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PMH_UK
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 771 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Still low on Lenovo1U:
----------------------------------------OPNG_0097287_00263_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-25 19:09:14 UTC 2021-10-29 19:09:14 UTC 2021-10-25 19:30:04 UTC 0.27 / 0.34 0 / 7.4 OPNG_0097087_00180_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-25 12:37:06 UTC 2021-10-29 12:37:06 UTC 2021-10-25 12:59:32 UTC 0.28 / 0.36 0 / 10.1 OPNG_0097161_00132_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-25 11:37:07 UTC 2021-10-29 11:37:07 UTC 2021-10-25 11:57:36 UTC 0.26 / 0.33 0 / 7.9 OPNG_0097003_00318_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-24 22:39:13 UTC 2021-10-28 22:39:13 UTC 2021-10-24 23:01:13 UTC 0.29 / 0.35 0 / 8.1 OPNG_0096954_00243_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-24 17:09:16 UTC 2021-10-28 17:09:16 UTC 2021-10-24 19:11:16 UTC 0.28 / 0.39 0 / 7.4 OPNG_0096872_00596_2 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-24 13:01:15 UTC 2021-10-28 13:01:15 UTC 2021-10-24 13:24:11 UTC 0.23 / 0.28 0 / 7.1 OPNG_0096861_00199_2 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-24 12:22:06 UTC 2021-10-28 12:22:06 UTC 2021-10-24 12:48:24 UTC 0.25 / 0.33 0 / 10.1 OPNG_0096810_00316_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-24 05:39:12 UTC 2021-10-28 05:39:12 UTC 2021-10-24 05:57:13 UTC 0.23 / 0.29 0 / 7.4 OPNG_0096645_00399_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-23 18:09:12 UTC 2021-10-27 18:09:12 UTC 2021-10-23 18:27:11 UTC 0.23 / 0.29 0 / 7.4 OPNG_0096628_00286_0 Lenovo1U Valid 2021-10-23 16:52:04 UTC 2021-10-27 16:52:04 UTC 2021-10-23 17:27:11 UTC 0.23 / 0.32 0 / 11 Compared to similar/identical Lenovo2: OPNG_0097156_00082_0 Lenovo2 Valid 2021-10-25 09:44:20 UTC 2021-10-29 09:44:20 UTC 2021-10-25 15:51:15 UTC 0.17 / 3.22 0.2 / 194.6 OPNG_0097156_00096_0 Lenovo2 Valid 2021-10-25 09:44:20 UTC 2021-10-29 09:44:20 UTC 2021-10-25 17:49:11 UTC 0.14 / 3.34 0.2 / 222.3 OPNG_0097109_00169_0 Lenovo2 Valid 2021-10-25 04:02:06 UTC 2021-10-29 04:02:06 UTC 2021-10-25 14:26:18 UTC 0.12 / 3.58 0.2 / 230.1 OPNG_0097015_00057_0 Lenovo2 Valid 2021-10-25 00:52:06 UTC 2021-10-29 00:52:06 UTC 2021-10-25 12:36:15 UTC 0.13 / 4.82 0.2 / 297.6 OPNG_0096967_00392_0 Lenovo2 Valid 2021-10-24 20:49:10 UTC 2021-10-28 20:49:10 UTC 2021-10-25 07:29:10 UTC 0.15 / 3.9 0.2 / 221 OPNG_0096967_00432_0 Lenovo2 Valid 2021-10-24 20:49:10 UTC 2021-10-28 20:49:10 UTC 2021-10-25 07:44:12 UTC 0.18 / 3.25 0.2 / 186.4 OPNG_0096947_00065_0 Lenovo2 Valid 2021-10-24 17:09:11 UTC 2021-10-28 17:09:11 UTC 2021-10-25 03:34:09 UTC 0.16 / 2.94 0.1 / 186.2 Paul.
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erich56
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have made the following observation since last night:
the processing time for the tasks now is about 4-5 times longer (on all my 4 machines), but the credit earned per task is just slightly higher than before. How come? |
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spRocket
Senior Cruncher Joined: Mar 25, 2020 Post Count: 274 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I thought it was just me. I even rebooted the system thinking something had gone wonky with the GPU. My last 87 results turned in (sorted by return time), in BOINC credits per GPU hour:
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erich56
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I thought it was just me. I even rebooted the system thinking something had gone wonky with the GPU. ... well, I realized right away that something must be going wrong with the credit points since the imbalance between substantially larger tasks and only slightly hither credit showed up for all my machines. I remember when there were such larger tasks for several days some time last summer, the credit points went up accordingly (I think between 1.200 and 1.500 or so). But not this time. |
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bluestang
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Oct 1, 2010 Post Count: 272 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I thought it was just me. I even rebooted the system thinking something had gone wonky with the GPU. ... well, I realized right away that something must be going wrong with the credit points since the imbalance between substantially larger tasks and only slightly hither credit showed up for all my machines. I remember when there were such larger tasks for several days some time last summer, the credit points went up accordingly (I think between 1.200 and 1.500 or so). But not this time. Yep, same here. Not very consistent in what they do in this project. Very frustrating especially when a post stating WU changes would help let everyone know what is going on. |
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2177 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yup, many more "jobs" in the GPU WU's the last day, and pathetic credit/points for the increase of the time it takes to crunch them.
----------------------------------------My antique, low power GTX660M, usually takes 1.5 hours to crunch a WU, but now with these larger ones, 6+ hours seems to be the new value. And the credit/points for that huge increase, is just pathetic. OK, that's it. I'm calling The Crunchers Union, and then I'm going on a strike.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Grumpy Swede at Jan 11, 2022 9:23:03 PM] |
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erich56
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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too bad that no one from the WCG team has so far given any comment regarding this current imbalance between larger tasks and too low credit.
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MStenholm
Advanced Cruncher Denmark Joined: Jan 7, 2010 Post Count: 97 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you are unhappy about the points then just un-tick GPU work. I can see that the combination of fewer jobs and less points for the ones that are around has hit the big producers hard but you will bounce back.
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alanb1951
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Post Count: 964 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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@bluestang, Grumpy Swede, erich56 (and others with similar concerns)
I posted something about this in another thread in response to bluestang's comment therein. Whilst I agree that something should be done about inconsistent task builds, I'm not sure there's anyone around at the moment who could do anything about it (and even if there is someone suitable, doing something like that as the transition moves towards completion is probably not a good idea! (Speaking with my [ex-]programmer hat on!) We'll have to see if there's the will to do something about it after the transition is complete, I suspect -- it remains to be seen if the response to [non-aggressive(!)] constructive feedback will start to [re]appear then. Cheers - Al. |
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erich56
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@alanb1951:
thanks for the information. I wasn't even aware that the transition to Krembil is not over yet. However, I would not consider it as "aggressive" feedback when pointing out that there is a major imbalance between size of task and credit for it. And that there is no one from the project people left who could look into this and take corrective action, is very unfortunate, of course. |
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