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climateprediction.net Science :
Climate models may be wrong
(Message 47315)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by old_user671679 Post: ... and that especially applies to developing nations like China and India. I mentioned India and China not because of their per capita carbon foot print but because of the size of their populations (China is talking about repealing the one child law). In the US, if it wasn't for immigration, our population would be decreasing. I mention disadvantaged parts of the world because they have the fastest growing populations and we have to feed them. To me, that's not how you should solve your problems. I don't have a collage degrees but I did go to collage, I dropped out in 1980 and joined the Marines, I stayed in for a little over 10 years and was hurt in the first Desert Storm (please don't thank me for serving, it was a privilege to become a US Marine). I didn't mean to upset you Mike, I have a lot of respect for CPDN and the people that run it (and you), if I didn't believe in what they are doing here, I wouldn't have put so much time and effort in to it. I also become very loyal to whom ever I throw in with and I think I've earned the right to say a thing or two about it. I'm certainly not trying to upset folks here and let me say that I respect all of you for doing this project, it is not an easy project by far. It's hard to complete a model that takes 10 days or longer, the models are very temperamental and crash very easily, they have had server issue's and WU problems but every project has those and you need a very dependable computer too. There's nothing wrong with a healthy argument every now and then. I live in the central Sierra's and when I was a kid growing up here, we had "permanent snowpack" that was there over 9000 feet, now it's gone and it has really effected me (I drove a log truck for 23 years (wrecked 'em too)). |
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Message boards :
climateprediction.net Science :
Climate models may be wrong
(Message 47306)
Posted 13 Oct 2013 by old_user671679 Post: A friend of mine sends me occasional emails about the stories there, I had never read it until a couple months ago, I don't pay attention to the rhetoric. Do you think the moon landings are fake? The Japanese got some pretty good pictures of the landing sites on the 40th anniversary of the first landing, I don't think they would cover it up for NASA. As far as arrogance goes, many scientists exude it, squabbling over funding and at times going so far as to call each other names and we've all heard of climategate. If you would have told an astronomer that black holes existed 30 years ago, you might have inflamed them or an upper echelon anthropologist that two or more species of man existed at the same time, they would have tried to get your funding revoked. The same thing is going on in climatology and now we don't have time for it, there shouldn't be die hards that refuse to give new data a serious look just because the group that discovered it isn't well liked. Look at the planet hunters, they were once considered the biggest clowns in astronomy, now it's a serious occupation where NASA is dumping billions in to it. Religion is starting to realize that evolution is part of gods plan, some scientists feel they are on the verge of proving that spirits do exist and that we do have a soul. It's been going on for hundreds of years but now I think time is in short supply. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and there are many crazies out there but if change and flexibility aren't part of our game plan, we need to rethink things. I know you're an intelligent man so wouldn't you agree that reducing the planets population would solve about 75% of our problems? Do you think it might be easier and quicker too? The less people we have the less resources are consumed and that especially applies to developing nations like China and India. China wants to build 250 coal fired plants in the next 2 decades. I agree that were in big trouble and just about everyone knows it whether they agree or not, it always boils down to money. Well, I have a nice long response here, you should be busy micro-quoting. |
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climateprediction.net Science :
Climate models may be wrong
(Message 47282)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by old_user671679 Post: The article originates from Georgia Tech. If you think about it, we haven't been doing this very long and the models are only as good as the programing. That really surprises me coming from you Les, just because the Register links the article, doesn't mean it's been tainted, there's bound to be dozens, if not hundreds of variables that haven't been discovered yet. All the new ones discovered in the future may not be correct either, I just think it's arrogant of us humans to think we've nailed it as far as models go. I thought that's what this was all about, refining the models with newly discovered data. http://www.research.gatech.edu/news/%E2%80%98stadium-waves%E2%80%99-could-explain-lull-global-warming |
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climateprediction.net Science :
Climate models may be wrong
(Message 47280)
Posted 11 Oct 2013 by old_user671679 Post: It would seem that all the current climate models are wrong according to this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/11/mexican_wave_climate_variability/ I'm no expert by far, just found it intriguing. |
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Number crunching :
Compute Errors / Bad Work Units?
(Message 47225)
Posted 1 Oct 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Most motherboards have a setting in the BIOS to flush or not flush the system RAM on reboot, Windows is much better now with memory leaks and releasing memory when terminating applications sense 2K or XP. I remember Windows 98, 98SE and Windows ME were all a nightmare when it came to memory leaks, you would literally have to reboot to get it to release system RAM at times. |
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climateprediction.net Science :
Climate change in the News
(Message 47167)
Posted 25 Sep 2013 by old_user671679 Post: If that's the case, I doubt the population will hit those projections. The U.S. and Canada feed a lot of the worlds population and severe weather would certainly impact crops, especially from hail damage. Ya think? |
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Number crunching :
still don't get credits since last breakdown
(Message 47053)
Posted 15 Sep 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Go tell the people that make the top 500 list for the worlds most powerful computers their list is stupid, it's the same for everyone on teams. They fiercely compete against each other and that's impossible without points. Why is it a dirty word to some? Because they have a cheap store bought machine and a only a $100.00 a month electric bill? I've got 4 machines I built that cost as much as a car and a $500.00 a month electric bill and now some think they should take away my credits? We always want a way to measure how well were doing, our machines, our energy bill, our time and if credits our taken away, then what? We all know were going to hell on a greased rail, don't you think all our problems would be better served by cutting the worlds population rather than burning up terawatts of electricity trying to fix one problem at a time? |
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Number crunching :
More Work
(Message 46943)
Posted 2 Sep 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Oh, sorry, I thought you meant this, I'm 4 miles from it. Lost my power and I'm running on my generator now. http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/index.php |
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Number crunching :
More Work
(Message 46938)
Posted 2 Sep 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Just kidding. Sooner or later all the credits will suddenly appear, the admins are still looking at it when they can (between firefighting). What's that mean? Are they here in Tuolumne County? |
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Number crunching :
More Work
(Message 46915)
Posted 30 Aug 2013 by old_user671679 Post: I can't believe my eyes, 14,000 new work units. Feast or famine, I guess we'll be busy for a while. |
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Number crunching :
still don't get credits since last breakdown
(Message 46885)
Posted 27 Aug 2013 by old_user671679 Post: I thought it is all on our "Pending Credit" page in our accounts, that's not the case? I have a tremendous amount of credit there and I know I won't get credit for all of it but I assumed most of it. |
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Number crunching :
Trickle-up message
(Message 46748)
Posted 13 Aug 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Lucky you, when I go in to my account, my computers say they haven't had contact sense July 30th. So, we wait. |
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Number crunching :
Several jobs uploads in project backoff
(Message 46118)
Posted 29 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: That option was asked for at BOINC/dev and refused. I wonder why that is? They must not trust us enough to use it correctly, that really, really bothers me. I have 4 purpose built machines by me just for BOINC, I have about $15,000 tied up in these computers plus a $350.00 a month electric bill and they won't let us have a feature like that to witch I'm sure 90% of the other crunchers would want. It just don't make sense, I'm sure the benefits would far out weigh the their reasons for not wanting it. |
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Number crunching :
Several jobs uploads in project backoff
(Message 46116)
Posted 29 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: There's nothing I can do about that, every time I re-enable my internet connection to upload GPUGrid wu's, they try to upload too and slow my connection. I wish someone had the foresight to give us an option to stop certain results from uploading while allowing others to go through. |
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Number crunching :
Several jobs uploads in project backoff
(Message 46078)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Okay, thanks, sorry to bother you. I'll just keep on keeping on. |
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Number crunching :
Several jobs uploads in project backoff
(Message 46076)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Les, you said there was a problem like this not long ago, where is that thread? I have looked and can't find it. I have close to 500MB of uploads waiting and they keep trying to upload over and over sucking up bandwidth from the other project. I can't get more work for GPU-Grid until I upload results and my connections being choked by CPDN results. |
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Number crunching :
Several jobs uploads in project backoff
(Message 46059)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: I can't believe it's just me having problems, I noticed about 45 minutes ago a very small upload made it through (7.54MB regional upload) so I tried to see if it would take a 31MB upload and it didn't work. Anyway, thanks guys. |
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Number crunching :
Several jobs uploads in project backoff
(Message 46057)
Posted 27 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Yes, a server issue. This sort of thing typically happens at the weekend. Boy, isn't that the truth. Well, I'm relieved that it is a server issue rather than a model that I would have to abort for the 100th time, I take it that others are experiencing this problem? This seems to be only happening with the shorter regional models. |
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Number crunching :
Several jobs uploads in project backoff
(Message 46055)
Posted 26 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: I'm sure this might have been discussed before but I have 4 different WU's uploads go to 100% and either start over or go into "Project backoff". This is what the log said....... 4/26/2013 8:41:12 AM | climateprediction.net | [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file /storage/incoming/uploader/hadam3p_eu_qfqb_2009_1_008346176_1_2.zip: No such file or directory 4/26/2013 8:41:12 AM | climateprediction.net | Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_eu_qfqb_2009_1_008346176_1_2.zip: transient upload error 4/26/2013 8:41:12 AM | climateprediction.net | Backing off 3 min 54 sec on upload of hadam3p_eu_qfqb_2009_1_008346176_1_2.zip 4/26/2013 8:17:33 AM | climateprediction.net | [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open file /storage/incoming/uploader/hadam3p_eu_qf8n_2010_1_008345540_1_12.zip: No such file or directory 4/26/2013 8:17:33 AM | climateprediction.net | Temporarily failed upload of hadam3p_eu_qf8n_2010_1_008345540_1_12.zip: transient upload error 4/26/2013 8:17:33 AM | climateprediction.net | Backing off 24 min 56 sec on upload of hadam3p_eu_qf8n_2010_1_008345540_1_12.zip All this happened right around the same time that's why I'm hoping it's a server issue, but no one else has complained about it yet. If it's the work units, do I delete everything? TYA |
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Number crunching :
Server is full
(Message 45900)
Posted 11 Apr 2013 by old_user671679 Post: Thanks Les, sorry to keep bothering you, I guess I should have poked around more. |
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