Message boards : Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) : No tasks in quite a while.
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Used to have several running at once. Now, for the past several weeks, nothing. I've even expanded the amount of disk space for GPU. | |
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Used to have several running at once. Now, for the past several weeks, nothing. I've even expanded the amount of disk space for GPU. The only work available is the ATMbeta tasks of which there has been plenty for weeks. Do you have those tasks selected in Preference along with the mandatory accept beta tasks? | |
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Beta tasks? | |
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Couldn't find anything saying Beta. | |
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Couldn't find anything saying Beta. go here: https://gpugrid.net/prefs.php?subset=project and edit your preferences to "Run test applications" = yes and make sure the checkbox for "ATM (beta)" is selected "test" = "beta" ____________ | |
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Thank You! It worked, have 2 tasks now. Any other suggestions welcome. Your replies aren't notifying me, only if I happen to logon. | |
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Read the main thread on these tasks in News >> ATM | |
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I have over a TB of space for GPU, but no projects. | |
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Current tasks are still the few acemd and the new Quantum Chemistry on gpu tasks. | |
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There are WUs in progress but for about a month they always go to someone else. I wonder if I need to set BOINC to not run other projects atm, or some kind of nag addon to BOINC that makes it hammer the server for requests every minute or so. We don't seem to be getting work to those who don't have tasks already. | |
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There are WUs in progress but for about a month they always go to someone else. I wonder if I need to set BOINC to not run other projects atm, or some kind of nag addon to BOINC that makes it hammer the server for requests every minute or so. We don't seem to be getting work to those who don't have tasks already. I had the same issue, nothing for over a month despite others getting constant tasks and despite creating an aggressive 'request work' script for gpugrid. But I think I've found the reason - and it may apply to you, or at least it couldn't harm to check. When I enabled the 'work_fetch_debug' flag in the BoincMgr event log, I noticed messages saying "tasks won't finish on time". When I checked my computer details on gpugrid.net, the 'task duration correction factor' was set to a ridiculously high value. Solution: removed gpugrid project from my BoincMgr, deleted the computer record in my account on gpugrid.net, reattached and hey presto! Got a workunit! Worth a try? | |
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Probably a holdover from previously running the acemd tasks. | |
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Probably a holdover from previously running the acemd tasks. It seems to be a bit more complicated than that. I tried the client_state.xml route several times before, without any success. Now, after that single windows task which predictably failed - see the News section topic for that - I once again get "won't finish in time" messages. Even though my dcf is still at 1... It could also be an issue in the expected flops/task settings for windows tasks. In any case, when I began crunching ATM tasks some months ago, I used to get dozens of tasks without issue, then one day that changed and the "on time" issue started. Strange... | |
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Make sure you actually have run BOINC benchmarks on your host. If you don't, the client will report the default low 1,000,000 FLOPS value for the host. | |
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Make sure you actually have run BOINC benchmarks on your host. If you don't, the client will report the default low 1,000,000 FLOPS value for the host. I'm at 5000+ million flops and 25000 million iops, so a fair bit higher than your computers, with a dcf of 0.01 and still get "won't finish on time" messages... https://www.gpugrid.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=617069 Any other theories? | |
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The last time I ran a 1080 Ti, the project only had the single acemd3 executable which only took a couple of hours max to compute. | |
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Any other theories? Yes. Try setting "Store at least XX days of work" parameter as low as possible for BOINC Manager to start requesting for GPU work. A detailed explanation can be found at Message #54300. | |
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The last time I ran a 1080 Ti, the project only had the single acemd3 executable which only took a couple of hours max to compute. On average, my 1080Ti took 5hrs to complete an ATM WU, so I completed just shy of 5 WU's per day. This was back in October, when I still received them. So GPU age/performance is definitely not the issue. Unless of course they changed the WU size recently. | |
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Any other theories? Allright! Now that is excellent advice, as I did indeed increase my work buffer at some point. And it did the trick allright, I got new WU's now. Thanks, man! | |
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The last time I ran a 1080 Ti, the project only had the single acemd3 executable which only took a couple of hours max to compute. Yes, Steve said they did indeed increase the size of the tasks so they run longer now. Was only 50 atoms originally and is now doubled to 100. | |
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I think that was even earlier, before October, because judging from the WU I coerced into running now (through some job.xml/run.bat shenanigans ;-) ) I will still finish in less than 5 hours. 1 hour runtime now and already at 22% | |
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Message boards : Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) : No tasks in quite a while.