Posts by Ian&Steve C. Universe@Home

21) Message boards : Number crunching : LOOK OUT!!!! Pentathlon! (Message 5557) Posted 19 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: the admin already commented that it's a network limitation. only 300 active connections at a time.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Server Thread (Message 5503) Posted 17 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: credit awarded (which should be proportional to tasks returned) seems to indicate about 2x increase in average production. certainly an increase, but not 6-10x. maybe some individual days 6-10x, but not overall/average. average daily credit awarded from April 7 to May 4 - 115,438,091 credit per day average daily credit awarded from May 5 to May 16 - 220,889,189 credit per day https://www.boincstats.com/stats/158/project/detail/lastDays
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Project has no tasks available (Message 5487) Posted 17 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: it's sad that by your metrics you only donate compute resources due to interest in a competition rather than interest in the project. the project is just fine without you.
24) Message boards : Cafe : Einstein at Home is Slumbering (Message 5462) Posted 16 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: it does end on the 18th@23:59:59 UTC. Which is the 18th @ 8:00pm EDT or the 18th @ 7:00pm CDT for you, Tom
25) Message boards : Number crunching : LOOK OUT!!!! Pentathlon! (Message 5335) Posted 7 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: It doesn’t reference any sports personality. If you try some introspection maybe you’ll get it eventually. He wont get it until someone spells it out for him. Even then, I'm doubtful he'll fully understand it. Unless it's given to him on SSDs. Lol no doubt.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : LOOK OUT!!!! Pentathlon! (Message 5331) Posted 6 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: It doesn’t reference any sports personality. If you try some introspection maybe you’ll get it eventually.
27) Message boards : Number crunching : LOOK OUT!!!! Pentathlon! (Message 5328) Posted 6 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: If you're implying Scots or me drink a lot, you'd be completely correct. I drink 5 times the RDA. How do you think the thing in my icon happened? I’m not surprised that you don’t understand the picture lol.
28) Message boards : Number crunching : LOOK OUT!!!! Pentathlon! (Message 5322) Posted 6 May 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post:
29) Message boards : Science : How does Universe@H's BHSpin application differ from the new project BlackHoles@H? (Message 5082) Posted 11 Feb 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: Anyone have any additional info that’s not on the black holes page? At one point they projected a Fall 2021 launch, but that seems to have fallen through. Anyone know if it’s still a planned project?
30) Message boards : News : No tasks (Message 5051) Posted 20 Jan 2022 by Ian&Steve C. Post: Two weeks? It takes two weeks to change a hard drive(s)? What the heck is going on here? I thought there'd be some degree of professionalism in a project like this, but it seems like it's being run out of somebody's garage. Why continue to put effort into such an amateur project? Sheesh. Time to find something else. 1. the database needs to be purged. there are still ~72,000 tasks in progress that need to be completed and returned to the project before work can begin. 2. the admin lives several hundred miles from the data center where the hardware is located.
31) Message boards : Number crunching : is the BHspin application OpenCL? (Message 5007) Posted 16 Dec 2021 by Ian&Steve C. Post: I'm inquiring about the current CPU application if it's coded in OpenCL or not. the past posts you're referencing are talking about a GPU application.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : is the BHspin application OpenCL? (Message 5004) Posted 16 Dec 2021 by Ian&Steve C. Post: I know the apps here are for CPU, but OpenCL can be used on CPU. I'm just wondering if that was done here. thanks.
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Rogue computers and cheating volunteers (Message 4968) Posted 2 Dec 2021 by Ian&Steve C. Post: This whole thread is LOL. Universe doesn’t recognize additional cores over 64. You get 24 tasks per active CPU (your CPU% set in compute settings affects this), UP TO 64. So no matter what ncpus value you use, you get a max of 1536 tasks. Going over this value will not get you more tasks. My dual EPYC system for example has 192 actual and active CPU tasks. But still only gets 1536 tasks, if they didn’t have a hard cap like this, I would get about 4600 tasks under the 24/CPU rule. Still it doesn’t matter. Credit is still awarded to people based on actual work done and returned. It’s not “cheating” in any way.
34) Message boards : Number crunching : Uploads / Downloads have stopped working. (Message 4913) Posted 24 Oct 2021 by Ian&Steve C. Post: When I had this issue at the very beginning on my linux hosts, I simply updated my systems issuing a sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. And updates for the certificates came down the pipeline and BOINC started working again. I did nothing else. The certificates aren’t baked into BOINC on Linux like they are on Windows. That was on Linux Ubuntu. Not sure what’s available on your specific distro.
35) Message boards : Science : How does Universe@H's BHSpin application differ from the new project BlackHoles@H? (Message 4773) Posted 13 Aug 2021 by Ian&Steve C. Post: They just postponed the estimated start of the project and pushed it back one quarter. The revised start date is now fall 2021. Additionally, the project that was to my understanding affiliated with the West Virginia University, now changed its project's lead to the University of Idaho. As a WVU alumni, I was excited for this project's release. so it's unfortunate to hear that they switched affiliation. I don't think the WVU researchers have left WVU for Idaho, so I'm not sure the reason for the project's move.
36) Message boards : Number crunching : Double or Triple your task throughput on Windows! (Message 4669) Posted 25 Mar 2021 by Ian&Steve C. Post: I've found that einstein@home is about 4.5 times faster on ubuntu than win10. (That's for a gpu task, I'm not sure if they have cpu only tasks) people don't usually report this kind of speed difference between Windows/Linux on Einstein. some of the fastest systems on the project still run Windows. That just wouldnt be the case if Linux was more than 4x faster. What GPU do you have and which GPU tasks/application were you running? very slow processing time like this usually means something is overcommited, either CPU or GPU memory.
37) Message boards : Number crunching : Double your task throughput on Linux (Message 4573) Posted 3 Dec 2020 by Ian&Steve C. Post: you get some overhead with a virtualized environment so it'll never be as fast as bare metal.

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