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No WUs again? Was there a problem with the longer ones? I have not seen any WUs from GPUgrid for at least 1-2 weeks now.

Work units are currently so scarce, that the chance to get one of them is like winning the lottery... ;-)
Waiting for better times to come

May be somebody's played the rain dance, and some WUs are flowing just now...
https://www.gpugrid.net/server_status.php

WOOOOO. got a full tank now. glad to see these long run tasks back again :)

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I got only two each on my hosts. Still glad to have some back if only briefly.

Work cache is a BOINC feature that was undoubtedly useful in the days that internet access was for many depending on dial-in access.
Nowadays I would assume that most if not all users have basicely 24/7 high speed internet access allowing completed work to be reported immediately and downloading new tasks only a few minutes before completing the current one.
Caching loads of tasks on only a few systems basicely beats the purpose of the tests, which is to test tasks ASAP and on so many different systems as possible.
With large work caches tasks are distributed to only a limited number of systemes and completing/reporting takes way longer than necessary.

As a result my new RTX2060 is idling since weeks now ....

So why not limit max tasks sent at a time to 1, as e.g. for WCG ARP project?

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Work cache is a BOINC feature that was undoubtedly useful in the days that internet access was for many depending on dial-in access.
Nowadays I would assume that most if not all users have basicely 24/7 high speed internet access allowing completed work to be reported immediately and downloading new tasks only a few minutes before completing the current one.
Caching loads of tasks on only a few systems basicely beats the purpose of the tests, which is to test tasks ASAP and on so many different systems as possible.
With large work caches tasks are distributed to only a limited number of systemes and completing/reporting takes way longer than necessary.

As a result my new RTX2060 is idling since weeks now ....

So why not limit max tasks sent at a time to 1, as e.g. for WCG ARP project?

this project already limits to 2 per GPU, no matter what size cache limits you have set in BOINC.

but with these long running tasks, folks with very old GPUs (think GTX750ti, GT1030, etc) can still struggle to submit even 1 task before the deadline. in these cases it doesn't make sense to cache more than 1 task.

personally I only cache 1 task per GPU on these D3RBandit tasks, even on relatively fast GPUs like RTX2070 and RTX2080. I only cache 2 per GPU on my hosts with RTX 2080tis as those can complete 2 tasks within 24hrs, while the others can't quite make the cut (~17hrs on a 2070, ~13hrs on a 2080)

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Hi, do you know if these work units have the bonus credit for prompt turnaround like the previous batch? I am ready to hammer these babies out as quick as possible...I want that next molecule, dammit!

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I've seen no policy changes posted or changed. So they should still have the early reporting credit bonus as all previous tasks.

Alain Maes wrote:

As a result my new RTX2060 is idling since weeks now ....

I thought the Ampere cards (RTX ...) do not function (yet) with GPUGRID ???

Alain Maes wrote:

As a result my new RTX2060 is idling since weeks now ....

I thought the Ampere cards (RTX ...) do not function (yet) with GPUGRID ???

Ampere is RTX3000 series
RTX 2060 is fine with GPUGrid. Just finished all my WU's on my RTX2000 Turing cards with no issues.

Finally 100 million. Yay!!

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Congratz! Big first step.

Compared to my old gpu it is not very weak.
AMD AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (2048MB) driver: 1.4.1848 OpenCL: 1.2

Alain Maes wrote:

As a result my new RTX2060 is idling since weeks now ....

I thought the Ampere cards (RTX ...) do not function (yet) with GPUGRID ???

Ampere is RTX3000 series
RTX 2060 is fine with GPUGrid. Just finished all my WU's on my RTX2000 Turing cards with no issues.

anyone any guess as to when GPUGRID will make their code fit for Ampere cards ?

Compared to my old gpu it is not very weak.
AMD AMD Radeon HD 6570/6670/7570/7670 series (Turks) (2048MB) driver: 1.4.1848 OpenCL: 1.2

but weak in comparison to other GPUs available. a 1080ti will take 18hrs. and 2080ti takes 10+hrs. so it makes sense that something like a 1650 would take several days. these new tasks are really huge.

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Alain Maes wrote:

As a result my new RTX2060 is idling since weeks now ....

I thought the Ampere cards (RTX ...) do not function (yet) with GPUGRID ???

Ampere is RTX3000 series
RTX 2060 is fine with GPUGrid. Just finished all my WU's on my RTX2000 Turing cards with no issues.

anyone any guess as to when GPUGRID will make their code fit for Ampere cards ?

No ETA, and the project admins/devs seem very tight lipped about it. Many have asked about it several times and no response.

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... and no response.

which is, unfortunately, nothing unusal here :-(

Written on March 19th 2021, 18:16 UTC:

May be somebody's played the rain dance, and some WUs are flowing just now...

...What implies that on Wednesday 24th (five days later) an aftershock wave of overdue tasks might be coming. Have your fishing lines ready!