Posts by old_user2500

41) Questions and Answers : Windows : Yet another Fortran error (error 30,unit6,CONOUT$) (Message 5170) Posted 10 Oct 2004 by old_user2500 Post: > Well, it does sometimes :) > Thanks for the link Andrew. Hmmm NT 4 SP6 might work eh ? I have a machine that I might try ......
42) Questions and Answers : Windows : Yet another Fortran error (error 30,unit6,CONOUT$) (Message 5161) Posted 9 Oct 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Unfortunately the Climate Prediction client will not run on the WIn98/Win ME/ platforms. Win 2000 and up is required.
43) Questions and Answers : Windows : Work units fail to upload (Message 5120) Posted 7 Oct 2004 by old_user2500 Post: 1.zip: server rejected file > > That looks like you changed the value in the signed_xml section by mistake, > Chilcotin :( Ok .. thanks Thyme .. I will move on to the next work unit.
44) Questions and Answers : Windows : Work units fail to upload (Message 5091) Posted 6 Oct 2004 by old_user2500 Post: One of my uploads just failed as well. Log message is attached. I thought that I had made the suggested changes but there is always room for mea culpa. climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:48:24 - Computation for result 034a_300029027 finished climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:48:26 - Starting result 32pu_000164936_3 using hadsm3 version 4.04 climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:48:26 - Started upload of 034a_300029027_0_1.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:48:26 - Started upload of 034a_300029027_0_2.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:49:19 - Error on file upload: invalid signature climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:49:19 - Permanently failed upload of 034a_300029027_0_1.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:49:19 - Giving up on upload of 034a_300029027_0_1.zip: server rejected file climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:49:19 - Started upload of 034a_300029027_0_3.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:50:05 - Finished upload of 034a_300029027_0_2.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:50:05 - Throughput 19836 bytes/sec climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:50:05 - Started upload of 034a_300029027_0_4.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:51:03 - Finished upload of 034a_300029027_0_3.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:51:03 - Throughput 22052 bytes/sec climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:51:03 - Started upload of 034a_300029027_0_5.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:51:31 - Finished upload of 034a_300029027_0_5.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:51:31 - Throughput 9077 bytes/sec climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:51:34 - Finished upload of 034a_300029027_0_4.zip climateprediction.net - 2004-10-05 10:51:34 - Throughput 17746 bytes/sec
45) Questions and Answers : Windows : GUI Diagnostic Error (Message 4952) Posted 2 Oct 2004 by old_user2500 Post: I have seen similar errors on Win XP Home when two users are logged on. Boinc runs in one of the sessions and "hangs" in the other. I have also seen errors when running Boinc and a scheduled Norton Antivirus scan runs. I have assumed it to be a file locking issue but haven't really nailed it down.
46) Questions and Answers : Windows : Preempting question (Message 3411) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: I believe there was some discussion in other threads that the resource commitment is averaged over a period of time ( not sure how long ). Since Seti has been down for awhile the application may be "owed" some time now that it is back up. I would give it a day or two to balance out.
47) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Client error on unclean shutdown (Message 3203) Posted 7 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Bradley, There is a checkpointing mechanism but it doesn't seem to be 100% effective unless the shutdown was an orderly one. I have lost workunits as a result of forced resets and killing user sessions under Windows XP home. IMHO the best system to run CPDN on is either one that you are the sole user of or one that runs unattended most of the time.
48) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Restore from Checkpoint (Message 3202) Posted 7 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: > I see a suggestion in another thread that the workunit can be backed up > manually and then copied back if needed. I will give that a try. Sigh .. nice idea but no cigar. Boinc seems to keep track of what units it is working on. A restore has no effect if a new model has been downloaded already. My workunit appears to have been toasted when I killed another users logon session under Win XP home. BOINC on my session appeared to be frozen. I suspect that it was running in the other users session. After killing that session and restarting BOINC the CPDN app reported a corrupt or missing file and downnloaded a new model.
49) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Restore from Checkpoint (Message 3106) Posted 5 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: I probably phrased the question poorly .. what I should have been asking for is a "restore point" . A point where the entire workunit can be restarted at my option. I see a suggestion in another thread that the workunit can be backed up manually and then copied back if needed. I will give that a try. Thanks for your response John. It's an interesting project .. it is just going to take a litle time to get work through the inevitable gotchas.
50) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Restore from Checkpoint (Message 3049) Posted 5 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: I have a lost a number of workunits due to system crashes and lockups. In each case CPDN downloads a completely new workunit and I have to restart from zero. It would be nice to have the option to checkpoint the CPDN system state from time to time and then restore and resume processing from a saved state if need be.
51) Questions and Answers : Windows : CP won\'t start anymore (Message 2932) Posted 3 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Cryz, apparently BOINC 4.05 does not support NT4.
52) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran run-time error (Message 2633) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: There seems to be a number of folk encountering Visual Fortran runtime erorrs. The guy with the HP machine who removed a bunch of the bundled software from his machine has probably stumbled on the problem - DLL conflicts between the CPDN app and a previously installed Visual Fortran application on the users machine.
53) Questions and Answers : Windows : hadsm3 4.03 keeps crashing, and the boinc does nothing. (Message 2457) Posted 1 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Ok. what do you mean by "crashes" ? Do you mean that it does not appear to run (i.e. the "CPU Time" entry under the "Work tab" does not increase) or do you mean that you get actual error messages and/or your machine locks up hard? Can you cut and paste the log from your "Messages" tab here so that others can take a look ?
54) Questions and Answers : Windows : hadsm3 4.03 keeps crashing, and the boinc does nothing. (Message 2443) Posted 1 Sep 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Omega ... what operating system are you running ? If it is Windows 98 or NT 4.0 BOINC will not run.
55) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Thread Closed (Message 2269) Posted 31 Aug 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Here you go ( quoted in another thread ). An explantion from the BOINC team. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cpu_sched.php
56) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Thread Closed (Message 2268) Posted 31 Aug 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Richard, I have been puzzled by this as well and have been watching the logs on a couple of my machines. My theory is that the minimum time slice is "1 hour" . I have my preferences set to 100 Units CPDN and 50 units SETI. This works out to 2/3 processing time for CPDN and 1/3 processing time for Seti. What I am seeing in the logs and in task manager CPU time summary is two 1 hour time slices assigned to CPDN for every one 1 hour time slice assigned to Seti. My guess is that if you set your preference to CPDN 1 and SETI 100 then for every 101 hours of operation CPDN will get a single 1 hour timeslice and SETI will get 100.
57) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Andrew Heath (Message 2267) Posted 31 Aug 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Andrew ... the workunits are huge and will take a very long time to complete. I have one that is estimating that it will take 2,700 hours. That's 100+ days of 24x7 processing on a 1Ghz PIII. Note the "expiry date" on your work unit. It is likely set at 1 year from now. The CPDN folk are using the concept of a "trickle" to give you credit for the work done. If your machine is BOINc'ing during the day it should report back every day or two and credit you with progress made. It's a different concept then Seti .. where one could whip through a WU every few hours on a fast enough machine. I personally would like to see some way to migrate workunits to replacement machines as I have a few boxes that are not likely going to last the year.
58) Questions and Answers : Windows : Windows 98 crashes under v4. (Message 2117) Posted 30 Aug 2004 by old_user2500 Post: Unfortunately true. Here's a comment (sorry but my HTML linkage skills are zero) : http://www.climateprediction.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2227
59) Questions and Answers : Windows : Status \"PREEMPTED\" (Message 2111) Posted 30 Aug 2004 by old_user2500 Post: > ahhh OK, found it in the code: cpu_sched_period = 3600; // 1 hour > > so we're OK, the min time is an hour which should be enough to get to the next > checkpoint for those who don't want the app suspended in memory > Yes .. I just checked a bunch of logs and 1 hour it is (carefully inspects the bottom of the empty wine bottle for traces of ritalin ....)
60) Questions and Answers : Windows : Status \"PREEMPTED\" (Message 2104) Posted 29 Aug 2004 by old_user2500 Post: .... clipped from another thread .. in which Carl says .... " Just be careful not to set CPDN share too low if you also have "Leave suspended tasks in memory" to "False" (the default setting), as if CPDN gets too short a time to run it will never make it to the next checkpoint (144 timesteps, which is usually 10-15 minutes " ahhhhhhhh .... (the lightbulb goes on)

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