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Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home
(Message 101921)
Posted 25 May 2021 by CIA Post: To everyone fighting in here and calling names: This is bug reporting thread. Please take your argument elsewhere. Nothing you all are posting has anything to do with the point of this particular thread. |
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Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home
(Message 101304)
Posted 14 Apr 2021 by CIA Post: No WU's will start. Some examples: Pre-helical-bundles This happened to me. Initially they appeared to be hung on "waiting to start" but I let them sit for awhile (about 15 minutes) and they did eventually start on their own. Let them sit for a bit and see if the same happens to you. When I say "I let them sit for awhile" I mean I tinkered with them doing all the normal diagnostics (Suspend, resume, change to run always etc). After tinkering apparently did nothing to help, I put all my settings back at my normal defaults. As I was pondering what to do next I got distracted by something un-related and walked away from my machine. When I returned about 15 minutes later they had all started up on their own. So I guess patience might be the trick. |
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Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home
(Message 101292)
Posted 13 Apr 2021 by CIA Post: /edit. Just to add a datapoint. While it's not conclusive, all the Miniprotein_relax8 units I'm getting that run long do "complete" and show as valid, even after going 10 hours over. Of these units that run over, many are "seconds" sent to me from other machines that failed to process the WU. My machine is running OSX and completes them fine (beyond running 10hrs over). All the failed machines are windows or linux based. That said, I know Macs make up a small percentage of computers on this project, so I might have just not gotten a resend from a Mac in my small sample. Yea, I suppose I could do that but I'm honestly here for the science and if Reddit has taught me anything, internet points aren't worth anything. 8-). The long WU's are producing results, and that might be helpful to researchers. So I let them run. I've got a few long units now going on my 36hr boxes, they are coming up on the 46hour cutoff, I wonder what results they will provide. |
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Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home
(Message 101263)
Posted 12 Apr 2021 by CIA Post: Have you changed the setting to allow 18 hours? Because all mine are sticking to the 8 hours. I'm getting 50% of the mini protein_relax8 completing in 8 hours, and the other 50% failing, usually taking 5 hours to do so. During the latest drought I had this machine set to 36 hours, but Friday when it became clear the drought has ended I set it back to its normal default 8 hour runtime. So it's running for the standard 8hr and then 10 additional hours on top as others have mentioned before the auto-cutoff happens. All my other machines are set to 36 hours, and while none of them have completed any of these longer units, some of them are showing signs it will happen to them also. For example on one machine I have a miniprotein WU that is only 57% done 22 hours in. I have a feeling it's going to crunch for 46 hours (set time limit +10hr cutoff). /edit. Just to add a datapoint. While it's not conclusive, all the Miniprotein_relax8 units I'm getting that run long do "complete" and show as valid, even after going 10 hours over. Of these units that run over, many are "seconds" sent to me from other machines that failed to process the WU. My machine is running OSX and completes them fine (beyond running 10hrs over). All the failed machines are windows or linux based. That said, I know Macs make up a small percentage of computers on this project, so I might have just not gotten a resend from a Mac in my small sample. |
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Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home
(Message 101260)
Posted 12 Apr 2021 by CIA Post: Same here, and on prehelical (although I didn't check the error type).Over the course of this afternoon I’ve had 6 segv errors, all on files starting miniprotien. Pretty much all of my mini protein_relax8 units are seconds (meaning they failed on another machine before I got them), and almost all of them are completing but taking 18 hours to do so. They are creating very few decoys. Example: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1366333671 |
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Rosetta work units won't start or run
(Message 101189)
Posted 9 Apr 2021 by CIA Post: Just to chime in here on the 'Ready to Start' situation... I noticed a few days ago that I was when I would get a work unit or 2 (during the most recent drought) they would stick on "ready to start' for quite some time before actually starting. I was tinkering with one machine trying to get them to start up, but then I got distracted. A few minutes later, the WU's just started up on their own. So basically, while odd, I think patience might be the solution. Let them sit for awhile a see if they do start up. If they haven't started in 15 minutes then something else is probably wrong. |
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A Change to the Default?
(Message 100456)
Posted 20 Jan 2021 by CIA Post: I’ve had one sebvN_jp_TCRB task take over 11 hours to finish, and I’ve got three others still running after more than 10 (against a default run time of 8) I have most of my crunchers set to 36 hour tasks. I've had a couple of the Sebv ones roll through that you mentioned. Even though I have my WU's set to 36 hours, the Sebv ones are all ending early (about ~24hours in). They only produce 3 decoys in that time. |
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Shortcomings of Apple M1 Mac mini
(Message 100351)
Posted 8 Jan 2021 by CIA Post: It's looking very much like a limitation of Apple's Rosetta for non-native applications, as when using a native application it can use all of the available RAM if it needs to. Exactly. That said, even though this is all running on emulation, based on the numbers I've seen so far if I was to just run one core on one task the points awarded are impressive. None of my other machines (dedicated 24/7 crunchers) crack 500 points per 8 hour task, most are in the 300's. The M1 mini, under emulation, is putting up 500+, some even 700-800 point tasks. Under emulation! The potential once we get a native client is huge. This weekend I might set it to run with 25% of the CPUs (2 of 8) and see what it does when it's not fighting for memory. Monday I need to hand it over to the new owner though. Does anyone know who handles the Mac client for Rosetta, and who handles the Mac client for BOINC? I'd be willing to start a kickstarter to get them a basic Mini to test code. They are only $699. |
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Shortcomings of Apple M1 Mac mini
(Message 100347)
Posted 8 Jan 2021 by CIA Post: I had the machine set to 90% on both. I did a fresh restart of the machine, and only launched BOINC and Activity Monitor (to see CPU and memory use). I had BOINC in the foreground (as the active app), and ran nothing else for the entire day and as I mentioned, stayed consistent between 7-8GB of memory used, never more.And what is your Use at most xxx % of the CPUs set to? Seeing is believing, here's the prefs as set up on the M1 based Mac Mini. Again, the tasks it did complete put up really good points, it just didn't utilize the full potential of the machine. After a fresh reboot, it was the only app running besides Activity monitor for 24 hours. |
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Shortcomings of Apple M1 Mac mini
(Message 100345)
Posted 8 Jan 2021 by CIA Post: Just a little update after running it for most of the day. It eventually settled down and pretty much only runs on 3 of the 8 cores and never goes over 7.5GB of RAM, even when nothing else is running. (Again, 16GB machine) All the other tasks are either "waiting to start" or "waiting for memory".In your Rosetta account, Preferences, When and how BOINC uses your computer, Computing preferences, what are your memory settings? I had the machine set to 90% on both. I did a fresh restart of the machine, and only launched BOINC and Activity Monitor (to see CPU and memory use). I had BOINC in the foreground (as the active app), and ran nothing else for the entire day and as I mentioned, stayed consistent between 7-8GB of memory used, never more. Currently I'm encoding something in Premiere while running out the last task, and memory use is bumping up against the 16GB max, so it can use more memory when other things are going on. The last task running is one of those rb monsters, taking up over 2.5GB of memory at around 65% complete. |
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Shortcomings of Apple M1 Mac mini
(Message 100336)
Posted 8 Jan 2021 by CIA Post: Just a little update after running it for most of the day. It eventually settled down and pretty much only runs on 3 of the 8 cores and never goes over 7.5GB of RAM, even when nothing else is running. (Again, 16GB machine) All the other tasks are either "waiting to start" or "waiting for memory". The numbers (per core) that it puts up once it finishes a WU are impressive, especially considering it's running everything under emulation. Unfortunately, until the memory issue is solved with a native app it's a lot of power going to waste. It does crunch, just not to it's full potential. I do look forward to seeing the full potential once a native version of BOINC and Rosetta are released for Apple Silicon going down the road. |
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Shortcomings of Apple M1 Mac mini
(Message 100333)
Posted 7 Jan 2021 by CIA Post: Here's a screenshot showing CPU, memory etc usage on the M1 Mini. I'm guessing the first 4 cores are the low power ones. |
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Shortcomings of Apple M1 Mac mini
(Message 100332)
Posted 7 Jan 2021 by CIA Post: I'm just going to chime in here, as we just took delivery of a M1 based MacMini for our front desk person here at work, but I intercepted it to "test" prior to deployment as a basic outlook/word processing box. Our machine has 16GB of RAM, 512GB HD. Last night I started Rosetta, but also was compressing an hour long video (ProRes 422 --> H.265) using Apple Compressor, I have to say, the power of this machine doing both tasks is impressive. With BOINC set to 'always run', the video encode was still twice as fast as my classic 12c/24t MacPro, even when the MacPro is only encoding and doing nothing else. So anyway, the first few tasks have a longer CPU time then you would normally see for a machine dedicated to 100% BOINC/Rosetta because of the background encode. Also I was just reminded in this thread about the memory options in the computing pref menu. I now have the machine set to use 90% of the memory all the time. For the next 24 hours I'm going to just run Boinc alone, and see how it does as it settles in. The first 8 tasks were not really clean as the memory was set low and the computer was also encoding video. It will be interesting to see how the tasks are handled with 4 of the 8 cores being low power, highly efficient, vs the other 4 being high power, high speed. Of the 8 tasks downloaded and running, it will sometimes run all 8 at once, but most of the time I see "waiting for memory" on a few tasks. Currently as I look over at it, 5 of 8 tasks are running, the rest have no memory. Activity Monitor shows only 8GB of RAM being actively used (out of 16 available), so the emulation software running behind the scenes must be sucking up quite a bit. It would be nice to see a M1 native version of the BOINC client, and the Rosetta application (Not to be confused with the Apple Rosetta2 emulation layer) to see what this machine can really do. As others have mentioned, even running full bore last night with Rosetta and full GPU video compression happening, you couldn't hear the machine at all, the fan didn't seem to be working hard (or at all) and the Mini was barely warm to the touch. If you want to see it in action over the next day or so, machine is here: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5980699 |
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3832 new hosts per day?
(Message 100026)
Posted 14 Dec 2020 by CIA Post: If a two hour task completes 10 models, then an eight hour task is more likely to complete about 40 models, not 15. This is a terrific explanation, thank you. Based on this explanation I think I'm going to bump my WU processing time (on my dedicated 24/7 zero cache machines) from 24 hours to 36. |
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0 new tasks, Rosetta?
(Message 98883)
Posted 8 Sep 2020 by CIA Post: Since we are off topic anyway, I have 9 machines running on my account. They run Rosetta 24/7. Back in March when I set these 9 machines up, they had the default 8hr runtime, but these days 8 of the 9 are now set to 24hr runtimes. They've been on 24hr runtimes for about 3 months, and returned hundreds of tasks while at that time limit. Boinc still shows fresh tasks as 8 hours on them though, so I have my cache at 0 to avoid getting dozens of WU's I can't possibly finish before the deadline. Once they start crunching they gradually adjust the "Time Remaining" and "Elapsed" time to = 24 hours, but when they are new they still show 8. Do I just need to detach and re-attach to Rosetta to get it to see these machines now have a 24hr runtime set on them? |
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0 new tasks, Rosetta?
(Message 98779)
Posted 7 Sep 2020 by CIA Post: Units that bounced back to the server for whatever reason (not started on time, not finished on time etc) will trickle in and out for the next day or so and really clear all the actual work. Given the holiday weekend I'd not expect a proper refill until Tuesday at the earliest. Hopefully I'm wrong on that. I was referring to WU's as a whole, not what's inside them. Often for whatever reason you will see machines that are (for example) dual core laptops with 96 WU's in their queue. There's no way they are finishing them all in the 3 day window so the WU's get bounced back once the timers run out and they then are sent out to someone else. That's what I was referring to. |
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0 new tasks, Rosetta?
(Message 98770)
Posted 6 Sep 2020 by CIA Post: Units that bounced back to the server for whatever reason (not started on time, not finished on time etc) will trickle in and out for the next day or so and really clear all the actual work. Given the holiday weekend I'd not expect a proper refill until Tuesday at the earliest. Hopefully I'm wrong on that. If you have work queued up, might want to up your WU time to 24hrs so they can keep crunching longer until the drought ends. |
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0 new tasks, Rosetta?
(Message 98749)
Posted 4 Sep 2020 by CIA Post: Looks like we are running low on Tasks again.... |
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Tells us your thoughts on granting credit for large protein, long-running tasks
(Message 98303)
Posted 24 Jul 2020 by CIA Post: Why not just create a new project called "RosettaBIG" and be very clear in the project description that it's essentially the same as Rosetta, but intended for machines that can run 24/7 and have lots of RAM. "If you are unsure if your computer is qualified for this project, please join the normal, original Rosetta project instead." You might not get a ton of participants, but the people who do sign up would have big iron machines and are willing to donate lots (24/7) of CPU time. |
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Why are my 'Remaining' time estimates so far off?
(Message 98164)
Posted 17 Jul 2020 by CIA Post: Just as a heads up, you are running an older version of BOINC. I suggest you download the current version. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php |
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