Posts by Lockleys

41) Message boards : Number crunching : Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site (Message 54811) Posted 21 Sep 2016 by Lockleys Post: Sadly, I'm now away from the PC for a couple of days. I'll have to look at the zip size when I get back. Probably Friday, UK time. Following on from Byron Leigh's post, I should say that I have run a number of MEX models to successful conclusion and upload. This one is the only one to have been stuck and I have kept it without aborting it in unreasonable hope only.
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site (Message 54807) Posted 21 Sep 2016 by Lockleys Post: I have updated my contribution to include http_debug and http_xfer_debug. Still at http://pastebin.com/5Jk3cmwG
43) Message boards : Number crunching : Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site (Message 54802) Posted 20 Sep 2016 by Lockleys Post: Here is a link to my debug log. My mex25 has been stuck at 37.64% uploaded for many weeks. Hope this run may give some clues alongside Vitalii's inputs. http://pastebin.com/5Jk3cmwG
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site (Message 54795) Posted 19 Sep 2016 by Lockleys Post: I have applied Thyme Lawn's debug instruction and attempted an upload of a MEX25 zip that has been stuck with me for weeks. However, when I include the Event Log readout in my post to this thread, I get disconnected from the forum with an error message. Is this in itself a clue?
45) Message boards : Number crunching : WUs crash when closing BOINC (Message 54772) Posted 11 Sep 2016 by Lockleys Post: I usually close down like this: 1) go to the tasks tab and close each task individually, starting with the ones that are still waiting to run; 2) go to the projects tab and close climateprediction; 3) click File>Exit BOINC. For me, this procedure seems almost faultless. When it's closed down, I usually make a backup of the BOINC data folder, even though it is becoming unfashionable to do so as the task durations reduce from what was over a year to complete a single task when I started crunching. By the way, having "Leave Tasks in Memory = YES" is desirable but for completely different reasons, so I do that too. EDIT, Dave Jackson beat me.
46) Message boards : Number crunching : ANOTHER UPLOAD PROBLEM (Message 54099) Posted 14 May 2016 by Lockleys Post: [quote]I've given up on it, and am going to leave it until a few hours before they're due to start work on Monday before sending yet another email.[/unquote] Good plan.
47) Message boards : Number crunching : ANOTHER UPLOAD PROBLEM (Message 54094) Posted 14 May 2016 by Lockleys Post: I too have a wah2_sas50 unable to upload. I also have a hadam3p_eu task unable to upload.
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Total Credit (Message 53846) Posted 28 Mar 2016 by Lockleys Post: Just think of the boost to self-achievement that will kick in when The Fix is completed and that wonderful, positive step function kicks in to the statistics graph! Almost as good as ??? That's only for the people who have carried on crunching while the credits script isn't working properly, of course. Those who went away won't get the dopamine.
49) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3n release (Message 53550) Posted 2 Mar 2016 by Lockleys Post: Like JIM, I haven't had the same problems with hadcm3n. I am closing my system down twice a day and taking backups. (Got builders in and I am anticipating them crashing the power supply!) Perhaps it's in the method? I suspend all Tasks, wait 10 seconds, suspend the cpdn Project, wait 10 seconds, resume all tasks (but keep the project suspended), then exit BOINC Manager. Then, on opening BOINC Manager again, it all just carries on smoothly. Or perhaps I've just hit lucky with my allocated hadcm3n (351 type).
50) Message boards : Number crunching : How to install Cpdn on Virtual Box ? (Message 52924) Posted 21 Nov 2015 by Lockleys Post: Having seen the traffic about running CPDN in a Linux-Ububtu VM under Windows, I thought I would give it a go. I have two questions to ask peers more experienced than me. 1) About the business of downloading 32 bit libraries when running on a 64 bit machine: can I assume that as I downloaded the 32 bit version of Ubuntu into my VM on my 64 bit Windows machine, I can ignore all those issues? And 2) Under Windows, I am used to running CPDN under Advanced view to give a bit more insight and control over what's going on. In CPDN under the Ubuntu VM, I cannot find a way to switch from Simple view to Advanced view. Am I missing something somewhere? Thanks.
51) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unable to find msvcr100.dll (Message 52706) Posted 10 Oct 2015 by Lockleys Post: I was plagued with random reboots on my Windows machines for some time, despite having Windows notify me whenever a reboot was required. I eventually identified Microsoft Security Essentials as the culprit. It didn't play by the notify-first rules. So I binned it. Now all is as it should be.
52) Message boards : Number crunching : anz upload failures (Message 52685) Posted 8 Oct 2015 by Lockleys Post: I have a whole stack of anz zip files which have failed to upload for several days now. Examples from log file: 08/10/2015 02:25:04 \| climateprediction.net \| Started upload of hadam3p_anz_n6h9_2008_1_010105733_0_12.zip 08/10/2015 02:25:07 \| climateprediction.net \| [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open log file '../log_host-144-6-252-28/file_upload_handler.log' (errno: 9) 08/10/2015 02:25:07 \| climateprediction.net \| Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_anz_n6h9_2008_1_010105733_0_12.zip: transient upload error 08/10/2015 02:25:07 \| climateprediction.net \| Backing off 00:03:35 on upload of hadam3p_anz_n6h9_2008_1_010105733_0_12.zip 08/10/2015 02:28:59 \| climateprediction.net \| Started upload of hadam3p_anz_n6h9_2008_1_010105733_0_13.zip 08/10/2015 02:29:01 \| climateprediction.net \| [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open log file '../log_host-144-6-252-28/file_upload_handler.log' (errno: 9) 08/10/2015 02:29:01 \| climateprediction.net \| Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_anz_n6h9_2008_1_010105733_0_13.zip: transient upload error 08/10/2015 02:29:01 \| climateprediction.net \| Backing off 00:03:45 on upload of hadam3p_anz_n6h9_2008_1_010105733_0_13.zip
53) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Windows 10 (Message 52379) Posted 5 Aug 2015 by Lockleys Post: I have installed Windows 10 on a spare laptop to see how it went. I did have some difficulty with the initial installation (technically an update to Windows 8.1, as Tullio rightly says) but I found a workaround on Reddit which was succesful. I made sure that Windows Update would only take effect on a reboot. And also, pretty important, I made sure that my AntiVirus (in this case AVG Free) was also set at If_Computer_Restart_Required, Complete_At Next_Computer_Restart because that too can force a reboot when not expected and destroy CPDN models. Otherwise, it seems to be humming along satisfactorily and has just complete a PNW model.
54) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3 short errors (Message 52027) Posted 6 Jun 2015 by Lockleys Post: Les said Perhaps we can get them made Linux only for any future runs. Hey, my 64 bit Windows 8.1 computer runs them well. In fact, many complete on my computer that have failed elsewhere. I just wish I did not have so many 1980 No Resubmission tasks sent to me! Yeah, the shorts work fine for me on Win7 too. Likewise about having to check and abort the No Resubmission ones.
55) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3 short errors (Message 51982) Posted 24 May 2015 by Lockleys Post: Alan, While most of my "No Resubmission" tasks are the 1980s batch, a few are not, so it is necessary to check them all.
56) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3 short errors (Message 51979) Posted 23 May 2015 by Lockleys Post: I seem to be getting a real spate of hadcms models which are marked "No Resubmission". It has got to the point where when one of these starts coming to me from the server I look to see if it is so marked and abort it before it has fully arrived. Saves bandwidth and time.
57) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux/Mac/Windows segmentation (Message 51848) Posted 17 Apr 2015 by Lockleys Post: I did run models like this for the Large Hadron Collider for a while but I found that running their models like this was a very heavy load on the PC. Much heavier than CPDN. It made the PC noticeably less responsive for other work. And since running these models is supposed to be a background activity which just users the spare cycles left over when I have done my own real work and should be an invisible background activity, I stopped running them. The other SixTrack LHC models which don't run inside a virtual machine run just fine and so I still run those. Just not the Vbox ones.
58) Message boards : Number crunching : ANOTHER UPLOAD PROBLEM (Message 51825) Posted 13 Apr 2015 by Lockleys Post: This mornings's upload failures - reporting here: 13/04/2015 07:57:33 \| climateprediction.net \| Started upload of hadam3p_anz_c16g_2013_1_009717252_0_4.zip 13/04/2015 07:57:33 \| climateprediction.net \| Started upload of hadam3p_anz_d27c_2013_1_009721713_0_3.zip 13/04/2015 07:57:56 \| climateprediction.net \| Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_anz_c16g_2013_1_009717252_0_4.zip: connect() failed 13/04/2015 07:57:56 \| climateprediction.net \| Backing off 00:04:10 on upload of hadam3p_anz_c16g_2013_1_009717252_0_4.zip 13/04/2015 07:57:56 \| climateprediction.net \| Started upload of hadam3p_anz_f23h_2013_1_009728915_0_3.zip 13/04/2015 07:57:57 \| climateprediction.net \| Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_anz_d27c_2013_1_009721713_0_3.zip: connect() failed 13/04/2015 07:57:57 \| climateprediction.net \| Backing off 00:07:13 on upload of hadam3p_anz_d27c_2013_1_009721713_0_3.zip 13/04/2015 07:57:57 \| climateprediction.net \| Started upload of hadam3p_anz_l31j_2013_1_009736748_0_2.zip 13/04/2015 07:57:59 \| \| Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 13/04/2015 07:58:01 \| \| Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. 13/04/2015 07:58:17 \| climateprediction.net \| Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_anz_f23h_2013_1_009728915_0_3.zip: connect() failed 13/04/2015 07:58:17 \| climateprediction.net \| Backing off 00:04:45 on upload of hadam3p_anz_f23h_2013_1_009728915_0_3.zip 13/04/2015 07:58:19 \| climateprediction.net \| Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_anz_l31j_2013_1_009736748_0_2.zip: connect() failed 13/04/2015 07:58:19 \| climateprediction.net \| Backing off 00:07:41 on upload of hadam3p_anz_l31j_2013_1_009736748_0_2.zip 13/04/2015 07:58:20 \| \| Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 13/04/2015 07:58:22 \| \| Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
59) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux/Mac/Windows segmentation (Message 51788) Posted 7 Apr 2015 by Lockleys Post: Thanks Hannah for clarifying this. I understand the logic.
60) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux/Mac/Windows segmentation (Message 51761) Posted 4 Apr 2015 by Lockleys Post: When the incidence of models marked as Linux Only or Windows Only or any other combo first appeared, I assumed it was simply tactical to get some targeted crunching under way. But now that almost all models are unavailable to one group of crunchers or another, it begins to seem more entrenched. Is it now becoming policy only to release models for one subgroup of users or another? I'm sure there is good reasoning behind it but I haven't seen it explained.

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