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Sekerob
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Yes, the time has come to do the first informal testing. No implying anything at all on CUDA/OpenCL, just looking how well it runs for WCG, 6.10.4 just out, some internal builds to learn about the code to include the assurance that it is and remains 'save'.
----------------------------------------Anyone who's running this or future 6.10 releases is invited to report on issues, of course the focus being the CPU part works. - Does it work with your Proxy? - How well behaved is the cache queue? - Is Elapsed time reliable on all WCG projects (does the DCF/cache go haywire)? - How well does it install? - Does it migrate the project data properly? - Anything else relating to stability/reliability. - Does it run well for those testing this on the Windows 7 RC platform. What 'gotchas' there? Note that features on the BOINC Manager simple/advanced are not of prime interest, it's the stable running, but if you think there is a 'must have' Yes, you can't crunch GPU while using the computer unless you can stand the large price of for instance the slow screen updating, the ATI addition / OpenCL enabling still in it's infant shoes. It has to be said though it might hurt a few souls: "Not for beginners". An official 6.10 Beta program will be announced, if it gets to a level of satisfaction warranting that, but that's months and months away is my feel. For an outline on the program see the wiki article BOINC beta testing NB: This post will be updated if other items come to the fore that need looking at. Let it rip, but keep it kid-friendly plz, your time in sharing your points much appreciated. Illustrations such as client message log pieces with expanded log features activated in the cc_config.xml and screenshots helping to understand each case. PS: on 6.6 see this thread http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,26724 for x-reference of other known issues. PPS: No you will not be beat up for daring to run an alpha client on WCG :D
WCG
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Former Member
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PPS: No you will not be beat up for daring to run an alpha client on WCG :D Really?!? Will give it a try and let you know how it turns out |
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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Anyone who's running this or future 6.10 releases is invited to report on issues, of course the focus being the CPU part works. v6.10.4 seems to want to run most if not all work in "High Priority", and atleast for CUDA-users there's been reports of undesirable effects... So, maybe it's better to wait for v6.10.5 instead... Note that features on the BOINC Manager simple/advanced are not of prime interest, it's the stable running, but if you think there is a 'must have' One feature worth mentioning is the new "Show active tasks"-tab on the Task-tab. This is a nice addition, especially if you've got lots of cached work. PS: on 6.6 see this thread http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,26724 for x-reference of other known issues. Don't hibernate so no idea on #2, and #3 is most likely due to #1. For #1, never seen anything to it, not even any of the CPDN-wu's seems to be affected by this...   "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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Sekerob
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"Show active tasks" seems like I saw a tab for this from inception of BOINC.net by Mike O.
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No problems so far on the CPU front. Tasks are running as normal. Only thing I would flag is the repeated attempts of the client to fetch GPU specific tasks...which obviously fail. Anyway if its of any use here's my log:
12/09/2009 18:50:37 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.4 for windows_x86_64 12/09/2009 18:50:37 log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ [AMD64 Family 15 Model 35 Stepping 2] 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Processor: 1.00 MB cache 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni 12/09/2009 18:50:37 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00) 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 4.23 GB virtual 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Disk: 76.69 GB total, 35.32 GB free 12/09/2009 18:50:37 Local time is UTC +1 hours 12/09/2009 18:50:38 Can't load library nvcuda.dll 12/09/2009 18:50:38 ATI GPU 0: RV670 (CAL version 1.3.145, 512MB, 461GFLOPS) 12/09/2009 18:50:38 Not using a proxy 12/09/2009 18:50:39 No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 12/09/2009 18:50:39 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1023.26MB 12/09/2009 18:50:39 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1841.87MB 12/09/2009 18:50:39 Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB 12/09/2009 18:51:40 Fetching configuration file from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/get_project_config.php 12/09/2009 18:53:28 Fetching configuration file from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/get_project_config.php 12/09/2009 18:53:40 Running CPU benchmarks 12/09/2009 18:53:40 Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks 12/09/2009 18:54:11 Benchmark results: 12/09/2009 18:54:11 Number of CPUs: 2 12/09/2009 18:54:11 2057 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 12/09/2009 18:54:11 4713 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 12/09/2009 18:54:11 Resuming computation 12/09/2009 18:54:16 World Community Grid Master file download succeeded 12/09/2009 18:54:21 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. 12/09/2009 18:54:21 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU 12/09/2009 18:54:26 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks 12/09/2009 18:54:26 World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 07-Sep-2009 08:00:41) 12/09/2009 18:54:26 World Community Grid Host location: none 12/09/2009 18:54:26 World Community Grid General prefs: using your defaults 12/09/2009 18:54:26 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1534.89MB 12/09/2009 18:54:26 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1534.89MB 12/09/2009 18:54:26 Preferences limit disk usage to 4.00GB 12/09/2009 18:54:43 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 18:54:43 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 18:54:48 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/09/2009 18:55:48 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 18:59:41 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 18:59:41 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 18:59:46 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/09/2009 19:00:01 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 19:00:01 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 19:00:06 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/09/2009 19:04:21 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 19:04:21 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 19:05:47 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 19:05:47 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 19:05:52 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/09/2009 19:16:13 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 19:16:13 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 19:16:18 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/09/2009 19:47:40 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 19:47:40 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 19:47:55 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/09/2009 20:17:16 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 20:17:16 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 20:17:21 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 12/09/2009 20:39:37 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/09/2009 20:39:37 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 12/09/2009 20:39:42 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 13/09/2009 00:38:58 World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 13/09/2009 00:38:58 World Community Grid Requesting new tasks for GPU 13/09/2009 00:39:04 World Community Grid Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Etc etc |
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Since my last post everything seems to have been working as normal....until I restart the machine. Now it no longer connects to the localhost. Have tried going to select computer under the advanced tab and trying to connect to localhost but it just gives an error message saying boinc was unable to connect to client. Have tried restarting a few times but to no avail. Any suggestions?
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Ingleside
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Since my last post everything seems to have been working as normal....until I restart the machine. Now it no longer connects to the localhost. Have tried going to select computer under the advanced tab and trying to connect to localhost but it just gives an error message saying boinc was unable to connect to client. Have tried restarting a few times but to no avail. Any suggestions? There's been many reports of this problem with earlier alpha-builds, and apparently it's not fixed in v6.10.4 either. I've had this twice with v6.10.x, both instances exiting BOINC Manager and re-starting the Manager fixed the problem, but it's not certain it will work for you. Also, checking any firewalls and similar will maybe help, but again if it will help or not is uncertain. Not sure if this bug has been tracked-down yet, but next build should atleast have some bug-fixes to scheduling... "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." [Edit 1 times, last edit by Ingleside at Sep 15, 2009 6:14:31 PM] |
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Sekerob
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Well the first try was short and felt like the return of the Alien that ate my Buick. 6.10.4 and the Vista Firewall, though thoroughly, thoroughly disabled popped up as were we back in the very first days for Vista and 5.10. It asked for permission to start the BOINC Manager. Then benchmarks ran and had kept popping up the 'connecting to... ' frame and started eating one by one through the tasks in the buffer. Fortunately, a backup on hand and the wifi dongle pulled so it could not tell WCG of the mayhem. Restored the Backup and returned to the last stable client.
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Dataman
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I have been running BOINC 6.10.6 for two days on a XP SP3 32-bit machine. I thought I would try it there before putting it on a Win7 64-bit machine. Results:
----------------------------------------CPU I’ve had no problems running WCG, GenLife, Milkyway (CPU) Collatz (CPU) or CPND. No noticiable other problems including Long Term Debt. GPU It is now “possible” to run SLI (multiple GPU’s on one work unit). I have not tried this yet and am not sure if any science supports it yet. So far, Collatz (GPU) and Milkyway (GPU) wu’s run without problems. Unfortunately the new GPUGrid application “Full-atom molecular dynamics 6.69 (cuda)” will not run ANY work on GTX260 cards and that’s what is in my XP machine. GPUGrid just released this app today so I am not sure if the problem is with GPUGrid's 6.69 (cuda) app or BOINC 6.x.x. I do know it is not working for 6.6.36 or 6.10.6 using nVidia driver 190.38 and CUDA 2.3. I will probably put it on a Win7 64-bit machine with a GTX285 card tomorrow. I would not recommend this release yet to any GPU crunchers. Cheers!  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Dataman at Sep 22, 2009 6:51:27 PM] |
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Dataman
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I fell back to 6.6.36. While not seeing any CPU problems, I got a lot of GPU problems with 6.10.6. Large increase in comp errors (MW and collatz) and failure to request new work. I was unable to get it to run at GPUGrid.
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