CasA work availability
18 Jul 2013 0:51:51 UTC
Topic 197070
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I generally avoid mixing WU types within a CPU or GPU. Lately my give host CPUs were all running BRP4 (Arecibo).
With the availability of Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) having been announced, and plenty of such units appearing to be available according to the Einstein server status page, I deselected BRP4 and enabled CasA on all four locations (venues).
But my first requests on more than one host were denied. So I re-enabled BRP4 for all hosts save one which has several days of work in buffer.
I'm not really begging for help here, nor claiming to report a serious problem--possibly lots of folks are requesting these things and the servers are metering them out so that the initial 100 Mbyte downloads don't cause excessive congestion. But I thought a thread for people to report their success or failure at getting this sort of work might be of at least a little community interest.
I was not keeping careful count, but so at least two of my five hosts have requested CPU work when preferences were set only to allow CasA CPU work, and none have succeeded, with a late line on the work request page reading in partNo work is available for Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA)
CasA work availability
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My host was not receiving CasA tasks either earlier today. However, this evening, the first CasA task downloaded via my host. You may want to try and run an update on your hosts again to see if the new project tasks are available now.
The E@H Status webpage has
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The E@H Status webpage has been showing the S6CasA Work Generator as running for the past hour or so...
Gord
Now that you mention it, none
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Now that you mention it, none of my four hosts have yet received a CasA. As they are all hungry beasts with generally quick turnaround, I'd assume they haven't yet been allocated one by the server. I'm not in a position to check their logs right now though.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
My first CasA task
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My first CasA task failed.
http://einsteinathome.org/task/391782393
RE: My first CasA task
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Indeed, it's troubled by SFT stuff :
I'll alert the devs on this, at a glance I don't think this is of client side origin ( ? project supplied data ? )
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: ERROR: illegal
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For the moment I would think this is a client side problem. I suggest to run a filesystem check on the host and manually delete the file "h1_0231.25_S6Direct" before starting the BOINC Client again.
If, however, there appear more such errors of the same type, especially for this same workunit, I'll have a closer look at the files on the server side.
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RE: With the availability
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I moved my original reply to the S6CasA news thread, because it might be of general interest.
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