Message 87901 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 18:33:57 UTC

No Rosetta tasks A G A I N.

I am running only 2 projects: Rosetta at 80% and Einstein at 20%.

For Rosetta, BOINC manager keeps "Requesting new tasks for Intel GPU," which ALWAYS results in "Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks."

Then Einstein comes along a few minutes later and scores new tasks by "Requesting new tasks for CPU."

This results in my queue filling up with Einstein tasks, even though I'm running Rosetta at 80%.

Is there a way to fix this?

Rosetta will only run on CPU.
Einstein will run on CPU or GPU AND ... the GPU version requires 1 full CPU.

Running Einstein on ONLY the GPU plus the GPU required 1 CPU ... will likely be more than 20%.

I would suggest you change the Einstein preferences to only run GPU jobs on your machine.

The idle CPUs will then request Rosetta jobs.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't want to run anything on the GPU.

I have had to play with the BOINC CLIENT settings to get exactly what I want but these XML controls are pretty flexible.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

Try inserting the following TEXT file named "app_config.xml" in the Einstein Project directory. Change the "3" to the maximum Einstein jobs you want to run.


Tell BOINC to read it ....
OPTIONS: READ CONFIG FILE option

Look at the EVENT LOG and you should see a message that says it READ the config file.

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<app_config>
<!--
I am a comment
-->
<project_max_concurrent> 3 </project_max_concurrent>

</app_config>

I am running only 2 projects: Rosetta at 80% and Einstein at 20%.

For Rosetta, BOINC manager keeps "Requesting new tasks for Intel GPU," which ALWAYS results in "Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks."

Then Einstein comes along a few minutes later and scores new tasks by "Requesting new tasks for CPU."

This results in my queue filling up with Einstein tasks, even though I'm running Rosetta at 80%.

Is there a way to fix this?

Rosetta will only run on CPU.
Einstein will run on CPU or GPU AND ... the GPU version requires 1 full CPU.

Running Einstein on ONLY the GPU plus the GPU required 1 CPU ... will likely be more than 20%.

I would suggest you change the Einstein preferences to only run GPU jobs on your machine.

The idle CPUs will then request Rosetta jobs.

Completed tasks are not uploading.

Indeed, it is the 24-hour back off time that is the problem, then. Can this be adjusted?

Well, you can adjust your cache size to something like 4-6 days, than you should not run out of work during that 24 hours.