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wabr101
Cruncher Joined: Dec 16, 2005 Post Count: 16 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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FYI
On my 7 year old i7-7700 these betas are giving me .5% after 18 hours and are showing days remaining, several months out at least. Processor speed is also cycling. I aborted the tasks. Am looking forward to MAM, and arthritis work , but hopefully this gets fixed. Also would like to see my GPU used. Thanks in advance. |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1684 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi wabr101,
----------------------------------------the CPU type is not as important in the particular case. I had some Beta MAM WUs perfectly computed within a reasonable time: i.e. from 20 minutes to about 2 hours. On the same hosts, I experience some Beta MAM WUs sticking more or less forever: 0.5% progress is one case, sometime it sticks at 3.5% progress. I noticed that in such cases, the vast majority of the failing WUs does not properly checkpoint. Beside those WUs, I have some other Beta MAM WUs taking more than 24 hours. I am not sure, if the scientists were aware about such huge variability regarding the necessary computation time. In the past, with IBM, we did experienced such cases as well with some new projects and finally, the problem has been solved prior going to production. We should look in the Forum history to find again such discussions with great explanations from Kevin et all. Cheers, Yves |
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2493 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@KerSamson
The scientists are aware of the huge variability in runtime. Read the news from the team, on the following link, under the "Operational Status" tab: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html |
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alanb1951
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Post Count: 1317 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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[Sigh...] Where is the WCG-initiated thread intended for all discussion of [a given stage of] the Beta testing process??? A "new" beta-tester won't know which of the various user-started threads to search or to post to, so there are lots of similar questions and responses in about half a dozen threads now!
This isn't intended as a criticism of the users, by the way. And I note that several of us have been making this point for a while now :-) Cheers - Al. |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1460 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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on Windows i've got several tasks, and i noticed they all got exactly 0.5% after more than a day of computation. At that time CPU usage was about 10h
----------------------------------------I restarted BOINC Manager, and immediately 2 of such tasks failed with "Out of memory" in task logs My computer has 16GB memory and it is only busy with BOINC So far no successful result on Windows -- At the same time several Linux tasks finished fine, with different times |
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