Posts by m.mitch

41) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team Recruiting Thread - CLOSED (Message 21724) Posted 29 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: Whether you are contributing a little to one project with one old computer or participate in several projects with a building full of the latest equipment, we welcome your contribution. Are you Australian? Perhaps an expat? Or just interested in the Outback? Then you could join the top Australian team!! Here comes the flag waving! Just click here to join BOINC@Australia. Australia\'s largest team! While our emphasis is on Australians living anywhere in the world (including Australia) and anyone living in, or having some connection with Australia, anyone is welcome to join us. Help us keep the momentum going.
42) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21230) Posted 13 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: It\'s always good to hear that someone managed to recover from a backup! I was so surprised I posted the recovery details on our team web site!
43) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21212) Posted 12 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: If the boinc manager loses contact with the model for a period of time, it assumes that the model has crashed and downloads a new one. As long as both models look OK, what I would suggest is : * Set \'no more work\' against the project (this prevents boinc downloading other models unnecessarily) * Suspend or abort the newest model (since it\'s done no work) I\'ve recovred the old one intact and I\'m running that now. Ultimatly I aborted the newer one and merged all the phantom computers. That leaves me with two P4 3.2 GHz machines running one CPDN WU each. I\'ve even had a few new trickle ups and my credits are on the rise. Thanks for all the help Mike, we made it in the end :-)
44) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21184) Posted 10 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: All is well now. I only lost a handfull of hours crunching from the CPDN WU, which I assume restarted from when it was backed up. That\'s OK, it still saved me about 200 hours :-) All the other projects are back on track and looking good. Again thanks to MikeMArs and Les Bayliss
45) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21126) Posted 7 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: Sounds like there may be a good outcome :-) Didn\'t look very positive at first. It has created some odd results, here\'s just one example: 7/03/2006 2:20:48 AM\|Einstein@Home\|ACTIVE_TASKS::restart_tasks(); missing files 7/03/2006 2:20:48 AM\|Einstein@Home\|Unrecoverable error for result r1_1009.0__165_S4R2a_1 (One or more missing files) I think Einstein had already crunched it with the other host session. I had heaps of strange error messages, all of them seemed to point to missing bits. So I just let them go. Now all I have to do, is wait a couple of days while this host \"version\" runs down its other project WU\'s. Then switch back. When I reinstall the client_state.xml file I\'ll know if it\'s all worked out. I\'ll wait in hope ;-)
46) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21099) Posted 6 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: Yes, it looks like the client_stae.xml file has been corrupted. Do you have a backup? If so restore. Otherwise, you\'ll have to start again. That file has numerous sections, all with \'signed\' (i.e. checksumed), sections to prevent tampering. I have found the old work unit! Thanks to both MikeMars and Les Bayliss. I\'ve now gone back to run down the existing non-CPDN work units. I won\'t cancel the new CPDN wu until I\'ve successfully recovered from the mess. I have implemented a scripted backup regime :) Oh, I did have a backup, that\'s where I got the replacement client_state.xml file. I\'ve \"automated\" somewhat. Iâ€™ll post back when Iâ€™ve completed the next step, to let you know how successful I\'ve been, or not. Thanks again, I appreciate your patience. Mike
47) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21095) Posted 6 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: There\'s no evidence of a model failure on the website, but perhaps there may be something on your \'messages\' tab, or in the log files (StdErrGui.txt, StdErrDae.txt). There are indeed two computer IDs with active results, I take it you only actually have one in progress? Yes, I only have the one on that PC. I merged them but I\'m not sure if there is a way to merge the new into the old or, indeed, if that would make any difference. The other PC has very similar specs, but is not shown in the above hyperlink. This is the last time it contacted the server: 2006-03-04 14:19:28 [---] Resuming round-robin CPU scheduling. 2006-03-04 14:19:28 [climateprediction.net] Resuming result sulphur_iy22_000883946_0 using sulphur_cycle version 422 This is the last entry before the restart & what followed: 2006-03-04 15:10:55 [SETI@home] Started download of better_banner.jpg To pause/resume tasks hit CTRL-C, to exit hit CTRL-BREAK 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] Missing open tag in state file. 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] Memory: 1023.48 MB physical, 2.40 GB virtual 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] Disk: 31.25 GB total, 12.08 GB free 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [---] Version change detected (0.0.0 -> 5.2.13); running CPU benchmarks 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [Einstein@Home] Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: home; project prefs: default 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [Leiden Classical] Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: home; project prefs: default 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [LHC@home] Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: home; project prefs: default 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [SETI@home] Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: home; project prefs: default 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [climateprediction.net] Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: home; project prefs: default 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [uFluids] Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: home; project prefs: default 2006-03-04 21:07:36 [World Community Grid] Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: ; project prefs: default Just the usual stuff after this. What seems strange is that all the other projects reloaded after I merged them. I don\'t know if any of that is going to be of help to you. I can\'t see anything out of the ordinary except that all the hosts were dropped. I haven\'t had that happen before. Now that it\'s summer here, I\'ve had this PC seeze up a couple of times. It\'s not OC\'ed, it looks pretty clean but I may have to reset the heatsink. But that\'s another story. Thanks for the help, I\'m almost at the point of dropping the work I\'ve done so far and running the new WU but I\'m just having trouble letting go of all those hours :)
48) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21077) Posted 5 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: If the boinc manager loses contact with the model for a period of time, it assumes that the model has crashed and downloads a new one. As long as both models look OK, what I would suggest is : * Set \'no more work\' against the project (this prevents boinc downloading other models unnecessarily) * Suspend or abort the newest model (since it\'s done no work) I have the new one suspended, but the old one doesn\'t show up in BOINC Manager and I can\'t work out why. I\'m stumped, unless someone knows where the Host ID goes, that\'s all I can think of.
49) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC Freeze stops undamaged WU?? (Message 21072) Posted 5 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: I\'ve had a look through the fora, but can\'t find anything quite like this one. The BOINC Manager downloaded an other WU after a freeze and hard reboot but I can\'t see any differences in the two sets of xml files other than the names. No error had been reported to the server, so I was expecting an easy restart. Does anyone have a suggestion as to which file I should be looking at for some error or indication of curruption? It wouldn\'t be something as simple as a changed Host ID would it?
50) Message boards : Number crunching : Sulphur units constantly failing (Message 20907) Posted 1 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: Well, if this is true, then it needs to be part of the application. .......[big snip]......... I would have to agree with Paul on that. I\'ve only remembered to backup once so far and that was only one of the two CPDN\'s I have running.
51) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team Recruiting Thread - CLOSED (Message 20905) Posted 1 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: Are you Australian? Perhaps an expat? Or just interested in the Outback? Then you could join the top Australian team!! Here comes the flag waving! BOINC@Australia All Australians, look into the light, look closely at the light. Your eyes are getting heavy, you\'re feeling sleepy. On the count of three you will be completely in my power, three, two, one. You\'re a sleep! Now you will join the BOINC@Australia team and attach all your projects. This will make you feel fantastic and when you wake you will remember nothing, except how good it feels to be a member of BOINC@Australia. And how much you want ALL your family and friends to join the same cult, er um, team. Now one, two three, wake up! And here are some of the others: BOINC@AUSTRALIA Einstein BOINC@AUSTRALIA ÂµFluids BOINC@AUSTRALIA Seti BOINC@AUSTRALIA Climate BOINC@AUSTRALIA LHC BOINC@AUSTRALIA World Community Grid
52) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : bbc claims cpdn as \'their\' project. (Message 20903) Posted 1 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: All the more reason to get it started here ASAP. Um, verstapp are you the same verstapp that\'s joined BOINC@Australia in ÂµFluids? If you are I\'d be really happy if you meant to join all your projects to the team 8-) Nasher said: personaly i like the fact that Boinc and distributed computing got some news coverage Amen, pity when it\'s replayed in Australia it wonâ€™t ask people to specifically join a local team :-( Speaking of teams 8-) Les! Er, Mr. Bayliss, did I also invite you to join us? If you like, you can click on the bit in my sig. (Insert cringe smiley here;) But I\'m sure you already know how to do that (Ditto cringe smiley:)
53) Message boards : Number crunching : Average s/TS of 8.42! Any point in me continuing? (Message 20902) Posted 1 Mar 2006 by m.mitch Post: 8.42 s/TS ... Not bad, I\'m doing 8.17 s/TS (but, 0.75%/day) with my Intel 1.6 GHz processor ;-) If you want to finish on time (not critical for this project - you will get your goodies anyway), consider to run only CPDN on this computer. Happy crunching !!! Hey belgix, On a completely different topic, would you like to join BOINC@Australia? The prompts in my sig
54) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team Recruiting Thread - CLOSED (Message 20186) Posted 14 Feb 2006 by m.mitch Post: Are you Australian? Perhaps an expat? Or just interested in the Outback? Then you could join the top Australian team!! Here comes the flag waving! BOINC@Australia From our web page: Whether you are contributing a little to one project with one old computer or participate in several projects with a building full of the latest equipment, we welcome your contribution. While our emphasis is on Australians living anywhere in the world (including Australia) and anyone living in, or having some connection with Australia, anyone is welcome to join us. Help us keep the momentum going. And here are some of the others: BOINC@AUSTRALIA Einstein BOINC@AUSTRALIA ÂµFluids BOINC@AUSTRALIA Seti BOINC@AUSTRALIA Climate BOINC@AUSTRALIA LHC BOINC@AUSTRALIA World Community Grid
55) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : test (Message 19340) Posted 15 Jan 2006 by m.mitch Post: You should only need the one test post for a sig test. It refreshes after each use to display the new and improved sig! [edit]See![/edit]

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