Because none of them have official driver support teams for anything BUT Windows since it is the dominant OS in the marketplace the cards are targeted for.
Does that mean that most gamers use consoles or Windows and not Linux?
Because none of them have official driver support teams for anything BUT Windows since it is the dominant OS in the marketplace the cards are targeted for.
Does that mean that most gamers use consoles or Windows and not Linux?
Yes most emphatically. All you need to do is look at the user stats for Steam via their market survey.
Historically the percentage of users that game on Linux has been less than 0.5% of all gamers. But because of constant improvements in Wine and Proton that has been increasing over the last couple of years.
Also, 90% of all game developers only develop Windows games. Very few develop solely for Linux or for both platforms.
Ian&SteveC: I have a 3080 in a Windows 10 machine, but my numbers are far lower - is there a discussion about optimizing? Thanks
Several things, but most notably you should recognize that Einstein by default distributes two different types of tasks. your recent times are slower because you are running the "slow" application. You're free to run whichever you like, but you can't compare run times from the Gravitational Wave application (which is inherently slower) to the faster Gamma Ray application. The science output is different from these two sub-projects. Most of my tasks recently are from the Gamma Ray application.
Second, I have a 3080Ti and you have a 3080. the 3080Ti is just more powerful with more cores and better memory bandwidth, so it completes tasks faster.
You can try out some overclocking if you want. but there's nothing else you need to do for tuning. Just run 1 task at a time and you'll be fine. If you want to restrict yourself to running only the faster Gamma Ray application, go into the project preferences and disable processing of the Gravitational Wave O3AS project.
Thank you for the feedback. The 'numbers' to which I was referring were the credits, not the runtimes. My original question was in reply to your post wherein you stated that a 3080 Ti is getting 2,500,000+ points per day, while I have been getting about 250,000. I can't believe the 3080 Ti is 10x faster than my ordinary 3080 - is it?
The credits awarded for the sub-projects are different at Einstein.
Gamma Ray Pulsar awards 3465 credits for each task
Gravity Wave awards 1000 credits for each task.
So right there is at least 3.465X more credits for Ian's 3080 Ti not ignoring his more powerful card compared to yours running the "less paying credit" sub-project.
OK, I will adjust my settings to see the difference.
The original impetus for my visit to this forum was the recent sudden drop in credits for both of my machines, from about 300,000 per day down to about 60,000 per day. Is there a systemic explanation for this, or did my ignorance bite me once again?
I run nothing but GRP and there has been no drop in credits or any reporting inconsistencies for that sub-project for at least the last 60 days according to the BoincStats site.
When you run the Gravity Wave tasks, you are very much more dependent on your wingmen returning a task to validate yours. The project has to find a suitable host that already has the sub-species of GW tasks that you are running to match with yours because of the need to reduce the amount of required files sent out for each sub-species of tasks.
So you are going to get a much larger variation in credit per day because the number of pending tasks is much greater on GW. The turnaround for GRP is usually a day and can be as much as 10 days for GW.
I currently see 261,682 workunits waiting on the server status page and I'm looking at 300+ tasks with a status of "Completed, waiting for validation" on my task detail report.
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Does that mean that most gamers use consoles or Windows and not Linux?
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Yes most emphatically. All you need to do is look at the user stats for Steam via their market survey.
Linux gaming users up to 1% market share now
Steam Hardware & Software Survey: November 2021
Historically the percentage of users that game on Linux has been less than 0.5% of all gamers. But because of constant improvements in Wine and Proton that has been increasing over the last couple of years.
Also, 90% of all game developers only develop Windows games. Very few develop solely for Linux or for both platforms.
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Several things, but most notably you should recognize that Einstein by default distributes two different types of tasks. your recent times are slower because you are running the "slow" application. You're free to run whichever you like, but you can't compare run times from the Gravitational Wave application (which is inherently slower) to the faster Gamma Ray application. The science output is different from these two sub-projects. Most of my tasks recently are from the Gamma Ray application.
Your 3080 on the Gamma Ray application seems to be running in family: https://einsteinathome.org/host/12893870/tasks/4/40
Second, I have a 3080Ti and you have a 3080. the 3080Ti is just more powerful with more cores and better memory bandwidth, so it completes tasks faster.
You can try out some overclocking if you want. but there's nothing else you need to do for tuning. Just run 1 task at a time and you'll be fine. If you want to restrict yourself to running only the faster Gamma Ray application, go into the project preferences and disable processing of the Gravitational Wave O3AS project.
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Thank you for the feedback.
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Thank you for the feedback. The 'numbers' to which I was referring were the credits, not the runtimes. My original question was in reply to your post wherein you stated that a 3080 Ti is getting 2,500,000+ points per day, while I have been getting about 250,000. I can't believe the 3080 Ti is 10x faster than my ordinary 3080 - is it?
Thanks again
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The credits awarded for the sub-projects are different at Einstein.
Gamma Ray Pulsar awards 3465 credits for each task
Gravity Wave awards 1000 credits for each task.
So right there is at least 3.465X more credits for Ian's 3080 Ti not ignoring his more powerful card compared to yours running the "less paying credit" sub-project.
OK, I will adjust my settings
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OK, I will adjust my settings to see the difference.
The original impetus for my visit to this forum was the recent sudden drop in credits for both of my machines, from about 300,000 per day down to about 60,000 per day. Is there a systemic explanation for this, or did my ignorance bite me once again?
Thank you
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I run nothing but GRP and there has been no drop in credits or any reporting inconsistencies for that sub-project for at least the last 60 days according to the BoincStats site.
When you run the Gravity Wave tasks, you are very much more dependent on your wingmen returning a task to validate yours. The project has to find a suitable host that already has the sub-species of GW tasks that you are running to match with yours because of the need to reduce the amount of required files sent out for each sub-species of tasks.
So you are going to get a much larger variation in credit per day because the number of pending tasks is much greater on GW. The turnaround for GRP is usually a day and can be as much as 10 days for GW.
Is there an issue with O3AS
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Is there an issue with O3AS validations?
I currently see 261,682 workunits waiting on the server status page and I'm looking at 300+ tasks with a status of "Completed, waiting for validation" on my task detail report.
Thanks!
On the same status page you
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On the same status page you can see that the O3AS1a validator is disabled. That is the work that you are crunching currently.
The admins must be sifting through the results still to verify the validator is set up correctly.
They do this every time for new project beginnings. Better to make sure the data is really valid before committing it to the science database.
Good information, thanks
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Good information, thanks again.
Last question: If the Gravity Wave tasks take longer and require wingmen to complete, should they not be worth more points that the Gamma Ray tasks?
Thank you
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