Posts by Chris

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Miscellaneous problems (Message 54139) Posted 18 May 2016 by Chris Post: Is there something wrong with the validation? I have a bunch waiting for validation, which I don't remember seeing before. [but then I rarely check the details here very often... and these shorter work units mean I have more than 1 done at a time...]
2) Message boards : Number crunching : No work for Windows? (Message 52848) Posted 13 Nov 2015 by Chris Post: I see why tasks are Windows or linux, but what makes a task Window or Linux only? I mean there have been a lot of Windows "outages." Are there corresponding Linux droughts that I'm just not seeing (because I am not looking for those)? Or are the bigger projects preferentially doing Linux for some reason?
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Refusing to download for Windows/x86_64? (Message 51509) Posted 3 Mar 2015 by Chris Post: The server page is showing PNW available, but my event log is showing they're not. So I'm getting those messages, but without any windows work! Just a bit odd to see a message about saving work for Macs when your windows computer is dry.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Extremely high work units done. (Message 50091) Posted 10 Sep 2014 by Chris Post: Once they fix the problem it will still exist locally for a while on your credit tab. Deleting the XML file would help with that. It wont help until they fix the current.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 49943) Posted 1 Sep 2014 by Chris Post: Server code. I hope thats not another million lines of Fortran. The models themselves can be a bit flaky, but they do their thing. Where most of us interact with the project is the server side. Are uploads working? Tasks available? Forums up? Credit? None or too much isn't confidence inspiring for the rest of the backend system.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 49884) Posted 31 Aug 2014 by Chris Post: The phantom credits have trashed the in Boinc cumulative stats by ruining the scale. I guess this will also resolve in a few weeks time when the glitch moves off the screen. I suppose no credits are better than the whole system being down again...
7) Message boards : Number crunching : WORTH THE TROUBLE???? (Message 45946) Posted 16 Apr 2013 by Chris Post: I was looking at my most recent model crashes. Each had failed on 4-6 runs by various computers. Maybe those should be taken out of the resends? I'm not sure why any of those failed really, but at some point can we just say those won't run to completion?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : What went wrong (crashed WU) (Message 45469) Posted 18 Jan 2013 by Chris Post: Do you know which computers they run/ran on? With so many being multi-core it seems odd there is this much trouble trying to run them in parallel, either on cpu or gpu. Wikipedia says the model at least a decade old, but supercomputers had many cores by then.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : What went wrong (crashed WU) (Message 45463) Posted 16 Jan 2013 by Chris Post: Any idea why these are so much worse than the regional models? They take 3 weeks to run, so there is a lot of time for things to happen, but is there no way to make sure they suspend uneventfully? Even the shorter running models take a lot of faith to run, and the big ones, where its possible, and even likely, that I'll loose a model after 20 days isn't so good.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Long Term Debt (Message 45388) Posted 22 Dec 2012 by Chris Post: Does anyone know how long term debt is currently being handled (Boinc v. 7)? I am running this along with SETI (25%) but during the great work shortage it seems I've built up a ton of long term debt to CPDN and SETI runs very little now. Everything I've found about looking up, or erasing the long term debt refers to Version 6 of Boinc. I know its micromanaging, but it seems "wrong" to let CPDN catch up when it was the project's own work shortage that caused the work shorage.