The Scottish Boinc Team

Is it just me or have others found it difficult to get enough work -ie at least one WU per core - for this project?

I think it maybe a particular problem with some of the newer varieties of Boinc Manager and relates to the extreme length of the CPDN "models" (=work units).

The following worked for me.

• In Advanced View for Boinc Manager Open "Advanced..." -> "Preferences..."
  Click on the tab for "network usage"
  Set "Connect about every" to 25 days
  Set "Additional Work Buffer" to 10 days.
  Suspend all other projects.
  Update CPDN
  A few minutes later Resume all other projects

Let me know if it works for you!

Same problem here only happens on the gpu machines ... Have tried suspending all gpu work but will still only get 1 wu

yeah it not giving me enough wu's to feed all the threads of the i7. im only getting the 4 wu's so i've still got wcg running on the other threads till i can work it out.

I think this is what was effecting me last night too but it sems to have cleared up this morning.

It's currently downloading 8 in parallel for me right now.

Edit: Ahh but I also updated the client to the 6.6.7 version and it's working so maybe that has had an effect too.

There's been quite a bit of discussion recently about the work fetch policies - especially considering CPDN. I suspect the new release (See Jock's post) has a 'tweaked' version of the policy in it that may make a significant difference.

Btw, it's well known @ CPDN that running multiple copies of some of the model types is very bad for computer performance. I don't know the details, but I'm sure a quick search on the CPDN boards will enlighten anyone that cares.

Forget every thing I said earlier. 6.6.7 is the answer install it now! As well as getting you lots of work it even sorts those machines that would only ever run 3 + 1. They now do 4 + 1 no problem.

ok please don't be like me and install the 32 bit over the 64 bit version as you then lose all current work....

yes I am an idiot! lol

ok idiot correction. installing the 32 bit version goes into a different folder so everything is still there. i just had to install the 64 bit again to make it the main install.

everything now working and we'll see how it goes.

as nice as that version was i had to roll back to 6.4.5 as it refused to give me any gpu work no matter what i tried.

So it looks like im going to have to upgrade to get CPDN work and then downgrade it back to make sure i don't lose out on GPUGrid work.

Ah the life of the 24/7 cruncher. its a joy.

Yes I found the same. OTOH once you've got 8 CPDN WU lined up that'll do you for a few weeks. By which time they might have a decent BM for us.

Ok, I think I have eventually got this to work properly. I downloaded and installed the newest experimental version of BOINC 6.6.12

I finally have enough CPDN wus to crunch. Just got to get rid of the Primegrid I downloaded in order for the comp to be doing something...

Andone else tried running primegrid on this version, because the progress bar is going crazy. It goes up about 8% then down 6, up another 8, down anoother 6. Is this normal?

I am currently struggling big time. I/m in the position qagain where only 1 GPU is seen and the other one is failing all units. It downloads 8 all fail and I'm stuck for the day.

I will have to try 6.6.12 and see how I fare.

funnilly enough i bugged back to one gpu after a recent graphics driver update. going to rollback it and / or boinc when i get a chance to see if i can get the two to show again.