Quick Question about assignments

[Mr. P-1]

Originally Posted by garo

No don't drop it. Just edit the worktodo to remove that assignment from it and get core 1 working on something else.

Will he will need to drop it manually, (i.e., via his assignments page after he has submitted his cudalucas result to http://mersenne.org/manual_result/?

[Mr. P-1]

Originally Posted by bcp19

Don't know if this will help you, I have a core2 Duo E4500 with a GTS 450, Prime95 running LL on 1 core, mfaktc on the other.
I did some runs of mfaktc that were in the 55M range:
68-69 took about 30-40 min
69-70 took about 70-80 min
70-71 took about 2.5 hours

Thank you. Are you just giving me benchmark info, or are you offering to take on some of the work we've been discussing?

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

Will he will need to drop it manually, (i.e., via his assignments page after he has submitted his cudalucas result to http://mersenne.org/manual_result/?

I don't think so; if it's an LL assignment and he submits the results manually, I think it will clear regardless of what computer PrimeNet thinks it's on. But we'll see.

To bcp19:
Don't drop the assignment. Wait until you've submitted the CUDALucas results, and then check to see if PrimeNet automatically unreserved it. If not, then do it your self.

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

Looking forward, I think I should maybe aim to be giving each participant about a weeks worth of assignments at a time, in order to reduce the amount of furtling everyone has to do. (I assume that mfaktc can handle worktodo files of arbitrary length.)

mfaktc has been able to handle a week's worth of 15 minute assignments from ckdo, so whatever you dish out for the week will be fine, 'cause there's less assignments.

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

After further discussion with Dubslow I think I've figured out what happened. It appears that the message about the assignment being assigned to another person is a warning only. If you have the key, then you have the assignment, and can unreserve it.

So yes, you can transfer assignments to other people, so long as you have the keys.

That said, moving forward, I think it will be better for me to handle the unreserves myself.

I think we've both decided that even if the above is possible, it's still safer to make the original reservation ANONYMOUSly, and then send the key to the recipient; they can then claim the assignment without fuss. (Mr. P-1 and I have confirmed this 3 or 4 times already.)

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

From what you're saying here, you're good till next week at least. I gave Dubslow about 150 units* two days ago and garo 140 units yesterday. I gave Chuck 90 units today, but kept a lot back in case anyone was needing a topup. At a guess, they all look as they they might be done by tomorrow, so I'll split my reserves between the three of them.

Not for me. The assignments you've given me are currently in a couple day long queue after DC TF.

[Dubslow]

Could a mod please delete the previous four posts? In the future I won't do anything so silly again.

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

Will he will need to drop it manually, (i.e., via his assignments page after he has submitted his cudalucas result to http://mersenne.org/manual_result/?

I don't think so; if it's an LL assignment and he submits the results manually, I think it will clear regardless of what computer PrimeNet thinks it's on. But we'll see.

To bcp19:
Don't drop the assignment. Wait until you've submitted the CUDALucas results, and then check to see if PrimeNet automatically unreserved it. If not, then do it your self.

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

Looking forward, I think I should maybe aim to be giving each participant about a weeks worth of assignments at a time, in order to reduce the amount of furtling everyone has to do. (I assume that mfaktc can handle worktodo files of arbitrary length.)

mfaktc has been able to handle a week's worth of 15 minute assignments from ckdo, so whatever you dish out for the week will be fine, 'cause there's less assignments.

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

After further discussion with Dubslow I think I've figured out what happened. It appears that the message about the assignment being assigned to another person is a warning only. If you have the key, then you have the assignment, and can unreserve it.

So yes, you can transfer assignments to other people, so long as you have the keys.

That said, moving forward, I think it will be better for me to handle the unreserves myself.

I think we've both decided that even if the above is possible, it's still safer to make the original reservation ANONYMOUSly, and then send the key to the recipient; they can then claim the assignment without fuss. (Mr. P-1 and I have confirmed this 3 or 4 times already.)

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

From what you're saying here, you're good till next week at least. I gave Dubslow about 150 units* two days ago and garo 140 units yesterday. I gave Chuck 90 units today, but kept a lot back in case anyone was needing a topup. At a guess, they all look as they they might be done by tomorrow, so I'll split my reserves between the three of them.

Not for me. The assignments you've given me are currently in a couple day long queue after DC TF.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Could a mod please delete the previous four posts? In the future I won't do anything so silly again.


I don't think so; if it's an LL assignment and he submits the results manually, I think it will clear regardless of what computer PrimeNet thinks it's on. But we'll see.

To bcp19:
Don't drop the assignment. Wait until you've submitted the CUDALucas results, and then check to see if PrimeNet automatically unreserved it. If not, then do it your self.


mfaktc has been able to handle a week's worth of 15 minute assignments from ckdo, so whatever you dish out for the week will be fine, 'cause there's less assignments.



I think we've both decided that even if the above is possible, it's still safer to make the original reservation ANONYMOUSly, and then send the key to the recipient; they can then claim the assignment without fuss. (Mr. P-1 and I have confirmed this 3 or 4 times already.)


Not for me. The assignments you've given me are currently in a couple day long queue after DC TF.

David

[Mr. P-1]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

Could a mod please delete the previous four posts? In the future I won't do anything so silly again.

What was silly about them? If there's some rule of netiquette about not posting multiple consecutive replies to the same thread then I'm not aware of it.

[Christenson]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Two suggestions, if I may...

1. Have you tried setting the Automatic wakeup in the BIOS? If it the machine turns itself off in the middle of the night, having it wake up at (for example) 0800 is better than nothing.

2. Do you have a Linux box on the same LAN? If so, take a look at the "wol" ("Wake On LAN") command which can easily be run from a CRON job. Usually takes a bit of configuration for each client (again, in the BIOS), and some (very) older machines don't support it, but if the machine in question supports a GT480, it almost certainly will.

2.1. There are similar commands under Windows which you could probably use similarly if you don't have a Linux box there. Can't speak to this directly -- I don't do Windows.

I don't *like* to do windows, so I just stop by from time to time...and accept the impact.

Now this might be a good thing for my xubuntu box at home, it crashes every now and then when I'm not there.

The 480 is on a Phenom II x4 CPU, so should have automatic wakeup settings. Time to go look next time I'm there.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Mr. P-1

What was silly about them? If there's some rule of netiquette about not posting multiple consecutive replies to the same thread then I'm not aware of it.

David