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Posts by Keith Myers

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Server is dry (Message 811)
Posted 2 Jan 2026 by Keith Myers
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From a response I got from one of Spacious@home admins/representatives via the contact form, (he/she) Toni stated that Gaia was one of their "previous initiatives" inferring that Gaia is finished and work/research moving to the Spacious@home project.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Server is dry (Message 781)
Posted 26 Sep 2025 by Keith Myers
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Any news on when the server hard drive is going to be procured and installed?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Server is dry (Message 780)
Posted 22 Sep 2025 by Keith Myers
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Server is dry because of hard drive failure. They are still awaiting replacement to arrive to reconstitute the server.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Server status page not loading and all uploads stalled out currently (Message 775)
Posted 15 Sep 2025 by Keith Myers
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Project status page working now. No feeder running and unable to report finished work.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Server status page not loading and all uploads stalled out currently (Message 774)
Posted 14 Sep 2025 by Keith Myers
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Server status page not loading and all uploads stalled out currently
Please fix the servers.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Feeder backend not running. Project in backoffs (Message 756)
Posted 29 Apr 2025 by Keith Myers
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Until the admin makes a re-appearance here, the project is effectively dead, titsup, gone wobbly, whatever your favorite euphemism for exists no more.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Feeder backend not running. Project in backoffs (Message 753)
Posted 27 Apr 2025 by Keith Myers
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Feeder backend not running. Project in backoffs
8) Message boards : Number crunching : A lot of errors (Message 676)
Posted 8 Dec 2024 by Keith Myers
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Wrapper script is misconfigured by the work generator. Benign error. Nuisance is only the extra cluttering of the stderr.txt output file.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Ghost tasks for gaia 4 (Message 661)
Posted 5 Dec 2024 by Keith Myers
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I've been getting Gaia_4 task all along, today included. They are misconfigured it appears but they validate with very low credit.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : 0 points for valdiated task ? (Message 550)
Posted 31 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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I did click the first link. Can't comment on your issues since you choose to hide your hosts. It looks like all the 0 credit issues have to do with Gaia_4 tasks which were faulty and likely cancelled in bulk by the admins to make room for the Gaia_5 tasks.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : 0 points for valdiated task ? (Message 548)
Posted 31 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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I have no idea why .....
First time is see this problem

I keep my fingers crossed for Ukraine

Seen this before on other projects. When there are already a _0 and _1 task already issued and with a deadline fast approaching, the scheduler preemptively issus a _2 task just in case neither of the two are expected to report in time. This occurs usually within an hour or two of the deadline.
When one of the first tasks reports and just squeeks in under the deadline, the _2 task is cancelled with a 0 credit assigned. This value then gets mistakenly applied to validated tasks.
Seen it often at Universe and now at Asteroids too. Looks like Gaia is susceptible also. It's a rare occurrence.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 542)
Posted 29 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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My one troublesome host has now been able to correctly finish and report these new 8560 GFLOPS tasks. Hoping we are finally in the stable part of the learning curve for the project.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 538)
Posted 28 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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I still can not get one slow host to successfully run the Gaia_5 tasks, even with this new 8560 GFLOPS size value.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Long running Wu's ? (Message 537)
Posted 28 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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Can you advise for tasks that hit 100% completion somewhere short of 3 hours and then just accumulate time until 3 1/2 hours have elapsed and then report as exceeded time limit errors.

I have one host that has not been successful in completing validated tasks since your original project resumption with Gaia_4 tasks.

Should I just give up on getting the tasks to properly run on this host?
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 524)
Posted 27 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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Still cannot prevent one slow host from erroring out all its tasks. Going to NNT for now.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 520)
Posted 27 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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It could be some older work showing up... I have recently been getting 5_5xxxx work but also some 5_3xxxx resends mixed in at times.

I could have sworn they were new _0 tasks and not resends. The app speed is still too fast for this host.

Computer: Numbskull
Project: https://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ | Gaia@home
App Version: 1
App User: 5_Gaia@home
Application: 5_Gaia@home[20241023.2232]
Name: 5_57468
Name Wu: 5_57468_0
Elapsed: 01:01:17
Cpu: 99.00%
Progress: 100.000%
Timeleft: 00:00:00
Deadline: 9d,22:41:16 | Nov 05, 2024, 02:47:24 PM
Resources:
Status: Computation error
Exit status: 197
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Recieved: Oct 26, 2024, 03:47:25 PM
Disk: 953.6743 MByte
Task size: 39560.3310 GFLOPs (rsc_fpops_est)
App speed: 395603.3101 GFLOPs/sec (rsc_fpops_bound)
Memory: 476.8372 MByte (rsc_memory_bound)
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 516)
Posted 26 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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I don't know why @zupa decided to change the values of the template again back to what was broken at the onset of the project return. The previous 39,560 GFLOPS speed was working just fine. Now tasks are back to erroring out with time exceeded limit errors.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 514)
Posted 26 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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It looks like Gaia tasks don't honor BOINC suspension. Boinc Manager says the tasks are suspended but the OS still shows running processes. This is under Linux

Are you sure?? Suspending tasks won't suspend the wrapper app which is just sleeping during suspend and actually during most of the crunching. The main app is suspended though and that is the one that actually does the crunching.
The wrapper app is the process with big 'G' in the name. The process with the little 'g' in the name is the actual science app.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 512)
Posted 26 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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Looks like the latest cutdown in the GFLOPS value for the tasks is working. Too bad it took them several days to properly configure their work generator.

Now out of work. Shame all those prior tasks were wasted.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Gaia 5 (Message 509)
Posted 25 Oct 2024 by Keith Myers
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I see the latest tasks have had their rsc_fpops_est values cut by 10X again. Now just 126,400 GFLOPS and much closer to the original 3,600 GFLOPS that was working for mostly everyone when the project first came back.
Hope to see this trend continue when we can expect all tasks be immune from the exceeded time limit errors.
[Edit] Still getting timeout errors on my slower Epyc's. They need to cut the GFLOPS values by another 10X.


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