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1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Lost a 1/2 year of work (Message 27284)
Posted 12 Mar 2007 by Profile old_user11965
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I\'m not sure you\'ll be able to merge the hosts as they display different CPU info. In any case, you should still get credited for the work and the science will be of value.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 27183)
Posted 5 Mar 2007 by Profile old_user11965
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BTW, to make those links in your profile active, I think you\'ll have to add the two
[url]
tags.


Thanks for the welcome and hint, mate. I was not aware that CPDN had moved from the HTML-based profiles to bbcode. I\'ve made the appropriate changes. :-)
3) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 27181)
Posted 5 Mar 2007 by Profile old_user11965
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Well, I guess it\'s been fun. I finished up my SAP WUs without difficulty and reattached to CPDN on my Slackware 11.0 system. Got the same rewind @ 720 seconds business. Oh, well.


And now for something completely different. :-D

Recently, I moved my Slackware 11.0 system from its default 2.4.33.3 kernel/commercial OSS sound driver to 2.6.17.13 kernel/ALSA sound driver. With that, I decided to give CPDN another go. It might be premature to say that everything will be fine, but there is no indication of the 720-second rewind at the outset of the WU. I\'m about 14 min./0.005% into things and all is working well.

For Slackware users who have had trouble, you might want to consider moving to the 2.6x kernels in advance of the official Slackware release as a means of getting things working again. It seems to have solved the problem here.

It\'s lovely to be back. :-D

[ Edited to add: By the way, this is under BOINC 5.8.15, installed just a few minutes before connecting to the project again. ]
4) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 25329)
Posted 28 Nov 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Good news? Please? Anybody?

Hi, gang.

Well, I guess it\'s been fun. I finished up my SAP WUs without difficulty and reattached to CPDN on my Slackware 11.0 system. Got the same rewind @ 720 seconds business. Oh, well.

Thanks for a great few years. I really enjoyed the project and I hope that the WUs I crunched were of good use.

Peace to all!
5) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 25015)
Posted 7 Nov 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Bumping this one back to the top again ...

Anybody try this with Slackware 11.0 yet? My SAP run will be winding down and with that work unit, so too the project. If CPDN doesn\'t work with Slackware\'s latest release on the 2.4.33 kernel, I guess my CPDN days are *SOB* numbered.

Good news? Please? Anybody?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 24671)
Posted 12 Oct 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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errr, yeah, but that\'s actually the safest bet for Linux -- i.e. backward compatibility is better to target for than forward compatibility.


Understood and I do agree. When my Slackware 11.0 CDs arrive, I\'ll upgrade and give the current CPDN model a shot. I\'m very curious, however, about how the libs requirements differ between SAP and CPDN. I just finished a very happy SAP model, which begs the questions:

* Are the SAP and CPDN Linux clients compiled on the same machine?
* If not, how do the machines differ?

If the clients are compiled on different machines, the differences could hold the secret to why one client model works and the other doesn\'t.

Cheers!
7) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 24652)
Posted 11 Oct 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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So far, the best I can come up with is that the CPDN client is compiled on a Linux version that is ~4 years and many versions of glibc ago. It\'s kind of like compiling a Windows executable on Windows for Workgroups and hoping it\'ll work perfectly on XP.

It might. It might not.

It should be noted that the problems only started back in August with the new HADCM3L client. Prior to that, I had no trouble for a couple of years of steadily crunching work. That tells me that the problem isn\'t with Slackware so much as it is with an incompatibility between whatever requirements the new client has that Slackware disagrees with ... or something like that.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 24650)
Posted 11 Oct 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Okay, I\'ve finished up my SAP unit. Since that ended up to be a short-term project, there doesn\'t seem to be a whole lot of reason to download and work on another unit that will likely be of no use to science ...

So ...

Any further news with regard to the current CPDN model(s) and how they interact with Slackware? Slack 11 recently released and I\'ll be upgrading my box as soon as my CDs arrive. Has anybody here tried the existing client on Slack 11? If so, what was the result?

I miss my CPDN!
9) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 24352)
Posted 19 Sep 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Wasn\'t RH 7.3 released in something like June 2002? Might be nice were they to build their Linux clients on something that resembles most of the Linux boxen out in the wild.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 24329)
Posted 17 Sep 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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My box only has 768 megs. It seems fine with SAP. And, yes, I\'m running the 2.4.31 kernel here. That might be an issue.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 24306)
Posted 16 Sep 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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It doesn\'t seem to like Damn Small Linux either. Will do more investigating and see if I can find something useful to report.


The models are timing out at 720.0 seconds and rewinding.


Yep, that\'s exactly what I was seeing in my logs, too. I gave up and moved to SAP here: http://attribution.cpdn.org/

Works like a champ on Slackware, so whatever problem plagues this new CPDN model hasn\'t (yet) hit the SAP variation.
12) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : New HADCM3L model (Message 24038)
Posted 19 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Since it happened to two successive workunits, I have to think that it\'s an interaction between the client app and my distribution. Especially since SAP is happily crunching away at the moment. :)
13) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : New HADCM3L model (Message 24002)
Posted 17 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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-161 masks the real problem. Anything significant under the Messages Tab?

Nothing in the messages tab, but I did see something in my stdout log file:

Model timeout at 720.00 seconds
Model restart required...
Preparing for restart...
Rewinding a model-day...
Starting model ID hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425   Phase 1
Climate model starting - use graphics to monitor progress.
Or visit the website to see the graphs for this run.


That\'s all I could find.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 23972)
Posted 17 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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SAP\'s running fine, at least 6 min. into the workunit. I\'m a happy camper again. :)
15) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 23971)
Posted 17 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Ah, well. I don\'t know what to do then. I\'ve happily crunched other workunits on this box. I\'ll take a look at SAP.

Cheers, gang.

trane
16) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 23969)
Posted 17 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Okay. Thanks, Les.

Are there other models being distributed besides this one? If not, I might as well detach from the project as it doesn\'t seem to make any sense to blow up a whack of workunits in the hope of getting something I can run.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : New CPDN Software Version (5.15) On Site (Message 23967)
Posted 17 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Running Slackware 10.2 here, I awoke to find that a couple of work units had downloaded and subsequently crashed/aborted.

2006-08-17 08:02:54 [climateprediction.net] Unrecoverable error for result hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1 (<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_1.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_2.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_3.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_4.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_5.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_6.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_7.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_8.zip</file_name>
  <error


Application was hadcm3lb 5.15. Got it as an older user who needed a new workunit.

The odd thing is that while BOINC\'s stdout indicated ~49-50 min. of run time, the CPU usage is shown as 0.
18) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : New HADCM3L model (Message 23966)
Posted 17 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Is there still a problem with this model? I just awoke to find that I\'ve downloaded two workunits that both finished with a \"Computation error\". The hadcm3l version was 5.15. Both projects show ~49-50 min. of runtime in BOINC, but BOINC Manager indicates zero CPU time used. Subsequently, errors are reported, presumably due to the lack of result files being created:

2006-08-17 08:02:54 [climateprediction.net] Unrecoverable error for result hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1 (<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_1.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_2.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_3.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_4.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_5.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_6.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_7.zip</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>hadcm3lbm_9hxy_25212425_1_8.zip</file_name>
  <error


Running Slackware 10.2 here.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux-related: BOINCprog 1.1.6 released (Message 23940)
Posted 15 Aug 2006 by Profile old_user11965
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Greetings, fellow BOINCers.

BOINCprog 1.1.6 has just been released to fix a small, niggling bug that left the deadline displayed from the last active workunit when BOINC was out of work. Added a switch to the startup script to kill the GPL splash screen.

I suspect that there aren\'t many people using this anymore, but since I do, I figured I\'d offer up the fixes all the same. Enjoy.

Available @ Trane\'s Programming Projects and soon to be updated @ BOINC.dk\'s BOINCprog download page.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINCprog 1.1.5 released (Message 18798)
Posted 28 Dec 2005 by Profile old_user11965
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BOINCprog 1.1.5 has been released as a maintanence release. Fixed a bug that caused BOINCprog to terminate incorrectly when not used as a KDE panel applet. Also added the ability to disable the BOINCprog splash screen.

The file can be grokked here: http://www2.gol.com/users/trane/programming/programming.html


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