Formula Boinc - Sprint #6 from 23/05/2019 22:00 (UTC) to 26/05/2019 21:59 (UTC)

PDW · 22 May 2019 at 12:40

Project will be announced 22/05/2019 22:00 (UTC), that's tonight at 11pm UK time

andy_taximan · 22 May 2019 at 23:04

Amicable Numbers . Well dont all rush, with only 1002 tasks ready to send its gona be fun

PDW · 22 May 2019 at 23:04

It is Amicable Numbers

hanluc · 22 May 2019 at 23:13

Is amicable worth running on the CPU?

andy_taximan · 22 May 2019 at 23:34

My server is sitting on 64tasks-waiting for memory , dont know if its doing anything lol

hanluc · 23 May 2019 at 10:30

hanluc said:
Is amicable worth running on the CPU?

Is it worth running the GPU should have been the question as the performance now is pants to what it was, I see why from what pdw said.

I Couldn't work out what to run last night and it was late so I've just started now running open as I'm only getting 8 tasks before reaching my limit.

PDW · 23 May 2019 at 11:12

The tasks on the CPU are multi-threaded aren't they, how many are you running per WU ?

hanluc · 23 May 2019 at 11:46

PDW said:
The tasks on the CPU are multi-threaded aren't they, how many are you running per WU ?

The maximum, I've not tested splitting the cores. The 72t is doing them in 600 secs each. The 56t twice as slow which is not right but that's on windows so I'll try it on Linux in a bit.

hanluc · 23 May 2019 at 12:16

hanluc said:
I'm only getting 8 tasks before reaching my limit.

What a doughnut, I had it set to max of 8 tasks in the preferences

Got 144 now.

hanluc · 23 May 2019 at 14:22

Switch the 56t machine from windows to linux and it's now 30% quicker.

andy_taximan · 23 May 2019 at 19:59

my server did all mine but errored, o well

hanluc · 23 May 2019 at 20:48

andy_taximan said:
my server did all mine but errored, o well

What was the error message? It should say on the AN web site.

PDW · 23 May 2019 at 20:58

The only errors he has say: 203 (0x000000CB) EXIT_ABORTED_VIA_GUI

xii5ku · 23 May 2019 at 21:02

Good evening.
Greetings from beyond the channel...

Hopefully this sprint will be going a bit more, how to put it --- amicable? --- than the previous one.

Re errors, I had two tasks dying yesterday with "SIGSEV: segmentation violation". I suspect it had to do with me accidentally exceeding the available RAM and swap.

PDW · 23 May 2019 at 21:19

Welcome

If only this project was more amicable !

I haven't uploaded any, they could all be bad :eek:

I had to wait for some NFS tasks to finish on all the boxes after finding how much memory the AN tasks wanted. It's possible the early ones I moved over could have run short, nothing stalled so I'm hopeful.

PDW · 24 May 2019 at 00:10

Well, well, well, this makes a pleasant change

We are currently in second place after the first hourly update...

xii5ku · 24 May 2019 at 17:59

hanluc · 24 May 2019 at 21:51

xii5ku said:
It's a bumpy ride so far.

Look at GC, steady as a rock, completely oblivious to any FB sprint going on but affecting the result. Like with the pentathlon I'd like to see them removed from FB.

PDW · 24 May 2019 at 22:11

Join the dark side you must the bumpy ride to see :eek:

xii5ku · 24 May 2019 at 23:46

Was the image not publicly visible? I replaced it with an Imgur URL now.