Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-06-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 09:45:00 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > Just spotted this: update on which existing drugs have come out on top > so far, and an end date for the project (end of July). Although they indicate that they have reached their conclusions, but volunteers may continue to participate

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-06-30 Thread Tim Waugh
Just spotted this: update on which existing drugs have come out on top so far, and an end date for the project (end of July).

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-17 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 15/05/2020 10:56, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 10:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty > 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

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-15 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 10:29, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty 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

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 15 May 2020 10:28:36 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Aw that's a shame. I was just going to re-add this to my Ryzen system to > contribute some more work. Hamish, Checkpointing is working; it's just ETA computation that isn't. All my Tasks from yesterday survived shutdown and

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-15 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 15/05/2020 10:22, Terry Coles wrote: > On Friday, 15 May 2020 08:47:08 BST Terry Coles wrote: >> The ETA computation seems to be fixed as well. The client is now reporting >> fractions of a percentage complete and shows no sign of freezing at any >> point. One of yesterday's Tasks is now

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday, 15 May 2020 08:47:08 BST Terry Coles wrote: > The ETA computation seems to be fixed as well. The client is now reporting > fractions of a percentage complete and shows no sign of freezing at any > point. One of yesterday's Tasks is now 'Ready to Report' and of the rest, > six out of

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 10:15:31 BST Terry Coles wrote: > 'We are doing checkpointing after each of these lines (in version 0.02 and > in workunits like 13052020 or higher)' I can report that this is working. I shut down last night instead of Suspending and the Ibercivis Tasks all resumed this

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 09:59:24 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > Thanks for the tip! I'll let these VM tasks drain until I see v0.02 tasks > come in. Still curious about how the VM tasks actually perform in KVM. I've been puzzling over that posting since I first read it. At the start of it they say:

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 07:22, Terry Coles wrote: > However, there is a new posting on the Ibercivis Message Board that says > they > now have a new version of the app on the server which is supposed to fix > the > checkpointing problem (but not the computation issue). > Ah, yes:

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-14 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 11:38:57 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > I noticed that ibercivis released a whole load of new tasks. Still no > checkpointing, and some of them take much longer now, 8-9 hours for me. When the six that I've got arrived they were predicted to complete in 8-9 hours. They've all

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-13 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 11:38:57 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > I gave up on using hibernate ('systemctl hibernate') only because the FAH > GPU task doesn't survive it. I gave up on hibernate, because (K)Ubuntu doesn't support it and the instructions to make it work have all sorts of issues. > I

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-13 Thread Tim Waugh
I gave up on using hibernate ('systemctl hibernate') only because the FAH GPU task doesn't survive it. I noticed that ibercivis released a whole load of new tasks. Still no checkpointing, and some of them take much longer now, 8-9 hours for me. That's a lot to lose to lack of checkpointing, so

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread chris cave via dorset
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Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:56:53 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > I don't seem to have hibernate on either laptop or desktop. I manually > enabled it before, but it never worked reliably. > > This is maybe one thing that Windows does better. AFAIR it works OK on my laptop. --

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
I don't seem to have hibernate on either laptop or desktop. I manually enabled it before, but it never worked reliably. This is maybe one thing that Windows does better. Hamish On 05/05/2020 18:23, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12:55 BST Tim Waugh wrote: >> Hibernate is not

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:12:55 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > Hibernate is not only for laptops. > > If you hibernate (i.e. suspend-to-disk), then you can remove the power with > impunity. When you power it back on it will resume from disk. I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately the Kubuntu developers

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 17:11, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:56:40 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 16:53, Terry Coles > wrote: > > > It still needs the mains to be on. > > > > For *hibernate*, i.e. suspend-to-disk? > > No. For Suspend. Hibernate is only available

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:56:40 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 16:53, Terry Coles wrote: > > It still needs the mains to be on. > > For *hibernate*, i.e. suspend-to-disk? No. For Suspend. Hibernate is only available for laptops it seems. It is definitely Suspend that is

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 14:43, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 14:28:35 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > > Or alternatively, can suspend (or hibernate) be pressed into service? > > Instead of shutting down at night, suspend/hibernate the machine > overnight > > so it can pick up where it left

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 14:28:35 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > Or alternatively, can suspend (or hibernate) be pressed into service? > Instead of shutting down at night, suspend/hibernate the machine overnight > so it can pick up where it left off when it is resumed in the morning. It looks as if Kubuntu

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 11:05, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 11:02:01 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > > Ibercivis may not have checkpointing, but what if I run it in a VM (using > > kvm), and suspend *that* when I switch the machine off? > > The Client might get a bit confused with the

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 11:02:01 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > Ibercivis may not have checkpointing, but what if I run it in a VM (using > kvm), and suspend *that* when I switch the machine off? The Client might get a bit confused with the timestamps maybe. The only way to find out is to try it I

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Tim Waugh
Ibercivis may not have checkpointing, but what if I run it in a VM (using kvm), and suspend *that* when I switch the machine off? Tim. */ On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 10:47, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 10:43:53 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > > I'll have to abort on one machine

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 10:43:53 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > I'll have to abort on one machine too, it doesn't complete tasks quickly > enough for that to work. I've posted a comment on the Ibercivis forum, requesting that the developers let us know (by publishing a Notice perhaps), when

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 05/05/2020 10:00, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 09:45:15 BST Tim Waugh wrote: >> There are several things at play I think: >> - ibercivis has not implemented checkpointing yet, which means if you >> switch the computer off all running tasks lose their progress(!) > In that case,

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 09:45:15 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > There are several things at play I think: > - ibercivis has not implemented checkpointing yet, which means if you > switch the computer off all running tasks lose their progress(!) In that case, I'd be better off sticking to Rosetta because

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-05 Thread Tim Waugh
There are several things at play I think: - ibercivis has not implemented checkpointing yet, which means if you switch the computer off all running tasks lose their progress(!) - the percentage-completion report seems to be a guess: I see it go up in 10% increments, and sometimes tasks complete

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-04 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 3 May 2020 14:59:02 BST Terry Coles wrote: > I just got seven Tasks. They are currently shown as 'Ready to Start', > presumably waiting until some of the Rosetta Tasks are complete. This project is weird! Yesterday when the Tasks started, the estimated remaining time for each was

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-03 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 3 May 2020 14:22:16 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > I saw some Ibercivis tasks start today. I just got seven Tasks. They are currently shown as 'Ready to Start', presumably waiting until some of the Rosetta Tasks are complete. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online,

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-03 Thread Tim Waugh
I saw some Ibercivis tasks start today. Thanks for the tip about this project! Tim. */ On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 16:13, Terry Coles wrote: > On Saturday, 2 May 2020 16:07:17 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > > Unfortunately no. I guess they're having the same problem Rosetta has > > been

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 2 May 2020 16:07:17 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Unfortunately no. I guess they're having the same problem Rosetta has > been having (though I now get a steady stream of tasks from Rosetta). Rosetta never stopped giving me tasks, although a few days ago, they started only

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-02 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
Unfortunately no. I guess they're having the same problem Rosetta has been having (though I now get a steady stream of tasks from Rosetta). Hamish On 02/05/2020 11:21, Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday, 30 April 2020 15:27:33 BST Terry Coles wrote: >> Still no Ibercivis Tasks, but new Rosetta

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-05-02 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 15:27:33 BST Terry Coles wrote: > Still no Ibercivis Tasks, but new Rosetta Tasks still seem to be coming in. > The Client seems to be waiting longer before downloading new ones, so it's > presumably waiting to see if any higher priority Tasks arrive before > allowing

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-04-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:43:26 BST Terry Coles wrote: > So I may suspend Ibercivis if no new Tasks are downloaded when the current > batch have finished processing. I currently have six tasks Running, two > Waiting for Memory and one not started. Still no Ibercivis Tasks, but new Rosetta

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-04-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:30:11 BST Tim Waugh wrote: > Looks interesting. Are you picking up tasks from it? I haven't seen any > yet, just see this in the logs: > > 30-Apr-2020 09:42:04 [ibercivis] Project has no tasks available Yes. This is what I get: Thu 30 Apr 2020 10:47:50 BST |

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-04-30 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 10:21, Terry Coles wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 09:50:22 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > > Just happened across a new project today: > > > https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto=en=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csi > > c.es >

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-04-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 29/04/2020 10:20, Terry Coles wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 09:50:22 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> Just happened across a new project today: >> https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto=en=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csi >>

Re: [Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-04-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 09:50:22 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Just happened across a new project today: > https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto=en=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csi > c.es%2Fes%2Factualidad-del-csic%2Fel-csic-e-ibercivis-lanzan-un-proyecto-de- >

[Dorset] New BOINC project that does computing for COVID-19

2020-04-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
Just happened across a new project today: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto=en=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csic.es%2Fes%2Factualidad-del-csic%2Fel-csic-e-ibercivis-lanzan-un-proyecto-de-ciencia-ciudadana-que-busca-farmacos I think some of you are volunteering CPU/GPU time as well so thought I