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QuantumEthos
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Texas Tacc are proud to announce the Stampede 2 Boinc Project
Join in and contribute towards work assignments and science allocations! Available resources for projects in the links below https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/news.php https://portal.xsede.org/resource-monitor https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/system-monitor https://my.es.net/ Regards RS https://science.n-helix.com |
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Talk about being 4 months after the fact. There have been members on there since early February..... Not a lot of work and it will require using VirtualBox which a lot of crunchers don't like. It is a resource hog. 8GB per VirtualBox instance. I was getting waiting for memory messages on a 48GB system.
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BladeD
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Talk about being 4 months after the fact. There have been members on there since early February..... Not a lot of work and it will require using VirtualBox which a lot of crunchers don't like. It is a resource hog. 8GB per VirtualBox instance. I was getting waiting for memory messages on a 48GB system. Thanks for more useful information in your post than I could find in the above links! |
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mdxi
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I had a similar take over on r/BOINC
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QuantumEthos
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At least the project is running :D (Yes 8gb is quite a lot of ram)
----------------------------------------As your link suggests the docker bandwaggon ôo is good pie *** Some good non greedy specs for a VM 8 cores, 8Gb ram, 1 GPU (2gb ram), 20GB HDD per process ^^ That being said : Hyper V VM allows Dynamic ram as an option & this means the ram can be used by the system if the VM is not using it.. Docker has a similar method in that the Docker VM uses a pre-defined space : In my case 16gb and 8 cores, This is sub allocated along with linux swap .. To processes in containers, Containers can use most varieties of linux including alpine (very small memory footprint) Alpine is suitable for science projects as is the Docker Kernel. RS [Edit 3 times, last edit by QuantumEthos at Apr 30, 2019 7:16:11 AM] |
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Talk about being 4 months after the fact. There have been members on there since early February..... Not a lot of work and it will require using VirtualBox which a lot of crunchers don't like. It is a resource hog. 8GB per VirtualBox instance. I was getting waiting for memory messages on a 48GB system. Thanks for more useful information in your post than I could find in the above links! Each instance requires 4 cpus so if you are running other projects like WCG, 4 WUs will suspend while the VBox instance runs. The good news is, the docker program seems to be rather well behaved compared to VBox I've run on other projects. So far each job only runs about 2 to 3 minutes so it doesn't tie up resources for long. Be aware though that when your machine asks for work, you could get hundreds of jobs at once times 2 minutes each is still a lot of work. It comes in spurts, you get a lot then nothing for weeks. It might pick up in the future as I believe they are having a workshop for researchers on the Boinc@TACC platform in mid-May. No stats export if you are into that sort of thing. EDIT: One other thing to watch out for is file size and disk usage. Some of the layer.xx.yy.. files are over 200MB in size and they tend to stay in the projects directory. Doesn't take too many of those to run into GBs of disk space. It's something to do while waiting for a climate project...  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Doneske at May 2, 2019 1:31:58 AM] |
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QuantumEthos
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Talk about being 4 months after the fact. There have been members on there since early February..... Not a lot of work and it will require using VirtualBox which a lot of crunchers don't like. It is a resource hog. 8GB per VirtualBox instance. I was getting waiting for memory messages on a 48GB system. Thanks for more useful information in your post than I could find in the above links! Each instance requires 4 cpus so if you are running other projects like WCG, 4 WUs will suspend while the VBox instance runs. The good news is, the docker program seems to be rather well behaved compared to VBox I've run on other projects. So far each job only runs about 2 to 3 minutes so it doesn't tie up resources for long. Be aware though that when your machine asks for work, you could get hundreds of jobs at once times 2 minutes each is still a lot of work. It comes in spurts, you get a lot then nothing for weeks. It might pick up in the future as I believe they are having a workshop for researchers on the Boinc@TACC platform in mid-May. No stats export if you are into that sort of thing. EDIT: One other thing to watch out for is file size and disk usage. Some of the layer.xx.yy.. files are over 200MB in size and they tend to stay in the projects directory. Doesn't take too many of those to run into GBs of disk space. It's something to do while waiting for a climate project... The TACC platform is researching so many topics, however the new Boinc TACC is clearly getting ready for bringing larger resources to bear on science, As you say clearly work flow is not consistent & optimisations will need to be made. providing Compute cores for the science community to further open Science goals : usage free : however boinc projects have obligations of time, effort & skill. https://portal.xsede.org/forums/-/message_boards/message-boards-home - HPC Open Computation https://portal.xsede.org/my-xsede#/guest - running tasks https://www.xsede.org/for-users/xup - information regarding account RS |
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