Posts by old_user9146

1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : System will not provide work (Message 17135) Posted 11 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: There\'s a link to a zip file for Macs on the download page. I don\'t know what\'s in it, but have you tried it? The link turns out to be an installer for the needed files. So I installed them, restarted BOINC, and reset the project. It downloaded a new set of data files, and as soon as BOINC started to run climateprediction, it returned \'computational error\' and went back to SETI. Is this a beta test?
2) Questions and Answers : Getting started : System will not provide work (Message 17131) Posted 11 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: Peter, You are downloading results but they\'re all exiting immediately with the following error message: MacOS Error -43 occured in Mac_Lib.c line 64 MacOS Error -43 occured in Mac_Lib.c line 64 dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/ibmcmp/lib/libxlsmp.A.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/climateprediction.net/sulphur_a72x_000475737/../sulphur_um_4.21_powerpc-apple-darwin Reason: image not found You need to follow the advice given here to get round that problem. Thanks for the advice. I followed the steps given in the linked message, but the files (\'libxlsmp.A.dylib\' \'libxlfmath.A.dylib\' and \'libxlf90.A.dylib\') you refer to are not in /Library/Application Support/Boinc Data/projects/climateprediction.net/ -- or anywhere else on this system.
3) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Make logout easy (Message 17123) Posted 10 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: You\'re right about normally logging out, but I\'ve NEVER logged out of this site. The only reason I can think of is, it\'s never occured to me to do so. As for putting a logout facility in the nav menu, it\'s possible that most people who login/out each visit, do so to look at their account page, to check on the trickles, etc, rather than to use the help boards. So it\'s not like it\'s difficult to add a logout item to the nav menu -- what would it take, 2 minutes? (No reply necessary)
4) Questions and Answers : Getting started : System will not provide work (Message 17121) Posted 10 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: When none of the work units would process after a couple of days, I reset the project and asked for new work. For over a day now, the system has refused to send any work units. (Messages from server: \"no work sent\" & \"(reached daily quota of 1 results)\".) How I reached a \'daily quota\' without sending or receiving any work is a mystery to me. I often have as many as 6-10 hours of CPU time every day, but I can\'t see continuing to waste my time just trying to get your project to work. (SETIathome processes several of their smaller work units every day.) [BOINC 4.43 running on Mac G4; OS 10.4.3]
5) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Work remains Paused (Message 17083) Posted 9 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: Not being a Mac person, the only other thing I can suggest is to suspend and then exit BOINC, and then reboot the computer. I\'ll try this and see what happens, but both climate prediction units say they are now 100% complete. A unit completed and \'ready to report\' in only a few hours -- I doubt it! The other unit says \'computational error\'. I am detaching this project and trashing all the files. I will then make one more attempt to attach this project and see if it works. If that doesn\'t work, I\'ll turn my attention to another project. P,S, I \'subscribed\' to this question, but I never receive any notification that answers had been posted.
6) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Make logout easy (Message 17082) Posted 9 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: Why do you want to log out?? Why would I want to stay logged in if I am no longer at the website? It\'s common practice to log in when arriving at a site and log out when leaving. If climate prediction is set up differently, the details should be explained, including the reasons.
7) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Work remains Paused (Message 17074) Posted 9 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: Ten hours isn\'t very long for a project which takes hundreds of hours. Either let it run for a few days, or let BOINC do the switching between projects based on \'scheduling\', as explained <a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/sched.php\"> here,</a> and <a href=\"http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Work_Scheduler\"> here.</a> Also, there is a bug in the Windows version of BOINC 4.45, which may also be in 4.43 This is talked about <a href=\"http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=2855\"> here,</a> and I also posted about it (for windows), <a href=\"http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=3412\"> here.</a> I understand that climateprediction jobs will progress very slowly. SETI has been running on 4.43 for months with absolutely no problems. I have let BOINC Manager run on its own, and it does switch between the two projects. When SETI is running, BOINC CPU use is 10-20% (however much is available, depending on what else is running), and CPU time, Progress, and time To completion all increment regularly. When climateprediction is running, CPU use is 1% or so, Progress stays at 0.00%, and it shows no CPU time. (If the job is, say 1500 hours, Progress should increment by 0.01% several times an hour.) All these different stats indicate the same thing: that absolutely no work is being done. Peter
8) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Make logout easy (Message 17071) Posted 8 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: The only way I can find to log out is to go to \'Your account\'. This seems silly -- why not put a logout entry in the nav column and make things easy.
9) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Work remains Paused (Message 17070) Posted 8 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: Have a look under File, and make sure that you have selected either Run always, or Run based on preferences. In Windows, the message is Suspended, but it may be different for a Mac. What BOINC version are you using? Also, are you running other projects? I\'m not sure what message you get on non-running projects when they are swapped out. The File menu shows \'Run based on preferences\' is selected. I think the \'Paused\' message does mean that the other project (SETIathome) is running. I was able to get it to run by suspending the other project, but even though this finally switched to \'Running\', it was NOT running -- after 10 hours of uninterrupted run time, it was still 0.00% complete and cpu usage was only about 1%. (When SETI is running, it utilizes all available cpu time.) BOINC Manager shows version 4.43. Thanks for any help you can provide.
10) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Work remains Paused (Message 17011) Posted 7 Nov 2005 by old_user9146 Post: I attached climateprediction to BOINC Manager and it went ahead and downloaded work, but the work status is \'Paused\' and has remained that way for about 12 hours. What do I have to do to make it process the work???