34K seconds boundary is under intense attack.
I don't think it will resist much longer.

i cranked up the power on a few cards, so I'll probably break <34k.

but i'll dial it back after, it's not worth the power required to do it long term. the card that did 34,035 was water cooled and at 275W (max possible 280W). it's also not a particularly good overclocker. it's a base model non-binned EVGA 2080ti Black. it just has the advantage of water cooling, since you can maintain higher clocks just by keeping temps low. I slightly increased the OC of that same card to try to break 34k there.

I also cranked a different card in another system to 300W (max possible 338W), air cooled, to see if it'll do better. no water, but temps are fine at 62C since it's open to fresh air (75% fan), its a better model, 2080ti XC Ultra which has a better binned core, but still below some more custom models like a FTW3 or Kingpin card. I have a slightly different model in this system (XC2 Ultra) which seems to clock a little better, but it's sandwiched between two cards and wont be able to maintain the same temps as the card at the end open to fresh air. maybe i'll YOLO it, move it to end, crank it to 335W and let it rip?

but all cards will drop back down to 225W after these speed runs. certainly not worth the power use and stress and temps.

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i did it. 33,982.33 sec

2080ti @ 275W, watercooled

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+100

Way to go teammate!

although the server status page shows more than 1.800 unsent tasks, tasks cannot be downloaded.
BOINC manager keeps saying:
16.02.2021 06:27:12 | GPUGRID | No tasks are available for New version of ACEMD

anyone any idea what's going wrong?

I'm not having any issues maintaining my 2 task quota for each of my 3 hosts.
Don't want anymore than that so I can return them within 24 hours.

I'm not having any issues maintaining my 2 task quota for each of my 3 hosts.

When did you make the latest download? Here, I have been trying since this early morning, it still does not work.

on another PC, a task just got finished and was uploaded, and also there no new task(s) can be downloaded.

am I still the only one whose machines don't receive new tasks since this morning?
Or does anyone else experience the same problem?

one of my hosts received a new task today Feb 16 @ 14:02 UTC.

but my host running just a single card has not received a new task in a while. it's set to click update every 100 seconds. maybe it's luck of the draw? i'll let it go for a while to see if it's able to snag one.

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am I still the only one whose machines don't receive new tasks since this morning?
Or does anyone else experience the same problem?

I do. Some of my hosts get served with work, some of them don't.

one of my hosts received a new task today Feb 16 @ 14:02 UTC.

but my host running just a single card has not received a new task in a while. it's set to click update every 100 seconds. maybe it's luck of the draw? i'll let it go for a while to see if it's able to snag one.

well, after about 90mins of asking for a new task every 100s, that system finally got one.

so i guess just keep trying.

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... and points do not apply to BOINC credit anymore.

was this the case ever before?

Pop Piasa was saying that FAH credits do not count on BOINC. That's always been the case. If one wants to fold into the CureCoin pool one can earn some CURE, if they still exist.

but my host running just a single card has not received a new task in a while. it's set to click update every 100 seconds.

Ian, is there a setting for this in the boinc manager that I am not aware of or are you using a script to do this? How would this look like f.ex. say I'd like to request a task every 5 min. It has become quite cumbersome doing that manually by hitting the update button in the manager every now and then...

I'm not having any issues maintaining my 2 task quota for each of my 3 hosts.

When did you make the latest download? Here, I have been trying since this early morning, it still does not work.

Computer: Serenity
Project GPUGRID

Name e2s1737_e1s150p0f146-ADRIA_D3RBandit_batch2-0-1-RND3476_1

Application New version of ACEMD 2.11 (cuda100)
Workunit name e2s1737_e1s150p0f146-ADRIA_D3RBandit_batch2-0-1-RND3476
State Ready to start
Received 2/16/2021 7:42:16 AM
Report deadline 2/21/2021 7:42:15 AM
Estimated app speed 689.93 GFLOPs/sec
Estimated task size 5,000,000 GFLOPs
Resources 1 CPU + 1 NVIDIA GPU
CPU time at last checkpoint 00:00:00
CPU time 00:00:00
Elapsed time 00:00:00
Estimated time remaining 13:47:39
Fraction done 0.000%
Virtual memory size 0.00 MB
Working set size 0.00 MB

Debug State: 2 - Scheduler: 0

Seems to be the latest task received

but my host running just a single card has not received a new task in a while. it's set to click update every 100 seconds.

Ian, is there a setting for this in the boinc manager that I am not aware of or are you using a script to do this? How would this look like f.ex. say I'd like to request a task every 5 min. It has become quite cumbersome doing that manually by hitting the update button in the manager every now and then...

it's not even a script, just a looping CLI command utilizing the boinccmd utility.

$ watch -n 100 ./boinccmd --project https://www.gpugrid.net/ update

that's on Linux though. you'll have to figure out the equivalent command to replicate this behavior for your Windows host.

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All right, thanks! I'll try to figure that out tonight.

Didn't even know about the command line tool so far ... Definitely comes in handy! (if you're on Linux)

it's not even a script, just a looping CLI command utilizing the boinccmd utility.

$ watch -n 100 ./boinccmd --project https://www.gpugrid.net/ update

That is probably why you are not getting work very often. There is a known problem on GPUGrid where you can't access their servers too often (including the website), or you don't get a response. I normally limit my machines to two at a time, at most.

it's not even a script, just a looping CLI command utilizing the boinccmd utility.

$ watch -n 100 ./boinccmd --project https://www.gpugrid.net/ update

That is probably why you are not getting work very often. There is a known problem on GPUGrid where you can't access their servers too often (including the website), or you don't get a response. I normally limit my machines to two at a time, at most.

you either didn't understand what I wrote or you replied to the wrong person.

this command is the reason I WAS able to get a task. if BOINC gets several schedule request failures (or reports of no tasks available) and you dont have any tasks being crunched in your queue, it stops trying altogether. the only way to get it to check again is a manual update, else it sits there doing nothing.

the timeout you're referring to is only about every 30 seconds. I had the system running requests in intervals more than 3x the timeout specifically to avoid that. I only ran the command until a task was downloaded, then stopped it. the single task will take ~27hrs to crunch on the 1660S so there's no need to monitor it again until tomorrow.

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I understood that you did not get work very often even with that "fix". I think it makes it worse, though eventually you might get something. The less you access the servers, the better.