It looks like the estimates for the GPUs are killing things about 1/3rd of the way into the workunit. They have a time limit, it's just not high enough:
07/05/2011 22:43:54 Milkyway@home Starting de_separation_10_3s_fix10_1_287737_1304804381_0 07/05/2011 22:43:54 Milkyway@home Starting task de_separation_10_3s_fix10_1_287737_1304804381_0 using milkyway version 62 07/05/2011 22:45:25 Milkyway@home Aborting task de_separation_10_3s_fix10_1_287737_1304804381_0: exceeded elapsed time limit 89.484881 07/05/2011 22:45:26 Milkyway@home Computation for task de_separation_10_3s_fix10_1_287737_1304804381_0 finished Maybe clients should be updated to have a bit more wiggle-room when it comes to early termination of a workunit? On May 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, robert miles wrote: > From: Travis Desell <[email protected]> > >> Getting rid of the entries with negative variance seemed to fix the WUs > getting >> immediately timed out (at least on DNA@Home), but on milkyway@home it >> looks like the problem is still happening on the GPU applications.... > > Are the milkyway@home GPU applications the type where the CPU part first > stays busy a while loading the GPU part into graphics memory, then goes > into an almost idle mode for most of the rest of the workunit where it does > little except checking whether the GPU part says it's finished, then finally > goes > into a mode where stats busy unloading the outputs from graphics memory? > > If so, I'd expect some large changes in any speed calculations that don't > restrict the CPU operations observed to just one of those modes. > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Travis Desell <deselt @ cs.rpi.edu> 1-518-867-1054 Adjunct Professor & Postdoctoral Research Assistant Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180, USA http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~deselt/ MilkyWay@Home ( http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/ ) DNA@Home ( http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/ ) Worldwide Computing Laboratory ( http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/ ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
