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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Total Credit (Message 53810)
Posted 25 Mar 2016 by Dean M
Post:
+ 2
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Curious about deadlines. (Message 43815)
Posted 16 Feb 2012 by Dean M
Post:
Iain,
Thanks for the response. I suspected that backing off would be better so I have been running at 75%. That allows a EU, PNW and a seti to run concurently. I will keep it this way for a while to see if the results improve.

Would you comment on the benchmark test. Doesn't a higher number indicate a faster processor which should give a shorter run time. Maybe the BM application needs to be downgraded or re-installed. It's not like it used to be.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Curious about deadlines. (Message 43809)
Posted 15 Feb 2012 by Dean M
Post:
I am a little confused about the deadline and hours to completion. This computer http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1060288 has been slowing down for the past 6 months to a very annoying slow pace. When I run a CPU benchmark the results vary each time. I noticed that when the results are a bigger number the time to completion jumps up dramatically. A full ocean just down loaded and the completion time is over 25,000 hours.

2/15/2012 5:37:09 PM Running CPU benchmarks
2/15/2012 5:37:09 PM Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
2/15/2012 5:37:41 PM Benchmark results:
2/15/2012 5:37:41 PM Number of CPUs: 4
2/15/2012 5:37:41 PM 322 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2/15/2012 5:37:41 PM 764 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
2/15/2012 5:37:42 PM Resuming computation

The completion hours just jumped down to 5500 hours. If I remember correctly the numbers were 888 and 2300 now they are 322 and 764. Wouldn't it make sense that a higher floating point would yield better performance thus a shorter completion time.

The 16 to 25 seconds per time step is correct. It never was that way and I feel something is wrong somewhere.

Help me out here and I will clarify if you have any questions.

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit not synchronized on stats-pages (Message 43594)
Posted 22 Dec 2011 by Dean M
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Does anyone know why the stats page is not being available. When I attempt to access a unit trickle page the content never downloads. I am not able to monitor the progress of different machines (host ID) that I don't have access to everyday.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload Failure (Message 43299)
Posted 26 Oct 2011 by Dean M
Post:
Today is my 7 year anniversary and you say all the work is gone!! Gosh, I hope you can make more.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Upload Failure (Message 43297)
Posted 26 Oct 2011 by Dean M
Post:
I have been sending trickles during the outage. Now that the project is up and running again I am sending trickles but they are not being posted to the workunit page. I hope all this crunching time isn't being wasted. Please advise if we keep going or abort and start a fresh unit.

7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unable to get new work (Message 37307)
Posted 19 Jun 2009 by Dean M
Post:
If you had any suspended CPDN models in the Tasks tab, BOINC wouldn't allow you to download any more. That's the BOINC rule. No new tasks allowed for projects that have suspended tasks. You'd have needed to resume the nearly-completed models temporarily before requesting new models.

If you saw this sort of message

18/06/2009 01:18:31|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
that would probably be the reason. BOINC was requesting no work at all.

It's a good idea to attach to one or two other projects as well just in case your computer ever runs out of work.


Thank you for the quick reply. I had no tasks suspended but so many finished models and was awaiting upload.
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unable to get new work (Message 37287)
Posted 18 Jun 2009 by Dean M
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I had many completed work unit waiting to upload. I know the server was down but why was I unable to download more work? My machine sat idle for 12 days. Here is a copy of my messages:
"6/17/2009 9:53:06 PM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_mruh_1967_2_006137923_3_3.zip: connect() failed
6/17/2009 9:53:06 PM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 2 hr 10 min 10 sec on upload of hadam3p_mruh_1967_2_006137923_3_3.zip
6/17/2009 9:53:07 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/17/2009 9:57:14 PM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/17/2009 9:57:16 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/17/2009 9:57:16 PM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip: connect() failed
6/17/2009 9:57:16 PM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 2 hr 52 min 1 sec on upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/17/2009 9:57:17 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/17/2009 10:33:58 PM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip
6/17/2009 10:34:05 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/17/2009 10:34:05 PM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip: connect() failed
6/17/2009 10:34:05 PM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 1 hr 31 min 51 sec on upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip
6/17/2009 10:34:06 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/18/2009 12:03:17 AM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_mruh_1967_2_006137923_3_3.zip
6/18/2009 12:03:19 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/18/2009 12:03:19 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_mruh_1967_2_006137923_3_3.zip: connect() failed
6/18/2009 12:03:19 AM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 3 hr 57 min 42 sec on upload of hadam3p_mruh_1967_2_006137923_3_3.zip
6/18/2009 12:03:20 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/18/2009 12:05:57 AM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip
6/18/2009 12:06:00 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/18/2009 12:06:00 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip: connect() failed
6/18/2009 12:06:00 AM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 2 hr 32 min 27 sec on upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip
6/18/2009 12:06:01 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/18/2009 12:49:18 AM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/18/2009 12:49:21 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/18/2009 12:49:21 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip: connect() failed
6/18/2009 12:49:21 AM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 44 min 23 sec on upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/18/2009 12:49:23 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/18/2009 1:33:44 AM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/18/2009 1:33:59 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/18/2009 1:33:59 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip: connect() failed
6/18/2009 1:33:59 AM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 1 hr 56 min 29 sec on upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/18/2009 1:34:00 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/18/2009 2:38:27 AM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip
6/18/2009 2:38:30 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/18/2009 2:38:30 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip: connect() failed
6/18/2009 2:38:30 AM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 1 hr 59 min 21 sec on upload of hadam3p_n03j_1983_2_006148617_0_3.zip
6/18/2009 2:38:31 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
6/18/2009 3:30:28 AM|climateprediction.net|Started upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/18/2009 3:30:36 AM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
6/18/2009 3:30:36 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip: connect() failed
6/18/2009 3:30:36 AM|climateprediction.net|Backing off 3 hr 33 min 43 sec on upload of hadam3p_n2c0_1969_2_006151514_1_3.zip
6/18/2009 3:30:37 AM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down."

I know there is nothing we can do about it now but what can I do in the future to get new work.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : problem uploading (Message 37286)
Posted 18 Jun 2009 by Dean M
Post:
Dean, please suspend the models you're still crunching before they complete. See the advice in the News thread (top of Number crunching and link in my signature).


Problem solved with the new server. I missed 12 days of crunching on one machine. I am back in business with a fresh download.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : problem uploading (Message 37256)
Posted 17 Jun 2009 by Dean M
Post:
[quote]i have four runs waiting to upload and am nearly finished with the next set of four runs. Still failed upload.


The problem here is that I have no work to do. I have 14 uploads to complete but why can't I get more work to crunch. I am idle at this point.
11) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Computation error and no work (Message 36567)
Posted 30 Mar 2009 by Dean M
Post:
That AMD Sempron is based on the AthlonXP. Unfortunately, the latest experiment (hadam3p) automatically errors out on CPUs without SSE2 support. So all AthlonXP based and Pentium 3 processors will crash with this new model. I would suggest going into your climateprediction.net preferences and only selecting other model types that you may want to run. Tolu, the programmer, knows of this problem, but I am unsure when it will be solved.



Thanks geophi,

I have never adjusted my preferences so how do I limit my downloads to specific model types?
12) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Computation error and no work (Message 36544)
Posted 29 Mar 2009 by Dean M
Post:
One machine completed a big project last week. It downloads a new project and then immediately sends a finished report and uploads the result, which is zero. The BOINC server waits 24 hours to download a new project and the same thing happens. This has been going on daily for one week.

I disconnected from the project, un-installed the BOINC program from my machine, the re-installed BOINC and it goes back to where it left off.

What can I do to get a working project?
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Master File Fetch Failed ***ERROR*** (Message 20341)
Posted 16 Feb 2006 by Dean M
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I\'m assuming this is only on one of your cmputers. Which computer is it?

Is internet connectivity otherwise good on that computer? Can you browse the internet?

Have you recently changed/upgraded some firewall software on that PC?

Is it on a wired or wireless network?

Don\'t detach yet.



Can you believe it. Just after I sent the error messages to this forum, the machine trickled up 4 results. Sorry to take up your time but it looks like the problem is solved. Maybe she just wanted more attention for all the good work she has been doing. Thanks for all the help.
14) Questions and Answers : Windows : Master File Fetch Failed ***ERROR*** (Message 20334)
Posted 16 Feb 2006 by Dean M
Post:
I\'m assuming this is only on one of your cmputers. Which computer is it?

Is internet connectivity otherwise good on that computer? Can you browse the internet?

Have you recently changed/upgraded some firewall software on that PC?

Is it on a wired or wireless network?

Don\'t detach yet.


Here is a copy of the message:
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM||Starting BOINC client version 4.45 for windows_intelx86
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM|climateprediction.net|Computer ID: 62218; location: home; project prefs: home
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2006-01-23 08:18:01)
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM||General prefs: using separate prefs for home
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM|climateprediction.net|Resuming computation for result sulphur_aigt_000490493_0 using sulphur_cycle version 4.19
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM|climateprediction.net|Resuming computation for result sulphur_ieot_100858845_1 using sulphur_cycle version 4.22
2/15/2006 8:30:16 PM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 2 days, 1 hours, 29 minutes, and 17 seconds
2/15/2006 8:31:38 PM||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
2/15/2006 8:32:00 PM|climateprediction.net|Master file fetch failed
2/15/2006 8:32:01 PM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 1 days, 1 hours, 59 minutes, and 45 seconds
2/15/2006 8:43:04 PM||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
2/15/2006 8:43:26 PM|climateprediction.net|Master file fetch failed
2/15/2006 8:43:27 PM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 11 hours, 4 minutes, and 36 seconds
2/15/2006 9:43:28 PM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes, and 36 seconds
2/15/2006 10:43:28 PM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 36 seconds
2/15/2006 11:43:29 PM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 8 hours, 4 minutes, and 35 seconds
2/16/2006 12:43:30 AM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes, and 34 seconds
2/16/2006 1:43:30 AM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 6 hours, 4 minutes, and 33 seconds
2/16/2006 2:43:31 AM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 5 hours, 4 minutes, and 32 seconds
2/16/2006 3:43:32 AM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes, and 32 seconds
2/16/2006 4:43:33 AM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes, and 31 seconds
2/16/2006 5:43:34 AM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 1 weeks, 0 days, 2 hours, 4 minutes, and 30 seconds
2/16/2006 5:46:58 AM||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
2/16/2006 5:47:22 AM|climateprediction.net|Master file fetch failed
2/16/2006 5:47:23 AM|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 2 days, 11 hours, 48 minutes, and 57 seconds


This is my #1 computer, dual cpu, it is always online, I am using the internet on this machine to reply here. I restarted a few times after getting the original message. Occasionally one processor stops for some unknown reason and is idle. One other thing, I had to reset my router (wired) yesterday because I had no connection to the internet. After that, all machines were on line. This unit tried to trickle for 2 days without success.
15) Questions and Answers : Windows : Master File Fetch Failed ***ERROR*** (Message 20324)
Posted 16 Feb 2006 by Dean M
Post:
I have not been able to upload results for the past few days. This is the error message I get and the next line says \"Deferring communication with project for .....days\"

Do I need to unattach from the project and start over or can some one help me keep going. I am at 96.84% right now.
16) Questions and Answers : Windows : Failed downloads again (Message 19257)
Posted 13 Jan 2006 by Dean M
Post:
I have a machine that need to have the hard drive re-formatted. This was accomplished successfully yesterday. I am attempting to get climate prediction up and running. I am getting the same error message when attempting to do so. Here is the message:

1/13/2006 8:37:06 AM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 479993 bytes/sec
1/13/2006 8:37:06 AM|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_se_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
1/13/2006 8:37:09 AM|climateprediction.net|Finished download of sulphur_se_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
1/13/2006 8:37:09 AM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 479524 bytes/sec
1/13/2006 8:37:09 AM|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_ho74_000824512.zip
1/13/2006 8:37:10 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed download of sulphur_ho74_000824512.zip: error 404
1/13/2006 8:37:10 AM|climateprediction.net|Giving up on download of sulphur_ho74_000824512.zip: file was not found on server
1/13/2006 8:37:10 AM|climateprediction.net|Checksum or signature error for sulphur_ho74_000824512.zip
1/13/2006 8:37:11 AM|climateprediction.net|Unrecoverable error for result sulphur_ho74_000824512_1 (WU download error: couldn\'t get input files:<file_xfer_error> <file_name>sulphur_ho74_000824512.zip</file_name> <error_code>-163</error_code> <error_message>file was not found on server</error_message></file_xfer_error>)
1/13/2006 8:37:44 AM|climateprediction.net|Finished download of sulphur_data_4.22_windows_intelx86.zip
1/13/2006 8:37:44 AM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 533982 bytes/sec
1/13/2006 8:38:11 AM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
1/13/2006 8:38:11 AM|climateprediction.net|Reason: To fetch work
1/13/2006 8:38:11 AM|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
1/13/2006 8:38:16 AM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
1/13/2006 8:38:18 AM|climateprediction.net|Started download of sulphur_hnr8_000823940.zip
1/13/2006 8:38:20 AM|climateprediction.net|Temporarily failed download of sulphur_hnr8_000823940.zip: error 404
1/13/2006 8:38:20 AM|climateprediction.net|Giving up on download of sulphur_hnr8_000823940.zip: file was not found on server
1/13/2006 8:38:20 AM|climateprediction.net|Checksum or signature error for sulphur_hnr8_000823940.zip
1/13/2006 8:38:21 AM|climateprediction.net|Unrecoverable error for result sulphur_hnr8_000823940_1 (WU download error: couldn\'t get input files:<file_xfer_error> <file_name>sulphur_hnr8_000823940.zip</file_name> <error_code>-163</error_code> <error_message>file was not found on server</error_message></file_xfer_error>)
1/13/2006 8:39:21 AM|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
1/13/2006 8:39:21 AM|climateprediction.net|Reason: To fetch work
1/13/2006 8:39:21 AM|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
1/13/2006 8:39:26 AM|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
1/13/2006 8:39:26 AM|climateprediction.net|Message from server: No work sent
1/13/2006 8:39:26 AM|climateprediction.net|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 2 results)
1/13/2006 8:39:26 AM|climateprediction.net|No work from project

What can I do to get around this problem.
17) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Servers (Message 10294)
Posted 3 Mar 2005 by Dean M
Post:
I also cannot get more work. I am using 4.19.

--- - 2005-03-03 07:38:28 - Insufficient work; requesting more
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:38:28 - Requesting 15082 seconds of work
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:38:28 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:38:32 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:38:32 - Message from server: No work available
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:38:32 - No work from project
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:38:32 - Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
--- - 2005-03-03 07:47:06 - Insufficient work; requesting more
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:47:06 - Requesting 15083 seconds of work
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:47:06 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:47:12 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:47:12 - Message from server: No work available
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:47:12 - No work from project
climateprediction.net - 2005-03-03 07:47:12 - Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds


What is the solution???

Dean
18) Questions and Answers : Windows : How do I control processor time (Message 5885)
Posted 3 Nov 2004 by Dean M
Post:
&gt; In the 'Add-ons' section, there is a program called ThreadMaster. This
&gt; program controls one or more applications so that they do not use more than a
&gt; certain amount of processor time. We have used it because some machines were
&gt; shutting down or locking up (due to CPU overheating!) and now these machines
&gt; have been running BOINC smoothly for a while.
&gt;
&gt;

That is exactly what I was looking for!!!!!!!! Thanks for the response.
19) Questions and Answers : Windows : Timesteps always start from 1 (Message 5855)
Posted 2 Nov 2004 by Dean M
Post:
Thanks for all the help guys, things are running fine now.
20) Questions and Answers : Windows : How do I control processor time (Message 5853)
Posted 2 Nov 2004 by Dean M
Post:
When I installed BOINC last week, I came across an article on how to regedit my machine so it would control the amount to time the processor had the model crunching. I set my machine to split the work 50/50. I have now added two more machines and I want to limit the processor to less than 100%. Does anyone know where this information is located. I have covered all bases but it is eluding me right now.


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