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[Minecraft@Home] High error rate on 'Loneliest Seed' tasks for older GPUs

Hi everyone,

I wanted to put this out there as I'm seeing a high error rate on tasks running on older GPUs.

I've spent a chunk of time digging into these, and the most prevalent error is a launch timeout error from the cuda driver.
This is a possible indication of either hardware failure, or a buggy driver.

If you see a lot of "Error 702" failing tasks, please update your drivers to the latest possible for your OS and video card, as there's potentially an issue with your current driver preventing work from completing on your card.

Please let us know if you have any questions, or need any help determining the issue.

Thanks!

View article · Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:02:26 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3112254 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3112254 has terminated!!!

View article · Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:17:21 +0000

[Minecraft@Home] The Loneliest Seed

Hi Folks!

We're back with another round of tasks. This time for Nvidia GPUs.

The first batch will have 262144 workunits (524288 tasks), but we anticipate that there will be far more in the future for this project fed in gradually. (Estimated 17.1 billion workunits possible).

Apologies for the lack of communication/delays the last few months. These days I'm the primary administrator on this project, and while I do pay attention to our discord more, I should do better to keep the community on the BOINC platform in the loop about future updates.

Beyond this project, we may have one other lined up (much smaller in scope than this 17.1 billion workunit project) and an overall platform upgrade that I've slowly been widdling away at these last few months as I find time.

I'll be pushing the new work tonight, so get your GPUs ready! They're available on Windows and Linux x86_64 machines.

Best Regards,

BoySanic

View article · Sun, 12 Jan 2025 03:57:41 +0000

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