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Message 37524 - Posted: 1 Aug 2014 | 13:18:03 UTC

Hello Matt,

I see VBox container on the Project Status Page. Does this mean you will start with a virtual box? To let that work the second BOINC option, with virtual box is needed to install I presume?
Will that affect GPU work?

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Message 37530 - Posted: 1 Aug 2014 | 19:25:48 UTC - in response to Message 37524.

Hi,

Eagle eyes!

Yes, we've been running vbox apps in-house for a while now, and may start to run them on GPUGRID soon. Right now, it'll only work with Linux hosts, and probably only with Virtual Box 4.3. I'm not planning to send any work units just yet, will post onthe news when I do.

Matt

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Message 37545 - Posted: 5 Aug 2014 | 3:46:19 UTC - in response to Message 37530.

Sorry to say, Vbox on Linux for other apps DOES NOT WORK WELL!!!

100% completion and still running 50 hours after hitting 100%

(Atlas does this)

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Message 37558 - Posted: 7 Aug 2014 | 10:49:43 UTC - in response to Message 37545.
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Sorry to say, Vbox on Linux for other apps DOES NOT WORK WELL!!!

100% completion and still running 50 hours after hitting 100%

(Atlas does this)

I can see you had issues when you first joined ATLAS but you have run all tasks successfully for about a week since then however, you post sounds like it is never works properly?

I'm running vLHCathome and ATLAS without any big hassles.
(I do LHC - sixtrack also ... I'm kind of a CERN groupie)

I'm not trying to say VBox is perfect but neither is BOINC or any of the projects using it. I think what makes it difficult at times is that VBox presents new and different challenges than what we are accustomed to seeing. Something I try to keep in mind is that while using VBox for BOINC is still relatively new, there are substantially less issues that when the first GPU projects launched through BOINC :-)

Happy crunching,
Steve

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Message 37566 - Posted: 9 Aug 2014 | 19:52:27 UTC - in response to Message 37558.

I killed another one today, 100% complete and still running 24 hours after hitting 100% complete.

I stand by my comment, Vbox running on Ubuntu Linux is not working well with Atlas. I suspect that most testing is with Vbox on Windows not with Vbox on Linux.

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Message 37569 - Posted: 10 Aug 2014 | 8:35:21 UTC - in response to Message 37566.

Well it appears that when I abort an Atlas task that shows 100% but does not exit, the task is indeed complete, just not signalling complete to Vbox.

GPUGrid needs to pay CLOSE attention to termination in its use of Vbox

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