High-Speed Linux-BRP-App for Raspberry Pi 3

N30dG
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Hello, If finished my

Hello,

If finished my testings, and unfortunately I wasn't able to readjust your problem.

  1. flashed a new downloaded image of jessie-lite to my SD-card (from the raspberry website).
  2. apt-get update & upgrade
  3. apt-get install boinc-client
  4. attached boinc to einstein
  5. copy the out-of-place & app_info.xml to projects/einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
  6. systemctl restart boinc-client

Everythink works like expected. Finished some WU. No system-freezes, No restarts.

 

After that I've upgraded to debian stretch. Same result, No freezes, No restarts. Runtimes are equal to jessie. (I've only tested with the out-of-place not the 1.47beta)

 

I really don't know what causes that problem -.- If you using a heatsink + fan without a case I don't think that this problem is heat-related. But as ROBL said: make some temp readings. feeling is not a good measure-method (as weber & fechner discovered Wink)

 

The only thing that I can offer you. If your Internet-connection is good enough and you have some webspace/cloud-storage that is big enough. Make a image of your SD-card, compress it and upload it. Then I can test your setup here on my PI.

Please change passwords (root/user) to somethink that you can give to me and detach boinc from you einstein account, befor making the image.

PG3.14
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First 4 tasks completed on

First 4 tasks completed on one of my RPI3. Still pending. Times were 20.3k-21k. I will report if they do NOT clear pending.

 

Thanks!!

PorkyPies
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N30dG wrote:I really don't

N30dG wrote:

I really don't know what causes that problem -.- If you using a heatsink + fan without a case I don't think that this problem is heat-related. But as ROBL said: make some temp readings. feeling is not a good measure-method (as weber & fechner discovered Wink)

vcgencmd says its hovering between 51.5 and 52.6 degrees so I don't think its overheating. It also says its running at 1.2Ghz so certainly doesn't appear to be down-clocking.

 

I have downgraded another Pi to Jessie-Lite and its currently running some 1.47 beta tasks. They look like they will come in around 42k seconds as before. After that i'll put the out-of-place app on it and see if it breaks. My process goes something like this:

1. Write Jessie-Lite (2016-05-27 version) to SD card

2. Boot Pi3 off card, use raspi-config to expand partition, set new password, change device name, set locale and timezone and finally reduce GPU memory to 16Mb. Reboot

3. Do an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get remove x11-*, apt-get autoremove

4. Install boinc-client from repo and setup remote_hosts & gui_rpc_auth. Restart BOINC.

5. Using BOINCtasks on windows PC get it attached to Einstein and were off and running.

For the optimised app I ran the cache down, stopped BOINC and then installed it as per instructions. Restarted BOINC and allowed work.

 

N30dG
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@PG3.14: No Problem, I never

@PG3.14:

No Problem, I never saw invalids but feel free to report any issues you've got Smile

 

@PORKYPIES:

Temperatures looks good. I've followed your installation process, with only one exception: I don't waited to ran the cache down, simply abort tasks and switch to out-of-place.  At the moment it run's for over 1h without any issues. But I let it complete at least 8 WU's.

The last think I can imagine to causing that is the powersupply. I've done some measurements about this, using a Agilent 34410A BenchTop-Multimeter (6.5 digit).

Setup:

Multimeter: 10 NLPC; Manual Range 1A; 30min WarmUp-time; 30,000 Values for getting min, max & avg

PI: standart clock&voltage; using your installation-process


Results:

1.47 NEON Beta:

U = 5.08390 V to 5.08394 V

IAVG = 509.53 mA

IMin = 434.1429 mA

IMax = 829.0054 mA


out-of-place:

U = 5.08389 V to 5.08394 V

IAVG = 542.80 mA

IMin = 398.0517 mA

IMax = 999.7005 mA


In this case we should focus on the Imax-Values. The are around 170mA higher as running the 1.47, that have suprised me. I expected not such a big difference. The Values are bouncing between min & max very fast (gone down to 0.006 NLPC to get faster readings). - To lazy to connect my DSO to get some freq-readings. - You should use a good Powersupply that can handle the fast load-ripple, without dropping or increasing the Voltage too much.

I don't know if that's the Problem. I only poking around as long as I can't readjust the Problem. And it seem's that only you have these Problem. But I'm shure that we can find it. It's only a matter of time. Smile


And sorry for my english, It's not good I know...

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@N30DG: Excellent job

@N30DG: Excellent job ! 

Thank you.

PorkyPies
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I suspect the first one I

I suspect the first one I tried it on might be a faulty Pi3. I had some problems with it early on but it seems happy with the project supplied app at the moment. Its #9 in my little cluster.

 

I've just switched #1 over to running the out of place app, its still going after 5 minutes so that's a good sign. Power supply for most of them are the official 2A ones (they recommend 2.5A now). The remaining 3 are plugged into a 40w 5 port charger but none of them have been updated yet. I am running down the caches for the others at the moment and will switch them over as they finish.

N30dG
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Okay, hopefully the new one

Okay, hopefully the new one will do it :)

You maybe can rescue the broken one by give it a little bit more voltage to the core/memory or clocking it down a few Mhz.

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committed the remaining 3

committed the remaining 3 Pi3s to the new application.

PorkyPies
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N30dG wrote:Okay, hopefully

N30dG wrote:

Okay, hopefully the new one will do it :)

You maybe can rescue the broken one by give it a little bit more voltage to the core/memory or clocking it down a few Mhz.

#1 has completed its first 4 work units using out of place without any issues. Updated #2 and its still going so looks good. Remainder of cluster running down caches (except the faulty #9). I think I will leave the faulty one running the stock app.

Thanks for the app and your help.

PorkyPies
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Updated 8 of them. Ended up

Updated 8 of them. Ended up using the in-place after watching a task get bumped out because there wasn't enough memory for the operating system to run stuff.

 

#3 has thrown a couple of signal 11 errors, not sure if that means its a faulty Pi as well.

https://einsteinathome.org/task/576672632

https://einsteinathome.org/task/576542536

 

[edit]

Two minutes later and the Pi has locked up, so looks like another faulty one. Back to running the stock app on it too.

 

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