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MomchilAndonov
Cruncher Joined: Aug 30, 2012 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi All,
I am having my settings only allowing Africa Rainfall Project tasks and I updated my project several times but I am not getting new tasks for some reason. I have Nvidia 1050 Ti and I disabled the other projects and have the option to use GPU always. Are there currently any tasks available or I don't download any simply because there are none? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Welcome to the fora!
There are very few ARP1 WUs each day at the moment. They are currently distributed at 08 & 38 minutes past the hour. Read elsewhere in the forum for more. There are no GPU projects on WCG at the moment. I always recommend searching the fora before asking a question, but there are usually people around who will try to help. Good luck. |
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MomchilAndonov
Cruncher Joined: Aug 30, 2012 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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How is the Africa Rainfall Project not a GPU project? According to the description it should be using GPU for calculations and I know that weather predictions use GPU.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi again,
If you look at the System Requirements page, you will see that there is no superscript 4 listed against ANY project and that the definition has been updated to say "4. Version for GPU is available (Open CL 1.1) (Note: Currently no applications have GPU version available.)" And I can find nothing in the description to say that it does use a GPU. However, if you share with us where you found that, the techs may be able to correct it (assuming it's a WCG-owned page). Got any WUs yet? |
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MomchilAndonov
Cruncher Joined: Aug 30, 2012 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I still didn't received a single task from this project although it's the only one ticked in My Projects tab.
To my surprise I wasn't able to find claim that it would use GPU. My only explanation is that I subconsciously misread CPU as GPU so excuse me if this was the case :D... |
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Seoulpowergrid
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 12, 2013 Post Count: 823 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Being honest, there are a lot of us who want to use our GPU here as well but there are no WCG projects with GPU enabled. That's why I joined another project (SETI) so my cards can be used for that and my CPU cores be used here. :)
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you don't mind not using the BOINC platform, Folding@home has tons of GPU work available for cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, Ebola, and other medical things.
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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I use Folding for GPU work on my machines, and use BOINC for CPU work. That is with both Ubuntu and Windows. You just need to delete the "CPU" slot in the Folding client; otherwise, it will try to use your CPU too. (In fact, you have to do it a couple of times before the Folding client remembers the setting.) There can a few other curiosities in setting it up; ask on the Folding forum and you will get help, but it is quite reliable once set up properly.
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rbotterb
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Post Count: 401 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I've tried updates around 8 and 38 time slots with no luck for almost a week now. Is there a time of the day GMT when the project tends to put more WUs out for crunching? Hopefully it is not in the middle of the night for me, but that may be the issue why I'm coming up dry on requests for work. Any feedback on this would be much appreciated.
I'm still staying pretty full with the HIV-2 project WUs, but it would be nice to pick up a WU or two a week from this new project as well .... |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Somehow this morning I lucked into 5 ARP units across several machines. They are all on either 8 minutes after or 38 minutes after. It has been a couple of days since I had gotten any. I don't have a cron job set up, I just take them as they come or don't come. I would guess Uplinger still has not implemented the "release at random times" protocol.
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