GPU to 72 status...

[kracker]

Originally Posted by storm5510

It works well. I take it that this is a temporary fix?

Either mfaktc is recompiled, or it the code is added to the main notebook(you don't have to necessarily add a new code section). Even if it's not recompiled, why is it "temporary"?

FYI, there is a Run All option under runtime, or Ctrl F9.

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by kracker

Either mfaktc is recompiled, or it the code is added to the main notebook(you don't have to necessarily add a new code section). Even if it's not recompiled, why is it "temporary"?

FYI, there is a Run All option under runtime, or Ctrl F9.

cuda-cudart-10-0 is a DLL, (Dynamic Link Library). mfaktc usually looks for these in its own folder, in a local environment. The output of Colab looks like mfakc, but I don't believe it is. It may be a rewrite in a different language based on its original code. It might be Python. I have seen this mentioned here before.

[kracker]

Originally Posted by storm5510

cuda-cudart-10-0 is a DLL, (Dynamic Link Library). mfaktc usually looks for these in its own folder, in a local environment. The output of Colab looks like mfakc, but I don't believe it is. It may be a rewrite in a different language based on its original code. It might be Python. I have seen this mentioned here before.

(google) colab is running a linux/ubuntu OS running jupyter notebook "on top of" python, chalsall uses the main notebook only to download perl scripts, which basically do most of the work.

Maybe someone can explain to me for linux since I don't know much about it, is there a inherit reason the package manager can't be used for cuda libraries other than the effort to install them? Also I would assume they would come with the drivers... guessing not.

EDIT: DLL is almost always a windows term for a library.

[chalsall]

Hey Guys...

FINALLY back online! I had to replace my main MB, CPU, and RAM. Also lost two of four 2 TB HDs (yes, of course I have backups, but they're mostly "in the cloud", so take a while to download).

I would have been back online last night, but BL&P decided to shed load just at the end of a CentOS 7.7 install (please forgive me for this, but FSCK ME!!!)...

I've applied the delta; version 0.33 of the payload is now being downloaded, which includes the needed apt install.

[ixfd64]

Was there a power surge or something?

Otherwise, a simple outage shouldn't cause damage to hardware.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by ixfd64

Was there a power surge or something? Otherwise, a simple outage shouldn't cause damage to hardware.

Yup... I don't know if a phase got out of sync or just spiked, but the fused power bar feeding my machine (downstream from a UPS) almost caught fire!

I'm not joking.

[kladner]

(please forgive me for this, but FSCK ME!!!)...

Say ten WTFs and 10 STFUs and your sines will be converted to cosines. sins will be forgiven.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by chalsall

Yup... I don't know if a phase got out of sync or just spiked, but the fused power bar feeding my machine (downstream from a UPS) almost caught fire!

I'm not joking.

This raises a couple of questions:

1. How did the UPS fare?
   
2. Did the fuse in the power bar blow?

It also gives "fused power bar" a whole other meaning...

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

This raises a couple of questions:

1. Completely cooked.

2. The fuse blew, and it appears there was an arc across the fuse afterward, which caused a burnt area around the switch.

For those who might be interested in wasting a bit of time, I used to hang out on a local Barbadian blog called "Barbados Underground". Yesterday I was asked to speak on the current issue by the Blogmaster.

I rendered a brief position, but as usual there things quickly fell back into visceral partisan politics.

Just to share, I really appreciate the Mersenne Forum being here for "weirdos" like me (and, perhaps, a few others). Arguments are healthy, so long as they are respectful, honest, and productive.

[Dr Sardonicus]

(my emphasis)

Originally Posted by chalsall

Yesterday I was asked to speak on the current issue by the Blogmaster.

Wow. UPS completely cooked, AND (possibly) an arc across a blown fuse downstream. Sounds like a massive power surge. Hmm. (Reads blog post supplied. Goes to statement from Roger Blackman, Managing Director of BLPC)

The outage events which occurred this week are extraordinary events originating with a switch failure in one of our Spring Garden substations, and during that restoration process, a second event occurred on Tuesday morning with a fault on one of our generating units. In both cases system protection response is being investigated.

I'm not sure of the timeline WRT your hardware bake-off. I am not sufficiently versed in matters electrical to know whether either occurrence could possibly explain your misfortune. I also don't know how many customers got electrical equipment cooked by the failure.

The statement manages to use "events" twice and "event" once in that short excerpt. As I have indicated before, overuse has reduced "event" to its meaning in Relativity -- "a point in the space-time continuum."

I also notice the official statement contains the abomination "hone in on," which is an illiterism whose usage in place of "home in on" has been metastasizing.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

I also notice the official statement contains the abomination "hone in on," which is an illiterism whose usage in place of "home in on" has been metastasizing.

Thanks. I needed that!