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Thread: New BETA test - July 29, 2014 [ Issues Thread ] |
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ThreadRipper
Veteran Cruncher Sweden Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1324 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I find that if you suspend the other wu's that have not yet started on your rig then each time a wu completes a beta will take its place. unfortunately you do need to be watching quite closely for the last beta to start in order not to have idle cores. Using Boinctasks makes this somewhat easier. Or you can suspend all non-Beta WUs thereby letting the Betas start, and then immediately resume all suspended WUs. The Betas will continue running and no WUs will remain suspended. Your suspended WUs will revert back to the last checkpoint, but this is only a big deal if you are running CEP2. Yes that is a pretty viable idea (thanks everyone for all the suggestions)! :) But this was the scenario: 1. I visit WCG website forum and see that a Beta has been launched. 2. I look at the Results Status page and find that a cruncher PC has received five Beta WUs 3. I remote to my cruncher and find those beta WUs in the cache so I intuitively click on them and then look for a button to "force start" or "mark as prioritized" or something "start asap" etc you get the idea, but I don't find it. 4. Unfortunately I don't have the time to select/deselct and suspend/resume tasks in the cache so instead I have no option but to close the remote connection, knowing that sometime the next day those WUs will start, but that's not as fun as getting them to run immediately :) Someone mentioned 3rd party tools, but I just want to be able to have one tool (BOINC client) and I think that such a feature would not be hard to implement (or rather, already should have been there by now). Oh well, I guess it is not the end of the world. :/  Join The International Team: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=CK9RP1BKX1 AMD TR2990WX @ PBO, 64GB Quad 3200MHz 14-17-17-17-1T, RX6900XT @ Stock AMD 3800X @ PBO AMD 2700X @ 4GHz |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Please note that i have added another 3000+ work units into this beta. It fixes an issue with how outputs are created. They should be very similar in runtime and result sizes as the first 3000 work units that were run earlier.
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Former Member
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Someone mentioned 3rd party tools I would be very interested in learning more about these tools. Any more info or links about this? I could not find the thread(s). |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I picked up two more while not paying attention. Both were successful on their own. The system is a custom build Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L 0 (ES chip) with 32GB Ram and Windows 7 Pro x64. BOINC v. 7.3.19 x64
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2990 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Without realising it (at the time), I did manage to pick up 4 of these Beta units, and whilst they all appeared to run fine, on one of them (which was reported as Valid), the WU status report seemed to be rather slim...
----------------------------------------Result Log Result Name: BETA_ beta_ 001_ 0001807_ 1-- <core_client_version>6.10.58</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <stderr_txt> </stderr_txt> ]]> My wingman, certainly had a fuller WS Status report Result Log Result Name: BETA_ beta_ 001_ 0001807_ 0-- <core_client_version>7.2.42</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <stderr_txt> Unable to open checkpoint file starting from 0 500 query sequences compared. 1000 query sequences compared. 1500 query sequences compared. 2000 query sequences compared. 2500 query sequences compared. 3000 query sequences compared. 3500 query sequences compared. 4000 query sequences compared. 4500 query sequences compared. 5000 query sequences compared. 5500 query sequences compared. 6000 query sequences compared. 6500 query sequences compared. 7000 query sequences compared. 7500 query sequences compared. 8000 query sequences compared. 8500 query sequences compared. 9000 query sequences compared. 9500 query sequences compared. 10000 query sequences compared. 10500 query sequences compared. 11000 query sequences compared. 11500 query sequences compared. 12000 query sequences compared. 12500 query sequences compared. 13000 query sequences compared. 13500 query sequences compared. 14000 query sequences compared. 14500 query sequences compared. 15000 query sequences compared. 15500 query sequences compared. 16000 query sequences compared. 16500 query sequences compared. 17000 query sequences compared. 17500 query sequences compared. Run complete, CPU time: 610.572314 09:07:33 (5908): called boinc_finish </stderr_txt> ]]> The other WU's that my machine has reported, all had rather more details in the Results log than this first one. Is this an issue?  |
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Got several of them today, all proceeded fine.
----------------------------------------my Win 7-64b rig i7-3770 (BOINC 7.2.42) finished all of them while I was in work, so I was not able to test checkpoints. 4 of them I received on my Mac OS X 10.9.4 i5-2500S (BOINC 7.0.65) did not checkpoint at all. Cheers   Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006  |
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KWSN - A Shrubbery
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 8, 2006 Post Count: 1585 Status: Offline |
Four of the new batch came and went on my Windows 8 system. I hate Windows 8 but they appear to have processed just fine.
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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uplinger wrote at Jul 31, 2014 7:06:06 AM (Central European Time = UTC+2): Please note that i have added another 3000+ work units into this beta. It fixes an issue with how outputs are created. They should be very similar in runtime and result sizes as the first 3000 work units that were run earlier. Thanks, -Uplinger Thanks, but BTW: have you ever heard of activities called "sleeping" and "resting"?  Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006 [Edit 1 times, last edit by branjo at Jul 31, 2014 8:07:28 PM] |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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branjo, my time is Central Standard Time. But it was still pretty late.
I have heard of "sleeping" and "resting" but always assumed they were myths. Thanks, -Uplinger |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1311 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I wonder whether or not there will be another round of work to test in about 13 1/2 to 14 hours this would be a wonderful way to start my weekend. There has certainly been a lot of work going through beta in the last week. As of the latest stats update 88 results were returned. Have a good weekend all
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