I really think F@H needs to work in BOINC so that way if units are not being sent out you can do other work.

Some years they had a grad student working on that. Sadly, he moved on. They hardly have had the resources to update the current client. Dunno if they are getting more funds now.

With nVidia pointing out Folding@home, all the gamers went over there and their servers got overwhelmed (imagine your a restaurant and suddenly some famous reviewer says you gotta try them...it's not the restaurant's fault they don't have enough seating for all these people). They didn't have any advance notice and they can't just throw more server resources at it like the big corporations. It takes some time to get them and prep them.

You can get work, but there are times when the server just isn't able to get to uploading or downloading. Some folks at Rosetta said do Folding on the GPU and let the CPUs take up Rosetta so things are always crunching...

~Yav

Forum duplicated my message. O.o

I'm here because F@H caused me to look at my BOINC processes and I saw I had underutilized GPU resources. It doesn't hurt that SETI is done for now.

I can't post elsewhere and the contact email address isn't responding. Can anyone help me figure out why all my tasks fail? closing in on 2 weeks of crunching and no support to make it fruitful. http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?userid=554223

Update your Nvidia driver. Minimum supported version is r418.39. Your driver is too old

see FAQ here:
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5002

As you have an old driver, you were recieving jobs from a faulty batch (PABLO_UCB_NMR_KIX). This compounded your issues.

hey you guys, I see a CPU party coming up at Rosetta challenge if your interested. https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1074

Die COVID, DIE !!!

I've connected quite a few ARM processor boards around that time, to see if an ARM-based server was viable.
They made up of about 50 quad core hosts, but they don't amount to a lot of processing power, due to it's power saving feats over raw processing power.

I've used them for testing purposes, but never really did a lot of tasks on them.
Give it another month and purge the deactivated units, and those with less than 10 completed tasks, and the number will more than likely reflect the same number it was before.

I have been running more GPUGrid on my RTX2080 Tis lately, due to a lot of projects running out of Nvidia tasks in the past few weeks.

Hi all,

I am also here in order to contribute to biology research as much as possible, in this pandemic context.

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

Thanks for running this project!
-Codrin

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

Not yet.

I'm here because F@H caused me to look at my BOINC processes and I saw I had underutilized GPU resources. It doesn't hurt that SETI is done for now.

I can't post elsewhere and the contact email address isn't responding. Can anyone help me figure out why all my tasks fail? closing in on 2 weeks of crunching and no support to make it fruitful. http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?userid=554223

Update your Nvidia driver. Minimum supported version is r418.39. Your driver is too old

see FAQ here:
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5002

As you have an old driver, you were recieving jobs from a faulty batch (PABLO_UCB_NMR_KIX). This compounded your issues.

Thank you! DLing now!

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

Not yet.

Why?

I've heard that Folding@Home has a ton of new clients, due to COVID-19 work. Does that somehow show up as new hosts for GPUGrid?

no - why should it?

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

Not yet.

Why?

Sorry, I've been busy playing Mario with my daughter who's home from school...

https://i.imgur.com/X4VfwXM.jpg

Also, I don't work on making these projects, just sometime crunch for them.

YMMV

...

But yeah, in all seriousness though, it looks like they're working on getting it ready still. I'm still crunching here and for Rosetta for the time being either way. It'll be nice to see COVID-19 related WUs from GPUGrid too, when they're ready.

Also, it looks likes some of the current WUs do have implications for potentially aiding in COVID-19 related research. See here for more info. http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5089&nowrap=true#54172

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My BOINC Cruncher, Minecraft Multiserver, Mobile Device Mainframe, and Home Entertainment System/Workstation: http://www.overclock.net/lists/display/view/id/4678036#

I added my machine simply because of the COVID push. I didn't really care about SETI@home in the past, and thought it to be a poor reason for raising my electricity bill running my computer pretty much 24x7 at nearly max load.

If my computer doesn't die from overheating, then I imagine this will continue for as long as I don't feel alarmed about my electricity bills.

I've already experienced two thermal protection events and have ordered a new case fan -- I never had to worry about cooling in my typical usage in the past for this custom build full of careless mistakes (for example, I found out that my CPU cooler fan was installed backwards for the last 3 years after the first thermal protection cutout :) ).

Edit:
To be clear, I have always done some BOINC work, but only decided to add some GPU projects after I read about the Covid push (on Anandtech) and noticed that my GPU is pretty much always idle. I have Folding@Home installed now too.

I have a dumb question. If my PC does not have a compatible GPU, i assume I cannot participate in GPU grid?

I have the following : I know its old.

Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | No usable GPUs found
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Host name: XXXXXXXXX
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8600 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS [4.15.0-91-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Memory: 3.75 GB physical, 3.75 GB virtual
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Disk: 228.23 GB total, 207.94 GB free
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Local time is UTC +0 hours
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Last benchmark was 18358 days 15:45:46 ago
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | No general preferences found - using defaults
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Reading preferences override file
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Preferences:
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | max memory usage when active: 1922.04 MB
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | max memory usage when idle: 3459.68 MB
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | max disk usage: 205.40 GB
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | don't use GPU while active
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Setting up project and slot directories
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Mon Apr 6 15:54:06 2020 | | Running CPU benchmarks
Mon Apr 6 15:54:06 2020 | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | Benchmark results:
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | Number of CPUs: 2
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | 3356 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | 84780 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Mon Apr 6 15:54:39 2020 | | Resuming computation

I have a dumb question. If my PC does not have a compatible GPU, i assume I cannot participate in GPU grid?

Yes, if you don't have a relatively modern Nvidia card with sufficient VRAM, you cannot crunch for this project.

Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | No usable GPUs found
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Host name: XXXXXXXXX
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8600 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS [4.15.0-91-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

The text in red says that you don't have any usable GPUs (NVidia, AMD, or Intel - of course a Core2Duo don't have integrated iGPU), or you don't have the appropriate drivers installed for it. If you would have a state of the art GPU, you still couldn't use it while this message appears in the first lines of BOINC startup log.

wow, talk about a "chicken and an egg" situation... to post a new message i need credit. but i have no credit which is what i wanted to post about. this seemed just as good a thread to jump in with this question...


so, how does one actually get work units? i was attached to this project quite a long time ago but never got units so i detached. now that seti is/has ended i decided to re-attach. for the last few days still no work. as far as i can tell my log when starting boinc does not indicate that my gpu is insufficient.

glad there is rosetta and world community grid.

-scott

Thank you so for Now it is CPUs only.

Spegler, Be sure you have ACEMD3 checked in your Preferences. Also you need an Nvidia GPU with current drivers.