Boinc Pentathlon

hanluc · 3 May 2015 at 12:31

verbal said:
So are the six of us on list already bunkering?

Well I am

same projects as you.

I've got WCG and Einstein units (just in case) waiting to go. When will they announce the GPU project?

I don't know, I would guess half way through but it's only as guess.

We could also do with some more members.

Agreed, I thought there would be more but I did announce it late, may be when it gets going there will be more interest.

PDW · 3 May 2015 at 20:24

I wasn't planning on bunkering but it seems the WCG well is either dry or broken with no new tasks for any of the projects being given out

So even if I wanted to build up a large enough cache to get past the start line I can't now.

andy_taximan · 3 May 2015 at 21:35

Just added wgc on main pc and yeh, no wu`s atm, will try malaria next
EDIT: well no tasks on that either atm, ah well its weekend , edit ooo i just got some malaria

hanluc · 4 May 2015 at 07:01

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/category/boinc-pentathlon/

The third GPU Cross country discipline has been announced

Einstein@home

Starts Saturday.

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Anyone bunkering WCG/malaria workunits and Einstein should add (see EDIT2) to their hosts file to stop Einstein from reporting when reporting the other project's tasks.

EDIT: I've just realised that it still uploads, I need to find out the specific upload server address.
EDIT2: OK I've found 5 servers in my client_state.xml, I don't know if there are any more.

127.0.0.1 einstein1.aei.uni-hannover.de
127.0.0.1 einstein2.aei.uni-hannover.de
127.0.0.1 einstein4.aei.uni-hannover.de
127.0.0.1 einstein5.aei.uni-hannover.de
127.0.0.1 einstein6.aei.uni-hannover.de

I also added server 3 in for good measure and can confirm my einstein work units failed to upload.

andy_taximan · 4 May 2015 at 08:35

hanluc said:
http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/category/boinc-pentathlon/

Anyone bunkering WCG/malaria workunits and Einstein should add ' 127.0.0.1 einstein.phys.uwm.edu ' to their hosts file to stop Einstein from reporting when reporting the other project's tasks.

Easier said then done lol, Cant get any WCG and what/were hosts file?

hanluc · 4 May 2015 at 09:07

andy_taximan said:
Easier said then done lol, Cant get any WCG and what/were hosts file?

In Windows, open notepad as administrator, then from notepad navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc there's a file in there called 'hosts' open it and add the lines (see my post above for server addresses) save and restart your pc. Test it by pinging one of the server address (run cmd.exe/ ping einstein4.aei.uni-hannover.de (for e.g.) if it comes back 127.0.0.1 it's working, remove the lines or comment it out (add # in front) when you want to upload to Einstein.

I have way more WCG work past the start time, I wouldn't have thought a massive project like that would have ran dry because of the Pentathlon, like you said it's probably because it's the weekend.

I have noticed in Malaria it's best not to set your cache too high, If you get a "boinc can't complete in time" message in the event log then it's too high, I have mine at 3.3 days.

verbal · 4 May 2015 at 10:51

Is there a way to download more Einstein work without uploading the units I've completed?

hanluc · 4 May 2015 at 11:07

verbal said:
Is there a way to download more Einstein work without uploading the units I've completed?

What I've written above should work as It will only block the upload server.

verbal · 4 May 2015 at 11:16

Excellent, thanks

andy_taximan · 4 May 2015 at 12:58

RE WCG https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38005

EDIT: joined Einstein@Home as well now

EDIT: ok plenty WCG now

Voicon · 4 May 2015 at 20:14

Can't bunker no access to servers where atm

hanluc · 4 May 2015 at 22:12

Voicon said:
Can't bunker no access to servers where atm

Not to worry, at least you're in.

Kick off is in just under 3 hours (1am our time)
Good luck everybody!

verbal · 4 May 2015 at 23:10

Looks like I got almost the perfect amount of work. Last task has 42 mins to run.

andy_taximan · 5 May 2015 at 06:37

This is how we are doing:

http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/pentathlon.php?&lang=en

hanluc · 5 May 2015 at 08:28

http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/category/boinc-pentathlon/

The "surprise" CPU discipline has been announced, yoyo@home, runs for 7 days , see 1st post.

MGP · 5 May 2015 at 10:46

Not sure that I can offer that great a contribution, but I'll set the couple of computers I have available to do WGC and Einstein once they get over their current work - they were chasing down Mr Hanluc in Asteroids, and getting very close

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Not sure with Einstein on the best settings. I see that it's supposed to be GPU for this challenge, yet there are CPU WUs too?

Voicon · 5 May 2015 at 11:11

All my clients were showing connection deferred for ages but some are now running, not sure what that was all about??

andy_taximan · 5 May 2015 at 12:16

Anybody know how to make Einstein@Home use all 3 gpu`s?
05/05/2015 12:03:35 | | Running under account andy
05/05/2015 12:03:35 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX TITAN X (driver version 350.12, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 4096MB available, 6611 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 12:03:35 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1 (not used): GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 3.5, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 12:03:35 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 2 (not used): GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 3.5, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 12:03:35 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX TITAN X (driver version 350.12, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 12288MB, 4096MB available, 6611 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 12:03:35 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1 (ignored by config): GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 12:03:35 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 2 (ignored by config): GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)

and i wonder why it says ONLY 4 gig on the titan?

EDIT: Sorted, got all 3 running, cc_config.xml was needed

05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX TITAN X (driver version 350.12, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 5.2, 4096MB, 4096MB available, 6611 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 3.5, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, CUDA version 7.0, compute capability 3.5, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX TITAN X (driver version 350.12, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 12288MB, 4096MB available, 6611 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 2: GeForce GTX 780 (driver version 350.12, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 3072MB, 2925MB available, 4636 GFLOPS peak)
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | Host name: Big1
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | Processor: 16 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz [Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2]
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 vmx tm2 dca pbe fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1: Core x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00)
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | Memory: 15.90 GB physical, 31.90 GB virtual
05/05/2015 13:00:11 | | Disk: 476.42 GB total, 297.98 GB free

PDW · 5 May 2015 at 12:36

Do you have this...

<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>

in your cc_config.xml file (in the ProgramData\Boinc folder) ?

Also, are you running multiple tasks on each card ?
These are set up in Einstein Preference.

PDW · 5 May 2015 at 12:38

andy_taximan said:
and i wonder why it says ONLY 4 gig on the titan?

Like a 970 only worse