So, the situation is that since mid December the BOINC server has been changed with a new scheduling policy.

Before that everything was working pretty smoothly. Probably, the necessity to handle more complicated situations like two projects pushed for the change.

Unfortunately, this new server policy seems to work less than optimally and hosts remain without work. Several ways to try to bypass the problem are available in our forum. But for now until BOINC developers find a solution, we have to manage this way.

We have asked if it is worth to back-port the server to a version before mid December. Most likely, we will wait until next week after the holiday season when BOINC dev should be able to address the problems once for all.

I hope, as much as you, that this is fixed soon, as it is creating more maintenance work and reduced throughput for the project.

For now, happy new year to everybody.
GPUGRID team.

Thanks, GDF, for the update.

Yes ... Thank you!

I have been wondering if we are part of an expiriment with random rewards.

I was close to running out on my main box and so I started to do all the things that suppsidly help ... no luck ... then I just tried again randomly and got three ...

So, I am starting to feel like my dog Pixie, who knows that if she just scratches at the door it will open ... of course if she would just wait for the time it would open for her anyway ... but, she KNOWS that scratching at that automatic door will make it work ...

Sigh ...

Anyway, I have work until tomorrow ...

My humble opinion - don`t go roll back soft on the server. W8 until problem will be solved.

We`ve already found some possibilities how to manage work for our maschines. We`ve learned how to live in new world :P. Double OS (any) on one maschine + VM with next three OS`s - each one can store 4 WU`s in stock, and e.g. 300 WU`s SETIbeta in stock with resource share 1 compare to 500 in GPUGrid (means SETI will be crunched just if there is no WU`s from GPUGrid).


And now I believe we can w8 :).

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I got the no work message a couple times.

Then with only 30 min to go before I would run dry I got 2 automatically.

Then, later on when reporting a task I got another ... just as if it was working ...

Now I have one in work and 2 pending ... enough to last until this evening I think ...

Well, time marches on ...

I think this thread is perfect to thank the GPU-Grid team. Thanks for giving us this interesting project, for the ability to use the power of GPUs under BOINC and thanks for the continued support even during the holidays! And all the best for the new year :)

MrS

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I think this thread is perfect to thank the GPU-Grid team. Thanks for giving us this interesting project, for the ability to use the power of GPUs under BOINC and thanks for the continued support even during the holidays! And all the best for the new year :)

MrS

I second that.

I think this thread is perfect to thank the GPU-Grid team. Thanks for giving us this interesting project, for the ability to use the power of GPUs under BOINC and thanks for the continued support even during the holidays! And all the best for the new year :)

I second that.

Yes! Thanks for the GREAT project!

Yes, thank's to this team

And a Happy New Year!

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Happy new year to GPUGrid and all it's user

Many thnx for the support, everything works fine

Maniac

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My system has completed (and recieved) 2 wu's, without any manual intervention from me.

Server problem fixed..?

Linux64, 6.3.21, 177.xx driver

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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps......

Experience is a wonderful thing: it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.

My system has completed (and recieved) 2 wu's, without any manual intervention from me.

Server problem fixed..?

Linux64, 6.3.21, 177.xx driver

I don't think so ... I have had random successes in the past also ... it has never lasted...

Thats the whole point to the random pigeon experiments ... randomly reward and rituals develop ... I have 4 more in queue and one in work and if it was all working I should have about 6 in queue ...

The good news is that I have 80 days of CEP awarded and a little over 9 days pending and a couple finishing up ... though I have no idea how long I will have to wait for the wingmen to come in ... I also probably need to build up a couple spares just in case ... :)

But I have drained SIMAP and they are out of work so on to Cosmology and ABC...


{edit}Maybe I was wrong... it looks like I did an autofetch of a new task ... now if it keeps up for a couple days .... {/edit}

So, thanks for all the messages.

Now, it seems that there was a problem in the configuration of the server, so that the queue was filled up with jobs for the PS3. We have now changed to distribute WUs equally among applications.

Please check that this is the case, so that we can announce that the problem is fixed.

gdf.

So, thanks for all the messages.

Now, it seems that there was a problem in the configuration of the server, so that the queue was filled up with jobs for the PS3. We have now changed to distribute WUs equally among applications.

Please check that this is the case, so that we can announce that the problem is fixed.

gdf.

I hate being right all the time ...

The last two days I have been getting tasks on demand and my queues are stable with the appropriate number of tasks for each system. When my systems request work it seems to get work as it should to keep the customer satisfied.

So, I think we may have gotten it ... the problem is that I have had these streaks before ... :)

But they have never gone on so long ... another day and if my i7 still has 5 tasks pending as it should, and I have done no manual interventions, well, I say Bravo-Zulu ... Well Done!

I am also seeing good work flow with both a low-end card and a mid-range card for the last couple of days.

It seems to work pretty nice for me for the last two days. All three GPU capable PCs have a full queue of GPUGRID tasks now.

Only yesterdy evening my Vista PC ran dry of workunits and I got the "no Cell work for you" message again, paired with a 24h deferral. A manual update a half hour later fixed that and I got two tasks again...

I'll watch my computers closely if it happens again.

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Still working ... I had two tasks ready to report ... did update and back to 4 pending and one in work (I lowered my work queue size) ... do, it seems to have been fixed.

Now, if we could only have the BOINC Manager problems fixed I would be really happy ...

Seems to be working better the last few days for me too, all my Caches are full at least & I only have to manually Update once in awhile to fill up a Cache ... :)

Seems to be working better the last few days for me too, all my Caches are full at least & I only have to manually Update once in awhile to fill up a Cache ... :)

Almost makes one want to go out and buy some faster cards ... :)

Sadly, I have to pay for the i7 first ... ah well ... that bill will be here soon enough ...