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Good thing I stayed up late tonight, water loop has a tiny leak on my main pc 💦

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3 hours ago, SkillzTA said:

Yes its normal for that Primegrid sub project. Just make sure you're not running too many tasks at once otherwise it will be really, really long. The task utilizes 21.5MB of L3 cache. So look up your processor and see how much L3 it has. Make sure the task(s) will fit 100% within' that number. If it's an AMD processor then you need to look at the cache of the CCX. Zen2 and earlier have 16MB L3 cache. Not good for this Subproject. Zen3 and newer have 32MB of L3 cache (some more with the X3D parts) so you can safely run 1 task per CCX. Just make sure multi-threading is enabled and it's using all the cores in that specific CCX.

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I changed my strategy then, instead of 16 cpus. i provisioned 3 machines, with 32MB L3 each with 4 cores 8gb ram. limit to 1 task per server, utilization seems way higher

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3 hours ago, Lightwreather said:

Just an update: I've switched to bunkering Ramanujani

I tried that. But Ramanujan refuses to give me any points for my work. I'm just working on primegrid and numberfields rn.image.png.fd4b37a60cfa81210531f2013c36d5c1.png

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Was finally able to move some systems over to Numbers

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10 minutes ago, AamirA said:

I tried that. But Ramanujan refuses to give me any points for my work. I'm just working on primegrid and numberfields rn.

Going via the Pentathlon chat you need to run the BOINC benchmark first before requesting any work, after attaching to the project possibly.

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31 minutes ago, AamirA said:

I tried that. But Ramanujan refuses to give me any points for my work. I'm just working on primegrid and numberfields rn.image.png.fd4b37a60cfa81210531f2013c36d5c1.png

 

That screenshot shows points. It's not a lot, sure, but the project itself isn't going to issue large points like the PG CUL tasks. As leadeater said, you NEED to run the BOINC built-in benchmark because the project uses CreditScrew, I mean CreditNew to calculate points and that's based off the results of the benchmark on your host.

boinccmd --run_banchmarks

boinccmd --host ip:port --passwd password --run_benchmarks

 

Make sure nothing is running on the CPU when you do this (or as little as possible).

 

Project doesn't need to be attached to run the benchmark. 

After the benchmark, next time the host communicates with the project it will update the benchmark.

Tasks downloaded BEFORE the benchmark will not be updated. So benchmark FIRST before downloading tasks.

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25 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Was finally able to move some systems over to Numbers

 

Good, glad you got some stuff on there. Let's get them crunching now!

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15 minutes ago, SkillzTA said:

 

Good, glad you got some stuff on there. Let's get them crunching now!

Numbers is one of my favorite projects to run, the tasks are nice on CPU and GPU and don't take forever.

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running number now finale and  seeing how it plays out.

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9 hours ago, SkillzTA said:

boinccmd --host ip:port --passwd password --run_benchmarks

Just a quick question, is the host the machine running boinc?

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48 minutes ago, Lightwreather said:

Just a quick question, is the host the machine running boinc?

Yes, --host need to be supplied the BOINC computer address information to connect to it. You don't have to do it using boinccmd though. You can do it using the BOINC Manager GUI also.

 

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Hi all, I've been having some issues with NumberFields@Home. I've created an account for it through BAM and joined LinusTechTips_Team. I've also attached it to my machine and it appears in the BOINC Manager. However, in the manager it seems unable to find my account or start any work.

 

I checked on numberfields website last night and I could login to my account there, but now the website appears to be down...

 

any ideas?

 

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Ughh BOINC on Windows sucks for multi socket systems. Spent yesterday getting and making sure PrimeGrid tasks run correctly on each CPU, today nope and tasks eta for many days. Wish the project people gave a little more love and time in to making sure their processes are NUMA aware and handle it more correctly on Windows, dreams are free. 

 

Anyway moved all these problem Windows systems over to Numbers plus most of my other ones too.

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3 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

I checked on numberfields website last night and I could login to my account there, but now the website appears to be down...

Keep trying, the site goes up and down all the time. Check your project preferences and make sure CPU and GPU is enabled, whichever or both you want to do.

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15 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Ughh BOINC on Windows sucks for multi socket systems. Spent yesterday getting and making sure PrimeGrid tasks run correctly on each CPU, today nope and tasks eta for many days. Wish the project people gave a little more love and time in to making sure their processes are NUMA aware and handle it more correctly on Windows, dreams are free. 

 

Anyway moved all these problem Windows systems over to Numbers plus most of my other ones too.

and that why am not running my tr builds with prime.

its all gpu stuff.

then none tr build got the prime grid wu

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31 minutes ago, dogwitch said:

and that why am not running my tr builds with prime.

its all gpu stuff.

then none tr build got the prime grid wu

The PrimeGrid sub project for the event is CPU only.

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Ah, is it weird I'm not downloading anymore Ramanujan tasks? It's being like this for a couple hours…

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1 hour ago, leadeater said:

Yes, --host need to be supplied the BOINC computer address information to connect to it. You don't have to do it using boinccmd though. You can do it using the BOINC Manager GUI also.

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59 minutes ago, leadeater said:

The PrimeGrid sub project for the event is CPU only.

it gets toast warm if i load up all cores . in fl room get hot.

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2 hours ago, leadeater said:

Ughh BOINC on Windows sucks for multi socket systems. Spent yesterday getting and making sure PrimeGrid tasks run correctly on each CPU, today nope and tasks eta for many days. Wish the project people gave a little more love and time in to making sure their processes are NUMA aware and handle it more correctly on Windows, dreams are free. 

 

Anyway moved all these problem Windows systems over to Numbers plus most of my other ones too.

Were you using process lasso on the windows hosts?

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1 hour ago, dogwitch said:

it gets toast warm if i load up all cores . in fl room get hot.

Winter(ish) here so that's exactly what I want, heattttt

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31 minutes ago, SkillzTA said:

Were you using process lasso on the windows hosts?

Nah, but they can just run other stuff. Installing Linux on them is less than 15 mins, as you can tell I'm lazy 😉

 

Would be nice if I could commandeer the 18 2x 7713 hosts at work that have next to no CPU usage on them but that would get me in a lot of trouble haha.

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37 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Winter(ish) here so that's exactly what I want, heattttt

its north of 100 here...

me no want heat....

i have deploy number on all 3 boxs.

only cpu on said box i ref.

number like 2070 and 80s

takes way to long for a 1060

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Ramanujan seems to be playing the "hard to get" game and only giving as few WUs as possible at a time...

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19 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Ramanujan seems to be playing the "hard to get" game and only giving as few WUs as possible at a time...

lets see how it does after everyone unloads their bunked WUs 😅

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Also on (of course) my main machine it gets the estimate grossly wrong and that seems to only give a fraction of the credit, and can't seem to fix it... unless it's that it doesn't like you not giving it all of your resources, hmm

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