Posts by Hal Bregg

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : WU failing with VirtualBox 6.1.14 installed (Message 1739)
Posted 1 May 2022 by Hal Bregg
Post:
WUs failing after few seconds. Is it VBox related?

<core_client_version>7.16.20</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
(unknown error) - exit code 4294967148 (0xffffff6c)</message>
<stderr_txt>
2022-05-01 18:52:00 (10608): vboxwrapper (7.9.26200): starting
2022-05-01 18:52:02 (10608): Feature: Checkpoint interval offset (34 seconds)
2022-05-01 18:52:02 (10608): Feature: Enabling trickle-ups (Interval: 1800.000000)
2022-05-01 18:52:02 (10608): Detected: VirtualBox VboxManage Interface (Version: 6.1.14)
2022-05-01 18:52:02 (10608): Detected: Minimum checkpoint interval (600.000000 seconds)
2022-05-01 18:52:03 (10608): Create VM. (boinc_a1c2983d1a3c1231, slot#3)
2022-05-01 18:52:04 (10608): Setting Memory Size for VM. (1900MB)
2022-05-01 18:52:04 (10608): Setting CPU Count for VM. (1)
2022-05-01 18:52:05 (10608): Setting Chipset Options for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:05 (10608): Setting Boot Options for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:05 (10608): Setting Network Configuration for NAT.
2022-05-01 18:52:05 (10608): Disabling VM Network Access.
2022-05-01 18:52:06 (10608): Disabling USB Support for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:06 (10608): Disabling COM Port Support for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:06 (10608): Disabling LPT Port Support for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:06 (10608): Disabling Audio Support for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:07 (10608): Disabling Clipboard Support for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:07 (10608): Disabling Drag and Drop Support for VM.
2022-05-01 18:52:08 (10608): Hardware acceleration CPU extensions not detected. Disabling VirtualBox hardware acceleration support.
2022-05-01 18:52:08 (10608): ERROR: Invalid configuration.  VM type requires acceleration but the current configuration cannot support it.
2022-05-01 18:52:08 (10608): Could not create VM
2022-05-01 18:52:08 (10608): 
   NOTE: VirtualBox has reported an improperly configured virtual machine. It was configured to require
    hardware acceleration for virtual machines, but your processor does not support the required feature.
    Please report this issue to the project so that it can be addresssed.
    Error Code: ERR_CPU_VM_EXTENSIONS_DISABLED

18:52:08 (10608): called boinc_finish(-148)

</stderr_txt>
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2) Message boards : Number crunching : Native Multi-Threading (Message 380)
Posted 4 Jan 2020 by Hal Bregg
Post:
NWChem that is used here for the calculations of the molecules, profit from multithreading only with bigger molecules.

I don't know if NWChem supports gpu calculation (CUDA or, better, OpenCL), but this may be a great improvement...


Just ignore this user. They make the same comment at every BOINC project like GPUs are some voodoo magic.


What's wrong with with GPU crunching?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Checkpoint? (Message 182)
Posted 20 Oct 2019 by Hal Bregg
Post:
Would suspending the task and running it again start from the same point?

So far I was shutting BOINC with the option to stop running tasks and every time I did it last WU was losing all progress already made. Therefore I had to cancel last task as it was taking forever to complete it. I can't keep my host on 24h at the moment.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Checkpoint? (Message 37)
Posted 5 Oct 2019 by Hal Bregg
Post:
If I understand well, Vbox WU's checkpoint by themselves and native app (Linux only) doesn't checkpoint.

Of course tasks are very very long...


Like 1 or 2 days? Or more?




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