On 15/05/2020 10:56, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 10:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty > <hamis...@live.co.uk> wrote: >> I'm going to have one last go at getting GPU computing to work for >> Folding soon, but if I can't make it work, does anyone think it's worth >> doing CPU folding, or are the contributions so small as to be pointless? > The CPU folding is important. Some of the simulations are only made > available for CPU work. > >> Tim, I'd be interested to see how your KVM computing is going - you said >> it was very slow over the call, but hoping it will speed up. I probably >> won't do it, but I'm interested to see how well it works. > Well, it's hard to say because of the estimated time remaining being > so broken. But some tasks have completed so we can compare. > > Here is the 'bare metal' version, actually running inside a podman container: > https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2288 > > The measured floating point and integer speeds are 6.53b and 136.5b > ops/s, and the tasks generally take about 30,000s for v0.01 and 3,500s > for v0.02. > > Here's a VM I was using: > https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/show_host_detail.php?hostid=3505 > > and the measured floating point and integer speeds don't seem to have > been filled in yet; they are still the default you get before you've > even submitted a completed task. > > The tasks generally take about the same amount of time! But the credit > received for them is much lower -- I have no idea why that is. > > I reconnected that VM using the correct project URL (oops) so now it > shows up here: > https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4223 > > I'll leave it going for a bit to compare some more. > > Tim. > */ > Well that's certainly interesting. Also good to know that CPU folding is worth doing either way.
I was just about to reset my Ibercivis password, but I have not been able to - it says it failed to send the email. Has anyone else had this issue? I also can't start computing for them on my desktop until I manage to recover my password. Hamish
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