Posts by Steve Dodd

1) Message boards : News : Beta test of part 3 of the 10^21 search (Message 1859)
Posted 22 Mar 2024 by Profile Steve Dodd
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A couple of examples; I have more:
amicable_10_21_14995_171119302.464452_958_0
amicable_10_21_18302_1711125302.366293_68_3

Looking at my other machines, it seems that those WUs beginning with "amicable_10_21_18302_1711125302.366293" are the ones taking an inordinate amount of time.

Steve
2) Message boards : News : Beta test of part 3 of the 10^21 search (Message 1856)
Posted 22 Mar 2024 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Sergei,
Have you slipped a few whooper tasks in the latest batch? I've got some extremely long running WUs (>2 hrs)

Steve
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Anyone Else Hit A Lull In Finding Amicable Numbers? (Message 1467)
Posted 27 Nov 2020 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Steve,
in that case I am not sure. I noticed overnight I got a few more pairs. I also noticed my impending have dropped considerably.
I have noticed some people don't abandon or abort any work they have in the queue so before it can be reissued it has to time out.


Speedy,
True on the timeout. It appears the dam has broken, though. I've had my pending tasks queue decrease by a couple of hundred, and my A.N. count has started to climb. Would be interesting to hear from the admin(s) about whether something was constipated :)
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Anyone Else Hit A Lull In Finding Amicable Numbers? (Message 1465)
Posted 26 Nov 2020 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Speedy,
I don't know if that's the case. I only checked a few of the pending tasks, and there was only one other WU issued; no abandoned/aborted.

And, fyi, my total did just increment (w/o my pending WUs total going down - now over 600). Fun, fun, fun :)
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Anyone Else Hit A Lull In Finding Amicable Numbers? (Message 1462)
Posted 25 Nov 2020 by Profile Steve Dodd
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I have over 500 tasks in "pending" status. C'mon, wingperson :)
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Anyone Else Hit A Lull In Finding Amicable Numbers? (Message 1460)
Posted 23 Nov 2020 by Profile Steve Dodd
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It's been over a week now since I've found any new Amicable pairs, and I'm crunching at almost 3 million credits/day average. Anybody else hit a dry spot?
7) Message boards : Bug tracker : GTX 1060 3GB - 2 hours and 40% (Message 1452)
Posted 14 Oct 2020 by Profile Steve Dodd
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I have a 6GB 1060 that i think is locking up my computer (which also has a 8GB 1070). I'd reboot and as soon as the Amicable Numbers tasks would start to run, the computer would (hard) freeze, and I'd be forced to reboot. Running GPUGrid just fine now. Is 6GB getting to be too small for this search space?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Um, Got a Couple of Whoppers? (Message 1364)
Posted 24 Mar 2020 by Profile Steve Dodd
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OK. I aborted both. The longest estimate WU had climbed to over 206 days. The other had decreased to 60+ days, but was due in 4, so...
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Um, Got a Couple of Whoppers? (Message 1363)
Posted 23 Mar 2020 by Profile Steve Dodd
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I've got 2 tasks running - one estimates it'll take 64+ days, the other estimates 182+ days. Based on how long they've been running, I don't think the estimates are too far off. Are these "bad" WUs? (BTW, they are both allocated 2 CPUs)
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Somethings must be faulty -> AMD gpu usage at nearby 1-2 % ? Clueless.. (Message 1177)
Posted 22 Jun 2019 by Profile Steve Dodd
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For some reason, BOINC isn't registering my app_config file for Amicable Numbers project. File is located in the appropriate projects directory (D:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\sech.me_boinc_Amicable), named app_config.xml, contents are:

<app_config>
<app>
<name>amicable_10_20</name>
<user_friendly_name>Amicable Numbers up to 10^20</user_friendly_name>
<non_cpu_intensive>0</non_cpu_intensive>
<max_concurrent>8</max_concurrent>
<report_results_immediately/>
<fraction_done_exact/>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>0.125</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

No message about a syntax error:

...
6/22/2019 4:22:07 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 398.82, CUDA version 9.2, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3560MB available, 6852 GFLOPS peak)
6/22/2019 4:22:07 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 398.82, CUDA version 9.2, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3560MB available, 6852 GFLOPS peak)
6/22/2019 4:22:07 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 398.82, CUDA version 9.2, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3560MB available, 6561 GFLOPS peak)
6/22/2019 4:22:07 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 398.82, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8192MB, 3560MB available, 6852 GFLOPS peak)
6/22/2019 4:22:07 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 398.82, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8192MB, 3560MB available, 6852 GFLOPS peak)
6/22/2019 4:22:07 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 398.82, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8192MB, 3560MB available, 6561 GFLOPS peak)
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Host name: (removed)
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Processor: 48 GenuineIntel Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0000 @ 2.20GHz [Family 6 Model 79 Stepping 0]
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 vmx smx tm2 dca pbe fsgsbase bmi1 hle smep bmi2
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Professional x64 Edition, (10.00.17763.00)
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Memory: 31.89 GB physical, 41.64 GB virtual
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Disk: 465.76 GB total, 436.92 GB free
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Local time is UTC -7 hours
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | No WSL found.
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | VirtualBox version: 5.2.22
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Asteroids@home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | CAS@home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Cosmology@Home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | DENIS@Home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Distributed Hardware Evolution Project | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | GoofyxGrid@Home CPU | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | latinsquares | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Leiden Classical | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Moo! Wrapper | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | nanoHUB_at_home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | NFS@Home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | NumberFields@home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | odlk | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | PrimeGrid | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | SZTAKI Desktop Grid | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | TN-Grid Platform | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Universe@Home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | VGTU project@Home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | World Community Grid | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | XANSONS for COD | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | yoyo@home | Found app_config.xml
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Config: report completed tasks immediately
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Config: use all coprocessors
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | | Last benchmark was 797 days 07:52:37 ago
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Albert@Home | URL https://albert.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 21062; resource share 1
6/22/2019 4:22:08 PM | Amicable Numbers | URL https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/; Computer ID 78743; resource share 100
...

Anyone see what I've obviously overlooked?
11) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD Card TU? (Message 764)
Posted 13 Mar 2018 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Well, new driver seems to have fixed the issue. Weird (to me, at least).
12) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD Card TU? (Message 761)
Posted 9 Mar 2018 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Well crap! I have a Radeon Pro WX5100 that i was using for this project, but in the last couple of days a WU gets to ~24% and just hangs. Seems to still work at Einstein and Albert and Prime Grid, so i'm wondering if anyone has noticed an issue with WUs here on AMD cards or do i really have a card issue.

(and i'm sooo close to the next Amicable Pairs badge level!)
13) Message boards : News : Credits for the old application (search up to 2^64) doubled (Message 605)
Posted 11 Aug 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Are we all done with 2^64?
14) Message boards : News : Credits for the old application (search up to 2^64) doubled (Message 557)
Posted 3 Jul 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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I, for one, am still crunching the old 2^64 app. I have a box that gets both versions for the CPU (2X12 cores, 48 threads). Now, I'm thinking about using my GPU to crunch these, too! :)
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Amicable Numbers ? (Message 546)
Posted 2 Jul 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Wee!!! Finally got one more. I've been stuck on 467 for MONTHS! :)
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Amicable Numbers ? (Message 504)
Posted 26 Jun 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Oh! I saw a recheck application and the regularly named app and thought we'd started on the new batch. My bad :)
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Amicable Numbers ? (Message 499)
Posted 26 Jun 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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So, the new search has started but I have yet to find an ANP. Are these going to take more effort to find?
18) Message boards : News : Credit badges (Message 429)
Posted 12 Apr 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Guess I'll join some of the other badge hunters here in saying: I think the current levels make these badges a little more special than, say PrimeGrid. With regards to a comment suggesting white as a color for a more entry level badge, I was thinking that would be used for "diamond" if indeed more badge levels are added. Maybe a "hollow" star for more entry level badges. Just a thought :)
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Amicable Numbers ? (Message 405)
Posted 4 Apr 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Woo hoo! Found another one :)
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Amicable Numbers ? (Message 398)
Posted 3 Apr 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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Stalled, too. But I knew this was coming. I'm wondering when we might expect the credit badges to start showing up?
21) Message boards : Random stuff : Are Badges On the Way? (Message 158)
Posted 19 Feb 2017 by Profile Steve Dodd
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What do you mean, badge whores? :)



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