6 of 6 tasks failed the same way with "Computation errors" after task run a few seconds on the new Windows SSE 32-bit tasks on my Windows XP host ...
Example: https://gen.disi.unitn.it/test/result.php?resultid=34999192
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<core_client_version>7.12.1</core_client_version> <
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It seems that your OS/CPU doesn't fully support SSE2 (that's the meaning of 'illegal instruction'). If I remember correctly XP needs SP3 for this, but it seems that you already have it installed. Please check with some tools (like CPU-Z) if SSE2 is correctly enabled on your host.
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Please check with some tools (like CPU-Z) if SSE2 is correctly enabled on your host.
Highly doubt that is the problem as I can run SSE2 apps at other project with no problems and it is correctly reported by the OS.
I suspect it is the compiler and/or compiler switches you are using. I have seen the same problems at some newer projects or project that have used new(er) MS Visual Studio Compilers that are not Windows XP compatible by default.
See: Configuring Programs for Windows XP
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Specification: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Instructions sets: MMX, SSE, SSE2
Windows Version: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (Build 2600)
From BOINC Startup:
07-Aug-2018 01:11:49 [---] Starting BOINC client version 7.12.1 for windows_intelx86
07-Aug-2018 01:12:16 [---] Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz [Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9]
07-Aug-2018 01:12:16 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pbe
07-Aug-2018 01:12:16 [---] OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
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OK. It's difficult to figure out the problem, there are many XP computers that compute correctly (like hostid=29204). The Windows x32 SSE2 version of the application was actually compiled using one of the latest Cygwin (gcc MingW 6.4.0).
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There are a few 32bit XP boxes here that I keep to help out with LHC Sixtrack tasks. They suffer from the same problem. They run sse2 Sixtrack tasks OK.
The non sse2 application runs OK but the latest version available is 1.10 which sometimes fails to validate against other Windows hosts. Linux seems OK. As an alternative to getting the sse2 version to work I would very much like to try a "vanilla" (non sse2) 32bit Windows version 1.11 if one could be made available.
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There are a few 32bit XP boxes here that I keep to help out with LHC Sixtrack tasks. They suffer from the same problem. They run sse2 Sixtrack tasks OK.
The non sse2 application runs OK but the latest version available is 1.10 which sometimes fails to validate against other Windows hosts. Linux seems OK. As an alternative to getting the sse2 version to work I would very much like to try a "vanilla" (non sse2) 32bit Windows version 1.11 if one could be made available.
Yep, the 1.10 versions are not 100% compatible with 1.11. If you would like to try (using the anonymous platform app_info.xml) this is the link for a Win 32bit no SIMD version: https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/download/gene_pcim_v1.11_win32.exe
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Many thanks. The first couple of tasks are in progress, but it will be a good while before we know if all is well. Thanks again.
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Faced a similar problem.
http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/show_host_detail.php?hostid=73254
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What can be done in this case?
http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/results.php?hostid=73254
World Community Grid works without errors.
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If I had to guess, I'd say that CPU is very old and the app may not be compatible with it. Probably would need a new, compiled version to work.
I'd either retire the CPU or find some other project where it actually works. Do keep in mind it is an old, power hungry and inneficient CPU.
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If I had to guess, I'd say that CPU is very old and the app may not be compatible with it. Probably would need a new, compiled version to work.
I'd either retire the CPU or find some other project where it actually works. Do keep in mind it is an old, power hungry and inneficient CPU.
This is kind of an experiment, I know this CPU is old. If we talk about energy efficiency, I am from Russia and electricity is relatively cheap here, in my case 0.031 €.
I have several of these old computer hardware, they are working, and I am a little sorry that they are gathering dust idle.
At the moment, WCG (Mapping Cancer Markers) is running on this CPU with a runtime of about 8 hours.
It's a bit of a shame that older CPUs don't have support compared to the same mobile ARM chips that probably have similar performance. But I don’t insist.
Best regards.
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If these machines are intended to run boinc full time, then install Linux on them. I assure that tn-grid without optimizations runs on P4s (like yours), then if I find it I could give you an optimized app I made for P4 and SSE2 last year.
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If I had to guess, I'd say that CPU is very old and the app may not be compatible with it. Probably would need a new, compiled version to work.
I'd either retire the CPU or find some other project where it actually works. Do keep in mind it is an old, power hungry and inneficient CPU.
This is kind of an experiment, I know this CPU is old. If we talk about energy efficiency, I am from Russia and electricity is relatively cheap here, in my case 0.031 €.
I have several of these old computer hardware, they are working, and I am a little sorry that they are gathering dust idle.
At the moment, WCG (Mapping Cancer Markers) is running on this CPU with a runtime of about 8 hours.
It's a bit of a shame that older CPUs don't have support compared to the same mobile ARM chips that probably have similar performance. But I don’t insist.
Best regards.
But it is environmentally not very friendly.
ARM is a growing architecture. There are many more ARM devices than there are old CPUs like the Celeron you have or Pentium 4s or old Athlons. Not to mention a 4-core ARM device will put out a lot more work than the Celeron for a mere fraction of the power consumption.
The last computer I owned with a Pentium 4 used up around 130 watts at 100% usage. I have a 2013 tablet with an Intel Z3740 SOC that runs MCM in 7-8 hours but uses just 9 watts - not an ARM-based tablet but you get the point.
If it's running MCM successfully, that's good. You could also try Linux and see if it runs TN-Grid. If it does, you also get the added benefit of a performance improvement since TN-Grid is known to run quite a quicker under Linux than under Windows - although I'm not sure that applies to 32-bit architectures.
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