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This has now happened twice on two different machines and I thought someone might want to know.
I had machines doing SETI@Home AP work. That's it. No connection to Einstein at all. I installed the Lunatics' optimized applications and ran without problems.
I then attach to Einstein@Home and on the last machine I got BRP5 work with a "Time Remaining" estimate of 1 second. Several completed with "Computation Error" and I aborted the rest.
Now, of course, I have reached my daily quota so I can't tell if there's anything I can do to fix it.
This is the machine ID: ID: 7328010
The same thing was happening to me on a completely different machine when I tried to attach to Albert.
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In case anyone cares:
I wiped-out all vestiges of BOINC, deleted subdirectories, removed the registry entries, renamed the computer, reinstalled BOINC, re-attached to Einstein, received a work unit and the Estimated time showed as 3hrs 50 minutes and the work unit seems to be running normally.
ID: 11455994
In case anyone still cares;
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In case anyone still cares; it looks as though this task is going to take longer than the 3 hour and 50 minute estimate and will error-out with "Time Exceeded" yet again.
HD 6770 card (same as 5770), Win.8.1 Pro -32, Catalyst 14.4 (14.200.1004.0).
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for windows_intelx86
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Data directory: C:\BOINCProgramData
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Running under account Bret
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 5700/6750/6770 series (Juniper) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 1024MB, 991MB available, 2720 GFLOPS peak)
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 5700/6750/6770 series (Juniper) (driver version 1526.3 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1526.3), 1024MB, 991MB available, 2720 GFLOPS peak)
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | OpenCL CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (OpenCL driver vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., driver version 1526.3 (sse2), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1526.3))
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Creating new client state file
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Host name: AndreaDorea
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Processor: 2 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ [Family 15 Model 75 Stepping 2]
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 htt pni cx16 syscall nx lm svm rdtscp 3dnowext 3dnow
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1: Professional x86 Edition, (06.03.9600.00)
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Memory: 3.00 GB physical, 3.50 GB virtual
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Disk: 227.53 GB total, 206.06 GB free
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | No general preferences found - using defaults
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Preferences:
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | max memory usage when active: 1535.78MB
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 2764.40MB
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | max disk usage: 204.78GB
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | don't use GPU while active
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Not using a proxy
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | This computer is not attached to any projects
7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM | | Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
7/3/2014 11:18:27 PM | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use
7/3/2014 11:18:37 PM | | Fetching configuration file from http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/get_project_config.php
7/3/2014 11:19:09 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks
7/3/2014 11:19:09 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
7/3/2014 11:19:40 PM | | Benchmark results:
7/3/2014 11:19:40 PM | | Number of CPUs: 2
7/3/2014 11:19:40 PM | | 2168 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
7/3/2014 11:19:40 PM | | 3868 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
7/3/2014 11:19:41 PM | | Resuming computation
7/3/2014 11:19:44 PM | Einstein@Home | Master file download succeeded
7/3/2014 11:19:49 PM | Einstein@Home | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
7/3/2014 11:19:49 PM | Einstein@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and ATI
7/3/2014 11:19:54 PM | | Resuming GPU computation
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | Einstein@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | Einstein@Home | New computer location: home
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 23-Jan-2013 23:16:00)
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | Host location: none
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | General prefs: using your defaults
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | Preferences:
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | max memory usage when active: 1535.78MB
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 2764.40MB
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | max disk usage: 204.78GB
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | don't compute while active
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | don't use GPU while active
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
7/3/2014 11:19:58 PM | | Suspending file transfers - computer is in use
7/3/2014 11:19:59 PM | | Resuming file transfers
7/3/2014 11:20:00 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of einsteinbinary_BRP5_1.39_windows_intelx86__BRP5-opencl-ati.exe
7/3/2014 11:20:00 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_windows_intelx86.exe
7/3/2014 11:20:20 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_windows_intelx86.exe
7/3/2014 11:20:20 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of PB0025_00341_356.bin4
7/3/2014 11:20:24 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of PB0025_00341_356.bin4
7/3/2014 11:20:24 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of PB0025_00341_357.bin4
7/3/2014 11:20:26 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of einsteinbinary_BRP5_1.39_windows_intelx86__BRP5-opencl-ati.exe
7/3/2014 11:20:26 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of rand_BRP5b.bank
7/3/2014 11:20:28 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of PB0025_00341_357.bin4
7/3/2014 11:20:28 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of PB0025_00341.zap
7/3/2014 11:20:29 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of PB0025_00341.zap
7/3/2014 11:20:29 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of einstein_icon.png
7/3/2014 11:20:30 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of einstein_icon.png
7/3/2014 11:20:30 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of eah_slide_11.png
7/3/2014 11:20:31 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of eah_slide_11.png
7/3/2014 11:20:31 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of eah_slide_02.png
7/3/2014 11:20:32 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of eah_slide_02.png
7/3/2014 11:20:32 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of eah_slide_12.png
7/3/2014 11:20:33 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of eah_slide_12.png
7/3/2014 11:20:33 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of eah_slide_13.png
7/3/2014 11:20:34 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of eah_slide_13.png
7/3/2014 11:20:34 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of eah_slide_05.png
7/3/2014 11:20:35 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of eah_slide_05.png
7/3/2014 11:20:35 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of eah_slide_07.png
7/3/2014 11:20:37 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of eah_slide_07.png
7/3/2014 11:20:37 PM | Einstein@Home | Started download of eah_slide_08.png
7/3/2014 11:20:38 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of eah_slide_08.png
7/3/2014 11:20:49 PM | Einstein@Home | Finished download of rand_BRP5b.bank
7/3/2014 11:20:50 PM | Einstein@Home | Starting task PB0025_00341_356_1
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 23-Jan-2013 23:16:00)
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | Host location: none
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | General prefs: using your defaults
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | Reading preferences override file
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | Preferences:
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | max memory usage when active: 1535.78MB
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 2764.40MB
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | max disk usage: 204.78GB
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | don't compute while active
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | don't use GPU while active
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
7/3/2014 11:38:19 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
RE: 7/3/2014 11:18:26 PM |
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With a host name like that, what do you expect? :-)
RE: This has now happened
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The only way to get more units is to return valid units, this was implemented in Boinc a while back to stop those host from trashing hundred or even thousands of units and the Servers just reissuing the units time after time after time. Essentially the more bad units you return the fewer unit you get to crunch, but the more good units you then return after that faster you return to the normal amount. The return to normal I believe is a 2 for 1 ratio, ie for every good unit you return your daily quota goes up 2 units.
RE: RE: 7/3/2014 11:18:26
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I named it with certain expectations...
RE: Essentially the more
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Oh, I know the way it works. What I cannot explain is why the estimates of the card's power and therefore the time it is going to take are *completely* wrong.
"A little bit wrong" is one thing. "Wrong by a factor of two," is something else. "Wrong by an order of magnitude," might be explained by a misplaced decimal point. "Remaining time 1 second," means something's broken.
Still, you have to understand that personally it doesn't bother me if it takes a week to start crunching correctly. I like to "race" for its own sake, but that's not going to make me panic.
My concern is that "people" will attach to the project, get a bunch of invalid results to start their day, and will detach never to darken the project's door again.
RE: In case anyone still
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Are you crunching more than one task concurrently. I think the time estimate is based on a single task and is therefore going to be a significant under-estimate if you are crunching multiple. I see this all the time and the DCF is quickly adjusted to compensate. I don't see any problems with max time exceeded.
How long did the task actually take and did the estimates get adjusted properly?
Cheers,
Gary.
RE: RE: In case anyone
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One task, slow card.
6.5 hours (approx) and validated against a 560M that took 4.5 hours
Yes, it does appear the estimates are now 6:21:00