Posts by [B^S] sTrey

1) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Credit Not Getting Out? (Message 42380) Posted 8 Jun 2011 by [B^S] sTrey Post: I'm not seeing this... boincstats showed a partial update several days ago but hasn't changed since, and my team site hasn't updated for weeks. Is it definite that CPDN is exporting stats normally now?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Stalled regional (PNW) model, is this a known behavior? (Message 40885) Posted 19 Oct 2010 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Just FYI, this model completed fine.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Stalled regional (PNW) model, is this a known behavior? (Message 40813) Posted 4 Oct 2010 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Just started running CPDN again, regional PNW models only. I run only 1 CPDN task at a time; the other cores run other projects primarily WCG. This combination has not had any problems in the past and nothing else has changed on this rig. (6.10.58 on XP Pro 4GB, VM usage is staying within tolerable range) The 2nd model accumulated over 4 hours of clock time before I noticed it had zero cpu time. After suspending then restarting the client, the model restarted at zero elapsed time, and so far seems to be running normally. I've seen ice worlds but not had a model stall in this way before. If it's an occasional normal then never mind, but was just curious about this behavior. Apologize in advance if this is old news; didn't see it in the READMEs I looked at.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : No Trickles in Task Details (Message 37888) Posted 24 Aug 2009 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Thanks Mo that saves wasted effort. (Les, I had no backup yet, I had just suspended the task for the last week or more, and resumed it for a while to verify it wouldn\'t terminate itself). I\'ve aborted the task and will get another.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : No Trickles in Task Details (Message 37883) Posted 24 Aug 2009 by [B^S] sTrey Post: For what it\'s worth, this task seems similar. It\'s trickled just twice, got credit but neither trickle has appeared. I\'ve had the task suspended since, thinking this was a temporary part of the server issues. I believe the last trickle was on August 16th. I also see see a trickle_down_0 file in the slot dir with that date, containing <abort>cleanup</abort>, is that a killer trickle? fwiw I resumed the task for a bit and it shows no sign of stopping. I\'ve been wondering if it was safe to go back in the CPDN water wrt server and database issues. What do you advise here, should I let this short task go to completion or abort it and try another? Thanks [B^S] sTrey
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Hadam3p no work available? (Message 37412) Posted 1 Jul 2009 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Les Bayliss wrote: This thread on BOINC/dev may help. Thanks Les, that's actually the thread I was referring to when saying it looked like it was a known issue. I'm guessing climate will give me more work when I've completed more of my existing model. If not, I'll be back scratching my head :)
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Hadam3p no work available? (Message 37405) Posted 30 Jun 2009 by [B^S] sTrey Post: well according to sched_op_debug it now makes sense to me: 6/29/2009 23:26:54 climateprediction.net [sched_op_debug] Starting scheduler request 6/29/2009 23:26:54 climateprediction.net Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 6/29/2009 23:26:54 climateprediction.net Requesting new tasks 6/29/2009 23:26:54 climateprediction.net [sched_op_debug] CPU work request: 0.00 seconds; 0 idle CPUs 6/29/2009 23:26:54 climateprediction.net [sched_op_debug] CUDA work request: 30240.00 seconds; 1 idle GPUs 6/29/2009 23:26:59 climateprediction.net Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 6/29/2009 23:26:59 climateprediction.net [sched_op_debug] Server version 607 6/29/2009 23:26:59 climateprediction.net Message from server: No work sent 6/29/2009 23:26:59 climateprediction.net Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site. Except, how do I turn the GPU preference off so it will stop asking for work for it? I thought it was by project and I'm not seeing it in CPDN. I've ignored this new aspect of BOINC and am therefore,um, ignorant about it... p.s. from a brief scan of boinc message boards I gather this is a known issue and no way to turn it off by project at the moment.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Hadam3p no work available? (Message 37403) Posted 30 Jun 2009 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Hmmm, well it helps to know I'm not nuts, or at least not the only one! I wondered if it was due to inactivity or something I can't see; it's been hours now. I'll go look up the debug flags; I don't even see the amount of work its requesting with current settings. My messages look like: 6/29/2009 22:42:30 climateprediction.net Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 6/29/2009 22:42:30 climateprediction.net Requesting new tasks 6/29/2009 22:42:35 climateprediction.net Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 6/29/2009 22:42:35 climateprediction.net Message from server: No work sent 6/29/2009 22:42:35 climateprediction.net Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site. 6/29/2009 22:47:30 climateprediction.net Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message. 6/29/2009 22:47:30 climateprediction.net Requesting new tasks 6/29/2009 22:47:36 climateprediction.net Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 6/29/2009 22:47:36 climateprediction.net Message from server: No work sent 6/29/2009 22:47:36 climateprediction.net Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the web site. etc.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Hadam3p no work available? (Message 37400) Posted 29 Jun 2009 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Sorry if this is a known thing -- been away for a while, tried a search but didn't see anything quite relevant. My account is currently set for hadam3p models only. Whenever the project is resumed it tries to get more work and then tells me none is available for the projects I've selected, etc., despite the status page which shows plenty hadam3p available -- and the number has changed over time so the page does seem functional. This has been true for weeks. I ignored it during the recent server issues and kept the project mostly suspended, but apparently servers are fixed and status page are fixed and it still says there are over 100K of these tasks but I still get this message. It'll be a while yet before my existing model completes but wondering what's causing the message / what I'm missing. I haven't changed my settings since I got the hadam3p I'm crunching now. Clues appreciated. (Windows XP, Boinc 6.6.20)
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems after SAP merger into CPDN (Message 33823) Posted 17 May 2008 by [B^S] sTrey Post: My cpdn model has been suspended since before SAP broke, due to cpdn server problems and non-cpdn circs. SAP is now suspended on all my hosts, but it\'s still named climateprediction.net so if I force an update I still get the you\'re-already-attached-to-cpdn-please-detach messages. So I wasn\'t clear if the redirect has truly been fixed... Does it appear safe to let normal cpdn models continue to run and contact the server, or do I need to wait for SAP to recover and the duplicate identity to go away first?
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Iceworlds & Slowdowns hadsm3/mh - Closed - Discussion (Message 32716) Posted 23 Feb 2008 by [B^S] sTrey Post: OK well this one is repeatably stuck (see the last edit on my previous post), is there anything useful I can do with it or just abort it?
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Iceworlds & Slowdowns hadsm3/mh - Closed - Discussion (Message 32713) Posted 23 Feb 2008 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Sure. data after reboot: Timestamp 00:30 19-Dec-2056 70.05%done 2.82 s/TS 1140 hours elapsed Globe is orange again. So far it\'s now counting down normally, but there\'s about a model-day to go before it gets to where it was stuck before. I\'m curious what rebooting changed that restarting boinc did not. Anyway since this is apparently the wrong thread, I\'ll look for a better location for subsequent questions (clues happily accepted). -edit- it\'s stuck again same place, 09:30 20-Dec-2056, blue globe and crawling.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Iceworlds & Slowdowns hadsm3/mh - Closed - Discussion (Message 32711) Posted 23 Feb 2008 by [B^S] sTrey Post: I think this qualifies though it\'s not a hadsm3, it\'s a hadcm3 optimised IO. Result7006672 Timestamp 09:30 20/12/2056 s/TS shown as 2.83 blue globe Intel P4 (Prescott) HT 3.0, not overclocked This box has been my CPDN workhorse, though it\'s the first time it\'s tried one of these optimised I/O coupled models. This is an 80-year model 70% finished. I only noticed after a day or so that no trickles had been sent. When I looked at it, the graphics window showed only black. I suspended, quit, zipped a backup of the entire boinc directory and restarted. The display began as normal but was unresponsive and eventually went from a black world to a blue one. The the 2.83 sec/TS it reports is no longer real, it\'s more like 10 minutes/TS. Any reason not to abort it, or anything else I should be looking at? I\'ve no indications the hardware is ailing, haven\'t changed hardware or software recently, etc.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Status of plans for shorter wus? (Message 26846) Posted 17 Feb 2007 by [B^S] sTrey Post: I\'m about to see my first coupled model finish (yipeee & crossed fingers!). On my old P4 it\'s run over 2600 hours which combined with several other projects, has taken close to a year of calendar time. I\'ll figure out a way to keep crunching CPDN but meanwhile I\'m wondering about plans for doing 40- or 80-year models or other variations which would be shorter than these work units. Are those plans real? Or just being discussed (or did I dream it :) If real, any update as to possible time frame? Thanks
15) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Can quota drop below 1/day? (Message 22712) Posted 11 May 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: [Longer explanation deleted] Due to various problems, the coupled-model-reset and some goofs on my part I now have a quota of 1 wu/day, and accidentally d/l an extra coupled-model wu. I should abort the extra wu so it can be sent elsewhere, as I could not possibly finish the 2nd wu in time. As big as these wus are, it would take years to grow the quota back to something tolerant of errors. Unless we have another reset I won\'t need to know for a year either, but I\'d still like to know beforehand: is the quota decrease bounded at one or will it go down to zero when I abort the extra wu?
16) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Will the gaps in the models affect the results? (Message 22652) Posted 6 May 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Les, thanks very much for the explanations contrasting coupled-model trickles with sulphur; it\'s very helpful. And of course thanks to Carl for the long night of database repair. (May the trickle-hacker fry their equipment so that they can\'t use it for harassment any more.)
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing Tickles (Message 22639) Posted 5 May 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Thank you very much for the update, Carl. Trickle-hacking, a new definition of slime. Sheesh.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Missing Tickles (Message 22622) Posted 5 May 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: I know nothing so this is yet more speculation, but I agree with this post, pointing out that the backlog seems to be growing. I\'m not worried about credits eventually appearing, I\'m just thinking something is actually worsening, not getting fixed. The stats imply (to me anyway) that the trickle processing is not catching up. This is starting to remind me of what SETI went through last year [long depressing story deleted] Can anyone in the know reassure us that there is actual evidence (as oppsed to logical assumptions) that processing is catching up? Can the catchup rate be measured such that a \"caught-up\" time frame could be roughly predicted?
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Do missing CM3 trickles get restored? (Message 22274) Posted 21 Apr 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Thanks for the helpful responses. Since this seems to be my day to display ignorance I\'ll ask one more: how many phases are there in cm models? I just finished a seasonal model which had only one phase, and the graphics display for this cm3 model looks similar i.e. showing trickle x of y, where x/y = the same % complete shown on boincmgr\'s progress bar; to me that implies one giant phase. Nor did it show a phase designator, as it did in the slab and sulphur models I ran. At least my current model passed the (small) amount of crunch time I\'d achieved on the bad model, so it feels like I\'m in new territory again. :)
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Do missing CM3 trickles get restored? (Message 22264) Posted 21 Apr 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Thanks for the quick response and sorry, I meant to post the result to demonstrate the \"hole\" in the graph. That\'s what I\'m wondering about, will it ever get filled in? 5104426
21) Message boards : Number crunching : navigating graph_cm3, trickle, result pages (Message 22261) Posted 21 Apr 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: 2nd minor question: Is there any way to click through to the trickle.php or result.php pages for a given graph_cm3.php? (I usually edit the URL by hand, but typing is painful today & I have a vague memory of reading about this before but couldn\'t find the reference.)
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Do missing CM3 trickles get restored? (Message 22260) Posted 21 Apr 2006 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Hello, somewhere long ago I read that missing trickles eventually were regenerated, or re-credited, or something like that. Never happened to me until my CM3 model. When it seemed time for its 2nd trickle, I looked at the graphics to check and they were a bit scrambled; could see the globe but it wasn\'t in the right position and I couldn\'t get it to show the model progress etc. (I have never had graphics issues with CPDN before.) Nor did I see trickle info in the logs. I decided to restart the BOINC client; when it came back up everything looked fine, the model date was still well into 1922, and it sent its hello trickle. Now it\'s sent the 3rd trickle, butl ooking at the graphs they are blank for the period of the missing trickle. And the 2nd trickle wasn\'t credited, though that\'s secondary. So I\'m just curious how this works; will it \"catch up\" the data and/or credit eventually? Or is part of this model\'s data missing, never to be recovered?
23) Message boards : Number crunching : Sulphur Download? (Message 16154) Posted 21 Sep 2005 by [B^S] sTrey Post: My PC has plenty of space, memory and CPU and I was looking forward to a sulphur model, but I tried 3 times after my latest model finished and I can\'t get one either. The news item said they expected it to go until \"early next year\" -- so Les, if you run across the news you mentioned please leave us a pointer to it, it would be nice to know whether we\'re out of new sulphur work left or something\'s gone odd with my machine. Meanwhile, back to the 3rd slab model (aborted the other 2).
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Looks like something went wrong at CP (Message 15879) Posted 11 Sep 2005 by [B^S] sTrey Post: As of tonight (US MST) things are not working when reviewing \"my account\". For \"results\" all trickles seem to be lost. My guess is that they are upgrading the server software. Hope this doesn\'t last too long! You\'re right, see this Help Desk thread and the one next to it, and the Project News page. Meanwhile I look at my recent trickles by going to the page for my current wu\'s result ID. Or, the account page you get to from clicking an author\'s name on a post, also shows the trickles.
25) Questions and Answers : Windows : no trickles, no credit, result not listed (Message 14936) Posted 5 Aug 2005 by [B^S] sTrey Post: Thanks, will do.
26) Questions and Answers : Windows : no trickles, no credit, result not listed (Message 14927) Posted 5 Aug 2005 by [B^S] sTrey Post: My xp box (host id 84731) thinks it's working on unit 2kzl_300141732_0 ; last I checked it was on time step 69481 of 25928. This box had to be shut down for a few weeks and I had accidentally started another work unit which I immediately suspended before shutting things down. When I came back I aborted that work unit in favor of this one, since it was already into phase 2. But about 24 hours later my account shows server contact but no trickles later than May, and the work unit name is not anywhere on my list of work units. I'm wondering if it aborted the wrong work unit given the trickles I do see, but in any case it's very confused. Should I abort this and start over or is there any BOINC or CPDN information to be gleaned from the state it's currently in? -sTrey p.s. the hadsm3 version is 4.12
27) Questions and Answers : Windows : Are location(home/work/school) preferences supposed to work? (Message 7261) Posted 12 Jan 2005 by [B^S] sTrey Post: > I has theoretically been fixed in the 4.5x client. There are still other bugs > with it though so I do not recomend using it until it is released. > > [edit] There have been reports that manually setting the venue in > client_state.xml will work. Thanks for both the answer and the workaround! With a bit of persistence to avoid overwrites by either of the two projects I'm running, I was able to set the venue manually and that worked.
28) Questions and Answers : Windows : Are location(home/work/school) preferences supposed to work? (Message 7256) Posted 11 Jan 2005 by [B^S] sTrey Post: I've read conflicting reports on a couple of boards about this. Currently I have my default location set to home, and general preferences set for work which differ in areas like: do not run when the machine is busy do not leave projects in memory However the work machine's BOINC is running with the default preferences. I went so far as to update the prefences on both projects I run (CPDN and SETI) and update both of them, restart BOINC, etc. and the work preferences are being ignored. Is ignoring location-specific preferences still a known bug, to be fixed some day, or has it theoretically been fixed? Thanks for any info.

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