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So you guys at boinc sent my badly overclocked CPU a SR5 task, and it is barely over halfway done. Sorry to Alexander Falk for the wait on your validation, hope you understand.
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Nathan Hood, Amateur Mathematician
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1146966*79^50005-1 is prime! (94897 decimal digits, P = 3) Time : 2930.129 sec.
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So you guys at boinc sent my badly overclocked CPU a SR5 task, and it is barely over halfway done. Sorry to Alexander Falk for the wait on your validation, hope you understand.
Small correction: you set your preferences page to receive SR5 work, which the server decided to respect (by sending S5 work). It wasn't the server sending you whatever it wanted, but rather you yourself requesting SR5 WUs, given that this is not the default project.
At any rate, don't worry. People sometimes spend months waiting for their wingman, it's a pretty common thing here. So long as you can complete the task, it'll be fine. No need to worry about it or apologize, especially given the fact that the guy doesn't seem to visit the forums very much (his last post was almost 5 months ago). |
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So you guys at boinc sent my badly overclocked CPU a SR5 task, and it is barely over halfway done. Sorry to Alexander Falk for the wait on your validation, hope you understand.
As of 22:02 UTC on Wednesday it was 33% complete, and the deadline is December 4th. It's already hit the maximum 30 day deadline which the server will not extend any further. Unless you complete the task by then, in three days the server will send out a replacement task to someone else. Assuming that the replacement task completes successfully (by no means a certainty), 4 days later the work unit will be purged from the database. You have until then to complete the task if you want to get credit for it.
To only complete 33% in a month I'm assuming that your computers, as old as they are, are only running a few hours each day, correct? These are tasks my computer can do in 8 hours, and my computer is close to three years old and hardly the fastest. Even my ancient 32 bit Sempron would have no trouble finishing these tasks in 30 days, and your computers are at least as fast as that clunker. You may want to reconsider which sub-projects you're running and choose more appropriate, shorter tasks for your computers. If your computers don't return the tasks by the deadline, they may be ignored and you're wasting both your computer time and electricity.
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At any rate, don't worry. People sometimes spend months waiting for their wingman, it's a pretty common thing here. So long as you can complete the task, it'll be fine. No need to worry about it or apologize, especially given the fact that the guy doesn't seem to visit the forums very much (his last post was almost 5 months ago).
It is a quite common thing. Here's a fun example of a work unit with a long and tortured history:
http://www.primegrid.com/workunit.php?wuid=490652258
Person 1 picks it up on 2 August, works on it, almost to completion (judging by the GPU), and aborts it on 25 August.
Persons 2 and 3 immediately error out.
Person 4 (me) gets it on 3 August and returns it on 5 August.
Persons 5-16 either error out or abandon it.
Person 17 gets it on 29 November. Judging by the GPU its running on and its previous run times, the wu should finish on 2 December, just in time for its 4th month birthday. |
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Person 17 gets it on 29 November. Judging by the GPU its running on and its previous run times, the wu should finish on 2 December, just in time for its 4th month birthday.
If Person 17 does not come through and you can send it my way, please let me know. |
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Person 17 gets it on 29 November. Judging by the GPU its running on and its previous run times, the wu should finish on 2 December, just in time for its 4th month birthday.
If Person 17 does not come through and you can send it my way, please let me know.
I'm blaming myself, largely for not disconnecting from boinc to do the PPS-24M sieves.
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Nathan Hood, Amateur Mathematician
Favorite Number-53
1146966*79^50005-1 is prime! (94897 decimal digits, P = 3) Time : 2930.129 sec.
PRIMES AS DOUBLE CHECKER:
29320766^8192+1 is prime!
24526702^8192+1 is prime! |
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Person 17 gets it on 29 November. Judging by the GPU its running on and its previous run times, the wu should finish on 2 December, just in time for its 4th month birthday.
If Person 17 does not come through and you can send it my way, please let me know.
I'm blaming myself, largely for not disconnecting from boinc to do the PPS-24M sieves.
Do not blame yourself since another project and work unit is at play with Person 17, namely GFN22. |
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I was not blaming myself for Person 17, blaming myself for my failure.
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Nathan Hood, Amateur Mathematician
Favorite Number-53
1146966*79^50005-1 is prime! (94897 decimal digits, P = 3) Time : 2930.129 sec.
PRIMES AS DOUBLE CHECKER:
29320766^8192+1 is prime!
24526702^8192+1 is prime! |
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No, it's an epic fail on my part. Somehow I only have BOI NC running for a short amount of time, while my computer is running 24/7.
Edit: I just checked my MS Task Manager and apparently all of the BOI NC executables are not taking up CPU space, so it is not running at all during idle cycles.
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Nathan Hood, Amateur Mathematician
Favorite Number-53
1146966*79^50005-1 is prime! (94897 decimal digits, P = 3) Time : 2930.129 sec.
PRIMES AS DOUBLE CHECKER:
29320766^8192+1 is prime!
24526702^8192+1 is prime! |
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There is a suspend on user activity options in BOINC, so maybe check if those have been set? The idea is if you're using the computer, it would totally suspend. I normally leave that function off, as the tasks run at low priority anyway so they don't really impact anything else I do on the computer. |
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I manually suspended the task and never unsuspended it. Too late to turn back now saying as I only have access to all my boinc CPUs once every week.
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Nathan Hood, Amateur Mathematician
Favorite Number-53
1146966*79^50005-1 is prime! (94897 decimal digits, P = 3) Time : 2930.129 sec.
PRIMES AS DOUBLE CHECKER:
29320766^8192+1 is prime!
24526702^8192+1 is prime! |
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Can you not TeamViewer into them? |
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Can you not TeamViewer into them?
It smells that he used someone else CPU power ... it is so mysterious :)
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Can you not TeamViewer into them?
TeamViewer is a great solution since it allows you to create a ring/network where one computer can access any other computer within the ring/network. This is what I have set up at home and I love it. This is very useful under many scenarios and including challenges. |
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I use my dad's computer. I don't get access to it often. Not stealing cycles from anyone like a school or business. I'm not the only one in my circles that doesn't get computer access often. As I speak I'm doing this on an IPod touch- not anything boinc can run. I do have a computer at my regular house, but my parent there doesn't allow it to be running constantly and thus cannot run boinc.
Off-topic, I still remember the time this exact same clunker almost discovered a PPS-Mega Prime. I aborted it because I thought my computer hardware was failing.
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Nathan Hood, Amateur Mathematician
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1146966*79^50005-1 is prime! (94897 decimal digits, P = 3) Time : 2930.129 sec.
PRIMES AS DOUBLE CHECKER:
29320766^8192+1 is prime!
24526702^8192+1 is prime! |
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The task has officially timed out. It will likely now go to someone else for the double check. I just didn't unsuspended because it had already reached the point of no return.
Edit: Actually still has 20 hours left, but I'll just let it time out because I'm getting more credit anyway with my other CPU, don't really need this clunker giving me credit too.
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Nathan Hood, Amateur Mathematician
Favorite Number-53
1146966*79^50005-1 is prime! (94897 decimal digits, P = 3) Time : 2930.129 sec.
PRIMES AS DOUBLE CHECKER:
29320766^8192+1 is prime!
24526702^8192+1 is prime! |
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