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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Bug in logic (Message 9195)
Posted 2 Jul 2022 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
I am heading on vacation and set all my projects to no new tasks. They were finishing before WUProp would finish, so WUProp would be the last task to finish and end and report. There was about 10 minutes left on it when the other tasks finished and reported.
The task did not stop at the 1 hour mark. It kept running and running for over 6 hours, until I had to abort it before shutting down. So the time in the task is lost.
So there needs to be logic in it, if there are known workload in a task and then no workload, the task should end as normal on the 1 hour mark and report the less than 1 hour of work it had obtained.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Account information page needs fixing (Message 9160)
Posted 25 Jun 2022 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
I just noticed this has been fixed. Thank you! For those wondering here is proof BOINC has already updated this code. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/1e0631dc87c23ac3c55d4ff869ec942839fbc985
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Account information page needs fixing (Message 9159)
Posted 24 Jun 2022 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
That's a BOINC WIDE SERVER CODE ISSUE and should be reported to the BOINC GITHUB code repository for a code fix to be pushed out to all projects.

It has been fixed in newer version of the code, but many projects stay with older code because of heavy modifications that can get lost when upgrading.
It is a simple code fix for the admin.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Account information page needs fixing (Message 9155)
Posted 23 Jun 2022 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
The way they programmed the Account Information, Other Account Information page is outdated. It automatically attaches http:// to any URL you put in there, which makes a URL of https invalid, because it tries to go to http://https://
I would love to see this fixed.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Prime Grid trying to end the search for some Prime Numbers (Message 8676)
Posted 26 Jan 2022 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Wieferich and Wall-Sun-Sun is also just over 1/2 way done and they plan a challenge in September which could help boost this project to it's end, or at least near it's end. So if you want to get your hours in, now would be smart.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Server out of space (Message 8599)
Posted 13 Dec 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Server out of space, again.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Server out of space (Message 8551)
Posted 8 Nov 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
I suspect with the fix that happened a few days ago made the temporary files expand exponentially. Since they delete on a schedule, they didn't get deleted in time for the file space to overfill. Now we are not having website updated because the disc is full.
Time for the admins to go through and manually clean up, or expand disc space.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing hours (Message 8543)
Posted 5 Nov 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Same pending unit I have since 3-Nov. It is nice the glitch yesterday cleared, but there seems to be a miss when they did whatever fix they did and this task being stuck. Server page shows none waiting. Yet http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/workunit.php?wuid=100722243 sits in pending status.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing hours (Message 8528)
Posted 4 Nov 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Single task still pending over 24 hours, now.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing hours (Message 8519)
Posted 3 Nov 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Why would there be pending tasks? This is causing hours to be not added. All tasks before and after the pending are completed successfully.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : can't retrieve WU (Message 8454)
Posted 14 Oct 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
It affects all projects. The official fix is at BOINC's website
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/ca-bundle.crt
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing hours (Message 8332)
Posted 5 Sep 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
So, I started doing double of the units on the GPU, which now run not quite twice as long, use the same CPU time, and the temperature of the card is still very low. It also is recording better because WUProp sampling time seems to be just over 2 minutes, as the current units are taking just about 2.5 minutes and the old tasks were taking about 1.5 minutes.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing hours (Message 8330)
Posted 4 Sep 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
So what you are telling me is WUProp is sampling every so often, and because the tasks are so small there is a lot of information lost.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing hours (Message 8328)
Posted 3 Sep 2021 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
WU Prop seems to have issues counting GPU hours when you multi task. I am doing 4 units simultaneously on my RTX 3090. 4x24 should equate to ~96 hours a day, yet I am getting just over 25 hours. The jobs just take ~1 minute each to finish, but since I have several downloaded and they swap out immediately, there should not be much loss of time.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 4873)
Posted 23 Mar 2017 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
PrimeGrid has announce their new LLR 3.8.20 that is now live and supports multi-threading. This is LLR tasks only, Sieve and GFN are still single core.

You need to either use an app_config (preferred) or app_info to enable the multi-threading. I suspect this will cut your hours down if running one multi-thread over single cores, but it is now a choice you can use.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 4740)
Posted 24 Feb 2017 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
PrimeGrid also does not distinguish between CPU/GPU. All the GFN, AP and PPS Sieve run on both. Only one app shows here.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : NVIDIA driver not shown for one host (Message 4667)
Posted 9 Feb 2017 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
The last Windows update put out a bad driver. You need to get the official one from NVidia if that is what happened. Happened to me on all my machines.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Project URLs (Message 4550)
Posted 6 Jan 2017 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Curious as to what that Private GfN server is... 46000 in progress... Thanks for the links.

GFN is part of PrimeGrid. It's a project that you have to privately sign up for, and they only take users who have some history. It is checking very small GFNs (under 15 which is PrimeGrid's smallest GFN factor).
19) Message boards : Number crunching : [Ω] New / Intermittent applications - NOT! (Message 4490)
Posted 4 Dec 2016 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Sometimes projects sit idle on a computer being shut down because of many reasons (heat of summer, fault hardware, etc), then a project is crunched when it comes back up and time is counted. You cannot fault the administrator of this site for something like this happening.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Badge upgrades thread (Message 4350)
Posted 29 Oct 2016 by Profile Pooh Bear 27
Third star turned gold. Being a person who doesn't bounce projects much anymore, I work on more or less a single project, since they added a bunch of new apps, I had been able to build to a 3rd star and currently have it at gold. It will eventually make Ruby, but probably not go much further than that in any short future.


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