David,

Your updated 'miner_asic' server logic is still not working correctly for us. 
I'm trying to get ASIC work from Bitcoin Utopia, using an ASIC-ONLY work fetch 
request, but still running into problems, on my machine that has 3 NVIDIA GPUs.

Rebirther requests that I relay the information to you, so it is clear, and so 
you can help us to find a solution.

Before your change, the problem was:
- When the client requests ASIC-ONLY work, it gets none.
- When the client requests ASIC + CPU, it can get ASIC.

After your change, the new problem appears to be:
- When the client requests ASIC-ONLY work, it gets none.
- When the client requests ASIC + NVIDIA, it can get ASIC.

Please see the following thread, which shows the work fetch request logs that 
indicate the problem:
http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/forum_thread.php?id=518&postid=4891

I'm not sure if this is a server-software issue, or project misconfiguration. 
Are you able to isolate the problem? Also, if it is a server-software problem, 
do you know how long it will take you to fix it?

Thanks,
Jacob





> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:00:00 -0400
> Subject: Re: [boinc_alpha] Scheduler work fetch - Support coproc miner_asic
> 
> I saw that David checked in scheduler changes that will hopefully fix this 
> problem.
> Thanks David!
> 
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/gitweb/?p=boinc-v2.git;a=log;h=HEAD
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/gitweb/?p=boinc-v2.git;a=commit;h=c2a04210744d3ec9b3d23ec818e98bb755277f06
> 
> - Jacob
> 
> 
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Scheduler work fetch - Support coproc miner_asic
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:08:42 -0400
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David replied to me privately.
> 
> Although he is thinking about possible options for adding better scheduler 
> support for custom coprocessors declared in cc_config... Implementation is 
> not trivial, and is also not a current priority. If Bitcoin Utopia wants this 
> problem to be fixed, they may have to do the legwork, and then contribute the 
> solution to BOINC source code.
> 
> In the meantime, I guess the users will remain without a proper solution.
> 
> Regards,
> Jacob
> 
> PS: My apologies about sending this to the wrong list. It should have went to 
> BOINC Dev, instead of BOINC Alpha. I CC'd BOINC Dev on this email.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:16:33 -0400
> > CC: [email protected]
> > Subject: [boinc_alpha] Scheduler work fetch - Support coproc miner_asic
> > 
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > It seems that the scheduler still does not correctly handle work fetch 
> > requests for coproc "miner_asic" when the client doesn't request CPU. This 
> > is an ongoing problem that gets users very confused, and is one of the 
> > primary reasons why I cannot use my ASIC inside of BOINC.
> > 
> > The Bitcoin Utopia admins are waiting on you for the fix.
> > What is the plan?
> > 
> > Here are 2 threads I had created on the Bitcoin Utopia site, with the first 
> > one being the newest, and the second one indicating on 8/29/2014 that the 
> > server software was still broken.
> > 
> > http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/forum_thread.php?id=508
> > http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/forum_thread.php?id=417
> > 
> > Logs explaining the problem:
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:02:07 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | [work_fetch] request: CPU (0.00 
> > sec, 0.00 inst) miner_asic (1.00 sec, 1.00 inst) NVIDIA GPU (1.00 sec, 
> > 3.00 inst)
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:02:07 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | Sending scheduler request: To fetch 
> > work.
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:02:07 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | Requesting new tasks for miner_asic 
> > and NVIDIA GPU
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:02:11 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | Scheduler request completed: got 0 
> > new tasks
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:03:51 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | [work_fetch] request: CPU (1.00 
> > sec, 6.00 inst) miner_asic (1.00 sec, 1.00 inst) NVIDIA GPU (1.00 sec, 
> > 3.00 inst)
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:03:51 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | Sending scheduler request: To fetch 
> > work.
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:03:51 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | Requesting new tasks for CPU and 
> > miner_asic and NVIDIA GPU
> > 
> > 9/20/2014 9:03:56 AM | Bitcoin Utopia | Scheduler request completed: got 11 
> > new tasks
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jacob
> >                                       
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