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I hadn't been paying close attention, but saw this post over in the news section from a few weeks back.

http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3987#39557
Crunching is a creative and challenging way of learning about the behavior of our computers and improving them while helping the GPUGRID team to understand a bit more the mystery of the world we live in and the diseases that affect not only us, but also the people we love. The GPUGRID team couldn’t be more satisfied and proud of forming part of this noble project, and so we’d like to deeply thank each of the 1000 users that connect to us every day, making us part of their lives and making them part of ours, as a team.

Behind each computer, behind each GPU and each WU or forum post, there’s the real protagonist of our story as a community: YOU, the cruncher.

At GPUGRID, we are considering the possibility of starting a new campaign to thank the users that contribute with our project by sending them little tokens of gratitude, such as proteins/aminoacid molecules printed by our 3D printer or merchandising such as t-shirts or stickers. We still have to establish the contest rules, but most likely each of the user would have a probability of winning based on their contribution. Once in a while we would like to run a story about the winner, explaining why you crunch, what's the setup of your computer, a small description of yourselves or a picture of you and your token.

We believe that it would be a fun and productive experience but before anything we’d like to know your opinion, your suggestions and whether we have your support for this initiative. Let us know!
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You do realize you are making me move things around, I had to remove a GTX 680 because I could not run the 770 Classified at even stock speeds of 1200Mhz without throttling due to heat, it is now at 1350Mhz with a nice cool 50c. Moved the GTX 680 to one of the Intel 4P rigs running Ubuntu, man that was a bitch getting Boinc to recognize the card, but I got it running FINNALY :eek: now I just need to get coolbits to work correctly :rolleyes:

I am going to try and get a GTX 580 and a 460 going on a couple of the other 4P's but no promises there after the PITA it was to get the first one running. :(

Thanks for the congrats I also had another milestone recently which I was rather proud of, I crossed the 1,000,000,000 mark in total Bionic credits. :D
 
Grandpa_01 said:
You do realize you are making me move things around
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I noticed, GPUGRID is back above 1,3 petaflops computing capacity :D. Great ramp up, we are boucing between #2 and #3, with a worthy competitor.

For coolbits and Keplers, if you use coolbits = 16, you can play (not too much ;)) with voltage with 346.x drivers and above.

And congrats for the mega-milestone !
 
It's mindblowing that one user has racked up 30,000,000 pts for the challenge.
 
Just keep it up and I will keep on LOL, we can always use a good chuckle. :)

We need a damn LOL emoc. :D
 
Meanwhile, with a little over an hour left, we have a lock on 2nd place.
 
tjmagneto said:
Meanwhile, with a little over an hour left, we have a lock on 2nd place.
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Yes, we achieved a great second place, congrats !
As already pointed out, maybe the greatest achievement was to have the [H]orde slightly overperforming RaymondFO (alone) by 0,5 million points;)
 
Nicolas_orleans said:
Yes, we achieved a great second place, congrats !
As already pointed out, maybe the greatest achievement was to have the [H]orde slightly overperforming RaymondFO (alone) by 0,5 million points;)
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I tried so see what sort of stuff that RaymondFO was running but that info was not available. :confused: Maybe that's what the FO stands for.
 
tjmagneto said:
I tried so see what sort of stuff that RaymondFO was running but that info was not available. :confused: Maybe that's what the FO stands for.
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Well, he is #2 in RAC for the project, quite close to #1 Stoneageman (0,25 Mpoints RAC gap). This guy is using 5 x 780 Ti, 4 x 780, 2 x 960, 5 x 750 Ti, 5 x 660 eg 21 cards on 10 linux hosts.
 
Fired up three of my Nvidia cards yesterday, in order to get to my 100 million point goal for this project. I currently have ~33 million to go.
 
Been tough getting any WUs for this project since they went on Christmas vacation. Hopefully things get back to normal soon.

Question: has anyone been getting beta WUs for their AMD cards?

I ordered one of those R9 Nano cards yesterday since they dropped the price to $499. I was going to wait for the new cards coming out later this year but needed something now that could run a triple monitor setup for my sim racing rig. It looks like I can run E@H on AMD but would prefer GPUGrid if possible.
 
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4588#47402

Hey all,
some astute members might have noticed we got a new publication out? https://goo.gl/MoIi0d

You remember these BARNA/BNBS workunits? Well, we finally made it :)

Frank and Nuria did an incredible work with our simulations and got the paper published in Nature Chemistry which is a top-top journal in our field!

To thank you all for this incredible contribution we will be handing out badges soon and you have my (and our group's) heartfelt thanks to all of you!

ps. A layman news piece on the article https://www.upf.edu/home/-/asset_publisher/UI8Z8VAxU47P/content/id/8788860/maximized
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https://www.upf.edu/home/-/asset_publisher/UI8Z8VAxU47P/content/id/8788860/maximized
 
And then you have

Fixing bugs with BOINC is relatively pointless from our perspective (and time-intensive). We are considering rather other options like moving out of it, but don't ask when or how as it's more an idea than a scheduled plan.

I am sorry for those inconveniences that this causes.

The reason we cannot address technical issues with BOINC is that we don't have anyone in the lab anymore who knows his way around it and that priorities are higher on getting scientific work done. Of course you have a point that this will eventually bite us in the ass since we won't be able to do scientific work without crunchers but it's a tricky thing to manage.
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https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4584&nowrap=true#47358
 
Ouch; that sounds not good and in line with the suggestion from DA to move to a different way ...
 
A lot of places are thinking that way because they don't have skilled individuals that stick around for more than a few years that can maintain the projects. In this case, they don't have someone that is familiar enough with the server software. Since BOINC really isn't being seriously developed right now, you take it for what it is. This means any new technologies thrown into cards may not be supported. New co-processors may not be supported. Too many of the new projects require quick short runs and so just need a quick fix to get their research. That is one of the hangups for WCG. The scientists have to guarantee a certain amount of work to justify all the man hours of onboarding the project in the first place. Universities should really consider utilizing their programming depts. and other IT areas to help with maintaining the platform. That could go a long way. However, it could also look like favoring select depts....

GPUGrid has not just had application problems, but also work unit shortages. I don't know what is going on behind closed doors, but seems like they are struggling on all side.
 
and getting worst looking on the server stats page: mostly zero work; some occasional WU dripping in ... #sad

If cards running too long dry or for me meaningless stuff like collatz I need to rebalance back to FAH ...
 
If I remember correctly, work availability tends to run dry over the weekend more often than week days. Someone they need to turn on the work unit generator...:mad:

Let see if you will get some over the week days.

I used to run POEM which is GPU project for protein folding but the project has ended and they are willing to share the open source code if anyone is willing to pick this up.
 
seems GPUGrid is back; still lower level in supply but at least I got again some work. They said something like IT messed up some IP settings thats why something broke. .... as long work units are back I'm ok ... :)
 
Dears,

we would like to test our new CPU multicore application for quantum chemistry tasks ("QC"). Since it’s the first time we have a CPU app out, I’ll test the behavior of GPUGRID with a relatively large batch that you will see soon. Workunits are named "*QC309big*".

Here’s some features of the app, in short (subject to change):

* Platform: Linux only for now, generic x64.
* Threads: as many as Boinc decides. I guess it depends on your machine, your preferences, and other running tasks in ways which are obscure to me…
* Run time: about 1 CPU hour per WU (so, shorter if multithreading)
* Credit: computed with the default algorithm (tasks are short, don’t expect much). Bonus mechanism for fast turnaround is still on.
* Known bugs: restarts and checkpoints. This should be mitigated with the “keep in memory when suspended” option. Sorry about that, it’s outside of our control.
* Network behavior: the first time you get a WU of this kind it downloads a Python interpreter (miniconda) and then some open-source packages, and installs them in the project directory. The installation is reused whenever possible.
* Disk usage: could go around 1 GB, perhaps more when tasks are running. Resetting the project should remove everything.
* Memory usage: should be around 1 GB when running.

Depending on the results of this test, we’ll start thinking about other platforms.

Thanks and nice crunching!

Toni
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http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4649#48127
 
Shame on him......... :hilarious:

Yeah...they still haven't even cleared those out of my list...


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http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4552#46982

Dear all,

GPUGRID will stop supporting Windows XP in April 2018

Every version of the science application we have to maintain costs us time and effort, and it's important that we focus our resources where they can give us the best return.

Building and testing Windows XP versions our applications is increasingly difficult now the OS is unsupported by both Microsoft and NVIDIA.
There are now fewer than 20 Windows XP machines crunching on GPUGrid, out of a total of over 2500, and it's difficult to justify on-going engineering effort for a small fraction of our capacity.

Sadly, this means that it's time for us to stop supporting Windows XP. The recent update to the application will be the last, and will cease to work one year from now. After that time work will only be issued to hosts running Windows 7+ or Linux.

If this affects you, please accept my apologies. Your contribution has been greatly appreciated, and I hope that you'll continue to support us.

Matt
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Not sure how many H members this would effect, but may be good to know.
 
Has anyone tried running the CPU work they have? Any thoughts on the scoring?
 
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