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alanb1951
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Post Count: 964 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm using an iMac with an M1 chip and the latest OS. I'm finding that the vast majority of my MCM WUs do NOT complete, reverting back to 0% after completing between 1%-1.4% and then restarting and ending within the same range over and over again, until I abort the units. I've been told that this is only affecting a minority of WCG Users. However, I hope it gets fixed ASAP, because I've contributed to MCM for many years and would love to be able to continue contributing to it. All non-MCM WUs are working normally. Are you using the % of CPU value in the Computing preferences options to reduce temperature or fan noise? If so, that might be your problem, as I think there's some sort of timer monitoring the time spent on setting up the MCM1 task and it will work on elapsed time, not CPU time used... Just a thought :-) Cheers - Al. |
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uglyphilbert
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Thanks for the update, appreciate it. SCC work units are dribbling in 1 or 2 at a time for me, I'll assume it's just building up slowly. On a side note, I reinstalled windows on one of my devices and it now recognises it as a new device. Is this normal? The device took a few weeks to appear without me contacting anyone about it so maybe the new device issue has been solved. There's documentation somewhere on the WCG website that describes how WCG deviates from standard BOINC to do "host" matching. In other words, instead of matching by hostID, it tries to match by the device's username. It's possible your Windows reinstall was named differently? Or perhaps the username and/or exact build version of Windows didn't match? Kind of wish WCG would go back to standard BOINC, but a lot of custom development work was done under IBM WCG, and it would take a lot of dedicated resources to undo all that customization work. I have some duplicate device IDs that I would love to "merge," and some with zero results that I would like to delete. Thanks for that info. It's still the same computer name, I don't think I was even prompted to change it. But certainly a different Windows build version so it's probably because of that. |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1293 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I agree technical information would be fantastic in regards to the server hardware/software, however I completely understand if this information cannot be given as it could be information the university doesn't want to share
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NixChix
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Post Count: 1187 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks for the update, appreciate it. SCC work units are dribbling in 1 or 2 at a time for me, I'll assume it's just building up slowly. On a side note, I reinstalled windows on one of my devices and it now recognises it as a new device. Is this normal? The device took a few weeks to appear without me contacting anyone about it so maybe the new device issue has been solved. Unless you save the BOINC folders before you reinstall your computer is a new installation of BOINC and therefore a new device. Cheers   |
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erich56
Senior Cruncher Austria Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Post Count: 295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Would it be possible for a technical WCG employee to provide us a very technical explanation of the current WCG architecture? I'm curious about all server hardware used for work unit generation, processing, sending, receiving, and storage. Including any load balancers or proxies used, internal NICs used, internal network speeds, and external ISP throughputs. The more detail the better, for those of us IT Professionals (or advanced enthusiasts). I'm just trying to understand the bottlenecks and the exact root cause of the transient HTTP errors for both uploading and downloading. Heck, a network diagram would be best + a description in writing. Ideally a WCG tech can post in the forum directly instead of relaying through a middleman. I, too (and probably many others) would be interested in this kind of information |
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Jeffreys
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Anyone else only getting ARP tasks? A lot of pending validation ARP tasks from over a week ago too.
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nivrip
Senior Cruncher North Yorkshire Joined: Sep 13, 2007 Post Count: 264 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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No, I'm getting mostly MCMs and a smattering of SCCs.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7668 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am getting an adequate supply of MCM but am being starved of SCC.
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1951 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I am getting an adequate supply of MCM but am being starved of SCC. Plenty of MCM and some SCC, about a ration of 80%:20%. And noticed one single _2 OPN1 this morning.Cheers Also about two dozen ARP1 sitting in PV jail, though one "late on arrival" WU, from a rather slow cruncher, validated right away... Ralf  |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1293 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Also about two dozen ARP1 sitting in PV jail, though one "late on arrival" WU, from a rather slow cruncher, validated right away... Good to read some people are getting work validated. I have around 40 results in PV jail. Only one resend went valid as soon it was returned. No tasks in progress for ARP [Edit 2 times, last edit by Speedy51 at May 15, 2023 9:24:33 PM] |
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