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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Today i got none Nvidia WUs. The WCG team has to come up with something else, otherwise we won't have a COVID-19 drug for ten years. Well, here the day is just starting!  |
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biini
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Post Count: 334 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Today i got none Nvidia WUs. The WCG team has to come up with something else, otherwise we won't have a COVID-19 drug for ten years. I'll go fill Euro Jackpot ticket |
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crasbe
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I received about 40 Nvidia WUs on my two machines. They usually come in a large chunk and then none for quite a while.
It's just luck I assume. But I wish we would receive more GPU than CPU Work Units, that would free up CPU ressources for other projects. |
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kittyman
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 14, 2020 Post Count: 140 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Nary a nibble o' kibble for the kitties' GPU in 3-1/2 hours.
----------------------------------------Come on, server. The kitties are hungry!!! Meow!  |
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squid
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: May 15, 2020 Post Count: 56 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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An update from ForliLab would be interesting. The last update was in July 2020 (https://forlilab.org/opn-update-7-20/).
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kittyman
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The kitties try not to complain too loudly......
----------------------------------------They of course have the CPUs at work full time. But as long as everybody's CPUs are filled, why not divert more work to the army of GPUs that are just waiting to jump on it? Or, perhaps the project is processing as much work through the back end as they can handle? If not, please send more GPU kibbles to the kitties. The wretched COVID virus nearly took the life of my significant other, and I am anxious to do everything here that might reveal it's mysteries and give mankind the tools to bring it down. Meow |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1297 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The kitties try not to complain too loudly...... They of course have the CPUs at work full time. But as long as everybody's CPUs are filled, why not divert more work to the army of GPUs that are just waiting to jump on it? Or, perhaps the project is processing as much work through the back end as they can handle? Meow It seems you have logically nail on the head. I have a feeling they are processing as much work as they can handle or the scientists may not be able to build batches fast enough. Not sure this is just a thought  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Speedy51 at May 18, 2021 11:00:29 PM] |
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kwolff88
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I get the feeling that even if they converted all CPU workunits to GPU, it wouldn't be enough to keep every GPU's work cache full all the time.
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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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But as long as everybody's CPUs are filled, why not divert more work to the army of GPUs that are just waiting to jump on it? Uplinger explained earlier that they would use the CPUs for the small molecules, and the GPUs for the bigger ones. I would think they have much more GPU power than they planned on, and are trying to figure out how to get enough large molecules to make use of it. They may also have to develop new techniques to analyze the results. I am slightly perplexed why this was not realized six months ago, but that is not our realm. Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. |
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maeax
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Feel free to do other GPU-work with Boinc so long no work is avalaible for COVID19!
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX 64-Cores/ AMD Radeon (TM) Pro W6600. OS Win11pro
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