Any news on WU's coming up?

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Got a couple of the crypticscout_pocket_discovery work units last night.

Ran for a couple of hours on my 2080's

One-offs apparently.

One-offs apparently.

Keith by chance was a resend? Reason I ask is because there is only currently 16 in progress

One-offs apparently.

Keith by chance was a resend? Reason I ask is because there is only currently 16 in progress

Nope, initial two task replications.
https://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=27048098
https://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=27048097

Hello: I have a question about the task of GPUGRID. I have tried it 2 times and the same problem occurs every time. I can log in normally, but I can't get any tasks! How can I troubleshoot this problem!

There is no work being produced, or very, very little actually.

So the chance so snagging any of the sporadic tasks is very low.

I would try some other project for work that has a better supply.

World Community Grid is producing gpu work on a limited basis now.

Might try that project which is doing similar work to GPUGrid.

But it too is also not producing as much work as the demand.

But much more than GPUGrid.

There is no work being produced, or very, very little actually.

So the chance so snagging any of the sporadic tasks is very low.

I would try some other project for work that has a better supply.

World Community Grid is producing gpu work on a limited basis now.

Might try that project which is doing similar work to GPUGrid.

But it too is also not producing as much work as the demand.

But much more than GPUGrid.

This is all quite unfortunate. I was a long time believer in gpugrid going back to when they could run on playstations. I recall they "owned" the ps2grid name at one time. WCG quit developing for GPUs some time ago but I switched to them as soon as I found out they were developing again. Their GPU tasks are all beta so one has to sign up for the beta program. Some statistics I put together there
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,43367

They have left Beta and now in production but low amount work units (1700 work units on average every 30 minutes).

I hope GPUGrid would step up in this game.

GPUGrid have not left PS2 yet they still hold domain http://www.ps3grid.net

I hope GPUGrid would step up in this game.

unfortunately, no indication at this time :-(
Also, so far no progress what concerns Ampere cards :-(
While Ampere works on WCG and F&H

I have caught a few World Community Grid GPU tasks. IIRC, they were OpenCL. They ran concurrently with FahCore CUDA tasks without too much slowdown. I also noted that some WCG tasks ran on my Intel GPUs. Intel GPUs are being used also by Einstein@home in OpenCL.

..and now for something completely different...

Machine Learning Comprehension is getting close to completing the crunching stage of their project.
https://www.mlcathome.org/
Please join me and help finish up the project. there are only 2308 users currently.
GPU tasks are available as CUDA only.

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"Together we crunch
To check out a hunch
And wish all our credit
Could just buy us lunch"

Piasa Tribe - Illini Nation

..and now for something completely different...

Machine Learning Comprehension is getting close to completing the crunching stage of their project.
https://www.mlcathome.org/
Please join me and help finish up the project. there are only 2308 users currently.
GPU tasks are available as CUDA only.

I don't see any thing suggesting this project is nearing the end to "completing the crunching stage of the project" however I do believe they are entering the open quote home "stretch" on "DS3"

to bring this thread back on topic I have not received any D3RBanditTest tasks (am aware they are hard to come by)

Wow - I caught a Bandit! task 32565770: I happened to ask 1 second after it was created.

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.

Several days with a GTX 1650 at stock speed? (I always run at stock speed with my GPU when it's a boinc-usage.)

My RTX 2060 died and it was the best I could get so far (and actually it runs pretty cool on tasks where my old (and probably deffective) RTX was 15°C higher at least.
Also, I know some projects are not Ampere-ready yet so I'm sticking at Turing for now.

So question is now... does this long new tasks on GPUGRID have checkpoint or does it save the work already done when the task is stopped?

I'd like at least try (and complete) one of these tasks. But if it's for running a GPU-task for 10 hours and losing the work at the end of the day, I think we'll agree it's not worth it in this precise condition.

Meanwhile... yeah WCG has started to drop GPU tasks, working with Ampere architecture as well as previous architectures (I asked on their forum). But very few and very fast tasks.

The tasks checkpoint and can be stopped and restarted . . . . as long as the task is restarted on the same type of device.

It the task starts on a 2080 and then restarts on a 2070, the task will instantly error out with a message stating "unable to restart on a different device"

The tasks checkpoint and can be stopped and restarted . . . . as long as the task is restarted on the same type of device.

It the task starts on a 2080 and then restarts on a 2070, the task will instantly error out with a message stating "unable to restart on a different device"

Thank you for the answers concerning the checkpoints.

Good to know as well that you cannot change the device is "linked" a task once it has begun to work on this specific task.

Waiting for tasks now but I'm not in a hurry, the GPU's working on another task for now (more for a test about my hardware but I still have 10 hours to run at least).

I am getting WorldCommunityGridi OpenPandemics-COVID-19 GPU tasks which take about three to four minutes on my GTX 1060 board.
Tullio

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The new beta "stress" WCG OPNG tasks are much larger and taking up to 15 minutes to compute on a RTX 2080.

Seen up to 165 jobs in a single task. Credit = ~ 1400-1600

The OPNG vary in length, and are not marked beta anymore, for whatever that is worth. So you have to average the times.

Under Ubuntu 20.04.2, they are averaging 7:37 on a GTX 1060, and 20:12 on a GTX 750 Ti. That is very nice, but they could go longer. I think the scientists are having a problem creating enough of them.

Sorry, double post.
Tullio

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The latest OPNG tasks took about 20 minutes on my GTX 1060. In the first 7 minutes the GPU was not engaged.
Tullio

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