8. BOINC Pentathlon

[Dirk Broer]

We seem to be making up some ground on the City Run and should be able to catch the next two spots before that event ends. I tried to get a head start on the Einstein project, but this ended up being me waiting for any of them to finish:
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I have never done any Einstein work before, but they seem to be taking much longer than advertised to finish and take up some memory. I have not started trying to bank the LHC work units yet. I think that will be my next move after city run closes depending on if it looks like we need some work on the marathon project or not.

How long is long here? On the IGP of my Athlon 5350 it takes 5 hours, the HD4000 of my i7-3770 takes a bit over one hour (much smaller WU's, less points).
How do you crunch Einstein WUs, by CPU or GPU? If by GPU, what GPU are you using?

Edit: I peeked via our group page on Einstein. You use a nVidia GeForce GT610 and on another box an Intel HD5000.
You may want to change some settings here: BOINC runs always and, while in use, BOINC may run and use the GPU. It looks like Einstein isn't getting enough resources. You may want to look in the taskmanager to see what's going on. Have you installed the lastest Intel OpenCL drivers for the i5 box? Can you expand the 4GB RAM size from that NUC-like box to at least 8GB?

[Tweeder]

...lastest Intel OpenCL drivers for the i5 box? ...

I was running CPU and GPU on both, but backed off to just GPU so that I could get a mix of projects on the Linux box.

I am having troubles finding the latest drivers because it is on Mac OS X El Capatain and I cant seem to find an easy way to check if I have the most updated. Any pointers there would be great because right now it looks like the GPU is being found, but I am getting a message that einstein does not support that type of computer.

2017-05-10 01:02:31.8320 [PID=27365] [debug] [HOST#12526340] MSG(high) Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) is not available for your type of computer.
2017-05-10 01:02:31.8320 [PID=27365] [debug] [HOST#12526340] MSG(high) see scheduler log messages on https://einsteinathome.org/host/12526340/log

[Dirk Broer]

Apart from Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo), all Einstein@Home applications have an OS X variant, all Mac OS 10.5 or later, running on Intel 64 Bit.
Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) will only run, OS X-wise, on PPC architecture (e.g. PowerMac G3, G4 and G5)