Message boards : News : WU size and credits are doubled now
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Sergei Chernykh Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 5 Jan 17 Posts: 545 Credit: 72,451,573 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
First of all, thanks to everyone participating in the project! I've noticed today that solved work units come in so fast that the server can't keep up. I had to double the size of each work unit (together with the credit for it) to reduce the load on the server. Keep crunching! Thanks again! |
Skillz Send message Joined: 26 Apr 18 Posts: 7 Credit: 3,506,810,086 RAC: 20,516 ![]() ![]() |
Does this mean they're going to use 16GB of RAM now as well? |
Sergei Chernykh Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 5 Jan 17 Posts: 545 Credit: 72,451,573 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
No, GPU and CPU RAM requirements stay the same. |
Skillz Send message Joined: 26 Apr 18 Posts: 7 Credit: 3,506,810,086 RAC: 20,516 ![]() ![]() |
Okay, thanks for the update. |
Orange Kid Send message Joined: 5 Mar 17 Posts: 1 Credit: 679,507,734 RAC: 51,909 ![]() ![]() |
I like the new work unit size. With the more powerful GPU'S it makes sense. Thanks for being so attentive to the project. |
Skillz Send message Joined: 26 Apr 18 Posts: 7 Credit: 3,506,810,086 RAC: 20,516 ![]() ![]() |
Yes I do also. Granted some of my slower GPUs aren't too happy about it. Haha. Thanks for working on a solution quickly. We really appreciate it. |
![]() Send message Joined: 6 Sep 24 Posts: 1 Credit: 19,982,194 RAC: 2,174 ![]() |
I thought my GPU frequency had dropped because the computing time for each task had doubled, until I saw this post. (@_@;) |
![]() Send message Joined: 28 Sep 17 Posts: 1 Credit: 12,954,587 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
@Admin: I just found this thread because I was wondering why the WU I have keeps running past its deadline while in the past it returned on time. I run on CPU and doubling the size maybe fine for GPU but for those who run on CPU you should also increase the deadline. |
Sergei Chernykh Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 5 Jan 17 Posts: 545 Credit: 72,451,573 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
I've increased the deadline for new work units to 1 week. It is enough for all modern CPUs, if you run BOINC on more than 1 CPU core. |
kasdashdfjsah Send message Joined: 29 Jan 24 Posts: 20 Credit: 67,357,016 RAC: 56,791 ![]() |
Not really, cause I still haven't gotten replies for my questions about Apple Silicon and Windows 11 ARM support... |
![]() Send message Joined: 26 May 21 Posts: 3 Credit: 271,253,326 RAC: 6,608,947 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I've noticed the double run time on work units but I'm still getting the same points ![]() The top two in the pic were my normal runtime and points. Now they are like the bottom one with 800+ runtimes. Will these be doubled? I have around 50 with double runtimes and the same points :o( Current work units have reverted to previous runtimes now. . . . |
Sergei Chernykh Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 5 Jan 17 Posts: 545 Credit: 72,451,573 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
All these tasks have the same amount of work, so the same amount of points. I don't know why your GPU processed them slower - maybe something else was using the GPU? |
![]() Send message Joined: 26 May 21 Posts: 3 Credit: 271,253,326 RAC: 6,608,947 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
All these tasks have the same amount of work, so the same amount of points. I don't know why your GPU processed them slower - maybe something else was using the GPU? Thanks for the reply. The longer runtimes happened during the night but nothing else should have been running. Not to worry - all sorted now and trying 2 x WU's on my 7900XTX - seems to be doing well! |
Speedy Send message Joined: 6 Jun 17 Posts: 84 Credit: 216,752,116 RAC: 26,225 ![]() ![]() |
I have also noticed some long-running task times on a 4080 super. Ran for just over 14 minutes https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/result.php?resultid=97103607 Ran for just over 13 minutes https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/result.php?resultid=97107893 I gather this is something to do with my hardware as this is happened before. I believe the above tasks are running over twice the amount of time they should be. Since task time nine double I believe that should be a maximum of just over 6 minutes Generally tasks seem to run around this 3 minute mark https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/result.php?resultid=97107075 |
Key Send message Joined: 5 Oct 22 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,294,378,569 RAC: 2,046,902 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Same issue here: tasks on my RTX3060 normally complete in around 8 minutes, but over last few days most are taking around 12 minutes. Occassionally I get a run of 'normal' times again for a few hours - are there some longer batches being released? No known changes to my hardware or software running during this time. |
Sergei Chernykh Project administrator Project developer Send message Joined: 5 Jan 17 Posts: 545 Credit: 72,451,573 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
No, task sizes are the same now. Maybe your GPU or the room it's in got more warm? |
Key Send message Joined: 5 Oct 22 Posts: 2 Credit: 1,294,378,569 RAC: 2,046,902 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hi Sergei, there's been no significant change in room temperature and with the slower run-times the GPU was running a few degrees cooler than normal - however; your comments led me to give the GPU fans a bit of a clean and... straight away tasks are now completing in 8 minutes again! Thanks for the reply, much appreciated. |
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