "we will be on vacation until ..."

Agreed!!!

But is common courtesy too much to ask for? You tell me.

Luckily, there are other projects to crunch. So, that's what I am doing.

Just to let you know, the absence of windows GPU tasks may affect the whitelisting of gpugrid on gridcoin - you could lose alot of crunchers!

Really, I have aimed at replacing my two 1070 and one 1080ti with new RTX 2080 this year. But as I see it, there is no need for more computing power on the GPU side and the Turing cards not significantly more power efficient than Pascal anyway (But much more expensive). So that money on the upgrade would be wasted. Doesn't really make sense buy a 1000$ card when there is no work for it. On the other hand, there always are plenty of CPU jobs here to be crunched. So it seems like a good point to buy an AMD Threadripper now and contribute on this side. Why not.

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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

Really, I have aimed at replacing my two 1070 and one 1080ti with new RTX 2080 this year. But as I see it, there is no need for more computing power on the GPU side and the Turing cards not significantly more power efficient than Pascal anyway (But much more expensive). So that money on the upgrade would be wasted. Doesn't really make sense buy a 1000$ card when there is no work for it. On the other hand, there always are plenty of CPU jobs here to be crunched. So it seems like a good point to buy an AMD Threadripper now and contribute on this side. Why not.

That is my conclusion too. There is more CPU work than GPU work around. And I am limited by power dissipation anyway, so might as well use it for CPUs. The real improvement in GPUs won't come until 7nm, at which time the ground may have shifted further. I will wait and see.

- you could lose alot of crunchers!

there were some new tasks yesterday, but no ones any more since last night.
It's really kind of laborious :-(

As said before, it would indeed be helpful for us crunchers if the GPUGRID people could give us some kind of schedule, showing when tasks will be available on an ongoing basis, and when not.

As we have repeatedly read in various posts of this forum, the Barcelona researchers are more involved in the medical-scientific part than on the strictly technical and operative part.

It is they who provide the work to the system and the research is not an assembly line that is always fed at any time of the day.

Choosing to help this type of project rather than others is a subjective choice, most often gained after serious family pains.

The help that volunteers give to the research through GPUGRID will not give immediate results, we are aware of it, but perhaps it will serve to improve the lives of our children and grandchildren.

Stay with us, always!

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Dreams do not always come true. But not because they are too big or impossible. Why did we stop believing.
(Martin Luther King)

@ [PUGLIA] kidkidkid3: I fully agree with what you are saying. But still, ...

For the last 2 months my 2 GTX1070 have been mostly idle, Gpugrid had some tasks only from 24/11/2019 to 03/12/2019, for the rest since beginning of November absolutely 0 points.

As a result I am moving on to folding@home, completely different client and independent point system.

This was my stats, 1.5 billion points collected in 16 years. Goodbye BOINC.. :(

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I haven't been able to get any work for the last 45 days or so. What is going on? Is this project dead?

I have three machines which can't pick up any work any more:

528201 - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 30 Stepping 5] - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (4095MB) driver: 440.64 - Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia [5.3.0-45-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

528195 - AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0] - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (4095MB) driver: 440.64 - Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS [4.15.0-91-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

528185 - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] - [3] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4043MB) driver: 440.64 - Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia [5.3.0-42-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

The first two were getting work but then haven't been assigned a work unit since Mar. 28th. The latter (3 x GTX 970) hasn't been assigned one for much longer. I enabled work fetch debugging and didn't see any errors, and as noted they were working before without any changes I know of.

Has there been some new restriction placed on the computation platforms? Thanks for any assistance.

Reset the project? Detach and reattach?

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I am not requesting any work either. The scheduler connection timer just goes dormant. I had to manually update to refill my cache.

I recognise those names! I've brought 12 GPUs across from 'the other place' - 5 Windows hosts and 2 Linux hosts. They've all been fetching on a 0.25 day cache setting all day, and cycling through a regular 'one running, one spare' allocation. Just the occasional pause if two different machines need to upload or download at the same time, but having a spare task ready solves that.

I did update a couple of Windows drivers, and revert the special Linux client to stock, but nothing apart from that - I don't think there have been any recent changes by the project. We can compare notes in the morning if you like.

Pretty sure it was the change in the Seti scheduler timeout to 600 seconds.
Every other project has a much smaller timeout that gets encapsulated while the Seti connection is ongoing.

Setting report results immediately appears to have fixed the issue. Still monitoring.