MultiGPU, checkpointing, and another record breaking cactus (22 blocks tall)

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Message 116 - Posted: 1 Jul 2020, 12:44:20 UTC
Last modified: 1 Jul 2020, 12:55:50 UTC

Finally, support for multiple GPUs and checkpointing has landed.

• If you have multiple GPUs, the research apps will now make use of all available GPUs.
• We now support Intel GPUs.
• If work is suspended, or your machine is powered off, checkpoints will now ensure work does not start from the beginning.
• You will also notice work estimates are far more accurate.
• You do not need to take any actions to enable these features.
• We are also taking steps to increase the priority of additional results added to workunits after computation errors. This in order to speed up validation of incomplete workunits.

Thank you to Hypprs, nicoboss, DutChen18, BalintCsala, and anyone else who was involved in testing and updating the app.

For the third time in 1 week, Minecraft@Home has broken the tallest cactus height record in normal terrain generation.
I present, a 22 block tall cactus:



1.14.4 world seed: 11343195073417814, co-ordinates: 14955936 64 -3750655.


Congratulations to volunteer SirNapkin1334, your host was responsible for locating this one!

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Message 133 - Posted: 1 Jul 2020, 21:13:21 UTC

Now if you could get the server fixed so it gives us more than 1 task at a time. lol
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Message 142 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 2:14:46 UTC

User profiles may be enabled, but I can't get mine to successfully be created. Keep getting "Your ReCaptcha response was not correct. Please try again.", even though i get a checkmark before i click the submit button. Also getting some anomalous errors concerning a profile picture, which i'm not submitting. Have tried creating profile in two different browsers (FireFox, Edge).
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Message 146 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 7:29:53 UTC - in response to Message 116.  

many erroneous tasks on Intel GPU kill WU, it is urgent to limit only relevant

and one more - strange in logs
01-Jul-2020 17:37:44 [---] init_app_init_data(): coproc index 32764 out of range
01-Jul-2020 17:37:44 [minecrafthome] Starting task kaktwoos_1.0.7_0045_9567961692053_2

01-Jul-2020 22:58:55 [---] init_app_init_data(): coproc index 32512 out of range
01-Jul-2020 22:58:56 [minecrafthome] Starting task kaktwoos_1.0.7_0178_106116693974418_2

02-Jul-2020 00:29:51 [---] init_app_init_data(): coproc index 32766 out of range
02-Jul-2020 00:29:51 [minecrafthome] Starting task kaktwoos_1.0.7_0190_68724554741749_2
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Message 147 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 10:24:54 UTC - in response to Message 142.  

Keep getting "Your ReCaptcha response was not correct. Please try again."

maybe it will be useful to admin

fix ReCaptcha problem https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3461
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Message 148 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 10:32:59 UTC
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ReCaptcha problem is also keeping people from signing up via the website. Workaround for people with this problem: add the project via BOINC Manager Add Project, this circumvents the captcha.
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Message 153 - Posted: 2 Jul 2020, 13:40:25 UTC - in response to Message 148.  

ReCaptcha problem is also keeping people from signing up via the website. Workaround for people with this problem: add the project via BOINC Manager Add Project, this circumvents the captcha.


Disabled ReCaptcha for now. I'll be upgrading the server to 1.2.1 soon, hopefully today, which will fix a huge number of issues we keep discovering.
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