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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't upload for 12 days (Message 41719)
Posted 7 Mar 2011 by old_user30961
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The avatar shows my personal classical CD library of 8,000 CDs.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't upload for 12 days (Message 41714)
Posted 6 Mar 2011 by old_user30961
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All but the #13s (as expected) are uploading fine for me.

Chuck
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Why not all cores!? (Message 41695)
Posted 5 Mar 2011 by old_user30961
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I have a six-core machine, so I just run five concurrent climate models (reserving one core for my general use).

Chuck
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Frustrating that you can't shut down without error (Message 41587)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by old_user30961
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C:\Program Files\BOINC and C:\Programdata\BOINC have always been excluded from virus scanning (Kaspersky). SETI never has this problem. I have to believe that there is some flaw in the Climate Models that is not handling a shutdown properly.

Chuck
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Frustrating that you can't shut down without error (Message 41580)
Posted 1 Feb 2011 by old_user30961
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I did everything suggested. Did the "Shutdown connected client". I have always had "leave applications in memory" off. It doesn't make any difference. A model still errored as soon as I restarted BOINC.

I see messages like this in STDERR

<core_client_version>6.10.58</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
CPDN Monitor - Quit request from BOINC...
CPDN Monitor - Quit request from BOINC...
Global Worker:: CPDN process is not running, exiting, bRetVal = 0, checkPID=0, selfPID=3456, iMonCtr=1
Regional Worker:: CPDN process is not running, exiting, bRetVal = 1, checkPID=0, selfPID=0, iMonCtr=2
Controller:: CPDN process is not running, exiting, bRetVal = 1, checkPID=2584, selfPID=4632, iMonCtr=1
Model crash detected, will try to restart...
Leaving CPDN_Main::Monitor...
11:01:12 (4632): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
<message>
<file_xfer_error>
<file_name>hadam3p_eu_xexy_1981_1_006966974_0_5.zip</file_name>
<error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>
<file_xfer_error>
<file_name>hadam3p_eu_xexy_1981_1_006966974_0_6.zip</file_name>
<error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>

Followed by the list of all missing ZIP files.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Frustrating that you can't shut down without error (Message 41556)
Posted 29 Jan 2011 by old_user30961
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It is extremely frustrating that you cannot shut down BOINC without causing a climate model to error. It does not always happen, but it happens too frequently.

I have tried suspending activity, waiting for a period of time and then exiting the BOINC process. I saw a thread about making a change in the registry and I also did that. It did not help.

I used to shut down BOINC in order to allow disk defragmentation to take place, but I find that simply suspending activity for an hour or so without exiting BOINC works about as well. Unfortunately, Windows and other program updates sometimes make a shutdown necessary. If it weren't for this problem, I would have almost no errored models.

Chuck




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