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[theAnimal]

I got an invite. I setup my servers online but there is not an option to enable a public IP. How am I supposed to connect to this thing?

Click on manage servers, it will show your running instances and they should each have private and public IP. If yours do not then I'd say click on each instance and select terminate, then set up new servers.

The guide I linked at evga was what I used and was very easy to follow.

 

[somethingsketchy]

I've submitted an application to join the beta. Will attempt to get BOINC running and see how the 10 compute instances will work out. Since I can't spend a lot of money on electric in my home state (and can't really add more hardware in an aging electrical system), might as well give Cloud Computing a shot.

EDIT: Realized it was 10 compute instances, not 20 >.<

 

[theAnimal]

see how the 10 compute instances will work out

I have 6 instances, 4 with 8 cores and 2 with 4 cores.

 

[somethingsketchy]

I have 6 instances, 4 with 8 cores and 2 with 4 cores.

Did they change the number of allowable instances?

 

[theAnimal]

Did they change the number of allowable instances?

You're allowed 20 cores per server AZ1 and AZ2. So if you wanted you could do 10 instances with 4 cores.

 

[blckgrffn]

I was only allowed AZ1 and only allowed 20GB of RAM, so two large instances is eating up my RAM allocation. I wish I could specify more CPU & less RAM...

"Please be aware that we are asking all private beta customers to:

1. Please only create instances in AZ1

2. Limit your HP Cloud Compute usage to 20GB of RAM total for all instances within an availability zone

3. Limit HP Cloud Object Storage usage to 2TB of total data across the account

4. Only use the private beta for testing purposes. No production workloads should be hosted on the system at this time"

Ha, evidently not all

 

[somethingsketchy]

Perhaps they're throttling down the new users to the Beta to 10 instances and only one zone

 

[somethingsketchy]

Well that was quick, got the beta invite within 36 hours of submitting an application.

 

[somethingsketchy]

Looks like I have something very basic running for BOINC under a 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM VM. The only thing that I'm disappointed with at the moment, is the VM does not appear to upload an updated Total Credit/RAC amount promptly.

Only after I issue an update command via commandline, do you get an update. Currently running a test with Correlizer and see if it's worth the effort.

 

[Peter Trend]

I'm in! Just finished installing four large instances (4 cores, 8GB RAM, 240GB HDD) and four small instances (2 cores, 2GB RAM, 60GB HDD) , which hits the RAM limit of 20GB per availability. They let me have two availabilities, AZ1 and AZ2, so I must have just gotten lucky before they restricted it further. I'm sticking to Lucid - I tried a couple of instances in Oneiric but it wasn't behaving so I scrapped it. It seems a shame that we can't clone instances, or upload our own VM images...they really ought to add that feature before they start charging for it!

What are you guys using for the SSH connection? I'm using PuTTY in Win7, it seems to work well so far
HFM.NET works now, I'm getting anything from 1100-3800 PPD with the small instances, and 6700-11000 PPD with the large instances. Not even close to 100k total.

 

[theAnimal]

I'm allowed to invite 5 friends. First 5 PM's get the invite.

 

[somethingsketchy]

What are you guys using for the SSH connection? I'm using PuTTY in Win7, it seems to work well so far

I used PuTTY for the initial work, then I switched to Poderosa (an SSH terminal with tabs). So far it's alright, though I had to restrict the refresh rate for top (top -d 5.0) so viewing top didn't add any more load.

 

[blckgrffn]

Any directions for getting BOINC up and running at the command line? If so, I would very much appreciate a link. Thanks in advance!

I can run a couple more 2vCPU instances and I figured that's a better fit for BOINC...

 

[somethingsketchy]

I'll try and write something up tonight using the history log from the VM and a troubleshooting guide I found for setting up BOINC on a *nix command line.

 

[blckgrffn]

I'll try and write something up tonight using the history log from the VM and a troubleshooting guide I found for setting up BOINC on a *nix command line.

Awesome

 

[somethingsketchy]

Here is the "guide" from the history log as promised. Using Correlizer as an example, with lines directly from my history log, minus the Account Key.

NOTE: the line that references an Account Key, is your key from the "Your Account" page, in its respective project. In this case Correlizer uses a 32 character key (letters and numbers).

Source: http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC/Troubleshooting

sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager
boinccmd --project_attach <URL of project> <Account Key>
boinccmd --project <URL> update
boinccmd --set_run_mode always
boinccmd --set_network_mode always
boinccmd --project <URL> resume
boinccmd --get_state

EXAMPLE: Correlizer

sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager
boinccmd --project_attach http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/home.php [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456]
boinccmd --project http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/home.php update
boinccmd --set_run_mode always
boinccmd --set_network_mode always
boinccmd --project http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/home.php resume
boinccmd --get_state

SECONDARY NOTE: the BOINC/Troubleshooting page had reference boinccmd as boinc_cmd. I was not successful in getting this to work in my HPCS VM. It will only accept boinccmd. However for the most part the rest of the troubleshooting page is cut and dry.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool - this is the list of the other variables you can issue within the BOINC client manager.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I've just got my instances wroking things out to test and one of the things I notice it that I only seem to be maxing out 1 core (I never seem to break past 1.15 max load). Don't really know why its not setting up another WU (I run BOINC purely for help rather than points so the client has tons of projects to pull WU from).

 

[somethingsketchy]

Check the "Computer Preferences" in your account page and then check to see what the value is for "On multiprocessors, use at most" line (10th option down from the top). That is what will limit your thread/core count for multi-core/multi-thread CPUs.

 

[blckgrffn]

Here is the "guide" from the history log as promised. Using Correlizer as an example, with lines directly from my history log, minus the Account Key.

NOTE: the line that references an Account Key, is your key from the "Your Account" page, in its respective project. In this case Correlizer uses a 32 character key (letters and numbers).

Source: http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC/Troubleshooting

sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager
boinccmd --project_attach <URL of project> <Account Key>
boinccmd --project <URL> update
boinccmd --set_run_mode always
boinccmd --set_network_mode always
boinccmd --project <URL> resume
boinccmd --get_state

EXAMPLE: Correlizer

sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager
boinccmd --project_attach http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/home.php [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456]
boinccmd --project http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/home.php update
boinccmd --set_run_mode always
boinccmd --set_network_mode always
boinccmd --project http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/home.php resume
boinccmd --get_state

SECONDARY NOTE: the BOINC/Troubleshooting page had reference boinccmd as boinc_cmd. I was not successful in getting this to work in my HPCS VM. It will only accept boinccmd. However for the most part the rest of the troubleshooting page is cut and dry.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool - this is the list of the other variables you can issue within the BOINC client manager.

:thumbsup:

I'll do my best to put this to work today You're the man! (making a gender assumption there, my apologizes if I am wrong )

 

[somethingsketchy]

You are welcome...and yes you are correct.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Check the "Computer Preferences" in your account page and then check to see what the value is for "On multiprocessors, use at most" line (10th option down from the top). That is what will limit your thread/core count for multi-core/multi-thread CPUs.

Yes, this was the first thing I checked and it's set to 99 processors to ensure its never an issue. I spun up a windows client and joined it to the same account manager and it immediately began using all of its cores.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I took a clip of a putty session to show CPU load.

As you can see, only one core is really doing anything. On top of this, the CPU seems to almost scale linearly only up to 100%. While not in the screenshot there are actually two BOINC processes running at the same time. But most of the time one of them is idle. One CPU will drop to 70% and the other CPU will suddenly load up another 30% on the other process. Again though it only seems like the system is only allowing 1 fully loaded core.

The account manager is set to use up to 99 processor so I don't understand what the limitation is at all.

 

[somethingsketchy]

In the image that you have linked, the primegrid_cllr_ process is the actual one that will be done on the CPU. The boinc process in your top diagram (PID 32018) will not have any processing power. Just to double check some other settings, what do you have for the the three options under "Computing Preferences"?

On multiprocessors, use at most - 3 processors
On multiprocessors, use at most (enforced...) - 100% of the processors
Can be used to reduce CPU heat - 100% of CPU time

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I linked another image here to show that sometimes there are 2 processes, but it only is doing something for maybe a second before it returns to being a process not consuming any cpu power.

Also I attached a image of the profile that the boxes are working off of. Does anything seem off?

 

[theAnimal]

I'm allowed to invite 5 friends. First 5 PM's get the invite.

Last day for referrals, still some available. I'll be checking my PM's for next 5 hours or so.