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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113019) Posted 21 Aug 2025 by Tigers_Dave Post: Rosetta has run out of work for the moment. Nothing new. It is hit an miss these days. Short runs gobbled up by the massive amount of people here. The AI took away our old work that was steady. Now we run refinements of its work if needed. If you get some work, be glad, if you don't oh well..better luck next time. I think this is a great attitude to take. I have resumed Einstein CPU crunching at a resource share of 1. So, if I don't pick up sufficient Rosetta tasks, I'll crunch Einstein tasks instead.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112990) Posted 8 Aug 2025 by Tigers_Dave Post: You can crunch Amicable Numbers using a 1080, 1650, 1660, or 3050 https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/gpu_list.php Noted, thanks, but it's not a project suited for me I completely understand. It is deeply disappointing when projects that I have loyally supported for years decide to no longer support my hardware. And it's almost as disappointing to find projects that I want to support, but won't support my hardware. But the number of projects that support my hardware (AMD GPUs connected to Intel-based Macs) has been steadily shrinking. AFAIK, Amicable Numbers is the last one. And, I understand that the developers of BOINC projects are under no obligation to support legacy hardware, particularly niche legacy hardware like mine. Still, it hurts to be marginalized.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112986) Posted 7 Aug 2025 by Tigers_Dave Post: I can't run GPU grid anymore for the time being. They are working LLM for Chemistry and my 1080 is too old to run them. Wrong architecture. It used to be 7000 tasks would last forever. Now they are gone in a heartbeat. GpuGrid is next on my list to join. What would you say is the minimum spec & RAM now? I upgraded from a GTX750 to a GTX1650 4Gb the other year and have my eye on a 2nd hand GTX1660Ti 6Gb for a reasonable price. Is that sufficient? If not, I've also seen a new RTX3050 8Gb for just a little more. You can crunch Amicable Numbers using a 1080, 1650, 1660, or 3050 https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/gpu_list.php
4) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Personal Milestones (Message 112907) Posted 17 Jul 2025 by Tigers_Dave Post: At the end, 5 milions. For the next 5 milions i need more powerful hw [VENETO] boboviz, it took you fifteen years for the first five million credits. It has taken you less than five years for the next seven million credits! Sounds like you started using additional or more powerful hardware. :-) Thanks for your contributions to Rosetta!
5) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Last one to post here wins! #2 (Message 109545) Posted 10 Aug 2024 by Tigers_Dave Post: Mikey, now "I" am winning!
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 109532) Posted 6 Aug 2024 by Tigers_Dave Post: While we are waiting for new Rosetta tasks another Science based project that supports Windows, Linux and Mac ... CPU's and / or GPU's is Asteroids@home I have been running the project since January of 2013. Respectfully Bill F Bill, thanks for sharing! Asteroids does not support GPUs on Intel-based Macs. On the other hand, Amicable Numbers <-https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/> supports CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, and Intel GPUs on Windows, Linux, and Intel-based Macs. Tigers_Dave
7) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Loss Of Epigenetic Information (Message 108011) Posted 30 Jan 2023 by Tigers_Dave Post: Nice paper. Going to discuss it in my journal club.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : No Work for PPC? (Message 63353) Posted 15 Sep 2009 by Tigers_Dave Post: Since there might be occasional work available, I will leave my PPC Mac attached to Rosetta. While I am waiting I will keep my PPC Mac busy with World Community Grid and Superlink I think SIMAP, POEM and Lattice are also very interesting projects wich has MacOS PPC support. I have three multi-processor G5 PowerMacs and several G4 Macs (mostly PowerBooks). It has been months since work has been available for these units. Because of this, I'd like to echo the request that Rosetta discontinue advertising support for the OS X/PPC platform. It would appear that the "gradual phase-out" is, for all practical purposes, complete. It's too bad - those units were doing a lot of crunching for Rosetta (roughly 15% of my total). IMHO, SIMAP is not a particularly appealing alternative - work is available only very periodically. My PPC units are primarily running SETI and Einstein.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems with Rosetta version 5.54 (Message 38322) Posted 25 Mar 2007 by Tigers_Dave Post: Lots of R@H units not working on my G4 Dual as well with the newest boinc update + 5.54. Same for Predictor@home (involving maybe the same math or same expectations of my system?). Anyone getting 5.54 to happily run on a G4 Mac with the older boinc client? For the last 2-3 days I have had problems running 5.54 on most of my Macs, including G4 eMacs, a G4 PowerBook, G4 Mac minis, an Intel Mac Mini, a G5 DP PowerMac, a MacBook Pro, and a Mac Pro. The only machines that have appeared to escape these problems is a G3 iMac and a Toshiba Tablet PC (Pentium III-M). Regards, Dave
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Report stuck & aborted WU here please (Message 10478) Posted 5 Feb 2006 by Tigers_Dave Post: WU 5711705 ran on computer 129018 for 179,315.17 seconds before it failed on February 5. WU 5857025 ran on computer 105835 for 177,320.33 seconds before it failed on January 31. WU 5650559 ran on computer 105834 for 143,150.09 seconds before it failed on January 23. None of these three work units has been completed by another machine. Thanks.

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