Info [Einstein@Home] New apps for app_info

[ao_ika_red]

I was resuming Einstein project today and noticing there are three new apps called:
1. einstein_O2AS20-500
2. einstein_O1OD1I
3. einstein_O2MDF

So far, I only receive a bunch of einstein_O2MDF "Gravitational Wave search O2 Multi-Directional GPU 2.02 (GW-opencl-ati)" which as far as I can tell is more power-sipping than the traditional hsgamma_FGRPB1G "Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 on GPUs v1.22 (FGRPopencl1K-ati)". I will update more if I get more information.

 

[ao_ika_red]

The results has arrived. For sprint, it's better to stick to old apps (hsgamma_FGRPB1G and hsgamma_FGRP5) because they pay much better than newer einstein_O2MDF, well at least on AMD GPU. I suspect this newer app is optimised to CUDA/nVidia GPU because its power consumption is similar to other CUDA-optimised projects (SETI, Folding, etc).

Oh, another thing with this new app is it's more heavily relied on CPU (similar to other CUDA-optimised project as well) than older apps so better single-core CPU performance is necessary.

Spoiler: 1-page result

 

[TennesseeTony]

Well this is odd. I decided to replicate your experiments, but now Mjolnir is stuck receiving only the new apps, despite numerous updates to my preferences, and even worse, it continues to send tasks even after setting the client to "No New Tasks".

• I made sure my preferences said "No" to "Allow non-preferred apps: "
• I made sure Mjolnir is set to the default profile
• I updated to a beta Manager, I still get tasks.
• I removed the project, and then attached the project, set it to no new tasks, aborted the batch it fetched, and...I still get new tasks.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Uploads temporarily diabled | Einstein@Home

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I wonder if any of my trouble is related to the server being hammered by these new tasks (certainly the preferences could be affected, the server having not yet processed my request maybe).

 

[ao_ika_red]

That explains why I get incoming tasks even though I only set it for 1-day vault since Friday and I'm still far away from completing all remaining tasks.

After reading admin's post, I dump all remaining tasks and switch my machine back to milkyway.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Do you still get new tasks after you tell BOINC you don't want them?

 

[ao_ika_red]

Do you still get new tasks after you tell BOINC you don't want them?

Right now, I don't see any. But all aborted and finished tasks are now in upload pending state.

 

[StefanR5R]

Well this is odd. I decided to replicate your experiments, but now Mjolnir is stuck receiving only the new apps, despite numerous updates to my preferences, and even worse, it continues to send tasks even after setting the client to "No New Tasks".

• I made sure my preferences said "No" to "Allow non-preferred apps: "
• I made sure Mjolnir is set to the default profile
• I updated to a beta Manager, I still get tasks.
• I removed the project, and then attached the project, set it to no new tasks, aborted the batch it fetched, and...I still get new tasks.

Are there perhaps two clients running in the same directory?
ps -f -C boinc,boinc_client | cat

 

[TennesseeTony]

Are there perhaps two clients running in the same directory?
ps -f -C boinc,boinc_client | cat

No.

I think moderator Gary at the above posted link is probably spot on with his diagnosis of the problem, minus the part about me "making wild accusations" and "polluting Technical News" with my post. What a rude dude.

 

[Howdy]

No.

I think moderator Gary at the above posted link is probably spot on with his diagnosis of the problem, minus the part about me "making wild accusations" and "polluting Technical News" with my post. What a rude dude.

Reminds me of the fellow @ the Folding forums