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31) Message boards : Number crunching : New work Discussion (Message 65737)
Posted 2 Aug 2022 by Profile Conan
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Just spied this change on the server site

OpenIFS 43r3
OpenIFS 43r3 ARM

Perhaps something in the wings?

I have not done any OpenIFS work units before so would like to try some.

OpenIFS did not have the 43r3 after its name yesterday.

Conan
32) Message boards : Number crunching : New work Discussion (Message 65726)
Posted 1 Aug 2022 by Profile Conan
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All batches are being processed, are there any new work developments on the horizon?

Thanks
Conan
33) Message boards : Number crunching : HadSM4 Error when completed and Uploading (Message 65725)
Posted 1 Aug 2022 by Profile Conan
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Just had a work unit complete without error, so that missing libnsl file was the problem.

Conan
34) Message boards : Number crunching : New work Discussion (Message 65724)
Posted 1 Aug 2022 by Profile Conan
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G'Day AndreyOR,

Don't know about unusual version as I got from the BOINC Web site, it is classed as a "Pre-Release" Linux version.

The previous Linux official version on the BOINC wed site was 7.4.25 which is running on my other Linux computer and may need an update one day maybe (it prioritizes work a bit better than the new one I reckon).

Conan
35) Message boards : Number crunching : New work Discussion (Message 65714)
Posted 31 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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[quote]7.16.6 probably came from a package installation. When I installed BOINC from a package on Ubuntu 20.04 that's the version I got. On 22.04 the version is 7.18.1. For Linux machines, according to the site, it's recommended to install BOINC using a package manager.

I know this is getting off topic,
I used a package manager version only the once. Found it stuck pieces of BOINC every where, had trouble finding and maintaining it that way, plus all the permission problems (why do they insist on a separate user to control the BOINC install?), also installed as a service which I then had to learn how to control from the command line.

So any other Linux install I have done or updates have all been from the BOINC website and it all works fine, all in one place (still a small permission problem but that is easy to fix).

So if it recommended for Linux users to use a package manager I don't agree with it.

Conan
36) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing Trickle (Message 65704)
Posted 29 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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Thanks Les, all my trickles have come through now, including a couple I didn't realize I had sent.

Conan
37) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing Trickle (Message 65701)
Posted 29 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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I was wondering if there is a problem with the Trickle Server.

I uploaded a trickle at 4.43am Australian time and it is now almost 10 Hours later and it still has not shown up on my account.

The Zip file uploaded without an issue.

I will have some more due soon and don't want to lose them as well.

So just wondering where it is.

Conan
38) Message boards : Number crunching : Computation Errors (Message 65680)
Posted 25 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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I expect the event log would make interesting reading.


It sure would. Too bad the user never looks at it. Is he not even curious that he has obtained no credit for years of work?

Maybe he died and no one has found out, or even turned off his machine.


Last contact was today 25th July 2022, so not turned off.

He has another computer ID 1517679 with same problem and over 6,100 failures.

But he has this computer ID 1517434 that is connecting, downloading and processing work, it does get errors but he does get credits as well as it sends back trickles.

Conan
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Computation Errors (Message 65675)
Posted 23 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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I just downloaded 4 SM4 work units to see if my missing library problem (libnsl.so.1) has been fixed and I can get some successful work done.

I found that they were all re-sends from others who failed with a different missing library libstdc++.so.6

Computer 1460610 - Bartosz Toczek only started having this issue with SM4, no probs with AM4.

Computer 1531595 - Anonymous has 79 failures all SM4

Computer 1532546 - Science United has 30 failure all SM4

And of course I also got Computer 1517479 - Eric Korpela over 11,000 failures and I thibk they could be permission problems? but I am not sure he isn't showing that library as missing.

Conan
40) Message boards : Number crunching : HadSM4 Error when completed and Uploading (Message 65658)
Posted 18 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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@Jean-David

The install of his Fedora 36 did not include the libnsl file that is apparently needed. This results in upload failures (for some reason). He has installed this file now and the 6th and final file did upload correctly. However, since the other five monthly zip files did not go up (before he installed libnsl), boinc marked the results as errors.


@Conan

Looking at the stderr on your task webpages, the 6th zip must have been uploaded successfully, but the other 5 monthly zips weren't. So boinc marked the result as an error. Now that libnsl is installed, you shouldn't have any more errors of this type.


Thanks geophi,

I decided to check back on a few WUs I ran back in May 2021 and found they had failed for the same reason.
I had Fedora 31 at the time, but apparently I did not check as to why the work units were marked invalid.
If I had of checked I could of fixed this issue last year and had 4 successful results now instead of 4 failures.

I will have to check why things fail a bit better it seems. You live and learn.

Conan
41) Message boards : Number crunching : HadSM4 Error when completed and Uploading (Message 65652)
Posted 18 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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Yes even though I updated my files all 3 (of 4) SM4 work units have now finished in an error.

So even though all looks good and trickles are reported and I got some credit, something is missing and the it errors out.

Well 1 to go in less than 5 hours and I will be done with a waste of 12 days (each WU ran 4 days) of crunching with no valid results.

I may take another break from the project again unless a few types I have not run yet get work and I will try them.

Thanks all for your help

Conan
42) Message boards : Number crunching : HadSM4 Error when completed and Uploading (Message 65644)
Posted 17 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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Just finished a HadSM4 model after 4 and bit days.
As it finished uploading I received a Computation Error, which I thought was strange as it and 3 others had been running fine.

On checking it seems that I was missing a file that I didn't know about

libnsl.so.1

Without this file you get

Unable to load library hadsm4_se_8.02_i686-pc-linux-gnu.so
dlopen error: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I have now updated this file on my Linux install and hope the other 3 work units will now be OK and I won't have 3 more failures (it would be a waste of over 12 days computations equivalent).
They have between 5 and 13 hours to go.

Conan

(PS --Oh just noticed it is my 100th post since I joined in 2006.)
43) Message boards : Number crunching : Late Validation pending (Message 65642)
Posted 17 Jul 2022 by Profile Conan
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I have just realized that I have 2 Work Units on my computers that seem to be waiting for validation.

Work Unit 9811766 was completed on 2nd May 2015.
It is a HadAM3P-HadRM3P Australia New Zealand type.

Work Unit 9097228 was completed on 20th September 2014.
It is of the same type.

If I look in the Task details for both work units it shows them having been credited but not on the main page as they are awaiting "Validation".

Who are they waiting on this long for the work units to be Validated?

Very Curious
Conan
44) Message boards : Number crunching : WAH2 CREDITS SET TO LOW (Message 52616)
Posted 23 Sep 2015 by Profile Conan
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Yes, it's the hadam3pm2 I was concerned about. My thought is to let it go on for a while to see if its "slowness" persists. It's possible I'm wrong, or getting excited prematurely; in any case it should be clearer after a few more days.

Actually, I'm really curious to know if anyone else running the model has encountered the same issues--or not.


G'Day jrapdx,

I have noticed the same on my AMD 1090 Phenom, first estimate was for 96 Hours to completion. After running for 8 and 3/4 hours it is now up to 113 Hours to run with just 0.257% completed. That's an estimate of 3,284 Hours run time.
That is getting back to the old days when Climate ran for months to get a WU to complete.
I doubt that it will take this long and that the original 96 Hours is closer to the mark, however going on a previous failed WU it will take over 250 hours.

Conan
45) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux/Mac/Windows segmentation (Message 51881)
Posted 23 Apr 2015 by Profile Conan
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I have a couple of Fedora 16 64 bit systems. To start my BOINC sessions I would click on the "Files" icon to launch the files system, navigate to the BOINC folder and then start BOINC.
I would leave the "Files" open so I could easily go back to check things in BOINC or the Download folder or other files searches.

I found after doing this for a long time without a computer reboot (such as long running projects that restart from scratch if you start BOINC again), that my systems start to slow down and I start having memory issues.

The "Files" programme starts to use a lot of resources over time.

By closing it down when I am not using it (after I have done my file searches, started BOINC or installed some download), I found that the whole system came back to life and I got my memory back (the computers memory, not mine as that is already lost).

So an innocent programme could be causing you an issue.

Conan
46) Message boards : Number crunching : credit anomaly MOSES_eu vs MOSES_global 25% for eu? (Message 51793)
Posted 9 Apr 2015 by Profile Conan
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Thanks to all who helped in getting this done.

Conan
47) Message boards : Number crunching : credit anomaly MOSES_eu vs MOSES_global 25% for eu? (Message 51765)
Posted 5 Apr 2015 by Profile Conan
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Les,

Yes, thanks, I know this, I was responding to a couple of lower down replies as to me the issue did not seem clear.

I am still processing them even with the much lower credits, as I am hoping the science or results, may come to something useful.

Thanks to the moderators for their response in this matter.

Conan
48) Message boards : Number crunching : what is this stupid message (Message 51764)
Posted 5 Apr 2015 by Profile Conan
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I'm set to get new work, but communication keeps getting deferred for one hour. In the meantime, Einstein and Seti continue working just fine.


The only work for Linux at the moment (as of today 5th April) is

hadam3prm3pm2t_eu (hadam3p global model with hadrm3p regional model with MOSES II land scheme and TRIFFID available) (currently no graphics) (Linux only)
Tasks ready to send 13,462

If you have your setting set to receive all model types you should pick some of these ones up.

Conan
49) Message boards : Number crunching : credit anomaly MOSES_eu vs MOSES_global 25% for eu? (Message 51758)
Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Profile Conan
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As I noted in an earlier message

[Quote]I noticed that the credit awarded is exactly the same as the other (non-MOSES) Europe work unit type, so perhaps they have just got it mixed up.

17791628 9545343 17 Jan 2015 5:09:11 UTC 6 Feb 2015 18:15:18 UTC Completed 1,004,026.51 888,650.10 2,389.90 2,389.90 UK Met Office HadAM3P and HadRM3P model with MOSES II and TRIFFID Europe v7.01

17635813 9423239 8 Jan 2015 11:02:12 UTC 14 Jan 2015 4:05:09 UTC Completed 313,293.72 216.84 2,389.90 2,389.90 UK Met Office HadAM3P-HadRM3P Europe v7.23
[Quote]

They seem to have used the same crediting system for each Europe model even though they are completely different models.

Conan
50) Message boards : Number crunching : credit anomaly MOSES_eu vs MOSES_global 25% for eu? (Message 51750)
Posted 3 Apr 2015 by Profile Conan
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This model is still not getting the correct credits, less than a 3rd of what they should be getting.

Conan


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