EM searches, BRP Raidiopulsar and FGRP Gamma-Ray Pulsar

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Peter Hucker of the Scottish

Peter Hucker of the Scottish Boinc Team wrote:

I was delighted to see a BRP7 column created, should I be expecting some new radio work on GPUs shortly?

Still working on it, development is a bit hindered by COVID and vacation period. The launch is currentkly targeted for Aug 1.

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Bernd Machenschalk

Bernd Machenschalk wrote:

Still working on it, development is a bit hindered by COVID and vacation period. The launch is currentkly targeted for Aug 1.

Excellent news.   I saw 20 queued tasks, so I assume something is progressing nicely.  These will work on any Nvidia and AMD GPU?

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Uh oh.  In 2038 Boinc will

Uh oh.  In 2038 Boinc will cease to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

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Peter Hucker of the Scottish

Peter Hucker of the Scottish Boinc Team wrote:

Uh oh.  In 2038 Boinc will cease to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem 

Rut row!!! I'm guessing this is just a small part of why they wanted to go to a fully 64bit version before they lost their funding and had to find other ways of supporting their lifestyles. HOPEFULLY they are STILL thinking about this and how to upgrade that section, and how it relates to everything else, to 64bit. Some version of Boinc though would need a 'compatibility thingy' to support things like all the 32bit things that use Boinc today, ie tablets, Chrome Books, lots of phones, R-Pi's etc that all crunch. At least the newer R-Pi's though can be run in 64bit compatibility mode with no problem which may even point to a way to fix the bug.

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mikey wrote:Rut row!!! I'm

mikey wrote:

Rut row!!! I'm guessing this is just a small part of why they wanted to go to a fully 64bit version before they lost their funding and had to find other ways of supporting their lifestyles. HOPEFULLY they are STILL thinking about this and how to upgrade that section, and how it relates to everything else, to 64bit. Some version of Boinc though would need a 'compatibility thingy' to support things like all the 32bit things that use Boinc today, ie tablets, Chrome Books, lots of phones, R-Pi's etc that all crunch. At least the newer R-Pi's though can be run in 64bit compatibility mode with no problem which may even point to a way to fix the bug.

It never ceases to amaze me how little forward thinking programmers and designers have.  We're constantly encountering limits of RAM, disk size, dates, it's beyond a joke.  They could have planned further ahead than that.

P.S. I had to look up rut row - Scooby Doo?

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Ian&Steve C. wrote: Peter

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Peter Hucker of the Scottish Boinc Team wrote:

Gravity I think was GPU only

 

Gravitational Wave O3AS search was GPU-only.

However, the earlier O2MD search had both CPU and GPU tasks.

 

I missed the O2MD search due to other commitments.

However Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 on GPUs (FGRPB1G) for a short time was also CPU and GPU, mainly to test that the GPU results were valid, then CPU was halted.

It was that work unit type that I was referring to as I wanted to run more but ran out of time when the CPU was disabled.

Anyway I will process what is delivered as I can't change how things are.

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Peter Hucker of the Scottish

Peter Hucker of the Scottish Boinc Team wrote:

mikey wrote:

Rut row!!! I'm guessing this is just a small part of why they wanted to go to a fully 64bit version before they lost their funding and had to find other ways of supporting their lifestyles. HOPEFULLY they are STILL thinking about this and how to upgrade that section, and how it relates to everything else, to 64bit. Some version of Boinc though would need a 'compatibility thingy' to support things like all the 32bit things that use Boinc today, ie tablets, Chrome Books, lots of phones, R-Pi's etc that all crunch. At least the newer R-Pi's though can be run in 64bit compatibility mode with no problem which may even point to a way to fix the bug.

It never ceases to amaze me how little forward thinking programmers and designers have.  We're constantly encountering limits of RAM, disk size, dates, it's beyond a joke.  They could have planned further ahead than that.

P.S. I had to look up rut row - Scooby Doo?

Yes to both but I do understand a little bit of why the limitations in hardware or software it's simply easier to make it work now and then let someone else patch it later when the problem becomes more real. As for ram and disk etc limitations why plan for things like that when you can just sell them a new one because their current model doesn't support that brand new 3PB drive?

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Conan wrote: I missed the

Conan wrote:

I missed the O2MD search due to other commitments.

However Gamma-ray pulsar binary search #1 on GPUs (FGRPB1G) for a short time was also CPU and GPU, mainly to test that the GPU results were valid, then CPU was halted.

It was that work unit type that I was referring to as I wanted to run more but ran out of time when the CPU was disabled.

Anyway I will process what is delivered as I can't change how things are.

Conan

I thought FGRP5 was still running on CPU?  A seperate queue of gamma.  Not sure why it's seperate but I've had it along with BRP4 and BRP4G on CPU recently (a couple of weeks ago I think).

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mikey wrote: Yes to both but

mikey wrote:

Yes to both but I do understand a little bit of why the limitations in hardware or software it's simply easier to make it work now and then let someone else patch it later when the problem becomes more real. As for ram and disk etc limitations why plan for things like that when you can just sell them a new one because their current model doesn't support that brand new 3PB drive?

Because when I buy a motherboard and it's advertised as taking much larger drives I'll buy that one instead because it's more future proof.

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