RHMash

Blizzie

For Collatz, does it only count the GPU work units? I've been crunching Collatz GPU for 2 days now and only 5 of the work units have verified... rest are pending. Is it normal to take that long?

Yes, I have about 4 pages waiting validation....

...which is perfectly normal if you're crunching on a single high-end or a few mid-range graphic cards especially the AMD-ATI ones that Johnny_Utah has.

MOBAJOBG

RHMash

Blizzie

For Collatz, does it only count the GPU work units? I've been crunching Collatz GPU for 2 days now and only 5 of the work units have verified... rest are pending. Is it normal to take that long?

Yes, I have about 4 pages waiting validation....

...which is perfectly normal if you're crunching on a single high-end or a few mid-range graphic cards especially the AMD-ATI ones that Johnny_Utah has.

 
Ah... what about if the Pentathlon counts CPU work units since it's the "GPU discipline".

Yeah, don´t waste your cpu time on the Collatz cpu tasks.
WCG starts right when the rosetta part ends.
 
I´m just going for the Collatz mini gpu tasks, and one of my rigs is currently crunching human proteomes for wcg. They hopefully then validate sometime after the 10th. around the 7th I´ll switch it to other projects and do what everybody else seems to do

My 460 crunches the mini collatz at about 20 min and collatz at about 2 hours or so.... If I remember right, the points are scaled so that mini takes less time and gives less points....

if you have a fast enough gpu , yeah you can run the collatz gpu  tasks as well.
My GTS 250 just takes forever on these. Unfortunately the 570 in my main rig is causing me some worries. Not sure yet on whether its the gpu or the PCIe slot going bad

I'm having issues with Boinc Manager on my Classy rig running (or ATTEMPTING) to run Rosetta.  I just about pulled my hair out for the last three hours.  Everytime I install BOINC and rosetta pops up, I get a little dialogue box that says "communicating with BOINC client, Please wait"  Then  "close boinc" or "cancel".
The darned program is reeking havoc with my system.  Installed /Uninstalled now 8 times and same stuff.  VERY annoying.  This is the first time ever I have had issues.
 
Couple of times, it gave me big problems simply shutting down the program..then even bigger ones uninstalling it!
 
Only thing that has changed is that I updated my BIOS to 37 tonight. 
 
Same thing happens when I try to UPDATE for Rosetta.  Just hangs with that message.  "connection deferred" time just freezes.

Running the newest one (latest version) 7.0.25 for 64 bit downloaded here:
 
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
 
Yup, that dialogue box just sits on in the middle of my screen.  If I hit cancel, it just comes back in 3 seconds. 
 

I googled that pop-up message and it looks like it has been a problem in the past.  I will keep trying although after a couple hours, I will admit this problem has the best of me right now.
 
looks like it might be too many items in cache?  The button you use to differentiate between active tasks and non active doesn't work either. 

RHMash

honestly, no idea....

http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?view=516&language=1

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=4191

not sure if you found these links with your googling....

 
Thanks buddy.  I think that I have way too many things in my que window....I will edit the registry and do what they suggest in the morning and see if I can get that rig back up.
 

MOBAJOBG
Note: By the way, I've noticed that members of other teams have already started crunching both applications task of Collatz Conjecture project and selected the option of "Network activity suspended" that would be released with the commencement of its project event tomorrow.

I was playing around with the task buffer, setting it to 3 days with Rosetta and got a slew of tasks.  Then when I added Collatz, I never get more than 1 task at a time.
 
Is the work buffer for all projects combined, or for each project?  E.g. if you set the buffer to three days with Rosetta and Collatz active, would you expect to receive three days of tasks split between the two projects? Or three days of Rosetta tasks and three days of Collatz work?
 

planetclown

MOBAJOBG
Note: By the way, I've noticed that members of other teams have already started crunching both applications task of Collatz Conjecture project and selected the option of "Network activity suspended" that would be released with the commencement of its project event tomorrow.

I was playing around with the task buffer, setting it to 3 days with Rosetta and got a slew of tasks.  Then when I added Collatz, I never get more than 1 task at a time.

Is the work buffer for all projects combined, or for each project?  E.g. if you set the buffer to three days with Rosetta and Collatz active, would you expect to receive three days of tasks split between the two projects? Or three days of Rosetta tasks and three days of Collatz work?

The procedure that I've always practice to ensure almost equal split of work for 2 projects (please give due consideration to the points that RHMash has made just before this post) are as follow;-
 
1. Set "No new tasks" to both of the projects (in this case Rosetta and Collatz Conjecture) with the assumption that there is no queued up task yet.
2. Set "Additional work buffer" to 5 days or (3 days in your case).
3. Undo "No new tasks" to both of the projects.
4. Let the BOINC Manager perform or sort out the whole distribution, sometimes it does not function properly as planned therefore, we may need to trigger the "Update" option ourselves if nothing happens.
5. After all the work units have been downloaded, then set "Additional work buffer" to 0.01 day.
6. Select "Network activity suspended".

I think we moved up 2 spots from 17 to 15?

Good news, I got my 3930k Classy rig back up and crunching Rosetta this morning with that registry fix.  Apparently, there were too many items to show in "Show all Tasks" and it was locking up.
 
Thanks for the help.

This has already most likely been asked and I apologize if this is annoying:
 
If I am running my 7970's for Collatz, should I still use the CPU to run Rosetta?  OR will I need to reserve some CPU power for the Collatz?

The final projects start on the 14th, yoyo and QMC and run to the end of the contest....
 
For Collatz, you don't need a free core if you're running gpu tasks, they only use 0.01 of a core/thread....