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Message boards :
Number crunching :
VirtualBox needed?
(Message 42060)
Posted 6 Apr 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: I am aware they return nothing bu errors. Have asked what the problem is but no one replied. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
VirtualBox needed?
(Message 42059)
Posted 6 Apr 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Manually installed vbox, with extensions. No clue what cvfms is or how to install it. |
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Number crunching :
VirtualBox needed?
(Message 42055)
Posted 6 Apr 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Ok, BOINC-manager is already installed on one of the machines but it did not automagically install VB, apparently. If I install VB from Oracle's website, will BOINC be able to get it's claws into the sim jobs? |
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Sixtrack Application :
where are the tasks?
(Message 42054)
Posted 6 Apr 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: All three machines are sitting here idle. One machine was performing a mixture of six-track and Asomething (I forget) while the other two seem to only get six-track tasks. They have been idle for more than 24 hours now but it seems there are tons of tasks awaiting execution on the servers. What gives? |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
getting LOTS of computation errors again.
(Message 41989)
Posted 23 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: That seems like an awful LOT of trouble just to give away free cpu cycles and electricity. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
getting LOTS of computation errors again.
(Message 41984)
Posted 23 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: ok, you got your wish. They're visible. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
getting LOTS of computation errors again.
(Message 41958)
Posted 19 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Is there I can make just ONE computer visible? (the one with the same errors as when the servers were acting up?) |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
getting LOTS of computation errors again.
(Message 41957)
Posted 19 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: What difference do my computers make? I don't get the connection, since ALL the executables come from the BOINC system. Something in settings could make errors in computation occur??? |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
getting LOTS of computation errors again.
(Message 41955)
Posted 19 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Maybe the servers are still not set correctly? |
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Number crunching :
GPU advertised for LHC, but they don't do it?
(Message 41946)
Posted 18 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Well, 64 bit floats still give you rounding errors but they tend to be way out there past the decimal points. :) |
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Questions and Answers :
Unix/Linux :
Verify GPU is being utilized, how to?
(Message 41945)
Posted 18 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Dang, that sure seems shortsided. For all the math-heavy aspects of the LHC project, it at least bears looking into. Pretty easy to move a virtual environment to a container design. However, IF their algorithm(s) are not good candidates for the array processing that GPU's are so outstandingly good at, then my point is moot. However, I just betcha it is. Just think how much faster (sometimes better than 1000x) the sims and analyses could progress if the GPU's were utilized. |
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Questions and Answers :
Unix/Linux :
Not enought space for LHC
(Message 41942)
Posted 18 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Would increasing swap space help this contributor? Albeit s-l-o-w-l-y? |
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Questions and Answers :
Unix/Linux :
Verify GPU is being utilized, how to?
(Message 41941)
Posted 18 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Is LHC code able to utilize the GPU(s?) How can I tell if they are being utilized now or not? GPUtrip (or something like that) seemed to be working just fine. (This post created on the computer with the strongest GPU I have at the moment.) |
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Sixtrack Application :
SIXTRACKTEST
(Message 41940)
Posted 18 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Minor bug report: when I click on the Nano BOINC notices box, I get a popup window but it's never populated with anything. Just blank. |
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Sixtrack Application :
SIXTRACKTEST
(Message 41939)
Posted 18 Mar 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Just FYI: I have the arm version working on the nVidia Jetson Nano, and made no changes to anything except local settings. However, I can't advise how long the tasks take to run because I can't figure out how to get the "advanced" menu/screen on the Nano. Btw, it is an ARM machine with hardware floats, takes only 15 watts to run, and costs $100 for the "development" versions (cheapest.) IIRC, it has 4 processors along with some "cuda cores," so GPU assisted LHC projects are an excellent candidate for it. HINT HINT Advise: install an external SSD or other USB 3 hard drive ($30 for 128gig now), "chroot" so you boot from the SD card but /root runs only on the hard drive, and finally, set at least 8 Gb or so for swap space. That will prevent the dreaded "out of memory" errors we see on SO many ARM tasks. Extra note: It sits idle about half the time, so I assume ARM jobs are not pushed out 100% of the time. Yes, I have the test flag set. Oh, it's a bit faster then the RPi3; others say it's faster than the -4 as well but I personally have not tested that. |
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Questions and Answers :
Wish list :
64-bit application?
(Message 41727)
Posted 25 Feb 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Does that mean that more precision invalidates the previous work??? This is NOT good! |
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Questions and Answers :
Wish list :
A LHC@Home version for GPUs
(Message 41726)
Posted 25 Feb 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: If the LHC computation lends itself to it, I would also love to have the GPU's contribute to the work. |
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Questions and Answers :
Preferences :
Adding new computer to my efforts
(Message 41725)
Posted 25 Feb 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: Building a nice new computer to help with LHC. What do I need to do to be assured it will be logged in my current 'account' totals? I have 3 already but I can't tell if they are all merged or what. This new computer should outshine them all. separate question: Would be nice if I could also use some old IRIX SGI machines to help LHC but since y'all don't allow source code out, then I don't see how they can be of any help. Are y'all really THAT paranoid? |
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Questions and Answers :
Preferences :
GPU not show
(Message 41724)
Posted 25 Feb 2020 by David E. Merchant Post: So the RTX 2070 Super I just bought is of no help to LHC? Wah. |
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