Posts by [B^S] mavau

41) Message boards : Number crunching : Status of plans for shorter wus? (Message 27064) Posted 24 Feb 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: Carl, I hope everyone will join me in thanking you for your taking the time to reply to the thread -- and for all the hard work. On a lost message, I said I was hopeful for a shorter WU. I wasn\'t into flaming or anything. I just don\'t like losing losing a work unit for avoidable reasons, and I think one of them is how many other things change while you\'re running one unit. To sum up my CPDN experience: My XP machines have never minded shutdowns, power failures, me pulling the plug or whateve (even a power supply burnout). But I\'ve been bitten twice with updating BOINC, following advice that I should do so. (on the forums and in the GUI) I\'ve been able to tweak a backup on the second glitch. See here, which gives me the feeling exiting BOINC may be a problem (perhaps something to do with the write to disk parameter). I\'ve just had an issue with a new laptop using Vista -- logging off when I wanted to switch users -- which destroyed the model. As it was only five days old, I let it go. I\'m going to test solutions for Vista. There is the possibilty of going back to an earlier version of files. Also, I\'ll try to see how it can be run as a service with Vista. What I would like: A page with info on developments. A page with dos and don\'ts (if it ain\'t broke, dont\' fix it). A page with what the new results are doing with the different parameters. A page with info on tweaking the XML files. (The info is scattered around and incomplete) And the link for the forum search in my signature built into the forum pages. I hope I\'m not being offensive to anybody. And I don\'t mind helping.
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Status of plans for shorter wus? (Message 26850) Posted 17 Feb 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: You didn\'t dream it. And I also think it would be nice to have some info. And a regular update on results. btw, the latest generation models give me over 1800 hours for 50% on my P4 (which took about the same time as yours for the previous one). Good luck.
43) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : 21 hours cpu [2.35ghz] only 0.49% ??? (Message 26524) Posted 2 Feb 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: Pentium 3.2 GHZ HT, two concurrent models: two trickles a day, around 24 hours per trickle for each model (one trickle every model year or .625%). Quite normal, though some overclocked machines do better. This is a demanding time-consuming, project.
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit calculation (Message 26330) Posted 23 Jan 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: Les, thanks for pointing out the thread. My old HTML signature included the search the forum link. I\'m going to put it back into the BB one, just to remind myself.
45) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26257) Posted 21 Jan 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: Thanks a million, Carl. (though I\'ll have to wait a year or so for the million credits, unless I get an admin to let me use a few machines at work) Again, congrats for all the hard work and let\'s hope it wil be useful for us all. Maurice
46) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26248) Posted 21 Jan 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: Willy, thanks for your reply. I think the SAP/BBC issue should be discussed among their participants. Two things to consider: I understand new SAP work has been issued, so the project is stil live. Maybe there is time to look at the BBC experiment, since it\'s not yet complete. Can we have the opinion of users switching to the main CPDN project after completing theit BBC runs? Carl, sorry for the trouble, can we just get back to where we were? (Actually, I\'d be glad to get the classic counted in ;-) ) I certainly go with Ian for the spinup. Maurice
47) Message boards : Number crunching : First phase of migration of BBC/CCE to cpdn and standard version of boinc (Message 26241) Posted 21 Jan 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: OTOH, spinup had been merged into the credits long ago. So instead of my old classic credits being taken into account, which was a nice surprise, I now \'lose\' the spinup. Willy: where did you see the spinup and classic credits in the stats? (Ian, we were writing at the same time :-) )
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit calculation (Message 26212) Posted 20 Jan 2007 by [B^S] mavau Post: I\'ve just seen a huge jump in my credit. Does it mean the old classic runs are now taken into account?
49) Message boards : Number crunching : Trickle model dates for coupled model (Message 22738) Posted 13 May 2006 by [B^S] mavau Post: Re my hosts trickle question. cpdnboinc/trickle.php?hostid=#### will give you the latest trickles for a particular host.
50) Message boards : Number crunching : Trickle model dates for coupled model (Message 22721) Posted 11 May 2006 by [B^S] mavau Post: Anybody knows a similar trick for host results? It used to appear at the bottom of the page. Useful with concurrent models. And what about user with different computers?
51) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC 5.2.2 released (Message 16685) Posted 20 Oct 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: So far I have found two problems with this 5.2.2 release: - There is no Hide function on the menu. I can merely minimize it to the taskbar, but not hide it to the systray. I find this a bit annoying. I had noticed it in 5.2.1. Annoying is right. If you click on Exit, it just shuts everything down. Workaround: I click on the rightmost cross (close window). That way, I only have the BOINC icon in the systray, as of old. A final quibble though. Hovering over the icon doesn\'t show you the updated percentages (at least in 5.2.1, I\'ll let you know if it\'s fixed in 5.2.2). The stats seem to remain frozen at the last time you opened BOINC.
52) Questions and Answers : Windows : Master file fetch failed (Message 14247) Posted 9 Jul 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: This is a common question. Should not be a serious problem. It can happen when your connection is not working. A forum search shows this: <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_action.php?search_string=master+file+fetch+failed&titles=Search">master file fetch failed</a> Or when a server is temporarily down. I had the message a few times during latest trouble so I guess that's what happened to you too. btw: If you want to do a search, you have to click on the link top of the start page for the forum. Not very convenient so I've added a link right of my signature. Is it helpful? <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com"><img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/308cpdn.png"></a> <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_form.php"> <b>SEARCH THE FORUM</b></a>
53) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc stopped communication with Climate 1 week 2 Hours (Message 13959) Posted 27 Jun 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: From messages tab, BOINC 4.25 Left pane, copy to clipboard. In my message, ctrl-v, I get this: 25-Jun-05 14:09:40\|\|Starting BOINC client version 4.25 for windows_intelx86 25-Jun-05 14:09:40\|climateprediction.net\|Host location: home 25-Jun-05 14:09:40\|climateprediction.net\|Using your default project prefs 25-Jun-05 14:09:40\|climateprediction.net\|Host ID is 139749 25-Jun-05 14:09:40\|\|General prefs: from unknown project http://climateprediction.net/ (last modified 2004-11-13 13:31:10) 25-Jun-05 14:09:40\|\|General prefs: using your defaults 25-Jun-05 14:09:41\|climateprediction.net\|Resuming computation for result 0krk_100047206_0 using hadsm3 version 4.12 25-Jun-05 14:09:42\|climateprediction.net\|Resuming computation for result 49fr_000299127_0 using hadsm3 version 4.12 25-Jun-05 14:09:42\|\|Suspending network activity - user request 25-Jun-05 17:41:09\|\|Resuming network activity 25-Jun-05 17:41:10\|climateprediction.net\|Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 25-Jun-05 17:41:11\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 25-Jun-05 17:41:11\|climateprediction.net\|Host location: home 25-Jun-05 17:41:11\|climateprediction.net\|Using your default project prefs 25-Jun-05 17:41:25\|\|Suspending network activity - user request 25-Jun-05 17:41:32\|climateprediction.net\|Master file fetch failed 25-Jun-05 17:41:32\|climateprediction.net\|Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds 26-Jun-05 07:20:32\|\|Resuming network activity 26-Jun-05 07:20:32\|climateprediction.net\|Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 26-Jun-05 07:20:33\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 26-Jun-05 07:24:08\|\|Suspending network activity - user request 26-Jun-05 14:57:54\|\|Resuming network activity 26-Jun-05 14:57:55\|climateprediction.net\|Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 26-Jun-05 14:57:56\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 26-Jun-05 14:58:11\|\|Suspending network activity - user request 26-Jun-05 17:30:02\|\|Running CPU benchmarks 26-Jun-05 17:30:02\|\|Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks 26-Jun-05 17:31:01\|\|Benchmark results: 26-Jun-05 17:31:01\|\| Number of CPUs: 2 26-Jun-05 17:31:01\|\| 1385 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 26-Jun-05 17:31:01\|\| 1737 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU 26-Jun-05 17:31:01\|\|Finished CPU benchmarks 26-Jun-05 17:31:01\|\|Resuming computation and network activity Some people have reported the master file fetch error. Mine happened after suspending network activity too soon, I guess. Normally nothing to worry about. When you want to save your messages, remember they get cleaned up on restart. Hope that helps. <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com"><img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/308cpdn.png"></a> <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_form.php"> <b>SEARCH THE FORUM</b></a>
54) Message boards : Number crunching : Main forum down? (Message 13819) Posted 24 Jun 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: I get connection refused when trying to access Climateprediction.net discussion forum. Anyone got any news? <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com"><img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/308cpdn.png"></a> <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_form.php"> <b>SEARCH THE FORUM</b></a>
55) Message boards : Number crunching : Time to give more time to Einstein! (Message 13729) Posted 22 Jun 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: > I've had 3 models upload during this trickle drought, and all of them were > labelled as "Success" on the results page, despite having less than 2/3 of the > normal 72 trickles. > I also got success, but not the right credit total. Disabling BOINC access seems to be the best solution till we get news. Latest is I see trickles from 16 June, though total hasn't changed, so hopefully all is not lost ;-) <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com"><img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/308cpdn.png"></a> <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_form.php"> <b>SEARCH THE FORUM</b></a>
56) Questions and Answers : Windows : Failed to cleanup the Windows Sockets Interface (Message 13618) Posted 20 Jun 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: On your first question: There was a message from Thyme Lawn <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=996">here</a>. The message comes from trying to run the GUI at the same time as the client. I've never tried the screensaver myself, so I can't anwer your second one. <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com"><img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/308cpdn.png"></a> <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_form.php"> <b>SEARCH THE FORUM</b></a>
57) Message boards : Number crunching : XML stats problems (Message 13418) Posted 13 Jun 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: Anyone else noticed how RAC is wrong on top team stats and btw on BOINC Synergy's stats as well? <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com"><img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/308cpdn.png"></a> <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_form.php"> <b>SEARCH THE FORUM</b></a>
58) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Home Page Info (Message 13075) Posted 2 Jun 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: There have been a few server problems recently. Lots of questions asked, and a lof of time and energy spent trying to get and provide answers. I think a lot of people would find it useful to have a link on the home page providing some info about what they should do. Some basics I can think of: <b>No scheduler response:</b> <i>A message on the home page stating the problem and what users should do about it.</i> e.g, When trickles are not getting through: <ul> <li>Temporarily disable BOINC network access in Manager and wait for an announcement.</li> <li>No need to suspend project.</li> </ul> <b>New BOINC versions</b> <ul><li>Links to BOINC main page and opinions</li> <li>Links to possible issues</li> </ul> My worry is the number of people who drop out temporarily or outright when the project doesn't work as expected. (lost 1,000 since latest trouble). Finally, since server problem seems to have been solved: <b>A message that everything's all right again!</b> And send one to all the teams. <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com"><img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/308cpdn.png"></a> <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_text_search_form.php"> <b>SEARCH THE FORUM</b></a>
59) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Disk space error (Message 12896) Posted 26 May 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: How to check disk usage for CPDN: see <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=2623">here</a>.
60) Questions and Answers : Windows : low hard disk space (Message 12888) Posted 26 May 2005 by [B^S] mavau Post: Have you already completed models? Climate keeps a lot of data on the disk. to check for dead or complete models: Look in your BOINC directory (normally in program files if you're using Windows) You'll see a projects folder. In that folder there is a climateprediction.net subfolder. Inside that are your models. The current model shows as two files and a folder: one .xml file, one .zip file and a folder with the same name. I'm not sure about dead models, but a finished model will just have the folder with a lot of zip files in it. What I do: When a new model has sent its first trickle and the previous model doesn't show in the work tab in the BOINC interface (that's to make sure) I move the completed model to a backup I keep on another disk. That frees up space for BOINC (you can see that in the disk tab) and keeps the zipped files in case they're required for further studies. You can also look at this <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=2581">thread</a>.

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