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Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 8:40 pm
by VijayPande
We hoped this server would be back up by now, but there appears to be some hardware issue. The sysadmins are looking into it.

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:58 pm
by VijayPande
UPDATE: The machine is going through a long fsck, which takes a while since they have such large RAID's.

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:47 pm
by toTOW
Still both down on the server status page :(

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:52 am
by VijayPande
fsck can take a very long time with huge RAID arrays.

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:56 am
by bruce
"a very long time" is measured in days, not hours.

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:15 am
by Napoleon
smackiethefrog wrote:Though I agree with the rest of you that core 11 is likely on the way out, I would hope that whenever that does happen it would be accompanied by an announcement of some kind.
As the blog post I linked to in my earlier post suggests, PG already attempted to shut down core_11 work back in December and introduce core_15 work to pre-Fermi GPUs. Old G8x/G9x GPUs turned out to be problematic, some were OK with the change, others were not. I had the "privilege" to compare P762x WUs (all with core_15 v2.25) side by side on three GPUs (GPU_MEMTEST_ERROR topic):
  1. GT430 card
  2. 9400GT card
  3. 1st generation ION: essentially an integrated 9400GT, using a slice of the motherboard memory
As you might guess, ION failed right away, whereas the "real" 9400GT (apparently) returned valid results. Might give you an idea how flaky the G8x/G9x thingies are when you try to introduce something newer than core_11 to them. If I had to guess, I'd say ????GT(X) cards might be on their way to blacklist when core_11 finally is done for, yet I suspect GT(X) 2?? cards are a different matter.

But I tend to speculate too much. The fact at the moment seems to be that we'll be seeing some more core_11 work once the old servers have gotten their share of Tender Loving Care.

Enjoy the weekend, folks. :ewink:

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:23 am
by KroontjesPen
Hopefully this fsck works and the servers coming up and running again.
Maybe the collection of done WU's can picket-up by other servers.

The pc where the GeForce 9600GT is in, works mainly for F@H.
If the support for the 9600GT is stopping I shall have to shutdown that pc and a SMP:4 client is coming down with that.
Because of the 3e rescission here I can't effort an upgrade to that system now.

Is the drop in completed WU's by this event notable?

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:28 am
by Napoleon
Back in December...
VijayPande wrote:I'll also look to see if we can get some of the old projects that use core_11 back up, but those were pretty much finished, although a bit more statistics is never a bad thing.

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:37 am
by farmpuma
Good to know it's a server issue and not the core_11 EoL. I thought it was probably the server when my G92 wasn't even able to get a core_15 work unit. Is anyone getting core_15 WUs?

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:59 am
by P5-133XL
Yes, core_15's are being given out. I have several GTX 460's that are getting p807x that use core_15

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:22 pm
by toTOW
It's been a long time since I saw the last core_15 WU on G8x/G9x cards ...

And we already know that OpenCL cores won't work on these old chips which don't support more than OpenCL 1.0 :(

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:55 pm
by djay86
Is there a way to receive core_15 work assignment on GT200 cards anyway?

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:57 pm
by Sliced
Ah, I thought it was only me.
My 9800GTX+ has stopped folding as there is no assignment server.
I really hope they get this fixed and don't stop the older cards from folding as it's my main folding resource.
If not then I will just have to take it out and put it back in a box until I find another use for it.

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:31 pm
by Joe_H
As of about 8 AM PST, one of the VSP07 servers is back online, 171.67.108.21, and is accepting returns and giving out new assignments. 171.67.108.11 is no longer down, but is not yet accepting connections. I assume that means it needs more work to get it back online, but don't have any idea how long that will take.

Re: Servers for old G8x/G9x GPUs are down ...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 6:50 pm
by djay86
Nice to see my GPU back to folding, it wasn't that long to repair this server.