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Forum: We're Moving to Krembil Research Institute!
Thread: WCG Data Transfer Underway, Stress Test of New Infrastructure Scheduled For Feb 28th |
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2069 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I wrote yesterday:
----------------------------------------I have a number of troublesome tasks. One is still in Pending Verification state since a few days ago while its wingman has already passed validation, also a few days ago: workunit 150845927: ($ wcgstats -wI -=OPN1_0109418_02082) App: OpenPandemics - COVID 19 Well, this one went off the radar after two days waiting for validation/verification, never received a new wingman (if that was needed), and was never awarded any credit  ...... while all the other ones that I mentioned in my post were validated. [Edit 1 times, last edit by adriverhoef at Feb 22, 2022 9:40:52 AM] |
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There has been no clarification re the nature of the upcoming stress test of the Krembil servers on Feb 28.
----------------------------------------Will the test use only internal clusters of devices, or will normal WUs be issued to volunteers? Will the test include GPUs? When IBM conducted stress testing near the start of GPU computing of the OPN work, the servers were initially jammed with the huge numbers of WUs going out and their results returning, so I suggest that the answer should be "yes". Will volunteers need to have any special settings, eg beta testing enabled, to take part? How long will the stress test be active? In my case, I have powered off all devices except the one on which I am typing this message, and on it, BOINC is disabled. About 76% of the electricity here is generated by old coal-fired power stations. It makes no sense to keep idle computers powered on, especially ones with graphics cards. I expect that many volunteers have done similar things, and you may not get a full complement of devices online again for your test. Good luck [Edit 1 times, last edit by Rickjb at Feb 23, 2022 4:42:18 AM] |
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spRocket
Senior Cruncher Joined: Mar 25, 2020 Post Count: 251 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It makes no sense to keep idle computers powered on, especially ones with grpahics cards. I would note that an idle graphics card doesn't use a whole lot of power. On my GTX 960, nvidia-smi reports 12W of power consumption at idle, and about 70 or so when crunching OPNG work units. But every watt counts; that idle GPU is roughly the power consumption equivalent of a pair of Raspberry Pi 4s. |
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Robokapp
Senior Cruncher Joined: Feb 6, 2012 Post Count: 248 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Do we expect a large influx of work on the 28th? Should I keep my devices ready for a major influx as the day approaches?
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biini
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 334 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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16 ARPs (_4s and _5s) left, then it's all done.
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Bryn Mawr
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 26, 2018 Post Count: 331 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There has been no clarification re the nature of the upcoming stress test of the Krembil servers on Feb 28. Will the test use only internal clusters of devices, or will normal WUs be issued to volunteers? Will the test include GPUs? When IBM conducted stress testing near the start of GPU computing of the OPN work, the servers were initially jammed with the huge numbers of WUs going out and their results returning, so I suggest that the answer should be "yes". Will volunteers need to have any special settings, eg beta testing enabled, to take part? How long will the stress test be active? In my case, I have powered off all devices except the one on which I am typing this message, and on it, BOINC is disabled. About 76% of the electricity here is generated by old coal-fired power stations. It makes no sense to keep idle computers powered on, especially ones with grpahics cards. I expect that many volunteers have done similar things, and you may not get a full complement of devices online again for your test. Good luck A stress test of new hardware in a new data centre would normally be an internal test to allow for finer calibration of the loads involved. |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12120 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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All done and dusted. All validated.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7545 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Finally all validated sometime early this morning, probably prior to 12:00 UTC.
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Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Kyle Tinsley
Cruncher Joined: Dec 23, 2006 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Got one of those emails today from World Community Grid saying "It's been more than XX days since we received any research results from your registered device(s). We hope you'll start contributing again."
You think maybe you guys wanna turn those off until after the transition is completed? So that everyone who reads it doesn't waste their time going back into BOINC, repeatedly changing settings, trying to figure out WHY WCG ISN'T SENDING THEM ANY WORK... only to eventually google and discover that it was NEVER GOING TO because all work has been paused on the server side for weeks? |
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spRocket
Senior Cruncher Joined: Mar 25, 2020 Post Count: 251 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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A few last Raspberry Pi stragglers finished up, and it's all done. I'm honestly surprised I got anything all in for today.
The move sounds like a logistical nightmare... hope it all goes well. |
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