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biini
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 334 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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And I seriously doubt it is primarily because people are genuinely interested in helping scientific research and making the world a better place, but more likely an [EDITED] contest to see who can earn the most points and show off to the world how superior they are with their BOINCstats signature. Yes. Greedy people are voluntarily donating their GPU and CPU time for free. Shame on them if they do this for a reason you wont tolerate. e: Btw, didn't find any clause at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool that says that you should not be using this tool, which is shipped with your default boinc client installation. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 3 times, last edit by caitilarkin at Apr 12, 2021 6:26:44 PM] |
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nanoprobe
Master Cruncher Classified Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Post Count: 2998 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just whipped up a fresh batch of popcorn 🍿
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Ian-n-Steve C.
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: May 15, 2020 Post Count: 180 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Sure, it's different to a DDoS webserver attack - but as Rom points out, it has the capability to become a database attack. However, BOINC is usually optimised to back out of work requests quickly without bothering the database when no work is available. I understand that WCG have significantly enhanced their server capacity in anticipation of the work surge, but we should dismantle the scripts once work has ramped up to flow freely. your link is in reference to submitting results (which can be done on ANY interval), not requesting work (which the interval is limited by the project). apples to oranges. not aimed at you directly, Richard: with software as highly configurable as boinc with hundreds of different ways to tweak it and run it to suit your individual needs, trying to say what is "normal use" is HIGHLY subjective.  EPYC 7V12 / [5] RTX A4000 EPYC 7B12 / [5] RTX 3080Ti + [2] RTX 2080Ti EPYC 7B12 / [6] RTX 3070Ti + [2] RTX 3060 [2] EPYC 7642 / [2] RTX 2080Ti [Edit 1 times, last edit by Ian-n-Steve C. at Apr 12, 2021 2:14:06 PM] |
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Ian-n-Steve C.
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: May 15, 2020 Post Count: 180 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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And I seriously doubt it is primarily because people are genuinely interested in helping scientific research and making the world a better place, but more likely an [EDITED] contest to see who can earn the most points and show off to the world how superior they are with their BOINCstats signature. Yes. Greedy people are voluntarily donating their GPU and CPU time for free. Shame on them if they do this for a reason you wont tolerate. e: Btw, didn't find any clause at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool that says that you should not be using this tool, which is shipped with your default boinc client installation. lol. and no different than all the WCG-specific signatures showing all their [EDITED] ;) oh the hue-manatee! EPYC 7V12 / [5] RTX A4000 EPYC 7B12 / [5] RTX 3080Ti + [2] RTX 2080Ti EPYC 7B12 / [6] RTX 3070Ti + [2] RTX 3060 [2] EPYC 7642 / [2] RTX 2080Ti [Edit 1 times, last edit by caitilarkin at Apr 12, 2021 6:27:44 PM] |
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biini
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 334 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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This second option only makes sense if you already have a VM running on the computer. For example, a few of my Windows machines have Linux VMs so I can run Linux-only when needed. Did this work? I have couple of extra VMs on my Win machine. do those VMs have GPUs passed through to them? this thread is about GPU work after all. GPU is run on the host machine, all CPU cores on VM(s). Or that's the impression I got. sorry, I misread your intent (had to go back and find the quoted response for context since this forum doesn't seem to leave you redirects back to them). I thought you were trying to increase your chances to get GPU work by making logical instances via VMs. This actually worked pretty well. VMs on host machine are dedicated to run CPU cores (I only use two Windows VMs on this, since this is propably a short term workaround. If this was a long term, I'd use several smaller linux VMs for better cpu scheduling) and the host itself has a dedicated profile to use GPU only. I've managed to snack GPU tasks every now and then. Running all cores on 2x windows VMs is roughly 10-20% slower, than running on a host machine alone. |
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Laserbait
Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 27, 2020 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi there!
----------------------------------------I have a Win 7 x64 box with a Radeon HD6450 using the WHQL 15.7.1 driver. For some reason WCG it says that it's unusable, even though it's Open CL 1.2 compatible. I realize it's old, but it seems to me that it should work fine. Did I just forget to enable something? 4/12/2021 9:01:01 AM | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6350/6450/7450/7470/R5 230 series (Caicos) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 1024MB, 991MB available, 400 GFLOPS peak) [Edit 1 times, last edit by Laserbait556 at Apr 12, 2021 3:44:06 PM] |
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Ian-n-Steve C.
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: May 15, 2020 Post Count: 180 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi there! I have a Win 7 x64 box with a Radeon HD6450 using the WHQL 15.7.1 driver. For some reason WCG it says that it's unusable, even though it's Open CL 1.2 compatible. I realize it's old, but it seems to me that it should work fine. Did I just forget to enable something? 4/12/2021 9:01:01 AM | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6350/6450/7450/7470/R5 230 series (Caicos) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 1024MB, 991MB available, 400 GFLOPS peak) 4/12/2021 9:01:01 AM | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6350/6450/7450/7470/R5 230 series (Caicos) (driver version 1800.8 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1800.8), 1024MB, 991MB available, 400 GFLOPS peak) 4/12/2021 9:19:10 AM | World Community Grid | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; AMD/ATI GPU: GPUs not usable) did you click the checkbox on your profile here on the website to allow AMD GPU work? go here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/device/...iguration.do?name=Default click Custom Profile, scroll down to the "Graphics Card Usage" section: Do work on my graphics card while computer is in use? >> YES Use my AMD/ATI graphics card if possible: >> YES EPYC 7V12 / [5] RTX A4000 EPYC 7B12 / [5] RTX 3080Ti + [2] RTX 2080Ti EPYC 7B12 / [6] RTX 3070Ti + [2] RTX 3060 [2] EPYC 7642 / [2] RTX 2080Ti [Edit 2 times, last edit by Ian-n-Steve C. at Apr 12, 2021 3:45:34 PM] |
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Blount
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Need more units. My machine is ready to process. It goes is spurts because no more 'units' are available.
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Laserbait
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did you click the checkbox on your profile here on the website to allow AMD GPU work? go here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/device/...iguration.do?name=Default click Custom Profile, scroll down to the "Graphics Card Usage" section: Do work on my graphics card while computer is in use? >> YES Use my AMD/ATI graphics card if possible: >> YES Thanks! Yes, and I am getting work occasionally on my Radeon R7 370 on my other machine. |
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Richard Haselgrove
Senior Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Feb 19, 2021 Post Count: 360 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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your link is in reference to submitting results (which can be done on ANY interval), not requesting work (which the interval is limited by the project). apples to oranges. But which are the apples, which are the oranges?Actually, the 'request work' query is much more server intensive (when there's work available) than reporting completed work. It involves checking your preferences for what you want to run, finding the best app version consistent with those, looking through the tasks in the feeder cache, checking that it isn't prohibited because you can't be your own wingmate, and so on. Reports just update the existing records. not aimed at you directly, Richard: But you also need to tweak it and run it to suit the project's needs - it's their science, after all, and their server. Yes, I'm running the scripts, for now - partly because I've worked out how to run the tasks which cause the iGPUs to fail, and this project has configured those 'normal' server settings to require a matching re-issue.with software as highly configurable as boinc with hundreds of different ways to tweak it and run it to suit your individual needs, trying to say what is "normal use" is HIGHLY subjective. |
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