The Scottish Boinc Team

MacDitch · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:34 am Post subject:

Sorry, been working on SETI Beta rather than the main site. Will swap back this evening for what my output is worth.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:47 pm Post subject:

It all helps thanks and I'd rather have loads of CPU cores thrown at SETI than use up too many GPUs which could be getting much better credits elsewhere.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:24 am Post subject:

Good response guys!
In a few days we have dropped from 171st by RAC to 143rd!

We are still in 102nd by total credit a situation on which I think we can improve.
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Megacruncher · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:59 am Post subject:

121st by RAC now!
And as we seem to be passing 100K per day we will soon be top 100 by RAC with the Total Credit heading that way.
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MacDitch · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:44 pm Post subject:

I checked last night and my machine had mostly cleared the old cache and was working almost exclusively on SETI. Not sure how long I can keep it doing that but it'll be a few weeks at least. Smile

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Megacruncher · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:27 am Post subject:

Megacruncher · Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:07 pm Post subject:

97th by RAC now! Still 102nd by Total Credit although that will improve over the course of a few weeks.
I think I've got a fairly sustainable mix of loads of SETI with some DistRGen and Primgrid which is protecting my overall output at over a million per day (and allowing my Boinc Combined ranking to rise to a best ever equal of 85th! Cool

) whilst allowing me to contribute 30K for SETI which is hopefully helping our situation.
But it's a team response and plenty of others have upped their games. Many unkown to this forum. Thanks to all & keep it up. Its an ultra marathon not a sprint!
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Megacruncher · Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 11:35 pm Post subject:

SETI seems to have gone down for the last 45 hrs.
This is a good thing! Laughing

Keep crunching it right up to the point that you run out of work units ( then switch to something else (obviously)). When the lights come on again -asthey always do- we will have gained on our competitors with small caches and faint hearts.
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CycloneRanger · Boincer Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 100

Hmmmmm. I think I have a question!

My BOINC Manager shows the following task info: "Running (0.264 CPUs +1 NVIDIA GPU)" for a (cuda23) task

Is that typical? Are my cores being used primarily on non-GPU tasks, and how can I tell how efficiently I am processing tasks?

Thanks in advance!
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Megacruncher · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 6:20 pm Post subject:

I can confirm that this is typical. I get similar messages - give or take a few dozen 1000th of a CPU. Presumably it means that a fraction of a core is needed to help out the GPUwith SETI although it's a pretty token amount and doesn't actually reduce the number of CPU tasks running.
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