Formula-BOINC 2017

Oh, I see what you're talking about.

Did it download any tasks or not?

It will only communicate with the servers every so often. You can highlight the project and click update to override the update.
 
Yeah, don't do it too much. Though looking at your stats it seems it already sent you one task so you should be good. Just let it do it's thing. It should fill them up soon.

Welcome to r@h.

My condolences for your loss. Sorry to bother you during this time, I had no idea.
 
Skillz said:
We don't have [H] bucks like you guys. ;)
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We do not get any Bucks either. Not even an EVGA penny not alone an EVGA buck. There maybe EVGA folding bucks, no crunching bucks.
If you're in it for the bucks, curecoin or folding coin pays much much better with no limit on earnings.
Just saying.

Besides, I support [H] I have a 25 year member ship to genmay. So I put my "bucks" where my mouth is! ;):D
 
I still have 2-4 2S E5-2680v4 systems that I forgot to bring online; maybe I'll remote in and set that up if I remember... although I rather dislike doing that stuff remotely. (Have a 2S E5 Haswell sitting around too; but something is wonky with that box) It's always good to win, however the Russian team isn't remotely a threat to us overall. Perhaps we should throw them a bone. :p
 
fastgeek said:
I still have 2-4 2S E5-2680v4 systems that I forgot to bring online; maybe I'll remote in and set that up if I remember... although I rather dislike doing that stuff remotely. (Have a 2S E5 Haswell sitting around too; but something is wonky with that box) It's always good to win, however the Russian team isn't remotely a threat to us overall. Perhaps we should throw them a bone. :p
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or.... nah...........
 
fastgeek said:
I still have 2-4 2S E5-2680v4 systems that I forgot to bring online; maybe I'll remote in and set that up if I remember... although I rather dislike doing that stuff remotely. (Have a 2S E5 Haswell sitting around too; but something is wonky with that box) It's always good to win, however the Russian team isn't remotely a threat to us overall. Perhaps we should throw them a bone. :p
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I wanted to like this post so you'll get those systems back online, but then I got to the end and NO. Unacceptable. lol

We must dominate them. Get those systems up and running ASAP! :p
 
So close to taking the #1 spot back.

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I will never touch R@H again unless it's for a challenge. This is just fucking stupid. 53 tasks out of 292 possible cores I can be crunching on. Fifty-fucking-three.
 
No issues for me getting WUs. Its a CreditNew points system so points scale with CPU crunch time and the amount done.

If you trying comparing points between projects you're gonna have a bad time.
 
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this sprint. We went up against the #1 Rosetta@Home team and finished a solid 2nd place. Special thanks to fastgeek for his medium sized datacenter usage. Also thanks to everyone who signed up just to help with this project, sorry that I can't name each of you individually as their are quite a few of you who contributed to it.

We're overall in 1st place right now by a good margin. So let's keep up the good work!

Anyone who's still in the overall race let's focus on TN-Grid (CPU project) and Moo! Wrapper (GPUCPU project) and Einstein@Home (GPU/CPU project). Do note that projects with GPU's also work with CPUs, but GPUs give a tremendous amount more points so it's normally better to just move those CPU cycles to a different, CPU only, project.

fastgeek feel free to pick any project you want to dominate in. Haha.
 
Rocking in the top 10 for Collatz Conjecture! Representing the [H]. Overall team is 12th.

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If someone with Linux/Mac boxes wanted to pick up easy points, they could run WEP-M+2
 
Define easy points. I see we're in 8th place with 28 points. First place, our biggest competitor, has 1,683,234 points.
 
Exactly... for less than 100k points we could essentially be 3rd place.
Also if Distributed Data Mining has work..it would be easy points too as it is less popular. But the project sometimes has issues with work availability. The project also requires JAVA to be installed.
 
R@H has already pissed me off this week with lack of work. Let's not go there.
 
Well..with projects that have hard to come by work...you just leave them set to pull work while you are working on other things. That way when you actually get work...great. If not... you are crunching something else anyways...
 
SZTAKI is one of those projects that has work batches come and go. The work units seem to run well and sometimes only run for a short period of time. Grab them when they are available. CAS is a project that rarely has work. So I'm always asking for work units on it. Matter of fact I'm almost always asking for work for:
CAS
RALPH
Volpex
SZTAKI
RNAWorld

And that is because I haven't hit my points goal and they rarely have work or have very little work to go around. RNAWorld pretty much requires virtualbox and those work unit can run for months.
 
LOL...I told you RNA could take months... The good news is that they even give credit for work units that don't finish. However, they have to run a script because it doesn't validate like most projects. It is one of those hit my goal and don't look back projects. However, I have a long way to go for my goal. Just wait until you get a taste of The Lattice Project when it wants like 16GB of RAM for each work unit and tries to load multiple work units because you forgot to limit the number of work units via an app_config...yeah no fun thrashing a HDD due to virtual memory. That and erroring out other work in the process..
 
My apologies if my concern for accuracy comes across as offensive.
 
Skillz, looks like you have already done 22k in WEP-M+2. That means if FB stats updated now, we would have already moved up 3 spots for an additional 6 points. You should have us in the top 3 in no time.
 
Gilthanis said:
Skillz, looks like you have already done 22k in WEP-M+2. That means if FB stats updated now, we would have already moved up 3 spots for an additional 6 points. You should have us in the top 3 in no time.
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Nice!
 
Gilthanis said:
If someone with Linux/Mac boxes wanted to pick up easy points, they could run WEP-M+2
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I loaded up Ubuntu and Boinc in a VirtualBox virtual machine and I'm only getting one task at a time for WEB-M+2. I can't find anywhere in the client to tell it to run multiple tasks at a time. I'm guessing it is because the virtual machine is only reporting 1 processor? My CPU usage is around 10% with how I have it now, which is why I'm asking for help in getting more tasks going at once.

Thanks.
 
Can you not change number of processors in the virtual machine? I'm running those tasks/project with no virtual box/machine installed.
 
MN Scout, you can only actively run one CPU intensive work unit at a time if you only have one core assigned to the client (unless you tell the client to lie about how many it sees. This isn't beneficial at this project.) However, you should be able to download additional work units in your cache that would be in a ready to run state. If you want to run more work units at a time, it would be best to assign more cpu cores to the virtual machine. As mentioned, you could make BOINC lie about how many cores it has, but it will essentially split the one core up between several work units and take insanely longer than just running one at a time per core assigned to the VM. In short, it is working as designed.
 
I guess VirtualBox has improved a lot since I last used it in 2009. I never knew of a CPU allocation setting back then, and I remember intensive threaded tasks taking up a full 100% of the host processors.

It looks like my tasks took around 2000 seconds each in WEP-M+2.

Edit: I got multiple tasks working by changing the number of CPUs in the Virtual Machine settings. I'll see if it is actually faster. I believe I have VT thing enable in my BIOS.

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