we will see how many of them will stay permanently, but great news

Well, now we have plenty of work units. It's very important.

I expected such. Going to be more hosts coming over from Seti@home with the project finishing up. Soon as the project stops sending out work, all my gpus will be doing GPUGrid full time with higher resource shares.

Going to be more hosts coming over from Seti@home with the project finishing up.

Going to be more hosts coming over from Seti@home with the project finishing up.

Dave Anderson is a genius. He stopped SETI at just the right time.

+1

I used to have a GTX 1080 dedicated to FAH but there has been limited work there so I moved it to GPUGrid.

Edit: I have pointed some team members here for GPUs and Rosetta for CPUs.

Rosetta has taken off as well
https://stats3.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=proj&proj=rah

Well, now we have plenty of work units. It's very important.

Without DA none of us would be here. We would fold, maybe :)

The problem with GPUGrid is that it is often short of tasks to process, I hope that the current trend is permanent.

most for sure the corvid19, that's why i'm here.
also the foh gpu client i was running was not really receiving many work units... so i switched away to here.

"cant we all just get along" :)

For me ... and a couple of my teammates from SETI@Home -- Hey guys! :^) ... it's the closure. I picked this project because it's both a worthy and certainly important cause especially these days, and because it has a CUDA 10 Linux client. No point in wasting the GPUs' potential.

You'll doubtless see quite a few more "resetilers" migrating here with our RTX farms in the near future.

ciao a tutti vi scrivo dall'italia. Chiedevo una informazione: Gpu-Grid sta eseguendo progetti x il Coronavirus Covid-19?

If I am not missing anything, GPUGRID volunteers doubled the number of active hosts in the last month. It may have been either due to the closing of seti@home, or a consequence of folding at home’s covid effort.



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For me its working from home. For sure im giving you more cpu!

Dave Anderson is a genius. He stopped SETI at just the right time.

I have another rude description for DA.

Gpu- Grid esegue progetti x il coronavirus Covid19?

As someone who recently rejoined, GPUGRID is the only project issuing sufficient work units for GPUs right now. Everyone else is CPU bound or issuing GPU work units not compatible with my hardware.

I am here because of all the folding@home news on gaming/hardware related websites. I've tried it but it often doesn't have any work for me since everybody is doing it now so I've looked for alternatives.

I really liked the idea of donating my processing power and even thought about it many times before but never came to research the idea for some reason.

I am typically running high-end gaming setup with dual GPU and high-end HEDT CPU that even if I play a lot still sits unused most of the day, and since there isn't really any reliable way for such system to make me any reasonable amount of money, I may just as well donate the processing power to charity.

This is pretty genius way of reaching so many people who otherwise do not donate money for charity for multiple reasons, donating something that you already have in unlimited amount, I am surprised this isn't more common and that I've heard about it only now.

Even from hardware enthusiast standpoint this is fun because you have to optimize your system also for long-term full load operation and energy efficiency rather than only squeezing every last MHz like for gaming and overclocking, and you want to be able to switch between these two settings on the fly depending on what you are about to do, so that has many interesting challenges in it's own.

I'm here because F@H caused me to look at my BOINC processes and I saw I had underutilized GPU resources. It doesn't hurt that SETI is done for now.

I recently joined after doing work on World Community Grid for year and realized my GPU was not being used. I installed F@H and I wasn't getting any work units.

I then went into BOINC manager on my PC and realized that GPUGRID was meant for GPU usage.

I really think F@H needs to work in BOINC so that way if units are not being sent out you can do other work.

I discovered BOINC in June and joined WCG in July. Have been running it since then. I tried to run GPU GRID and F@H, but it seemed like the GPU was overheating my tiny T490 way too much.
Due to Covid 19, I revised the situation and found out that I can get my GPU to run reliably with GPU GRID while throttled to ca 60%. And so I am here, running the work units with my tiny GPU. F@H does not have enough work units and it seems like it often fails for some reason. GPU GRID WUs feel much more "stable".

I do not mind staying here, but it seems like it is almost impossible to figure out what is the current research used for. I do not mind working on other causes than COVID 19, but it has to be something useful, right?

> closing of seti@home, or a consequence of folding at home’s covid effort.

You have guessed the 2 reasons I joined.

I recently doubled up on GPUs in my 2 puny hosts, does that count?

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I recently doubled up on GPUs in my 2 puny hosts, does that count?

Appologies for the multiple posts. I am having extreme delays in posting.

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I have had a few PCs on gpugrid for some time. With the ending of the SETI workload I have started adding gpugrid to all my GPU systems. The point about the Covid-19 virus work is added incentive. Some older or lower end cards that would do SETI work do not get gpugrid work allocated to them. So some upgrades will be needed in the future, probably post recession...

I have had a few PCs on gpugrid for some time. With the ending of the SETI workload I have started adding gpugrid to all my GPU systems. The point about the Covid-19 virus work is added incentive. Some older or lower end cards that would do SETI work do not get gpugrid work allocated to them. So some upgrades will be needed in the future, probably post recession...

I've actually been joined to this project for some time, but yes, I am primarily a FAH participant. Since their influx has actually ended up pushing a lot of mid-upper range rigs out of the pool, I came back here. I have to admit, part of the reason I didn't stay initially was because the configs are a little cumbersome, until you take the time to get accustomed to synchronizing between web and local.

I used BOINC many years back under a different name, but for some reason I never installed it on this Gaming Rig.

After SpiceWorks announced the Covid-19 F@H effort I signed up to F@H, but due to lack of units I came back home to BOINC and GPUGRD/Rosetta/WCG.

So here I am.

I receive maybe 1 or 2 units per MONTH. What are these new workunits you speak of?

Reacting to some comments above, in case neither folding nor GPUGrid have work for GPU at the moment there are several other boinc projects with GPU work to be done, but I think none in the biomed area, but you have

Mathematics :

Moo! Wrapper
PrimeGrid
Collatz
Amicable
NumberFields (but I think not more efficient than their CPU app, but still)


Astronomy :

MilkyWay
Einstein
Asteroid

Be careful with those having OpenCL apps, they often require one full CPU core to be able to feed the GPU app with work (means that other CPU boinc app running at the same time will have one core less for them, but still).

Team,

My laptops, were crunching for S@H with their small GPU (no power loss) but they are not getting GPUGrid tasks...

Any plan to catch up and grab this computing power as well for the Grid ?

Thanks
Oli

Team,

My laptops, were crunching for S@H with their small GPU (no power loss) but they are not getting GPUGrid tasks...

Any plan to catch up and grab this computing power as well for the Grid ?

Thanks
Oli

I get errors, and the output includes "CUDA_ERROR_UNKNOWN (999)"

You may have a notebook (or older) graphic card. They are not really suited to sustain hard-core computations (thanks anyway).

I just join the project and it is to fight against the COVID-19 :)

I really think F@H needs to work in BOINC so that way if units are not being sent out you can do other work.

Thx for the reply and pointing me to the right article.

Seems the laptops will stay very cool... :(
Unless someone has a trick ?? ;)

Thx
Oli

Thx for the reply and pointing me to the right article.

Seems the laptops will stay very cool... :(
Unless someone has a trick ?? ;)

Thx
Oli

Congratulations. I just bought a new pc recently, when I don't play games I can help a little.

I really think F@H needs to work in BOINC so that way if units are not being sent out you can do other work.

Those Stanford guys are too arrogant to use BOINC. I've been telling them that for years. It's hopeless.

I'm here because of the same reason than others here: F@H has too less WUs and i didn't want to waste PC time when i let my PC run 24/7 for Covid19 stuff.

I already use rosetta@home for CPU and Boinc itself since over 10 years (seti@home and WCG projects) and i must say i like it much more than F@H.

So i hope i could help with my RTX GPU a bit more here than on F@H.

But how can you see if a task is a Covid19 task here? The rosetta one have it in his name.

I found BOINC after Folding at home was having a work shortage due to the COVID-19 effort. Much better UI. Plenty of PC's laying around to put to use, just wish there was a tax write-off for all this energy I'm using on behalf of science!

But how can you see if a task is a Covid19 task here? The rosetta one have it in his name.

But how can you see if a task is a Covid19 task here? The rosetta one have it in his name.

I don't think that GPUGRID has Covid19 tasks available at this point

GPUGrid can only use Nvidia gpus. Not AMD or Intel.

GPUGrid can only use Nvidia gpus. Not AMD or Intel.

Is this true?

Folding@home director Greg Bowman says they have reached 470 petaflops, while a pool of supercomputers including Summit and Sierra hava totalled 330 petaflops.
I simple don't believe Bowman

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Greetings All

Here is an article that does a good job on explaining.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/folding-at-home-breaks-exaflop-barrier-fight-coronavirus-covid-19

Regards

I just reactivated my account, I think I was 10 years inactive. I activated solely due to support Covid research with my computing power..

I just reactivated my account, I think I was 10 years inactive. I activated solely due to support Covid research with my computing power..

If I am not missing anything, GPUGRID volunteers doubled the number of active hosts in the last month. It may have been either due to the closing of seti@home, or a consequence of folding at home’s covid effort.



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That's cuz the heavy metal's been here all along.

Rosetta@home is only one of the fifty odd BOINC projects. All of them use about 30 petaflops. The COVID-19 supercomputer pool reaches 330 petaflops. To say that
Folding@home reaches 470 petaflops is simply ridiculous.
Tullio
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The COVID-19 supercomputer pool reaches 330 petaflops. Tullio

It is a consortium of US firms and scientific institutions incluudin the top 1 and 2 of the Top500 list. Summit (1) alone reaches 148 petaflops.
Tullio
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At Mar 27th 2020 Retvari Zoltan wrote:

Interestingly the total awarded credits per day hasn't changed much:

Hello, I have a similar problem (or rather anomaly) - my credit got quadrupled today from ~70k to ~280k. I noticed that I finished a long GPU task, but why is this one particular task worth so much?...

It was actually a mistake in the MDADeq series. Will be fixed in the next series.

I'm here because F@H caused me to look at my BOINC processes and I saw I had underutilized GPU resources. It doesn't hurt that SETI is done for now.

I really think F@H needs to work in BOINC so that way if units are not being sent out you can do other work.

Forum duplicated my message. O.o

I'm here because F@H caused me to look at my BOINC processes and I saw I had underutilized GPU resources. It doesn't hurt that SETI is done for now.

I can't post elsewhere and the contact email address isn't responding. Can anyone help me figure out why all my tasks fail? closing in on 2 weeks of crunching and no support to make it fruitful. http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?userid=554223

hey you guys, I see a CPU party coming up at Rosetta challenge if your interested. https://www.boincstats.com/stats/challenge/team/chat/1074

Die COVID, DIE !!!

I've connected quite a few ARM processor boards around that time, to see if an ARM-based server was viable.
They made up of about 50 quad core hosts, but they don't amount to a lot of processing power, due to it's power saving feats over raw processing power.

I've used them for testing purposes, but never really did a lot of tasks on them.
Give it another month and purge the deactivated units, and those with less than 10 completed tasks, and the number will more than likely reflect the same number it was before.

I have been running more GPUGrid on my RTX2080 Tis lately, due to a lot of projects running out of Nvidia tasks in the past few weeks.

Hi all,

I am also here in order to contribute to biology research as much as possible, in this pandemic context.

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

Thanks for running this project!
-Codrin

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

I'm here because F@H caused me to look at my BOINC processes and I saw I had underutilized GPU resources. It doesn't hurt that SETI is done for now.

I can't post elsewhere and the contact email address isn't responding. Can anyone help me figure out why all my tasks fail? closing in on 2 weeks of crunching and no support to make it fruitful. http://www.gpugrid.net/results.php?userid=554223

Update your Nvidia driver. Minimum supported version is r418.39. Your driver is too old

see FAQ here:
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=5002

As you have an old driver, you were recieving jobs from a faulty batch (PABLO_UCB_NMR_KIX). This compounded your issues.

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

Not yet.

I've heard that Folding@Home has a ton of new clients, due to COVID-19 work. Does that somehow show up as new hosts for GPUGrid?

no - why should it?

Is GPUGRID involved in any COVID-19 research?

Not yet.

Why?

I added my machine simply because of the COVID push. I didn't really care about SETI@home in the past, and thought it to be a poor reason for raising my electricity bill running my computer pretty much 24x7 at nearly max load.

If my computer doesn't die from overheating, then I imagine this will continue for as long as I don't feel alarmed about my electricity bills.

I've already experienced two thermal protection events and have ordered a new case fan -- I never had to worry about cooling in my typical usage in the past for this custom build full of careless mistakes (for example, I found out that my CPU cooler fan was installed backwards for the last 3 years after the first thermal protection cutout :) ).

Edit:
To be clear, I have always done some BOINC work, but only decided to add some GPU projects after I read about the Covid push (on Anandtech) and noticed that my GPU is pretty much always idle. I have Folding@Home installed now too.

I have a dumb question. If my PC does not have a compatible GPU, i assume I cannot participate in GPU grid?

I have the following : I know its old.

Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | No usable GPUs found
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Host name: XXXXXXXXX
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8600 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS [4.15.0-91-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Memory: 3.75 GB physical, 3.75 GB virtual
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Disk: 228.23 GB total, 207.94 GB free
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Local time is UTC +0 hours
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Last benchmark was 18358 days 15:45:46 ago
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | No general preferences found - using defaults
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Reading preferences override file
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Preferences:
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | max memory usage when active: 1922.04 MB
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | max memory usage when idle: 3459.68 MB
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | max disk usage: 205.40 GB
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | don't use GPU while active
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
Mon Apr 6 15:45:50 2020 | | Setting up project and slot directories
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Mon Apr 6 15:54:06 2020 | | Running CPU benchmarks
Mon Apr 6 15:54:06 2020 | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | Benchmark results:
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | Number of CPUs: 2
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | 3356 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Mon Apr 6 15:54:38 2020 | | 84780 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Mon Apr 6 15:54:39 2020 | | Resuming computation

I have a dumb question. If my PC does not have a compatible GPU, i assume I cannot participate in GPU grid?

Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.9.3 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Mon Apr 6 15:45:48 2020 | | No usable GPUs found
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | [libc detection] gathered: 2.27, Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Host name: XXXXXXXXX
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8600 @ 3.33GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
Mon Apr 6 15:45:49 2020 | | OS: Linux Ubuntu: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS [4.15.0-91-generic|libc 2.27 (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.27-3ubuntu1)]

wow, talk about a "chicken and an egg" situation... to post a new message i need credit. but i have no credit which is what i wanted to post about. this seemed just as good a thread to jump in with this question...


so, how does one actually get work units? i was attached to this project quite a long time ago but never got units so i detached. now that seti is/has ended i decided to re-attach. for the last few days still no work. as far as i can tell my log when starting boinc does not indicate that my gpu is insufficient.

glad there is rosetta and world community grid.

-scott

Thank you so for Now it is CPUs only.

Spegler, Be sure you have ACEMD3 checked in your Preferences. Also you need an Nvidia GPU with current drivers.

as far as i can tell my log when starting boinc does not indicate that my gpu is insufficient.

Yes, if you don't have a relatively modern Nvidia card with sufficient VRAM, you cannot crunch for this project.

Aurum and Retvari Zoltan, thanks for your replies. i did have that option checked but if the laptop is too ancient then that's it for me. a new machine is not in the cards at this time. and i like my Win7 machine. heck, i kind of miss windows 2000.

I would like to see in mainstream informations media advertisement of rosetta@home project and other similar initiatives, so the question is: how to tell to big decision-makers and to people the existence of all this stuff to cooperate all together against covid-19??!
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