Communication keeps getting deferred
20 May 2012 0:05:23 UTC
Topic 196338
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I have 3 computers running Einstein. One of them is doing GPU processing and happily crunching along. The other two do not have a suitable GPU. For the last several days they have not received any more tasks. Every time I try to update the Einstein project for those two machines the communication gets deferred by 24 hours.
Any thoughts on what may be causing this?
Communication keeps getting deferred
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If you read some of the other posts, those without a GPU you need to shut off the allow GPU on your account and this should help. It's a known issue and Einstein plans on fixing it next week.
Thank you for the suggestion.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I have tried to follow it.
One of my computers runs BOINC 6.12.34 and on that one it made no difference. Update communications on that one still get deferred by 24 hours.
The other one runs 7.0.25. That one now does communicate, without the 24 hour deferral, but it still does not receive any tasks.
These are the two with the
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These are the two with the ATI GPU? Your GPU cannot do the Einstein apps, it has to be a 5000+. So please make sure ATI GPU is unchecked as an option.
The AMD GPGPUs capable of
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The AMD GPGPUs capable of doing CAL/Brook+ calculations are shown in this list.
The AMD GPGPUs capable of OpenCL calculations are shown in this list. All GPGPUs with beta level 2 support are not supported by Einstein's OpenCL application.
RE: Thank you for the
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The comunications delay on hosts with Boinc 6.x or older seems to be a bug on server side that is going to be looked/fixed soon. (see: Not sending work because Boinc is outdated thread)
Besides that, you have only one host that is able to crunch BRP4 on GPU (the one with the Nvidia GPU).
To use ATI GPUS, you would need to upgrade BOINC to 7.0.27 (or newer), but in your case is pointless, cause AFAIK your ATI GPUs are still not supported by the project.
I know that my ATI GPUs
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I know that my ATI GPUs cannot crunch Einstein. That's what I put in my original post. However, my CPU was happy to crunch non-GPU tasks on those machines.
Fortunately, the problems seem resolved; even though I did not make any more changes at my end. I don't know what the hiccup was, but they are now updating again, getting tasks, and crunching away (with their CPUs).
Are you crunching other
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Are you crunching other projects? You may have been too much in debt on Einstein and you needed to just let the other project(s) catch up.