Posts by bluestang

1) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks for a while (Message 2385)
Posted 27 days ago by bluestang
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I think Admin should put something on the main page/news section about project reaching it's goal and being over for the time being.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks for a while (Message 2373)
Posted 8 Apr 2026 by bluestang
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Anyone manage to find any amicable pairs over the past few weeks at the end of this project? You can easily check them by going to your account home page and look for the latest entry in the "Amicable pairs discovered xxxx" field.
I crunched at least 10K workunits since Feb just to reach my low bar 250M goal but didn't find any.

Nope, last pair for me was back in 2024.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks for a while (Message 2371)
Posted 8 Apr 2026 by bluestang
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Well done, thanks everyone.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation / Credit (Message 2336)
Posted 27 Mar 2026 by bluestang
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Blame the Formula BOINC admin for not contacting the project admin beforehand for the Sprint and also all those holding bunkers who are the wingman.
5) Message boards : Bug tracker : Computation Error (Message 2298)
Posted 17 Mar 2026 by bluestang
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Version 3.10 of the GPU application is released, it should fix this error.


Seems to be working...thanks for the quick response/fix!
6) Message boards : Bug tracker : Current progress part 4 (Message 2286)
Posted 17 Mar 2026 by bluestang
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All the Computational Errors being thrown by all the WUs lately most likely.
7) Message boards : Bug tracker : Computation Error (Message 2284)
Posted 17 Mar 2026 by bluestang
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Same
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Validation / Credit (Message 2275)
Posted 16 Mar 2026 by bluestang
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There is a Sprint challenge for Formula BOINC that started on the 12th, so also could be likely it was an influx of people dropping their bunkers when Amicable wasn't picked for the Sprint.
9) Message boards : Bug tracker : Anyone else running out of work? (Message 2235)
Posted 11 Feb 2026 by bluestang
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1B is a nice stone!
10) Message boards : News : Part 3 of the 10^21 search has started (Message 2203)
Posted 31 Jan 2026 by bluestang
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Straight from Sergei..

https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_thread.php?id=300&postid=2144#2144
There will be part 4 and it will take approximately 6 months. There are no other plans after that, so the project will most likely finish.


I didn't think it was too difficult to understand.
11) Message boards : News : Part 3 of the 10^21 search has started (Message 2199)
Posted 30 Jan 2026 by bluestang
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And then?


Look at Sergie's post right above his. How can you have not read that!
12) Message boards : Bug tracker : Anyone else running out of work? (Message 2197)
Posted 29 Jan 2026 by bluestang
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This is why you don't run a Challenge without checking with or notifying the Project Admin prior to it.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Support for Intel Panther Lake Xe3 iGPUs (Arc B390) (Message 2170)
Posted 22 Jan 2026 by bluestang
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Unfortunately the project is at end-of-life stage. It will be finished in early March, so there is no point to do more development work for it now. But that hardware you'll be getting looks really interesting though, I'm sure it will be very competitive on any BOINC project!

That's not a good news for us crunchers... (maybe it is for maths ?)

How is it possible that progress % indicated on server status is 55% ? the "part 4" is something that was started 2 months ago ?


It shows 45%
More people seem to have started crunching again now that they heard is will be ending...more crunching power now=less time to complete.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia RTX 4090 - estimated Amicable Numbers performance running more than 1 task? (Message 2157)
Posted 12 Jan 2026 by bluestang
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Yes, in this case 1 concurrent is best. Never know until you try.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia RTX 4090 - estimated Amicable Numbers performance running more than 1 task? (Message 2155)
Posted 12 Jan 2026 by bluestang
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On Windows you should be doing 2 or 3 concurrent with that GPU for max PPD, but on Linux I'm not sure as I don't have many Linux machines.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia RTX 50-seris - estimated Amicable Numbers performance? (Message 2153)
Posted 7 Jan 2026 by bluestang
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5070ti running 2x concurrent WUs on Windows 11 results in each WU taking ~225 seconds each.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Long running tasks (Message 1630)
Posted 4 Nov 2022 by bluestang
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I've had some rogue very long GPU tasks as well so it's just not CPU ony.

And yeah...if it takes that much longer to tune then it should pay that much more as well!
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit payments (Message 1477)
Posted 30 Nov 2020 by bluestang
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Sometimes this only brings people for the credits and not for the science.


What difference does it make? As long as the science is getting done.

On the flip side is that people won't come for the science if the credits are too low based on amount of resources one has to use to get those credit.

Also, science...really? This project is looking for numbers, not cures or drugs or trying to map out diseases/virus or anything like that...just numbers.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Pentathlon (Message 1415)
Posted 16 May 2020 by bluestang
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Why not just suspend new work and scheduler and let the validator run alone with no interference. Hell, I'd even suspend uploads too. No connections or nothing to bottleneck anything. Let them Pendings for everyone clear.
20) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^21 (Message 1282)
Posted 30 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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Ok, good to know. Also, thanks for the hard work and staying on top of things. Not many Project Admins respond as quick as you do. It's great to see!
21) Message boards : Bug tracker : Constant Computation errors (Message 1280)
Posted 30 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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Lag is because your system is constantly swapping in and out of virtual memory. I had that on my system with only 8GB RAM even when I increased virtual memory to 32GB on a SSD.
22) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^21 (Message 1279)
Posted 30 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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Anything us users need to do on our end? Abort tasks, application file, reset project?
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Only 1 GPU running on 10^21 (Message 1256)
Posted 26 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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Try increasing your virtual memory, that should solve it but you will have some system lag here and there from it.

Start reading here for new 10^21 tasks:
https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_thread.php?id=77&postid=1204
24) Message boards : Bug tracker : Constant Computation errors (Message 1255)
Posted 26 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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RAM/Virtual memory issue, start reading here:

https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_thread.php?id=77&postid=1204
25) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^20 (Message 1254)
Posted 26 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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On one of my older machines that has an Intel i7-2600K@4.0GHz and 8GB RAM on W10 Pro it is running 2x 1660ti @ 1 task per GPU. I set my virtual memory on my SSD to 16GB min-24GB max so I don't get Computational Errors. System Manged virtual memory couldn't handle it properly on this machine.

In BOINC 7.14.2 once it gets the first 1m the percentage starts counting, then after about 5 more seconds the percent resets back to 0 and continues as normal. I noticed extreme system lag when it get close to that first 1m mark and also at the end. No biggie except it my home PC, but if I or the wife needs to do something I will suspend BOINC for the duration.
26) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^20 (Message 1247)
Posted 25 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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Ok, thanks for that info. I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.
27) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^20 (Message 1244)
Posted 25 Oct 2019 by bluestang
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Would be really nice to be able to run a a multi-GPU system without a large amount of RAM. Trying to run 2x GPUs in a system with 8 or 16GB of RAM is practically impossible with these new 10^21 WUs taking about 8GB of RAM for a single WU.



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