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pausing BOINC for 1 hour (but resuming it after a few minutes) gives computation error?
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Send message Joined: 12 Apr 20 Posts: 2 Credit: 34,468,839 RAC: 0 Level ![]() Scientific publications
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Don't know if this is just a one-time thing or if it happens to other people too? Got a BOINC WU which says 0,9 CPU + 1 nVIDIA GPU. It was running for a few hours and had about 20 hours remaining time. I PAUSED BOINC for 1 hour (from the task bar) and boinc correctly said "paused by user" on all my tasks. After a few minutes i unchecked the "pause for 1 hour" menu-item and all projects initially correctly resumed, BUT the nVIDIA GPU WU was uploaded and then cancelled with "computation error". Sad. Does it mean that pausing generally does not work or is not reliable or could this be a one tme thing? In any case, the system now seems offended :-) because i get no now GPU work :-) greetings. |
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Send message Joined: 13 Dec 17 Posts: 1419 Credit: 9,119,446,190 RAC: 891 Level ![]() Scientific publications ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Most of the GPUGrid apps are not capable of being stopped or paused without causing instant errors upon resume. So don't do it. AFAIK, at this stage of the project, only the old acemd3 tasks actually checkpoint and can be stopped or resumed. Also if I remember correctly, the Quantum Chemistry tasks can be stopped and resumed, but all progress is lost and the tasks restart from scratch each time they are stopped. The Python apps, Python on GPU and ATM tasks just error out and report if I remember correctly. Been too long since I've seen any of those so may not remember if this is still the case. |
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Send message Joined: 14 May 24 Posts: 10 Credit: 44,362,807 RAC: 0 Level ![]() Scientific publications
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Instead of suspending the specific task, suspend the project in which the task is located and allow a few minutes to pass before disconnecting the computer. In Boinc /options/Processing/Leave tasks in memory suspended/uncheck this option |
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