Hi all,

I just crunched a GIANNI WU which was marked short run, but it took more or less the same time than the NATHAN long runs but giving only half the credit.

that is normal ?

I'm running a HD7950 under Win7 64

Here is the link to the WU http://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=4452168

thanks for comments

BR
Markus

here is another one, that took even longer...

http://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=4452297

BR
Markus

Thanks for the answer...

I don't know excatly how it works for GPU grid but shouldn't the credits be given by the amount of calculations done (or similar) and not by the queue the WU comes from ? Obviously this is not the case here ?!?

Markus

The problem is probably because these tasks run at relatively low GPU utilization.
See here: http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3365&nowrap=true#29992

I watched the GPU utilization of the second one because it was my first idea....

I saw a general level of about 80-95% with some drops to about 60% for seconds. Overall stable on a high level.

Earlier reported low utilization WU's had a much lower overall level than these.

Can anybody watch on their GPU's, I'm out of GIANNI right now ;-)

I just saw that I mentioned the wrong GPU in my first post ...

I'm using a GTX 660 Ti and for sure not the ATI card for GPUGrid

Markus

There are two main reasons why more credit is awarded on the long queue:
1) Greater risk for the cruncher to crunch (typically) much longer WUs. If a simulation crashes after 18 hours, that's a much bigger loss than a crash after 2 or 6 hours. This is especially true for older/slower cards.
2) To encourage/reward users who dedicate their computers to the long hours crunching that long WUs require. With he short queue, you can run a WU while you sleep or run errands, for example, and by the time you wake up or come home it's finished, and you can use your computer for other things. Dedicating a gpu/cpu/computer to run on long queue means you basically can't use it for other things, such as work, entertainment, etc., and so higher credits reward them for that.

Gianni's WUs may be slightly long for the short queue, but my recent tasks were definitely short for the long queue. The reason was that, at the time, my WUs were the only work for anyone to crunch, so I didn't want to make them too long in case people who typically crunch on short tasks wanted WUs to do, but couldn't sacrifice the time. Basically, it was due to the circumstances at that time. We have had a few weeks recently where I was the only one who had work for you guys, which was never a common situation for us. However, we keep adding more users, and it is becoming harder to come up with ideas fast enough (which is a good problem to have!). We are also trying to bring in new scientists!

Also seeing the same issue for the GIANNIs - 19446.58 seconds for the most recent. This is more time than the NATHAN WUs.

I saw the GIANNI WUs using 70 - 75% of my GTX680 on average. The NATHANs and NOELIAs tend to run around 85% on average. (I've never had a problem with NOELIA units.)

There are two main reasons why more credit is awarded on the long queue:
1) Greater risk for the cruncher to crunch (typically) much longer WUs. If a simulation crashes after 18 hours, that's a much bigger loss than a crash after 2 or 6 hours. This is especially true for older/slower cards.
2) To encourage/reward users who dedicate their computers to the long hours crunching that long WUs require. With he short queue, you can run a WU while you sleep or run errands, for example, and by the time you wake up or come home it's finished, and you can use your computer for other things. Dedicating a gpu/cpu/computer to run on long queue means you basically can't use it for other things, such as work, entertainment, etc., and so higher credits reward them for that.

Hi, Nate:

I particularly like the last two sentences in your post:

However, we keep adding more users, and it is becoming harder to come up with ideas fast enough (which is a good problem to have!). We are also trying to bring in new scientists!

I'm really disappointed : GIANNI tasks are considered as short tasks when lasting about 3 times more than other "small" tasks, but their deadline is the same. They don't terminate in time if I'm sharing resources on my computer.
As long as the deadline remains the same, I'll have to manually abort all GIANNI tasks.
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I'm glad to read this thread! Today I started again with crunching since 2 months ago. So I started with short runs GIANNI. But he's already crunching since 16:00 pm and is almost (00:50 am). So a run took more than 31.500 seconds to complete @ my GTX570!!! I thought I had a hard- or software error... I'm glad it isn't only me.

A screenshot over here (Dutch Boinc): http://prntscr.com/16117w
I've taked that screenshot 15 minutes ago. 8 hours and 15 minutes at that moment! :S :S

One of the workunits: http://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=4468529

Finally it's done... eh, only 1 WU. The other one caused a lockup of my computer in the last 2 minutes. Arghhh -> computation error -> #$%^&* -_-'

I've only had 4 Gianni tasks since returning to GPUGrid. One ended in with an exit status 255 (0xff) Unknown error number.

The other 3 completed successfully in about 5 hours each. 660 TI, Linux Mint.

Will real short tasks come back?
I mean I thought those were really abnormally long, but it's worst than that.
In my tasks list, long tasks (I have 2) are all below 68200s of working time, while the recent "short" ones (I have 3) are over 68200s (2 are over 70000s).

I know I don't have what you call a "fastest card", but 19 hours of work for a 2~3 hours task, the gap is a bit overkill.

I know I don't have what you call a "fastest card", but 19 hours of work for a 2~3 hours task, the gap is a bit overkill.

Hi: Actually these tasks should not be considered SHORT. In my GTX 590 are at about >25,000 sec.

That is by no means a short task, based on the parameters it has set GPUGRID.

As in the past that have also been discussed, the evaluation criteria for this project are very random and little respect for their own guidelines. Greetings.

On the fastest GPU (now a GTX680) Gianni WU's take <4h. That is less than an hour outside the Short queue's approximation of 2-3 hours, and a very long way from typical Long queue WU's, on the GTX680 (8 to 12h).

I completed a GIANNI (I0R56-GIANNI_VIL1-2-3-RND5973_1) in ~9 hours, receiving ~26K. This means a day of these WUs would get me ~70K. A single Long SDOERR got me 135K in 18 hours. In average, just doing SDOERR Longs will get me ~180K per day.

Sorry, no contest, I'm disabling Short WUs. At least these GIANNIs are seriously wrong-rated as Short and their gain is seriously low. They need to be re-evaluated.

Edit: I have a GTX 650Ti

Sorry, no contest, I'm disabling Short WUs. At least these GIANNIs are seriously wrong-rated as Short and their gain is seriously low. They need to be re-evaluated.

Edit: I have a GTX 650Ti

I was interesting about gianni and from my results short giani (as example 23k secs) runs longer! then a long old nathan (as example 21k on the same card). But giani pays 31k credits while nathan paid 70k. So the argument it cant be run in long queue is not right. Or the old nathans are not right in the long queue ;) from the creditside it is right in the long queue. I wanted to mix one of the machines with short and long to get a better place on the next publication but i deactivaded short too at the moment ^^
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Sorry, no contest, I'm disabling Short WUs. At least these GIANNIs are seriously wrong-rated as Short and their gain is seriously low. They need to be re-evaluated.

Edit: I have a GTX 650Ti

Personally I find the whole short queue long queue issue with the huge credit differential irritating. I understand the rational, I buy part of it. Reeks of elitism though IMO. People want to help out here because they like the goals of the project. Sometimes the project makes it hard to do.

@Vagelis Hey, a fellow Greek! :D Χαίρομαι που βλέπω και Έλληνες στο πρότζεκτ μας! Ο πρώτος είσαι που έχω δεί ως τώρα. Ευχαριστούμε πολύ για την συνεισφορά!

Welcome Vagelis!!

Welcome Vagelis!!

That's weird, the numbers and operators are missing between the greek letters in your formulas.. ;)

MrS

My concern is not the credit, but the deadline.

PLEASE think for a while that all computers running GPUGRID don't have the fastest GPU.

My home computer has a GT 540 M GPU, and GIANNI WUs last from 48 to 72 hours. If I have 2 projects sharing GPU resources at 100-100, it takes 4 to 6 days to complete. And the deadline remains desesperately set to ... 5 days, the same than shortest WUs.

I16R3-GIANNI_VIL1-0-3-RND7631_3 has used 242,046.30 seconds (67 hours) of my GPU time and was out of time when completed (without error). BINGO ! You've got the result and I've got 0 credit.

I1R8-GIANNI_VIL1-1-3-RND1955_1 has been loaded during the execution of the previous one. When starting, there were only 2 days remaining to complete, so I had to abort it. I've got 0 credit, but at least I have spared my GPU time.

I've a very small chance to see the current WU (I16R89-GIANNI_VIL1-2-3-RND3587_1) complete in time because it will only last about 52 hours.

Please increase the deadline for Gianni tasks.
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WAOUH.
I16R89-GIANNI_VIL1-2-3-RND3587_1 passed OK whilst completed half an hour after the official deadline.

I tailored my resource sharing between projects with "normal" WUs in order to get them in time. If you suddenly increase the workload by 2 or 3, you should increase the deadline by the same factor.

But nobody here seems to take my remarks into account. It's a shame.
So I repeat my demand :

Please increase the deadline for Gianni tasks.
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Hello: A card that does not allow complete a task (short or long) in GPUGRID on a GPU 24H is not suitable for this project, as designed, it's that simple. Greetings.

WAOUH.
I16R89-GIANNI_VIL1-2-3-RND3587_1 passed OK whilst completed half an hour after the official deadline.

I tailored my resource sharing between projects with "normal" WUs in order to get them in time. If you suddenly increase the workload by 2 or 3, you should increase the deadline by the same factor.

But nobody here seems to take my remarks into account. It's a shame.
So I repeat my demand :

Please increase the deadline for Gianni tasks.

Usual GPUGRID "short tasks" last around 24 hours on my 2 fastest hometoys. I'm not competing for bonuses, so I tried to share their limited GPU resources between 3 BOINC projects at 100-100-100, and it worked.

Maybe it's a sucker's idea to do so with my laptoys, but they're good enough for my needs: no games, no video, just little home office, mail access, surf on internet and a CUDA GPU board for BOINC. One of them has a very comfortable backlighted keyboard, and this is quite more important than to have the fastest GPU board. You know what? I'm happy. I'm an old timer. I still have a 12-years old Core 2 Duo crunching Enigma 24/7.

My concern is that Gianni WUs are not short tasks: they last 2 times more than usual ones but they have the same deadline.

To solve this issue, I'll try to dedicate one of my ridiculous laptoys at 100% to GPUGRID.
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