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Posts by stfn

1) Message boards : Number crunching : A lot of errors (Message 709)
Posted 15 Jan 2025 by stfn
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BTW, for VPS for crunching, I recommend getting one of Hetzner servers from their auctions. They are a bit more expensive than typical low end VPS, but you get access to a physical machine with which you can do whatever you want. I've been crunching on them months at a time with no issues.

https://www.hetzner.com/sb
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Server is dry (Message 685)
Posted 25 Dec 2024 by stfn
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Do you know it's Christmas and people are not at work?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Insufficient credits (Message 622)
Posted 2 Dec 2024 by stfn
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I have a Ryzen 5900X which is not liking your 4_Gaia work units.
It takes up to 1.5 hours to run a work unit and I get from 6 to 12 points per work unit with an occasional 16 points thrown in.
Conan



That's interesting, I'm doing 4_Gaia in 20 minutes on my ancient Xeon E3-1275L.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Insufficient credits (Message 619)
Posted 2 Dec 2024 by stfn
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Or you can not care about silly internet points and be happy that this project is growing and we have two apps to crunch. Thanks zupa, and as always, as a fellow UAM guy, I am willing to give any help I can :)
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Server is dry (Message 599)
Posted 10 Nov 2024 by stfn
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It's a long weekend here in Poland, tomorrow it's Independence Day, so I would suspect new work on Tuesday at the earliest.
6) Message boards : Science : Gaia_4 and Gaia_5 (Message 596)
Posted 8 Nov 2024 by stfn
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It makes me so, so, so happy that you are back. Great to see that my University is back in the BOINC world :)
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Is this Project DEAD (Message 398)
Posted 16 Sep 2023 by stfn
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I'm hoping this project will see some action with the start of the academic year in October. Zupa, can you confirm? :)
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Is this Project DEAD (Message 386)
Posted 21 Feb 2023 by stfn
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By the way zupa, if you would need some help with translating stuff like the science page from Polish to English, I can help :)
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Is this Project DEAD (Message 384)
Posted 21 Feb 2023 by stfn
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That makes me so happy! I suspended all other projects and thrown everything I've got at them!
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Is this Project DEAD (Message 382)
Posted 15 Feb 2023 by stfn
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So... any hopes of getting new tasks?
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks crashing (Message 381)
Posted 30 Jan 2023 by stfn
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And now the tasks are flying, no errors, very smooth, thank you for your work in making this happen panie profesorze! :)
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks crashing (Message 379)
Posted 27 Jan 2023 by stfn
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Hi!

I am no longer getting any calculation errors, yay! But around 20-30% of my tasks fail with "download failed". Can it be a problem on my side?

EDIT: Probably not, such tasks fail for everyone: http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/workunit.php?wuid=9753
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks crashing (Message 370)
Posted 13 Jan 2023 by stfn
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Still no luck, every task I try fails in a computation error a few minutes in.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks crashing (Message 368)
Posted 13 Jan 2023 by stfn
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Hi, I'm trying to understand why the previous data needed 3h calculations and the current input data counts so quickly. Because a certain calculation time is assumed, the result file takes on a monstrous size. I have reduced the calculation time to 5 min, increased the allowed size of the result file.
I am very surprised by this situation and apologise for the problem. It was a new packet of data as usual, and here such a surprise. A review of the results will show if the calculations are correct, but there is nothing to indicate that they are wrong, just that you are counting incredibly fast this time.


In that 16% I haven't seen a change in calculation speed, based on how fast it was going, the estimated task time would be around 1.5-2h, so not really a change from the previous batches. At least for me.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks crashing (Message 366)
Posted 13 Jan 2023 by stfn
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<message>
Disk usage limit exceeded</message>


Huh, interesting, seems Gaia broke my 10GB limit for BOINC files. I removed all limits and let's see what happens now.

EDIT:

Even with no limits, tasks failed around 15% mark, and Gaia was then using about 18GB of disk space (!). I'll suspend crunching new tasks until more is known.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks crashing (Message 365)
Posted 13 Jan 2023 by stfn
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Got today morning a batch of Gaia_3 tasks, sadly all failed at 16% :(
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Is this Project DEAD (Message 359)
Posted 3 Jan 2023 by stfn
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YES! Let's go!
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Is this Project DEAD (Message 357)
Posted 2 Jan 2023 by stfn
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I'm patiently waiting for this project to restart and I will give my machines to it the moment it comes back online. I'm really rooting for G@H, as it's coming from my University. I hope 2023 will be a great year for Gaia. Admins, if you need any help, let me know.
19) Message boards : Science : What are we doing? (Message 321)
Posted 1 Jun 2022 by stfn
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Hi!

This project is especially interesting to me as I'm an alumni of UAM and I am glad to help my people :) And so I wanted to ask what's happening with the numbers that we are crunching? Any cool scientific projects, PHDs that we are pushing forward? Just a very general update will suffice. Thanks!




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