8th Annual BOINC Pentathlon

[TennesseeTony]

Installing the latest version of VB and restarting helped me I think.

 

[Orange Kid]

Thought I had LHC working last night, woke up this morning to all LHC tasks reporting something like this:

5/10/2017 4:48:08 AM | LHC@home | task postponed 86400.000000 sec: VM Hypervisor failed to enter an online state in a timely fashion.

Cosmology did the same thing.

I get the same thing...guessing the VBox isn't set up right. Doing the NON-Vbox tasks.

 

[crashtech]

There is a newer version of VirtualBox (5.1.22) than is supplied with the current download of BOINC + VirtualBox (5.0.18). The newer version is working, so far...

Edit: Now it would be nice to know why Windows is reporting "virtually" no CPU usage with 8 single thread LHC tasks and one eight thread LHC task running in 7 VMs.

Edit 2: And now at least 6 11 have failed with "Computation Error," this on a stock-clocked Ryzen 1700X. The Event Log only states that they are "finished," which is not helpful.

Edit 3: It looks as though unless I can figure out how to run only the "8 CPU" WUs, I'm going to have to detach this project.

 

[iwajabitw]

Sorry guys, was running late this morning and didn't get a systems check on my machines. My 280x's are offline for some reason, hope its just a Teamviewer issue, if not I'm losing about 40K points per hour its down. Argh!!!

 

[StefanR5R]

@crashtech, error diagnostics should at least be available after the failed task was reported to the project server. There you might get something if you look at the task details in your results table.

Before upload, it may be possible to inspect logs with the virtualbox manager, as long as the manager still shows you the VM.

In other news, 3200 or 3500 little Einsteins said "hello world" at my place earlier today. (2700 of them had already hatched before the race, the others since beginning of the race.) 800 more are going out now, and then my GPUs will be online normally.

 

[TennesseeTony]

You briefly had the TeAm up to 6th!

 

[iwajabitw]

I think Ill drive home at lunch and see what's up. 40 miles round trip, just for the TeAm.

 

[crashtech]

I think Ill drive home at lunch and see what's up. 40 miles round trip, just for the TeAm.

I've done that, but my commute is thankfully even a bit shorter. Pretty crazy, right?

 

[StefanR5R]

[Marathon, Cosmology@Home]

What a waste: camb_legacy has got 50 % error rate due to segfault on Gentoo Linux + dual processor. (But not on Gentoo + single processor, nor on OpenSuse + dual processor.)

 

[Ken g6]

[Marathon, Cosmology@Home]

VBox 5.0.36 from the repository for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is generally working for me. I get a few error tasks, but not an overwhelming number.

Oddly, VBox 4.2.16 is also working for me on my Windows machine.

Edit: And the same version works on an old Mint Debian install.

 

[crashtech]

I've stopped trying to run Cosmology@Home and LHC@Home for now, too many problems, too little time.

 

[iwajabitw]

Back up and running now!

 

[Ken g6]

YOyoYOhow'sDAsprintProject? http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/

 

[Ken g6]

It occurs to me that maybe everyone who can do VB apps without a problem should keep doing so, while everyone who's "stopped trying to run Cosmology@Home and LHC@Home for now, too many problems, too little time", should run Yoyo, preferably the ECM app.

 

[crashtech]

It occurs to me that maybe everyone who can do VB apps without a problem should keep doing so, while everyone who's "stopped trying to run Cosmology@Home and LHC@Home for now, too many problems, too little time", should run Yoyo, preferably the ECM app.

Done, sorry to be such a big dummy!

yoyo is not bunkering well, I'll have to see if letting some results go back to the server improves things...

 

[Ken g6]

Done, sorry to be such a big dummy!

yoyo is not bunkering well, I'll have to see if letting some results go back to the server improves things...

I'm sure you're not the only one who couldn't figure out VB. Maybe I'm just lucky because I run a VB VM for work every day.

There might be Yoyo tips and tricks in the FormulaBOINC thread.

Meanwhile, I'm downloading enough Einstein work for 2 3 days, so it'll be more likely to be completed by then.

 

[StefanR5R]

yoyo is not bunkering well

I'm still downloading, looks good so far... All tasks which I get have a deadline of 5 days, hence the requested queue depth should not be more than that.

 

[Orange Kid]

All bunkered up. Off line till the 13th.

 

[StefanR5R]

I figured out why I didn't do ECM last time. The WUs using 1GB RAM were a problem when I only had 4 to use. Now they're not - see my sig.

This reminded me to check the current RAM usage. I have some suspended camb_legacy on a 2P box on which I still had "Leave non-GPU tasks in memory while suspended" enabled. I switched that off and resumed+suspended the camb_legacy tasks once more and got some RAM back.

 

[TennesseeTony]

http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/

I wonder if our close competitor, team rechenkraft.net, is any good at running Yoyo?

 

[Ken g6]

http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/

I wonder if our close competitor, team rechenkraft.net, is any good at running Yoyo?

You'd think. But in our last competition we did five times what they did!

 

[StefanR5R]

[Marathon, Cosmology@Home]

Several hours ago, creation of camb_boinc2docker WUs has been disabled at the project server in order to avoid server capacity problems. Only camb_legacy and planck_param_sims will remain available until the end of the race, May 19.

 

[TennesseeTony]

@Markfw Your little brown truck driver swing by and say hello yet? I am pretty sure that new card is pregnant, and it can hardly wait to start popping out some little Einsteins!

 

[StefanR5R]

http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/

I wonder if our close competitor, team rechenkraft.net, is any good at running Yoyo?

You'd think. But in our last competition we did five times what they did!

They have got 93 % of our Marathon points, and 90 % of our City Run points...

 

[Markfw]

@Markfw Your little brown truck driver swing by and say hello yet? I am pretty sure that new card is pregnant, and it can hardly wait to start popping out some little Einsteins!

Not yet. Probably 3 more hours. They come at the end of the day..

But I have a possibly serious problem. This system has a E5-2683, and 16 gig of ram, and 2 x 980TI (which each have 6 gig of their own memory) and memory usage of the system is at 84%, 13.2 of 15.9 physical memory. But I have all these idle tasks waiting on memory !!! And CPU is at only 42% !!

WTF ???????