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Thread 'Long running tasks'
Questions and Answers : Getting started & support : Long running tasks
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New member Send message Joined: 2 Oct 26 Posts: 1 Credit: 95,000 RAC: 2,579   
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Is it true that Potamos tasks take 150d to complete? Seems unrealistic to me. Computer is running Arch Linux [6.6.72-1-lts|libc 2.40] and, cpu is Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.00GHz [Family 6 Model 62 Stepping 2] BOINC version 8.0.2 |
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New member Send message Joined: 27 Sep 26 Posts: 83 Credit: 877,800 RAC: 67,962     
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There aren't enough hosts and completed tasks, so BOINC makes incorrect estimates. You might see a task that is projected to take 20 minutes actually take 2 hours. 
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New member Send message Joined: 29 Sep 26 Posts: 20 Credit: 205,000 RAC: 11,991  
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In reply to vaughan's message of 2 Oct 2026: Is it true that Potamos tasks take 150d to complete? Seems unrealistic to me. Longest task I have seen is under 3 days on a Ryzen9. 150 days for a BOINC task to finish hasn't been seen anywhere as far as I can tell since the days of old Met Office code tasks for CPDN. |
 rilianNew member  Send message Joined: 28 Sep 26 Posts: 78 Credit: 5,430,405 RAC: 446,252         
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CPU Potamos take 10 days on my average Xeons.. That is why for now i disabled this subproject :) I crunch for Ukraine 
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New member  Send message Joined: 1 Oct 26 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,607,000 RAC: 3,289,188    
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Will get messy if one wants CPU-only WUs on one project and GPU-only on another. The only CPU WUs I've gotten so far are Kampylos and they run in 30ish minutes. 
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Henk Haneveld New member Send message Joined: 28 Sep 26 Posts: 6 Credit: 54,400 RAC: 1,223 
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No project has that a option. It is a design choice the builders off Boinc have made a long time ago |
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rilian New member Send message Joined: 28 Sep 26 Posts: 78 Credit: 5,430,405 RAC: 446,252
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In reply to Aurum's message of 2 Oct 2026: Will get messy if one wants CPU-only WUs on one project and GPU-only on another. it's quite easy to setup and using device profiles i can create CPU-only, GPU-only, mixed profile on each project and allocate that to devices for example here while M1 GPU apps are failing, i created a CPU-only profile for that computer I crunch for Ukraine
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New member Send message Joined: 1 Oct 26 Posts: 10 Credit: 1,607,000 RAC: 3,289,188
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BTW, I meant application and not project. I doubt default, home, work, or school profiles can solve this. E.g., if I want to run Kampylos CPU WUs I have to check Accept CPU-only Work. And if I also want to run Potamos GPU WUs I'll also get Potamos CPU WUs that run forever and therein lies the problem. And you cannot control CPU and GPU WUs from the same application individually in your app_config.
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rilian New member Send message Joined: 28 Sep 26 Posts: 78 Credit: 5,430,405 RAC: 446,252
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right. i think only Primegrid allows to select this properly I crunch for Ukraine
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