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02-11-12, 11:03 AM
There has been a change in the runtime estimation algorithm and therefore high credits are granted. This will be only during this week. Throughout the week we will reduce the credits for the high yielding workunits again and again.

More... (http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/forum_thread.php?id=677)
zombie67
02-11-12, 12:47 PM
Again, glad I already got my 10M. :D
Mumps
02-11-12, 01:26 PM
Again, glad I already got my 10M. :D

Go for you 25M then. Looks like it's only a little over (2) 4 hour ATI WU's to get there...
GalaxyIce
02-11-12, 02:53 PM
Go for you 25M then. Looks like it's only a little over (2) 4 hour ATI WU's to get there...

I can't get ATI Ws. Keeps telling me I got 0.


11/02/2012 19:57:29 | Poem@Home | Requesting new tasks for ATI GPU
11/02/2012 19:57:32 | Poem@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
11/02/2012 19:57:32 | Poem@Home | No tasks sent
Mumps
02-11-12, 04:45 PM
I can't get ATI Ws. Keeps telling me I got 0.

According to a few threads in their forum, the ATI WU's are scarce.
STE\/E
02-11-12, 06:09 PM
I picked up 80 or so early this morning on 1 Box but their just paying regular Credit, I just picked up 1 on another Box & am running it now, their going to correct the Credits anyway so any big gain you get now will be taken away later at least according to what the Projects saying ...
Cruncher Pete
02-11-12, 06:17 PM
Here we go again with the saga of too much credit. Somebody (?DA) or the credit police must be wielding a big stick and are threatening projects if they go above a certain credit limit. Personally projects that give and take away credit are placed in the lower end of projects to crunch in my book...
STE\/E
02-11-12, 06:34 PM
We're talking about 11 Million Credits for 1 40 Min Wu, a Tad to much I think ... ;)
Cruncher Pete
02-11-12, 06:41 PM
I am out of place here, it is my bad... I should not have opened my mouth before knowing the circumstances. In this case, I agree, but what made me see red is the way the RSS read, we will reduce the credit time and time again.
Mumps
02-11-12, 10:37 PM
I am out of place here, it is my bad... I should not have opened my mouth before knowing the circumstances. In this case, I agree, but what made me see red is the way the RSS read, we will reduce the credit time and time again.

Something that happens every now and then with Admins with English as a second language. When I read it, I didn't think they meant would be touching the ones that got god-awful-huge credits, just tuning the process for the subsequent ones. ;)

Reading the threads on their fora cleared it up just a bit. I'll still see if it's worth jumping over to make a dent in the next 5 Mil Project for me. :)
spingadus
02-12-12, 12:52 AM
I'd be happy to just get a wu. I upgraded to 7.0.15 and still nothing.
zombie67
02-12-12, 12:54 AM
I'd be happy to just get a wu. I upgraded to 7.0.15 and still nothing.

BOINC Project Updater set to check every few minutes.
spingadus
02-12-12, 01:07 AM
BOINC Project Updater set to check every few minutes.

Lol, installed it just before I read this. Brilliant minds think alike :P
spingadus
02-24-12, 03:34 AM
Wow, nearly 2 weeks now and still I haven't received a single wu. I have BPU set to check every 2 min 30 secs. boinc 7.0.18, amd 12.1 (hd 6970). Is there anything out of the ordinary that needs to be done for this project or is it just a waiting game?
zombie67
02-24-12, 08:59 AM
Wow, nearly 2 weeks now and still I haven't received a single wu. I have BPU set to check every 2 min 30 secs. boinc 7.0.18, amd 12.1 (hd 6970). Is there anything out of the ordinary that needs to be done for this project or is it just a waiting game?

What is the mandatory server back off when you ask for a task? Default is 7 seconds, but they may have changed it. In any case, set BPU to back off + 2 seconds. That should do it.

Also, do you have BOINC 7.x installed? That is a requirement.
spingadus
02-24-12, 02:48 PM
What is the mandatory server back off when you ask for a task? Default is 7 seconds, but they may have changed it. In any case, set BPU to back off + 2 seconds. That should do it.

Also, do you have BOINC 7.x installed? That is a requirement.


As stated, I have installed boinc 7.0.18. The boinc messages entries only show this whenever it tries to update:

2853 Poem@Home 2/24/2012 11:38:51 AM update requested by user
2854 Poem@Home 2/24/2012 11:38:55 AM Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2855 Poem@Home 2/24/2012 11:38:55 AM Requesting new tasks for ATI
2856 Poem@Home 2/24/2012 11:38:57 AM Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2857 Poem@Home 2/24/2012 11:38:57 AM No tasks sent

I can't edit the BPU from the edit menu to use exactly 2min 7 seconds as it always crashes. But it does allow me to edit the number in the main window by saying '2.12' for the time. That actually comes out to 2min 7secs. The log entries haven't changed.

I never see a message about backoff time for poem.
zombie67
02-24-12, 06:04 PM
I can't edit the BPU from the edit menu to use exactly 2min 7 seconds as it always crashes. But it does allow me to edit the number in the main window by saying '2.12' for the time. That actually comes out to 2min 7secs. The log entries haven't changed.

I never see a message about backoff time for poem.

This is what mine looks like:

2/24/2012 3:03:47 PM | Poem@Home | work fetch resumed by user
2/24/2012 3:04:09 PM | Poem@Home | [sched_op] Starting scheduler request
2/24/2012 3:04:09 PM | Poem@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2/24/2012 3:04:09 PM | Poem@Home | Requesting new tasks for ATI
2/24/2012 3:04:09 PM | Poem@Home | [sched_op] CPU work request: 0.00 seconds; 0.00 devices
2/24/2012 3:04:09 PM | Poem@Home | [sched_op] ATI work request: 108879.81 seconds; 0.00 devices
2/24/2012 3:04:11 PM | Poem@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/24/2012 3:04:11 PM | Poem@Home | [sched_op] Server version 701
2/24/2012 3:04:11 PM | Poem@Home | No tasks sent
2/24/2012 3:04:11 PM | Poem@Home | Project requested delay of 7 seconds
2/24/2012 3:04:11 PM | Poem@Home | [sched_op] Deferring communication for 7 sec
2/24/2012 3:04:11 PM | Poem@Home | [sched_op] Reason: requested by project

It may be that I have more stuff turned on in my cc_config.xml to show me that. In any case, why are you setting it to 2 min 7 sec? Set it to 0 min 9 seconds, or .15 minutes in BPU.
spingadus
02-24-12, 06:29 PM
It may be that I have more stuff turned on in my cc_config.xml to show me that. In any case, why are you setting it to 2 min 7 sec? Set it to 0 min 9 seconds, or .15 minutes in BPU.

Lol, I didn't set it that low because I thought maybe it would be spamming them too much. But it's now set at .15. Thanks for your help!
Slicker
02-27-12, 12:18 AM
I can't edit the BPU from the edit menu to use exactly 2min 7 seconds as it always crashes. But it does allow me to edit the number in the main window by saying '2.12' for the time. That actually comes out to 2min 7secs. The log entries haven't changed.

7 seconds = 7/60 of a minute = 0.12 of a minute in decimal. So 2 minutes 7 seconds = 2:07 = 2.12 minutes. I can see where the display is confusing though. I'll see what I can do about that....
spingadus
02-27-12, 02:37 AM
7 seconds = 7/60 of a minute = 0.12 of a minute in decimal. So 2 minutes 7 seconds = 2:07 = 2.12 minutes. I can see where the display is confusing though. I'll see what I can do about that....

There wasn't any confusion about the .12 approximately equaling 7 seconds. That was pretty obvious. It was just that I couldn't edit the time via the edit menu (edit menu->edit host/project) without it crashing.