UK BOINC Team Forum

Thanks Tim, I doubt we'll make it through the next round (top 25) but you've got to be in it to win it :) Hi Mark No worries..... At the end of this second week of challenge, the 25 best teams will be invited to the third week of challenge that will take place from Monday, October 05, 2020 to Sunda...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54146718 Only 8 out of 855 servers failed - "We think it has to do with ... people not banging things around" :D Hi Mark I read that they used a (gaseous) Nitrogen atmosphere inside the Natick, rather than air/Oxygen and obviously this would "put out" any elect...

We've somehow managed to make it through the first week in 27th place so we're eligible for the second week - https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=10187 :D Could you look out for an invite to the second week Tim? Might as well stay in the competition as...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition FLIR (thermal) footage leaks https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-founders-edition-flir-thermal-footage-leaks Hi Carl Interesting....and way out of my price range :-( Strange that the website says: It is also worth noting that the fan of the R...

Hi Chris, The UK Govt might block the sale, but, OTOH, they do seem to have a load of other stuff on their minds at present. Plus SoftBank need the money to shore up their own finances...so, it's then a question of "if NVidia get blocked" who else is left to take it on? Most of the big firms are eit...

Hi Chris, According to this: https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/14/nvida_arm_acquisition/ they say: "Don’t hold your breath waiting for ribbon-cuttings because SoftBank and Nvidia say the deal will take 18 months to close. Regulators will need to sign off on it, too." One assumes that there might b...

Hiya Elsewhere, U.K. network intelligence firm Imagination Technologies was taken over by China-owned investment firm Canyon Bridge in a £550 million deal in 2017. I'm not sure that quote is correct as I have inside knowledge of Imagination, as I worked (indirectly) for them, in their "Pure" sub-div...

The real question is, why didn't Win7 just work when you plugged the drive back in? HI Carl I have absolutely no idea at all... :-( One of lifes little mysteries I guess. I could just blame :techie-hal: but in the real world, it could just be randomness and/or one (or more) driver files became corr...

Hopefully the brown out didn't cause any damage to the computer. Hi Carl Well, that was "fun"...about 90 mins of installing, waiting, and downloading "stuff"... I re-installed Win 7 Pro on the Xeon and without any prompting, it (Windows) wiped out everything from the HDD (so NO opportunity to repai...

... and now it's gone one better!! "World Community Grid: Congratulations, you've earned a Gold badge for your contribution to OpenPandemics - COVID-19 You just earned a Gold badge for the contribution you've made to OpenPandemics - COVID-19. Thanks for your participation, and we look forward to yo...

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Thanks for the heads-up.

For those that want to give it a try (on Windows and Mac) it's here:

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

PS: Linux and other OS versions are the same.

regards
Tim

Hopefully the brown out didn't cause any damage to the computer. HI Carl Me too !! I had another of these Intel-made, 32-core Xeon mobo's and I had to move the PC to a different place at work, so I powered it down, moved it and it wouldn't then fire back up...sent an email to the supplying company ...

Like this? State: All (29821) · In progress (399) · Validation pending (27386) · Validation inconclusive (0) · Valid (0) · Invalid (0) · Error (2036) Application: All (29821) · 20_Gaia@home (0) · 21_Gaia@home (0) · 22_Gaia@home (0) · 23_Gaia@home (0) · 24_Gaia@home (29821) Currently there's only Li...

If you come to the states I can give you 1080s to pack in your bag for the return trip. :wink: Hi Carl Thanks for the kind offer - but as Mark says USA is "off limits" at present due to Covid-19 restrictions. And by the time I can get over there, the likelihood is that the GTX 4xxx or even 5xxx Ser...

Now just have to wait and watch the 10x0 and 20x0 Series drop down in price fairly quickly. :-) regards Tim Hi all ...and sure enough, I've now seen GTX 1070's for less than £200 and GTX 1080s for less than £300... I'm "tempted" by the GTX 3070 but the TDP/TGP of 220 W which is higher than the 180 ...

Hi Chris

Done !! (and I deleted some posts where images had been moved to the 1st post).

regards
Tim

I use BAM on all my computers. If you had BAM set up you could change BOINC settings through their website and wouldn't even need BM on the host. The password you need to use with localhost is in the BOINC folder in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file. Hi Carl I *DO* have a BAM account and logging into it, I...

Hi Mark Next step: I tried the following: $ cd /var/lib/boinc-client $ sudo apt install boinccmd ...on the basis that maybe boinccmd was "incomplete" (though just typing "boinccmd" does bring up lots of command line parameters...so boincmd as a program is in the directory and seem to be working). Bu...

Hi Mark Thanks for the guidance...and taking the time to advise me... I did the first step and got: "Operation failed: authentication error" (I have checked and re-checked the command line entry AND my account key for YoYo...but something seems to be causing an issue). And that was after "removing" ...

Carl is correct, 'localhost' is the right way to connect locally. I have a similar problem on one of my hosts (also a Linux 32 core Xeon coincidentally) but after a power cycle, BM just sits there "disconnected" rather than asking for a project. Usually selecting "localhost" as the computer to conn...