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Travis DesellVolunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message
Joined: 16 Jan 12 Posts: 1813 Combined Credit: 23,514,257 DNA@Home: 293,563 SubsetSum@Home: 349,212 Wildlife@Home: 22,871,482 Wildlife@Home Watched: 212,926s Wildlife@Home Events: 51 Climate Tweets: 25 Images Observed: 774
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Just a status update for everyone. Due to the "monster" workunits people have been seeing I've made a couple tweaks server side and started to run some new searches (although the results I've been getting in have been extremely cool).
These new searches will start back with the smaller workunits and get progressively larger in size, so if you start seeing results with names like 'exact_genome__6_' or 'exact_genome__7_' those are from the new searches. If these start to see runtimes wildly out of line with credit please let me know.
Also, I've updated the work generation to have dynamically generated deadlines as opposed to a fixed 7 days. This should make the deadlines get longer as the workunits get more complex, so people won't see WUs that will take longer to compute than their deadline anymore. If the deadlines seem a bit off please let me know.
On top of that, I've been working on a new version of the application which will also be able to run on GPUs. I think this may address some of the other weird issues we've been seeing with the "monster" workunits as well. Will keep you posted as this develops but hopefully in a few weeks I'll be able to start testing an OpenCL version of the application that can run on NVidia or AMD GPUs. |
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morganSend message
Joined: 1 May 13 Posts: 2 Combined Credit: 27,613,530 DNA@Home: 111,775 SubsetSum@Home: 274,030 Wildlife@Home: 27,227,725 Wildlife@Home Watched: 180s Wildlife@Home Events: 0 Climate Tweets: 0 Images Observed: 3
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These new searches will start back with the smaller workunits and get progressively larger in size, so if you start seeing results with names like 'exact_genome_<timestamp>_6_<more numbers>' or 'exact_genome_<timestamp>_7_<more numbers>' those are from the new searches. If these start to see runtimes wildly out of line with credit please let me know.
Like this one ?
http://csgrid.org/csg/workunit.php?wuid=1015678
Comp 50000 is mine.. No score :( |
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Peppernrino Send message
Joined: 20 Mar 17 Posts: 11 Combined Credit: 177,613,414 DNA@Home: 0 SubsetSum@Home: 0 Wildlife@Home: 177,613,414 Wildlife@Home Watched: 0s Wildlife@Home Events: 0 Climate Tweets: 54 Images Observed: 0
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my credits have also had a substantial and exponential decrease.
http://csgrid.org/csg/workunit.php?wuid=997508
#49966
https://s30.postimg.org/c3h4pt0jl/csg_boincstats.png
for the record, i have kept the same settings throughout, and running 99.9% of the time. :)
hope i could help!
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Conan Send message
Joined: 13 Apr 12 Posts: 151 Combined Credit: 47,672,899 DNA@Home: 399,792 SubsetSum@Home: 1,448,876 Wildlife@Home: 45,824,231 Wildlife@Home Watched: 70,910s Wildlife@Home Events: 0 Climate Tweets: 450 Images Observed: 0
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I have one that was sent to me on the 9th, it has gone past it's deadline and still has 4 days to go, it has run nonstop.
I can't see any extension on my account page to say the work unit has been extended, so from that I have to assume that it only applies to current work units and I am going to get Zero points for running a work unit that goes for 10 days and get marked as "Too late to validate".
If 3 work units get sent out then 3 work units should get the credits, I have hated this thing in BOINC that one WU misses out even though it is a valid WU but was beaten by some other WU in getting returned. Or Quorum of 2 but Min Quorum of 1 meaning first back gets credit but second back gets nothing.
I have another that goes past its deadline today and a 3rd tomorrow, they need a few more days to get back but have no deadline extension.
I am OK now I have had a little whinge
Thanks for listening
Conan
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Conan Send message
Joined: 13 Apr 12 Posts: 151 Combined Credit: 47,672,899 DNA@Home: 399,792 SubsetSum@Home: 1,448,876 Wildlife@Home: 45,824,231 Wildlife@Home Watched: 70,910s Wildlife@Home Events: 0 Climate Tweets: 450 Images Observed: 0
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The deadlines seem to be not working as described, I have one here that has already timed out after I received it yesterday.
1 day deadlines will be impossible to meet.
See This WU, mine is host 253.
Conan
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