Hi at all

Did GPUGrid run out of work? For several hours i get the following message:

03.11.2008 02:22:27|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
03.11.2008 02:22:27|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
03.11.2008 02:22:27|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

I'm using a Gforce GTX260 on a Pentium D950 with BOINC 6.3.21

Thnx in advance

Maniac
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Same problem for me - I am using a
GeForce 8600 GT on a GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
with BOINC 6.3.14
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I wish I can fly like a bird in the sky .....

Ratm five out of ten GPU-cores are running idle...and the communication delays of 24 hours aren't really helpful to change that either... ;(

Same problem here for Windows 64 bit, no new work and the message

Communication deferred 24:00 hours

Now I only could try to update manually, but I'm out the next 14 hours.
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Yeah, tried it several times this morning before going to work, too, but the same message appeared (I'm using 6.3.21 and 9600GT].

The delay of 24 hours is much too long. Is it possible to readjust it to, let's say 2 hours?
Would be nice when the computer at home can ask regularly instead of have to do that manually every time...
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Member of BOINC@Heidelberg and ATA!

Well, it did work. Finally I grabbed two new WUs. :-)
Thanx GDF!
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Member of BOINC@Heidelberg and ATA!

Seems like this is happening again. My 2x260 Core 216's are sitting idle waiting for work, and getting the same message as listed above...this site shows approx. 150 work units available...

Question: Is there any difference in the work units passed to PS3's vs. GPU's?

Neil

Question: Is there any difference in the work units passed to PS3's vs. GPU's?

Neil

....... same here.

Had this 20 minutes ago...

17/12/2008 15:22:54|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
17/12/2008 15:22:54|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
17/12/2008 15:22:54|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

On host 17415 .... other hosts are seeing the same.

P.

.... have work in progress so won't reset just yet.
However, from the client_state.xml :

<duration_correction_factor>0.132950</duration_correction_factor>

All my hosts are doing this - including one which has never run a WU before.

and the DCF doesn't really explain this message:
17/12/2008 16:31:38|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
17/12/2008 16:31:38|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
17/12/2008 16:31:38|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

THought the application server side was now ignoring DCF?

P.

Reset the host (which had a DCF of 1) - no change.

P.

Both my computers are also showing low DCF but when I get new WU's I have 433hrs to completion on my 2x8800GT box and 45hrs on my 2xGTX280 box. The 8800's won't request new work and run high priority until they drop down to about 35hr estimated remaining time. In fact they only require 11-12 hrs to complete a WU. DCF's are 1.73 for my 8800's and 0.14 for my 280's. I didn't upgrade or change anything from the time 6.3.21 came out so this no work requested must be a problem on the server side.

HostID 16551 with GTX260

Same troubles here. DCF 0.99
Upgraded to 6.4.5, downgraded to 6.4.2 (available on GPUGRID webpage), resetted twice, manually updated every half hour or so since noon...

All to no avail...GPU still without work.

Hope you can give us work soon.

Happy crunching

Alain

HostID 16551 with GTX260

Same troubles here. DCF 0.99
Upgraded to 6.4.5, downgraded to 6.4.2 (available on GPUGRID webpage), resetted twice, manually updated every half hour or so since noon...

All to no avail...GPU still without work.

Hope you can give us work soon.

Happy crunching

Alain

Same here. Finished 2 wu's last night, this morning it won't download new work. GTX 260.

Seems to be some sort of problem with the scheduler at the project level. Last 2 wu's I downloaded started up with a 10,000 hr estimated completion time - I think this is making my computer think it won't finish in time, so it doesn't download anything. My teammates are reporting similar issues on mIRC.

idle, idle, idle. (sigh)

Duplicate, sorry.

Resetting the project seems to have kick started it, just downloaded 1 work unit. A few weeks ago I was able to download 4 at a time. Something is different.

........ just picked up 2 WUs on one host. Nothing on the others yet.

P.

HostID 16551 with GTX260

Same troubles here. DCF 0.99
Upgraded to 6.4.5, downgraded to 6.4.2 (available on GPUGRID webpage), resetted twice, manually updated every half hour or so since noon...

All to no avail...GPU still without work.

Hope you can give us work soon.

Happy crunching

Alain

Again no new work for CUDA? I got this message:

Mi 17 Dez 2008 22:59:23 CET|GPUGRID|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 8991 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Mi 17 Dez 2008 22:59:28 CET|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mi 17 Dez 2008 22:59:28 CET|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
Mi 17 Dez 2008 22:59:28 CET|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
Mi 17 Dez 2008 22:59:28 CET|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

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Same here:

12/17/2008 5:54:38 PM|GPUGRID|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 252846 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
12/17/2008 5:54:44 PM|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/17/2008 5:54:44 PM|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
12/17/2008 5:54:44 PM|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
12/17/2008 5:54:44 PM|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

My RAC has dropped 4000-5000 because I went away this weekend past and was not able to monitor my rigs. Now I have to manually update and when I get the above response, it starts a 24hr count down before preforming another scheduler request hense no work for 24hrs.

Pat

Coming home from a nice Christmas diner at work I see that the one WU I picked up earlier today finished. No other work available again :(.

Bedtime overdue already, so will have to see tomorrow what happened since even manual updates are unsuccesful again.

Good night.

Alain

Went from 6.4.5 to 6.4.2 back and forth to get DFC values to a managable level. Changed cards in "Puters" (1 - dual 280s, 1 - dual 260s, 1 - 1 260) and reset project after "puter" was out of work. Downloaded newest drivers from NVIDIA (180.48) on all machines and all is well with the world!! Running 6.4.5 again and I'm babysitting less.

BTW All GPUs are overclocked with the EVGA Precision utility that comes with the card.
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Went from 6.4.5 to 6.4.2 back and forth to get DFC values to a managable level. Changed cards in "Puters" (1 - dual 280s, 1 - dual 260s, 1 - 1 260) and reset project after "puter" was out of work. Downloaded newest drivers from NVIDIA (180.48) on all machines and all is well with the world!! Running 6.4.5 again and I'm babysitting less.

BTW All GPUs are overclocked with the EVGA Precision utility that comes with the card.

So far, the only babsitting I do is with the dual core twin 260 - 216s. Running with 50% CPU (Milkyway) and have to suspend this project to keep the 2nd card with a task (after 1 finishes - suspend CPU task & tickle GPUGRID). Win XP 32bit SP3, Opteron 180 (Dual core) 939 pin AMD, 2 GTX 260s, 216 streams. DFC values still below 1.000000 with no resets.

The 6.4.3 works fine. Nothing to do. Got last night 2 new WU. :)
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Constant dripping wears away the stone. :)

My bad!!! Everything's messed up this morning. Can't get new work for any of the machines. I continue to get messages on all machines:

12/18/2008 6:47:19 AM|GPUGRID|Restarting task yZ12496-SH2_US-2-40-SH2_US730000_1 using acemd version 655
12/18/2008 6:47:19 AM|GPUGRID|Restarting task TW20555-SH2_US_1-4-40-SH2_US_1300000_0 using acemd version 655
12/18/2008 6:47:42 AM|GPUGRID|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 403082 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

Forum indicates GPUGRID has 6.4.3 on mainpage, but all I see is 6.4.2. I reseted the project on 2 machines and reverted to 6.4.2. Now the times are 200+ hours and I get the same message. I can't find 6.4.3 anywhere!!!

My bad!!! Everything's messed up this morning. Can't get new work for any of the machines. I continue to get messages on all machines:

12/18/2008 6:47:19 AM|GPUGRID|Restarting task yZ12496-SH2_US-2-40-SH2_US730000_1 using acemd version 655
12/18/2008 6:47:19 AM|GPUGRID|Restarting task TW20555-SH2_US_1-4-40-SH2_US_1300000_0 using acemd version 655
12/18/2008 6:47:42 AM|GPUGRID|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 403082 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
12/18/2008 6:47:47 AM|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

Forum indicates GPUGRID has 6.4.3 on mainpage, but all I see is 6.4.2. I reseted the project on 2 machines and reverted to 6.4.2. Now the times are 200+ hours and I get the same message. I can't find 6.4.3 anywhere!!!

ich check all versions! with 6.3.21 i get now work

USE 6.4.2! That's the recommended version.

I am sending scheduler logs to BOINC, but I need everybody to be on the 6.4.x client.


gdf

I've got some new work after downgrading to 6.4.3, but the BM shows me a est. runtime for 1021 hours, aprox. 42.5 days, for this WU. So GPUGrid is in panik-modus.
My questition is: does it work proper with 6.4.2, also the est runtime?

Thnx in advance

Maniac
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I reinstalled BOINC 6.4.2 instead of 6.4.5 and still experiencing the same problems...

... but the BM shows me a est. runtime for 1021 hours, aprox. 42.5 days, for this WU.

Hi, you are not getting work because you have less than 256 of device memory.

2008-12-19 15:24:42.5519 [PID=21662] [debug ] CUDA mem < 256MB


gdf

Hi, you are not getting work because you have less than 256 of device memory.

2008-12-19 15:24:42.5519 [PID=21662] [debug ] CUDA mem < 256MB


gdf

Hi GDF, I don't know if you were referring to me in your post above, but my device has 512MB memory...

It's an XP 32 bit... :)

I have 1GB of RAM in my pc and as I can see at the adapter information page, I have a GeForce 8400 GS with Memory size of: 512MB.

I have tried BOINC 6.4.3, 6.4.5, and 6.5.0 and I just tried resetting the npc error count to 0; none of it is working. My VRAM is 1 G, PC memory is 2.9 of installed 6 G (Tri-Channel)

WIndows XP Pro with SP 3

i7 processor.

And I did do at least 2 tasks successfully.

I have had a number of tasks failing with Computation error. I am not at all sure if the message is accurate or is simply a default server error message that is covering a multitude of sins.

What the heck, I just got a Cosmology download error (yes, there are still errors, though thankfully the INI file is now just missing instead of only D/L to 16%).

Anyway, I know my system was, and is, functional in that it has done work for the two projects that issue GPU work and that work has validated (an additional task at SaH has validated and one has a difference with the wingman where I found a pulse that they did not).

Anyway ... Guys, you need to look at the server code to see why the server is refusing to issue work to so many of us. It may be related to the issue policy. If you have a mix of tasks and they can only be issued to selected types of machines, you may be filling the queue with tasks of all one type and there is not enough room for the types of task that I and the others are asking for (or are capable of running.

Perhaps it is time that the feeder get a change so that instead of inserting tasks into one ring (or list) that the feeder should create a list type for each type of task that is to be issued. Then, when the request comes in the feeder can issue a task off of the correct list.

{edit}I just sent a post to the boinc dev mailing list{/edit}

Sometimes I had also the described error. But never for a long time. When I get the message with no work available, I make immediately a second call for work to get this situation:

Fresh provoked message:
19.12.2008 18:40:13|GPUGRID|Message from server: Not sending work - last request too recent: 27 sec

After this message the 24 hours delay is away and my box can make regular calls. One or two hours later I got in any case new work. But you can't force this things.
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That wasn't working for me but if I suspended all other activity on my other projects I could then get gpugrid WU. Strange!!!

Pat

That wasn't working for me but if I suspended all other activity on my other projects I could then get gpugrid WU. Strange!!!

Pat

Mine is set to 4 days buffer and always connected. I think I might change that to every three hours (0.125)

Pat

Sometimes I can't let my fingers away from keyboard to test something ... ;)

I got this error (most of your know them ...)

20.12.2008 00:43:01|GPUGRID|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 48471 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
20.12.2008 00:43:06|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
20.12.2008 00:43:06|GPUGRID|Message from server: No work sent
20.12.2008 00:43:06|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics on Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.
20.12.2008 00:43:06|GPUGRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

I set project to no new work and make a new call.

20.12.2008 00:44:52|GPUGRID|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
20.12.2008 00:44:58|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

Now all error entrys in the client_state.xml are on 0. I change to new work, every other project on suspend and make a new call.

20.12.2008 00:46:33|GPUGRID|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 677441 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
20.12.2008 00:46:39|GPUGRID|Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks

Voilá! I get my fourth WU short time after I got this disliked failure. Maybe you can go the same way ...
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Kokomiko,

Yeah, it now seems some massaging will get new WU's. I at least can get enough to sleep (away from my computer) an not have to hover over my rig during the day.

Still babysitting though!!

Pat

I have a GeForce 8400 GS with Memory size of: 512MB.

Idan,

your computer summary shows your card as 255 MB. The manufacturers have the bad habit of including the "turbo memory", i.e. system memory which can be accesses by the card, into the memory amount, because higher numbers are perceived as better. And generally it doesn't have any consequences, because these cards are too slow for games anyway..

MrS