1) Message boards : Random stuff : Ready to Report (Message 2147) Posted 20 Nov 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: I think you mean work units. It sounds like a client issue on your end.

2) Message boards : News : Credit badges (Message 2117) Posted 27 Sep 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: What about platinum and diamond???

3) Message boards : News : Part 3 of the 10^21 search has started (Message 2113) Posted 22 Sep 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: I'm not seeing the new larger WU. Consistently I'm seeing the same 1276MiB.

4) Message boards : Number crunching : task completion time triples after several hours (Message 2108) Posted 11 Sep 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Dumb luck stumbling onto MSI ventus cards. I haven't seen anything faster in each class. I use the IGPU so the MSIs are dedicated to crunching.

5) Message boards : Number crunching : task completion time triples after several hours (Message 2106) Posted 11 Sep 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Curious. Are the 4090's connected to a monitor? 100 sounds about right for a 4090. My 5060 Ti's are finishing as fast as Speedy's 4090. I get a variety of times with my 4060 laptop depending on what else it's doing. Speedy has increased his/her kernel to 23 so that's good.

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Possible support for Intel iGPU Raptorlake? (Message 2076) Posted 24 May 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Thanks. I already have an app_config running for the Nvidia 4060 in the laptop. Docs I found are vague on running generic. No change in completion times for amicable after adding einstein.

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Possible support for Intel iGPU Raptorlake? (Message 2074) Posted 23 May 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: It won't scream but it does Einstein Arecibo, GBT WUs in 158 seconds.

8) Message boards : Number crunching : FYI. Some credits didn't post correctly to the consolidators (Message 2041) Posted 6 Mar 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: It happened again yesterday morning. My total credit here is getting further ahead of boincstats' credits.

9) Message boards : Number crunching : FYI. Some credits didn't post correctly to the consolidators (Message 2040) Posted 5 Mar 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Sure but I don't have an additional ~95 WUs in the Validation Pending column.

10) Message boards : Number crunching : FYI. Some credits didn't post correctly to the consolidators (Message 2038) Posted 5 Mar 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: About every 6 hours my 2 rigs post about 2.75M ot ~11M per day like clockwork except this morning where the first update was about 1.1M I figured it would self correct but it didn't. Again, just an FYI.

11) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel Arc B580 (Message 2036) Posted 3 Mar 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Is my Intc Raptorlake on my MSI laptop one of those worthless processing gpus? I don't see a way to add "Arc" to the device description to test it. It is OpenCL 3.0 at least and has plenty of memory.

12) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel Arc B580 (Message 2019) Posted 18 Feb 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Your CPU is getting tasks but I don't see anything besides your Intel GPU. linux is supported.

13) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia RTX 50-seris - estimated Amicable Numbers performance? (Message 2017) Posted 8 Feb 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Probably but this is what I received from a friend (Keith Myers) on another project: I'm new to linux and it's been a challenge but I like challenges. Before you switch to mps, make sure your kernel size is as large as your card can handle in settings. You need to be root, not just sudo, to run the nvidia_cuda_mps application. So you have to open a Terminal, get to root and then initiate the mps server. I just have a text file called start_cuda_mps, marked executable, containing export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 export CUDA_MPS_ACTIVE_THREAD_PERCENTAGE=70 export CUDA_MPS_PIPE_DIRECTORY=/tmp/nvidia-mps export CUDA_MPS_LOG_DIRECTORY=/tmp/nvidia-log nvidia-cuda-mps-control -d Which I start in the terminal. You invoke it and it does not print anything to the terminal. You just exit the terminal but if you check your running processes once you start Boinc, you will see the nvidia-cuda-mps-server process running in the System Monitor and in the nvidia-smi task list. The mps server really does improve the processing speed. On my Einstein O3AS tasks, it cuts the processing time in half. You need to adjust the devices visible on your host depending on how many Nvidia cards are in the host. You can adjust the thread percentage depending on how many concurrent tasks are running on the card. 70% for two tasks is a good value and 40% for 4-5 tasks per card is reasonable. You have to quite the mps server daemon as root also when you want to stop it running. I use this command to stop it. echo quit | nvidia-cuda-mps-control

14) Message boards : Number crunching : How do I increase number of pending downloadable GPU tasks for BOINC? (Message 2014) Posted 4 Feb 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: Thanks for confirming Sergei.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : How do I increase number of pending downloadable GPU tasks for BOINC? (Message 2011) Posted 3 Feb 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: I've tried 3 different options in app_config for this project to no avail. I have not found a way.

16) Message boards : Number crunching : Android support? (Message 2007) Posted 30 Jan 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: I got curious ever since I first read your question. I took some time to look into it. I started running one CPU task on my old I5-3570K and after 16 hours it's at 40%. Coincidently, it will take a total of 40 hours total to complete. That's running 3 out of 4 cores with one core dedicated to GPU processing. Geekbench 5 reports that I5 rated at 950 for one core and 3600 for all 4 cores so I used 2700 as a proxy for 3 cores. My current phone is a Galaxy A52 5G for which Geekbench 5 rates 630 for 1 core and 1900 for all 8 cores (not nearly as powerful in multicore compared to the I5). Using 1900 vs 2700, it would take 57 hours to complete a single task (40 * 2700 / 1900) on the phone. Newer technology is far more efficient from a power standpoint the I5 runs at 77W and the Samsung runs at 5W if you were to compare 15 phones to the desktop the phones would win out handily. My 4060 Ti runs work units in under 5 minutes. It will process 500 WUs in the time the 3 core CPU completes one and it runs ~100W (again, newer tech). It would process 715 WU in the time my phone would do one CPU WU. Lastly, I did do Einstein WUs back in the day with an android and after not too long the battery ballooned out. They are not designed for constant heavy use thermally. It was a phone I didn't care about thankfully. Not worth the trouble on the CPU side of things IMHO The GPU side, my phone is 450 GFLOPS but only OpenCL 2.0 and my 4060 Ti is 22,100 GFLOPS or 49 times faster. I hope this is the correct way to think about things but if it is, then my phone's GPU would do a WU in about 4 hours or 6 WU per day. That's doable but again the heat issue is what I would be afraid of.

17) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia RTX 50-seris - estimated Amicable Numbers performance? (Message 2006) Posted 27 Jan 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: With effort, I did set my linux GPU to run multiple tasks but only gained 3% as it runs one task at 97%. I also tried on a my win 11 box and was a failure as tasks took 2.5x to run. Net negative. I agree that tasks per day would be useful assuming 100% participation in one project but I have not seen that provided.

18) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia RTX 50-seris - estimated Amicable Numbers performance? (Message 2004) Posted 27 Jan 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: I looked on the GPU page and no info for the 5090. 4090 vs 3090 is on average 35% faster. Using that as a guess the 5090 would take 125 sec. Then I looked at 4060 Ti which has an average of 440.5 sec but mine consistently completes < 287 or almost a 4070 Ti. I wish they had four columns on the GPU page: linux, win 11, win 10 and "other". We'll know soon enough what the average is for the 5090.

19) Message boards : Number crunching : How many days does the interval "average" account for in "Recent average credit"? (Message 1992) Posted 15 Jan 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: It's possible to do one work unit and get one pair but it's very low probability. It will all even out with numerous tasks. In statistical terms, it's call the law of large numbers.

20) Message boards : Number crunching : How many days does the interval "average" account for in "Recent average credit"? (Message 1987) Posted 15 Jan 2025 by KeithBriggs Post: I was curious as well. This doesn't directly answer your question but it does describe part of the functionality. Quote below is from: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/credit/text.php In BOINC, recent average credit (RAC) is computed as an exponentially weighted average with a half-life of one week. In other words, if an entity is not granted any credit for one week, its RAC will decline by 50%

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