Is this in error I have been running 2 and both need 56 Days to complete.
name large_collatz_2383995792639936701555_26388279066624
application Large Collatz Conjecture

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Let it run - that's a BOINC "quirk"

Its extremely hard, impossible frankly (for the BOINC app) to take new applications and predict accurately from get go because of the vast different numbers of cards, applications, machines, operating systems blah blah - cant be done.

So it goes right back to a dead safe guess, and over time the prediction gets better as it uses your card to extrapolate. If you watch the counter closely it will speed round quickly jumping chunks of time as it gets into what you have.

Meanwhile, look at the left number - time completed to date - take that value, take the percentage done, then extrapolate both to 100%, thats pretty accurate after around 10-20% done.

Meanwhile ignore the right hand "time remaining" figure .....

Let it run - that's a BOINC "quirk"

Its extremely hard, impossible frankly (for the BOINC app) to take new applications and predict accurately from get go because of the vast different numbers of cards, applications, machines, operating systems blah blah - cant be done.

So it goes right back to a dead safe guess, and over time the prediction gets better as it uses your card to extrapolate. If you watch the counter closely it will speed round quickly jumping chunks of time as it gets into what you have.

Meanwhile, look at the left number - time completed to date - take that value, take the percentage done, then extrapolate both to 100%, thats pretty accurate after around 10-20% done.

Meanwhile ignore the right hand "time remaining" figure .....

Even after 4 and 5 Hours?

Even after 4 and 5 Hours?
Even the Elapsed time is incorrect!

I have 6 GPUs running and 4 CPU running on an i7-3770K, Should this not me ok?

Looks like it take up to 18 or more hours to complete. I had ONE of SIX Complete Today. Points: 238,583.14

Two things to check:

First
Have a look inside:

C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz

for (yours will be slightly different, I am AMD):

large_collatz_6.04_windows_x86_64__opencl_amd_gpu.CONFIG

file extension maybe slightly different - but you are looking for a very long filename similar to mine above.

Is it blank inside? There should be config details along the lines of:

verbose=1
items_per_kernel=22
kernels_per_reduction=9
threads=8
sleep=1

If it is blank, put those lines in with Notepad, watch the file extension on saving, don't save as .txt file.

With six GPUs running, probably best to run with kernel = 21 to start with, if then ok change to 22.

Second
Irrespective of what you find in the file above, the CPU setting should be changed from 0.01 to at least 0.25, 0.5 would be ideal. The application needs lots of CPU support. It maybe that NVidia cards can get along with less - not sure, I am AMD - but as far as I know its true for both AMD and NVidia.

Using the classic setting of 0.01 will slow it down horribly

My workunit said it was going to take 1733 hours to complete. The BOINC client isn't very good at estimating time. But the more workunits you run the better the estimates will be. So far I've been running it for about 6 hours and its at about 20% complete, so I'm looking at a 30 hour completion time. (I've been estimating the time since it hit 1% and it has stayed pretty consistent at 30 hours completion time, give or take an hour.)

My 7 first WUs are estimated to last 19H by the BOINC client, but I think they won't last more than 6 hours :)

Should these settings just be in plain text?

Is there a description of what the settings do? I have a 7870XT in one computer and GTX titan in the other so I guess my settings would need to be different?

I assume the upping of CPU time should be in app_config.xml?

On my R9 290X with the correct settings in the .config file, I don't need to free a CPU core to feed the GPU :)

I also noted that OpenCL applications would work better if affinity was locked to only one CPU (you can do this automatically with software like Bill2's Process Manager).

Mine got itself more or less sorted out after the second or third WU was completed. With default settings, it ran in about 17 hours on my GTX 670

Two things to check:

First
Have a look inside:

C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz

for (yours will be slightly different, I am AMD):

large_collatz_6.04_windows_x86_64__opencl_amd_gpu.CONFIG

file extension maybe slightly different - but you are looking for a very long filename similar to mine above.

Is it blank inside? There should be config details along the lines of:

verbose=1
items_per_kernel=22
kernels_per_reduction=9
threads=8
sleep=1

If it is blank, put those lines in with Notepad, watch the file extension on saving, don't save as .txt file.

With six GPUs running, probably best to run with kernel = 21 to start with, if then ok change to 22.

Second
Irrespective of what you find in the file above, the CPU setting should be changed from 0.01 to at least 0.25, 0.5 would be ideal. The application needs lots of CPU support. It maybe that NVidia cards can get along with less - not sure, I am AMD - but as far as I know its true for both AMD and NVidia.

Using the classic setting of 0.01 will slow it down horribly

I did set the file but still only see 0.01 on each 6 projects now running.

My 2 AMD show 0.88 without adding any to the config file.

OK I set my app_config.xml to the below.

<app_config>
<app>
<name>solo_collatz</name>
<max_concurrent>6</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1.0</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>1.0</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

Thanks

My 2 AMD show 0.88 without adding any to the config file.

OK

Show this <name>solo_collatz</name> be
<name>large_collatz</name>

I would like to set each of the 6 GPU to use .5 or higher.

Show this <name>solo_collatz</name> be
<name>large_collatz</name>