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1) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 46591)
Posted 4 Jul 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi there,

no need to leave the team actually in percentage terms there are more team members outside Scotland than in it, were a bit of a global team really just rounded up under the Scotland theme lol

oh by the way congrats and kudos to " Dave Roberts " for passing the 1 million credit mark well done and heres to your next million

best regards
Ian
2) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 46322)
Posted 31 May 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hello,

I got a couple too but my cache is set wide open at 10 days so any new ones floating about i can catch :)


BREAKING NEWS :

We have a new member Dave Roberts so welcome to the team and don't be a stranger on either this forum or our own forum

ian.sm does the stats but not every day so you may not see your name up in lights straight away but notified there's a new member he's pretty quick at adding new members :)

best regards
Ian
3) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team credits (Message 46220)
Posted 14 May 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi Les,
yeah i think there was always a problem with the models never quite giving the same credit as each other, people used to head straight for the ones giving out most credit but this does seem to be a pretty constant thing across the few model types we've had so not like the odd credit levels between model types in past years

the oddness is that you do get the credits due for work done you can even see the credits given daily on the BAM stats page but only the RAC for those daily credits over a month are way out
just seems somewhere the art of creating an average from a set of numbers has been lost somehow lol

just a quirk I suppose and everybody seems to get the same problem so nobody gaining any advantage or anything just OCD types like me liking the numbers to make sense lol

best regards
Ian
4) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team credits (Message 46215)
Posted 14 May 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi,

there's an even weirder anomaly about the stats on this project which I've mentioned before but nobody picked up on
that is the RAC score your given is completely out of whack with the daily credits you produce
in my case a daily credit rate of around 10,000 for more than a month and yet my RAC is below half that
its not me everybody gets the same treatment if you look up the stats on the BAM stats site they really don't add up unless i'm missing something and the RAC figures are worked out in some really weird way now that i'm unaware of

best regards
Ian
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error. (Message 46192)
Posted 12 May 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi,
if your systems a bit unstable due to hardware issues or overclocking that makes them pop up all over the place on this particular project
or as hagar says just once in a while its your turn to get one

best regards
Ian
6) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Team credits (Message 46188)
Posted 11 May 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi there Dave

yes all the credits follow wherever you go in this project you can go to various teams and stay a little then move on to another team you like better and take all your past credits and give them to your new team :)

happy crunching


Ian
Team Scotland Founder
7) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 46179)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
Hi Everybody

Just to jump in were now ranked 7th in RAC today new high :)

best wishes
Ian

p.s. about the chip upgrade as you probably already know upgrading to the latest chips means a complete rethink on hardware ( motherboard etc ) so pennies are the issue lol especially if the case like you i would be doing both rigs at the same time :) in saying that i am sort of due some sort of upgrade although the overclocked i7 920's have been super chips
8) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 46044)
Posted 25 Apr 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi there Hagar

got the same cooling idea here, bedroom windows shut during the winter ( no heating needed )
bedroom windows open all summer long trying to get rid as much heat as possible lol

best regards
Ian
9) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 45983)
Posted 19 Apr 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
Hi Ian,

I know what you mean about the GPU projects stealing cpu cores
my second 920 box only crunches 7 models as the gpu steals a complete thread for itself
my first box i don't use any gpu work on so it uses the full 8 cores when the FORTRAN errors don't decrease that figure

good to hear your updating its always good to get your hands on shiny new equipment i haven't done so for a while now ( maybe treat myself at some point )

think your twin i5's will out crunch my twin 920's by quite some margin
so the race to be top team cruncher might be a lot closer than you think lol

I do like to come in here and make sure Margaret doesn't feel shes holding the teams thread all on her own but your correct in saying now the teams forum is fixed we may as well use it :)

best regards
Ian



10) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 45971)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi, Ian

thanks very much for the heads up seemingly the people at server HQ had to give mine a bit of a kick for some reason but all is well now fingers crossed :)

as far as the stats Ian yours are way more accurate than the ones on the CPDN site which are pretty much a mess and make no sense at all

I crunch alot more daily than you and yet you have the higher RAC by some margin
plus if you look at the BAM statistics monthly report and divide that number by 28 days to get what should be your average everybody on the project is only getting half the RAC they should be

maybe the RAC is now calculated over 2 or 3 months now instead of 1 as it used to be

OOPs said I was off my soap box earlier

best regards
Ian
11) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 45967)
Posted 18 Apr 2013 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi

the new member was Hexen from Thailand unfortunately although i wrote to him/her on the same day they joined they never downloaded work or got back to me :(

as far as the project is concerned i'm having all sorts of problems with this FORTRAN error that errors out a huge amount of the models i download for some reason
I've had cases where because 4 or 5 models error out due to FORTRAN errors only 3 or 4 out of the 8 models i could run on one machine actually crunch while waiting days for the next models to show up for download so that i can crunch on the full 8 until some of those error out :(

its quite annoying to have errors through no fault of your own but even more so then have to wait days to replace the models which have crashed

don't understand why if it is known that there is a FORTRAN error with a specific type of model why they are being released to us in the first place

anyway i'll get off my soap box now lol

best regards
Ian

OH by the way our team is ranked 10th in RAC today highest rank in cpdn ever I think ? I do remember the good old days on the BBC project where we were ranked 3rd :)
12) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Scotland team (Message 43677)
Posted 17 Jan 2012 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
Hello,

from one Ian to another Iain welcome and thanks for joining the team

best regards
Ian
13) Message boards : Number crunching : TRICKLE CANNOT UPLOAD, BUT, SERVER SHOWS IT ALREADY HAS (Message 41527)
Posted 23 Jan 2011 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi,

I now have 206 zip files between my 2 machines equalling more than a gig of files to be uploaded so i suspect the servers even when back will be under a very severe load if not too high a load when acceping all this data

Ian
14) Message boards : Number crunching : TRICKLE CANNOT UPLOAD, BUT, SERVER SHOWS IT ALREADY HAS (Message 41520)
Posted 21 Jan 2011 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hello,

I realize that the trickles and zip files are differant i.e. being 5.24 meg in size for instance
i now have 76 zip files equaling nearly 400 meg of zip files stored up so far and increasing steadily
something has to be done to allow these zip files to be uploaded as i dont plan on having an upload on my broadband connection of a gig or something rediculous in one go !

best regards
Ian
15) Message boards : Number crunching : TRICKLE CANNOT UPLOAD, BUT, SERVER SHOWS IT ALREADY HAS (Message 41514)
Posted 21 Jan 2011 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
Hello,

I have the same problem only not with 1 trickle but with 73 on one machine alone!
if there is an IP problem somebody needs to let us know what to do about it as me sitting here filling up my hard drive is no solution

best regards
Ian
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Credits not updating (Message 40754)
Posted 24 Sep 2010 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hello,

thought this script was an automatic system ?

any idea when Milo will be back ?

best regards
Ian
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost BBC Credits (Message 40334)
Posted 9 Aug 2010 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
Hi Margret,

Still buzzing around here and there trying to get the teams RAC to a million just now :)

about the e-mail problem and linkages there of I'm really glad I have my own domain It's never changed therefore i dont get this problem that sounds a nightmare for some

best regards everybody
Ian
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Lost BBC Credits (Message 40275)
Posted 1 Aug 2010 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
hi Margret

Nice to see you back here and that your still thinking of crunching again :)
about the credit thing though several people have had all sorts of problems with credits even Iansm from our own team had problems as collecting past credit info from the cpdn project seems to be impossible after a certain amount of time ( a year we think ) as the backed up stats take up disk space on the cpdn server so i think they must flush them on some sort of rotational basis
if you look at our own team stats you will see several new members whos credits couldnt be located to be alocated to the team stats page :(

Iansm knows way more about all this stuff i'm just giving a laymans breakdown
but i hope this helps you fell your not alone in weird stats ville

best regards
Ian
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Server upgrade issues (Message 39935)
Posted 14 Jun 2010 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
This is part of another thread i started that was informed would be better placed here

Something strange has happened to the number of posts that this forum says youve made as i've been a member since 2006 and Scotland team Founder since then and have been in here posting way more than that !
my question is has the forum database lost thousands of posts or is this just a numerical error by the new forum software ?
i notice my signature doesnt show up now either !

best regards
Ian
20) Message boards : Number crunching : 159,333 FAMOUS models cant download any ! (Message 39931)
Posted 13 Jun 2010 by Profile scottishwebcamslive.com
Post:
I'm using the latest 6.10.56 boic manager so i can manage each machine seperately
i do have the preferances set to only Famous models i'm only running 7 models on the i7 machine as it wont download any more and another famous model is due to end shortlyleaving me crunching only 6 models on a pc which used to be quite happy crunching 8
the new boinc manager is set to 10 days extra work and at one point had an extra 6 wu waiting to be started plus the 8 it was doing

i cant end up crunching 1 work unit because it wont download any others
i crunch on milkyway gpu project and it quite happily has 48 work units at any one time waiting to be worked on so i doubt its the manager

any help would be great
Ian

UPDATE : I just changed the prefs on the server to accept hadsm3 work units as well as famous work units and it download 4 new hadsm3 work units straight away started crunching on one waiting on the other 3
it hit the quota message or else i think it would have downloaded a few more

so its the famous models themselves it doesnt like which is really strange maybe more people will have this problem in future but it just hasnt shown up yet as two of my original 8 famous models went blue world on me also which never ever happens

best regards
Ian

P.S. Something strange has happened to the number of posts that this forum says youve made as i've been a member since 2006 and Scotland team Founder since then and have been in here posting way more than that !
my question is has the forum database lost thousands of posts or is this just a numerical error by the new forum software ?
i notice my signature doesnt show up now either !

best regards
Ian


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