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- Thu Nov 19, 2020 5:13 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Cellarnoise2 - post 3 ....
- Replies: 10
- Views: 32551
Re: Cellarnoise2 - post 3 ....
Hmm, I dunno, could be a default automatism. There is a distinction between new accounts and normal accounts, and I think the forum software moves accounts from the former to the latter group according to some criteria; I haven't looked for respective documentation yet. One criticism of forums . ana...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:14 am
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: More bad news from Arecibo Observatory
- Replies: 7
- Views: 24613
More bad news from Arecibo Observatory
Another cable broke on November 6, this time a main cable. :-(
News release from November 13 by UCF
Engineers are assessing the causes and repair options, but site works are difficult due to the acute danger of total collapse.
News release from November 13 by UCF
Engineers are assessing the causes and repair options, but site works are difficult due to the acute danger of total collapse.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 1:14 pm
- Forum: Distributed Computing News
- Topic: [SRBase] No GPU work for some hosts
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3344
Re: [SRBase] No GPU work for some hosts
<r>Thanks Mr. <MENTION><s>[mention]</s>BOINC_News<e>[/mention]</e></MENTION>, that explains it indeed!<br/> <br/> <SIZE size="85"><s>[size=85]</s><COLOR color="green"><s>[color=green]</s>Added in 22 minutes 47 seconds:<e>[/color]</e></COLOR><e>[/size]</e></SIZE><br/> But now I am suddenly getting do...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Market
- Topic: Used Nvidia GPU Market
- Replies: 44
- Views: 93042
Re: Used Nvidia GPU Market
Downsides of smaller GPUs: 1.) A single GPU computer is easier to cool than a multi GPU computer, due to the space constraints. (Unless you make enough space with PCIe extender cables, for example.) 2.) In Folding@home specifically, one large GPU gives more early return bonus than two or more respec...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 5:52 am
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine looks encouraging
- Replies: 25
- Views: 77716
Re: Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine looks encouraging
I just heard a radio broadcast interview with the leader of an immunological and vaccine research team of Berlin Charité. The discussion turned to the sometimes very low efficiency of vaccines against seasonal flu. In this context, he stated that corona viruses have a significantly lower mutation ra...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:55 am
- Forum: Distributed Computing News
- Topic: [WCG] Planned Maintenance on Thursday, November 12, 2020
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4544
Re: [WCG] Planned Maintenance on Thursday, November 12, 2020
Skillz , when you opened the DC News fire-hose, I first thought it to be overkill. But it turns out that useful notices are in here, like this one. Saved my computers from going idle for hours, as I saw this just in time and could reschedule one of my periodic bunker reloads. (I didn't pay attentio...
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine looks encouraging
- Replies: 25
- Views: 77716
Re: Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine looks encouraging
Points to keep in mind, straight from biodoc's link to BBC: Are there any potential problems? There are still many unanswered questions as this is only interim data. We do not know if the vaccine stops you spreading the virus or just from developing symptoms. Or if it works equally well in high-risk...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:32 am
- Forum: Distributed Computing News
- Topic: [PrimeGrid] 321 Sieve is over
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7028
Re: [PrimeGrid] 321 Sieve is over
Among the CPU-only projects, 321-Sieve was the highest paying, in the same vein as GCW-Sieve before it. The sieving projects get a hefty bonus because you can't find primes with them = can't acquire glamor and fame. The GPU-supported PPS-Sieve is the only active sieving project now; this one too pay...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:14 am
- Forum: Tripping the Breakers
- Topic: Hardware RIP Thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 50732
Re: Hardware RIP Thread
I have been running ODLK1 and Amicable since then, with all three GPUs active, and so far so good.
Looks like it was really just the power cable which burnt up.
Looks like it was really just the power cable which burnt up.
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:11 am
- Forum: Tripping the Breakers
- Topic: Hardware RIP Thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 50732
Re: Hardware RIP Thread
About my 4 AM incident: I was just woken up by a noise, like something fell down, or a floor board expanded... It smelled like burnt plastic in the kitchen, and I saw at my main computer that the triple-GPU computer, which is the only one in the kitchen, had just rebooted. Its logs and sensors didn'...
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 5:43 pm
- Forum: Forum Issues
- Topic: Default site theme changed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22375
Re: Default site theme changed
The light theme has regressed since a few days ago: User names are now shown in yellow color, which is hard to read on the light blue background. Could this be fixed (without detriment to the dark theme)? ------ (Call me odd, but I still read web sites in dark print on light background. I use an Eiz...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:50 am
- Forum: The Market
- Topic: Used Nvidia GPU Market
- Replies: 44
- Views: 93042
Re: Used Nvidia GPU Market
I think the announced Founders Edition prices will be largely irrelevant and are mostly just for show: Probably, not very many FE cards will be produced, relatively to the overall market. The prices of the AIB partners will be what will count. There are a few listings already, and those prices look ...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:42 am
- Forum: Tripping the Breakers
- Topic: Hardware RIP Thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 50732
Re: Hardware RIP Thread
How many devices and how many Watts does this loop have to cool? My understanding is that this type of pump is for small loops. Perhaps with either 1 high-power device, or 2 low to medium power devices to cool.
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:24 pm
- Forum: Tripping the Breakers
- Topic: Hardware RIP Thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 50732
Re: Hardware RIP Thread
My first pump was an SPC pump as part of an EKWB EK-XLC Predator 360 modular all-in-one cooling unit. I used this unit for half a year in its original configuration with just the CPU waterblock, but then expanded it with a GPU block, and a few months after that with an extra reservoir and an extra r...
- Thu May 21, 2020 5:24 am
- Forum: DC Projects setup and tuning
- Topic: Quarantine@home (not a boinc project)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22400
Re: Quarantine@home (not a boinc project)
I am not seeing myself running any non-BOINC DC project anytime soon. (Folding@home excepted.) https://quarantine.infino.me/ Besides an ominous "Quarantine@Home is a project of the Aleph-1 Foundation" footer, I am not seeing any "about us" info there. No info who is driving this ...
- Sat May 16, 2020 10:57 am
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: To Hell in a hand basket
- Replies: 17
- Views: 29221
Re: To Hell in a hand basket
Could the system have been out of memory when you encountered it unresponsive in the morning?
- Thu May 14, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: Where is everyone?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15035
Re: Where is everyone?
I counter your oils sands with lignite, dug out of humongous open pit mines. ;-)
- Thu May 14, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: Where is everyone?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15035
Re: Where is everyone?
Germany, 2 hours autobahn drive southwest of Berlin.
- Wed May 13, 2020 9:41 am
- Forum: DC Projects setup and tuning
- Topic: Bunkering basics, by our friend [H]Coleslaw
- Replies: 3
- Views: 19693
Re: Bunkering basics, by our friend [H]Coleslaw
It is important to know when the client reports results. BOINC reports completed work at the first of: The next work request from a project. 24 hours before the deadline. Immediately if the work is completed later than 24 hours before the deadline. Connect every X days after the work is completed. W...
- Mon May 11, 2020 7:26 pm
- Forum: Forum Issues
- Topic: Multi-quote
- Replies: 3
- Views: 19990
Re: Multi-quote
Thanks! Very useful.
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:07 pm
- Forum: DC Projects setup and tuning
- Topic: Amicable numbers, 10*21, GPU
- Replies: 6
- Views: 25050
Re: Amicable numbers, 10*21, GPU
Nvidia-smi just gives an instantaneous 'snap-shot', correct? You need to use the loop parameter to get it to refresh. For example: --loop=1000 Will refresh the results every 1 second. Or for a compact table layout, which gets you a nice history as large as the scrollback buffer of your terminal: nv...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: COVID-19 Folding Race
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22072
Re: COVID-19 Folding Race
Earlier this week I stashed some Rosetta tasks away, to be worked on until the FB sprint starts and after the sprint. With the sprint cancelled, I took part in the PrimeGrid challenge instead, but went on to finish the Rosetta cache afterwards. The cache did not suffice until the new Rosetta work ap...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Distributed Computing News
- Topic: rosetta@home COVD-19
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8489
Re: rosetta@home COVD-19
Since late Sunday, Rosetta has tasks again. From what I understand, the amount of work to be done should be plenty for the time being, only the work generator and later on the validator/ assimilator... may become a bottleneck if donor participation continues to rise a lot. The unavailability of task...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 4:37 am
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: COVID-19 Folding Race
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22072
Re: COVID-19 Folding Race
Well, you are keeping company with the project and its fans during the weeks towards the project's conclusion. That's a good thing to do; enjoy it. :-)
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: COVID-19 Folding Race
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22072
Re: COVID-19 Folding Race
I'm going back to SETI. I don't think the TeAm needs my help beating Tom's, and F@H is getting plenty of compute power, maybe more than they need. F@H definitely has more contributor power than they can properly use right now. But so does SETI@home, where half the world is fighting for the last tas...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:58 am
- Forum: The Camp Fire
- Topic: COVID-19 Folding Race
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22072
Re: COVID-19 Folding Race
So far there are only Ken's team stats, http://tastats.atspace.cc/ta-th-20/.
If anybody wanted to do user stats, that would be an Herculean effort this time. :-)
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:42 am
- Forum: DC Projects setup and tuning
- Topic: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
- Replies: 20
- Views: 56260
Re: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
Check the "secure computing" thing in the BIOS when you have an opportunity to go there. Is it worth checking secure boot in the bios too? I've read that should be disabled. Right, Secure Boot --- that's what I was thinking of. This is what prohibits booting an unsigned kernel, as well as...
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:02 pm
- Forum: DC Projects setup and tuning
- Topic: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
- Replies: 20
- Views: 56260
Re: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
Hmm, I am seeing something unexpected on my own machines now: kvm and kvmintel are present in the kernel simultaneously while vboxdrv, vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci are present too. So I was mistaken about the exclusivity of kvm vs. vbox. Check the "secure computing" thing in the BIOS when...
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:23 am
- Forum: DC Projects setup and tuning
- Topic: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
- Replies: 20
- Views: 56260
Re: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
"modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Operation not permitted" Two thoughts: Maybe another hypervisor is already loaded, e.g. kvm. Show us the output of lsmod. There can be only one hypervisor running. If you see something obvious, try to unload it with "sudo modprobe -r .......
- Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:14 pm
- Forum: DC Projects setup and tuning
- Topic: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
- Replies: 20
- Views: 56260
Re: VirtualBox and Hardware Virtualization Not Detected
I don't remember how I installed virtualbox on Mint and OpenSuse.
The vbox driver(s) should probably already be loaded into the kernel at the time when boinc-client is started.
How about...
$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
$ lsmod | grep vbox
$ sudo service boinc-client restart
The vbox driver(s) should probably already be loaded into the kernel at the time when boinc-client is started.
How about...
$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv
$ lsmod | grep vbox
$ sudo service boinc-client restart