Posts by old_user11965

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Comment re: % complete reset @ phase changes (Message 13187) Posted 7 Jun 2005 by old_user11965 Post: I should probably also point out that my Windows box is running hadsm3 4.12. I think the percentage done reset is new to v4.13.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINCprog 1.1.4 (Linux) released (Message 13181) Posted 6 Jun 2005 by old_user11965 Post: My most gracious thanks, sir. If you ever have trouble with it, please feel free to let me know. :)
23) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINCprog 1.1.4 (Linux) released (Message 13162) Posted 6 Jun 2005 by old_user11965 Post: Hi, gang. I noticed that CC v4.43 changed client_state.xml enough to break BOINCprog 1.1.3. I\'ve fixed it so that BOINCprog 1.1.4 should be happy with any core client from v4.07 through v4.43 (and likely 4.44, but I haven\'t tested it yet). You can grab it at Trane\'s Programming Projects: http://www2.gol.com/users/trane/programming/programming.html Enjoy!
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Comment re: % complete reset @ phase changes (Message 13157) Posted 6 Jun 2005 by old_user11965 Post: > There was a re-build of the server software a few days ago. Perhaps that. > What version of BOINC are you using, and what version of hadsm? > > I'm due for a new model in 6 days, and I'd like to be prepared for odd > behaviour. Hi, Les. I'm seeing the behaviour on hadsm3 4.13. It seems to have an interesting side effect that as the phase nears 100%, the core client downloads another WU, thinking that it'll soon be out of work. This happened under CC 4.43 Windows and CC 4.19 Linux. On the Linux box, I've upgraded to 4.43 so that the improved scheduler will have a chance to 'panic' and ensure that both WUs are completed in time. On the Windows box, I'm doubtful that any amount of panic will get the second WU done because the machine is a fairly old 800 MHz P-III. I originally thought that it was a core client problem that caused the Windows system to download the new CPDN unit immediately after the upgrade to 4.43. That may indeed be the case, but it doesn't explain how my 4.19 core client downloaded a new unit as it neared the end of phase 1 on this model run. As such, I now consider this % resetting between phases to be a bonafied bug. Cheers.
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Comment re: % complete reset @ phase changes (Message 13109) Posted 4 Jun 2005 by old_user11965 Post: I\'ve noticed that recently downloaded models reset the % completed field at each phase change. Not that it matters to the science, but I rather dislike this. I prefer 100% to be 100%, not 33.333% or 66.666% or 100% depending on the phase. Not that it\'s the end of the world or anything. Just my opinion.
26) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : reboots and linux client (Message 8758) Posted 6 Feb 2005 by old_user11965 Post: Make sure that you kill the BOINC client and not any of the tasks running under it. If you kill CPDN's task, you will surely lose work. CPDN runs a monitor under BOINC that handles the interprocess comms and ensures safe shutdown of the project. A "kill pid" works fine for this.
27) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 4.19 (Message 8404) Posted 2 Feb 2005 by old_user11965 Post: I do wish that I could say all is great with 4.19, but I'm getting stalled apps here on my Linux box. That requires a kill/restart to fix. Ick.
28) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN you may recycle these, I know I killed them. (Message 8002) Posted 29 Jan 2005 by old_user11965 Post: I've got a couple of results that can be recycled, too: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=139624 http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=281738 In the first, the machine died a horrible death at the hand of an mutinous power supply. The second machine was detached when I realized there was no way it could possibly finish the work unit within the deadline. trane
29) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : grep prog or something similar + any filename? (Message 7999) Posted 29 Jan 2005 by old_user11965 Post: > I think I may have solved this one entirely my own... but if anyone really > knows, confirm for me if I am right or wrong. this is how, cd /where ever > your boinc client is/ then grep fraction_done client_state.xml any other > input is also greatly appreciated... thanks to anyone... :) That's pretty much it. When the BOINC 4.6x (or higher) client is finally released, you won't need to worry about that anymore because you'll have a nice GUI like those Windows people. In the meantime, you might want to try the SETI@BOINC Tracker beta. I dunno, I use my own BOINCprog under Linux, so I'm not really familiar with the Mac Add-ons.
30) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 4.19 (Message 7875) Posted 28 Jan 2005 by old_user11965 Post: > "Upgraded" to 4.19 from 4.17 on my win2k box. > > 20 mintes later: > > 2005-01-27 19:51:45 [climateprediction.net] Unrecoverable error for result > 2xqs_000158426_1 ( - exit code -5 (0xfffffffb)) > > The CP WU was about 15% done.... Ouch. :-( That just motivated me to back up $HOME.
31) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Can't start boinc in background (Message 7683) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by old_user11965 Post: I run BOINC as a cron job: # Start BOINC /10 * * * cd /home/trane/boinc; ./boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu 1>>./boinclog 2>>./boincerr Set up the job under your normal user account. It will start automatically regardless of whether you're logged in.
32) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINCprog 1.1.3 released (Message 7062) Posted 25 Dec 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Season's Greetings, crunchers. Linux-based BOINC progress monitor BOINCprog 1.1.3 has been released just in time for Christmas. You can grok the tar ball from: <a href="http://www2.gol.com/users/trane/programming/programming.html">Trane's Programming Projects</a>. Warmest regards, trane
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Main climateprediction.net site down (Message 6663) Posted 7 Dec 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Just as a point of interest for the admins, I checked http://climateprediction.net/ and it seems to have been hijacked by KMi Institute. :rolleyes:
34) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Host deletion is disabled for now, sorry!. (Message 6329) Posted 24 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Now the error message has changed to: "Error: existing results". Something's not right here ...
35) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Clicking \"This answered my question\" generates error (Message 6138) Posted 15 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: When clicking on the \"This answered my question\" button, the following error is generated: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gethasrated() in /websites/boinc/projects/cpdnboinc/html/user/forum_rate.php on line 28
36) Questions and Answers : Windows : I\'ve changed OS and now on my account there\'s 2 computer... (Message 6096) Posted 14 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: When you change operating systems, BOINC creates a new host ID because of differences in possible results from the system.
37) Questions and Answers : Windows : Laptop losing work when client is shut down (Message 6095) Posted 14 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: > computing projects (very long time), I'm just baffled as to why it was > designed without some sort of state saving. I think it probably has something to do with CPDN under BOINC being a port of the stand-alone application. In such a scenario where CPDN wouldn't be competing for CPU time with other projects, the potential for losing CPU time is drastically reduced. I agree it could be greatly improved. Apparently, a future version of BOINC will take checkpoints into account when swapping processes, so we won't be losing work on that front. Unfortunately, I don't see much chance of solving the 144-timestep issue.
38) Questions and Answers : Windows : Laptop losing work when client is shut down (Message 6070) Posted 13 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: CPDN is noted for having checkpoints that are very far apart. If you close BOINC often, it's possible that the project is being shutdown before it gets to its next checkpoint, which would effectively nix any progress for the WU. If you're just suspending/hibernating the system, that shouldn't cause any trouble. For the same reason, I also have my preferences set to keep applications in memory when paused. BTW, just to be on the safe side, I manually exit BOINC when shutting down the system. trane
39) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Host deletion is disabled for now, sorry!. (Message 5986) Posted 9 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: > If the host has ever downloaded a WU, it cannot be deleted. This is a 'null' host. There is no name, no info, no downloads, nothing whatsoever. When I try to delete it, the message "Host deletion is disabled for now, sorry!." is displayed. Moreover, hosts that have downloaded a WU can be deleted as long as they have not returned a trickle. I know, I've done it. Here's what the page shows for this phantom system: Computer summary Computer information IP address (same the last 0 times) Domain name Time zone UTC 0 hours Name Created --- Total Credit 0.00 Recent average credit 0.00 CPU type Number of CPUs 0 Operating System Memory 0 MB Cache 0 KB Swap space 0 MB Total disk space 0 GB Free Disk Space 0 GB Measured floating point speed 0 million ops/sec Measured integer speed 0 million ops/sec Average upload rate Unknown Average download rate Unknown Number of times client has contacted server 0 Last time contacted server --- % of time client is on 0 % % of time host is connected 0 % % of time user is active 0 % Location Click to merge this computer \| Delete this host Latest Trickles For This Host No trickles!
40) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Host deletion is disabled for now, sorry!. (Message 5961) Posted 8 Nov 2004 by old_user11965 Post: Greetings, Any idea when we\'ll see host deletion enabled again? I\'ve got a \"null\" host in my account that I\'d like to clear away.

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