climateprediction.net home page
Project has no tasks available

Project has no tasks available

Message boards : Number crunching : Project has no tasks available
Message board moderation

To post messages, you must log in.

Previous · 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 . . . 7 · Next

AuthorMessage
Profile geophi
Volunteer moderator

Send message
Joined: 7 Aug 04
Posts: 2167
Credit: 64,403,322
RAC: 5,085
Message 44446 - Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 15:49:00 UTC - in response to Message 44445.  

Same here, on a couple different tasks that then failed because it couldn't find those files.
ID: 44446 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Xray Quadrant

Send message
Joined: 6 Dec 05
Posts: 4
Credit: 28,758,576
RAC: 0
Message 44448 - Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 20:28:57 UTC

I keep getting permanent "HTTP error" when it downloads a new file. I have now received this error twice and the project has to be aborted.
L
ID: 44448 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile astroWX
Volunteer moderator

Send message
Joined: 5 Aug 04
Posts: 1496
Credit: 95,522,203
RAC: 0
Message 44458 - Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 16:44:17 UTC

One PNW failed after a few seconds on a newly-rebuilt machine. All three in the Work Unit failed in, apparently, the same way. (Can't check because the server fails requests to look at any of the failures in the Work Unit.)
http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/workunit.php?wuid=8172403

Probably not a machine failure (I hope!) because three PNW ran together (with a WCG task) and completed okay. (47.03 / 47.08 / 47.09 hours, running concurrently on stock i5-3550.)

"We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo
Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest.
ID: 44458 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
[AF>France>Aquitaine>Cote-Adou...

Send message
Joined: 25 Sep 09
Posts: 12
Credit: 370,712
RAC: 0
Message 44485 - Posted: 29 Jun 2012, 0:35:09 UTC - in response to Message 44404.  
Last modified: 29 Jun 2012, 0:40:24 UTC

I haven't received any new WU since June 5th, so I'm now out of work on 2 hosts.

Ven 29 jui 02:34:51 2012 | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Ven 29 jui 02:34:51 2012 | climateprediction.net | Requesting new tasks for ATI
Ven 29 jui 02:34:54 2012 | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Ven 29 jui 02:34:54 2012 | climateprediction.net | Project has no tasks available
ID: 44485 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
MarkJ
Avatar

Send message
Joined: 28 Mar 09
Posts: 126
Credit: 9,825,980
RAC: 0
Message 44488 - Posted: 29 Jun 2012, 11:02:40 UTC - in response to Message 44485.  
Last modified: 29 Jun 2012, 11:06:12 UTC

I haven't received any new WU since June 5th, so I'm now out of work on 2 hosts.

Ven 29 jui 02:34:51 2012 | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
Ven 29 jui 02:34:51 2012 | climateprediction.net | Requesting new tasks for ATI
Ven 29 jui 02:34:54 2012 | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Ven 29 jui 02:34:54 2012 | climateprediction.net | Project has no tasks available


Actually thats an ATI request. The project doesn't provide work for ATI or Nvidia. However there are only the occasional resends for CPU work requests at the moment until the scientists create more work units. There were some pnw's created about a week ago but they disappeared pretty quick (I managed to get some on 2 machines, but the rest missed out).

If you are running BOINC 7.0.25 or later there is a way to prevent it requesting ATI and/or Nvidia work (on a per-project basis) which it will never get and then backing off for an hour before it can ask again. If the BOINC server software was more up to date the project could do it as well, but they run a pretty old version. If you'd like to know how just ask.
BOINC blog
ID: 44488 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Eirik Redd

Send message
Joined: 31 Aug 04
Posts: 391
Credit: 219,888,554
RAC: 1,481,373
Message 44491 - Posted: 30 Jun 2012, 6:09:38 UTC - in response to Message 44458.  

For the last few weeks the only WU available have been re-issues of WU that failed earlier. I've got a few of them.
Some were WU that hit broken machines on the first pass - these are working ok on my machines.
Some were misconfigured at the get-go and fail again.

When the backlog of these types of WU clears -- thanks to all you contributors --

Hoping there's funding for more :)



One PNW failed after a few seconds on a newly-rebuilt machine. All three in the Work Unit failed in, apparently, the same way. (Can't check because the server fails requests to look at any of the failures in the Work Unit.)
http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/workunit.php?wuid=8172403

Probably not a machine failure (I hope!) because three PNW ran together (with a WCG task) and completed okay. (47.03 / 47.08 / 47.09 hours, running concurrently on stock i5-3550.)


ID: 44491 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Les Bayliss
Volunteer moderator

Send message
Joined: 5 Sep 04
Posts: 7629
Credit: 24,240,330
RAC: 0
Message 44492 - Posted: 30 Jun 2012, 6:43:02 UTC

There IS testing going on.
And Christmas will be here soon, so if you've been good ...






Backups: Here
ID: 44492 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile Dave Jackson
Volunteer moderator

Send message
Joined: 15 May 09
Posts: 4314
Credit: 16,378,503
RAC: 3,632
Message 44493 - Posted: 30 Jun 2012, 9:24:09 UTC - in response to Message 44492.  

And Christmas will be here soon


Ah, another time with no staff @ Oxford Uni.
ID: 44493 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
DJStarfox

Send message
Joined: 27 Jan 07
Posts: 300
Credit: 3,288,263
RAC: 26,370
Message 44497 - Posted: 6 Jul 2012, 1:15:32 UTC
Last modified: 6 Jul 2012, 1:16:21 UTC

I'm in no hurry since Summer is here, and it's a hot one. Once Fall starts, I will look forward to having a few thousand WU to crunch. :)

Edit: That said, running Linux means I don't get any of the EU models... so waiting is required in my case.
ID: 44497 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile Dave Jackson
Volunteer moderator

Send message
Joined: 15 May 09
Posts: 4314
Credit: 16,378,503
RAC: 3,632
Message 44498 - Posted: 6 Jul 2012, 8:20:11 UTC - in response to Message 44497.  

EU models seem to run fine on my linux box.
ID: 44498 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Belfry

Send message
Joined: 19 Apr 08
Posts: 179
Credit: 4,306,992
RAC: 0
Message 44499 - Posted: 6 Jul 2012, 11:16:03 UTC

I just got another EU today on my Linux machine. DJStarfox, are your account settings set to receive EU's? Maybe you've inadvertently set your machine to location based preferences?
ID: 44499 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Belfry

Send message
Joined: 19 Apr 08
Posts: 179
Credit: 4,306,992
RAC: 0
Message 44500 - Posted: 6 Jul 2012, 19:02:17 UTC

...or maybe you meant a hardware reference, such as an SSE2-less processor like an Athlon XP or Pentium III. Those definitely can't run the EU's.
ID: 44500 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
DJStarfox

Send message
Joined: 27 Jan 07
Posts: 300
Credit: 3,288,263
RAC: 26,370
Message 44501 - Posted: 6 Jul 2012, 23:58:34 UTC
Last modified: 6 Jul 2012, 23:58:53 UTC

Odd. I guess I am mistaken. I see now the apps are listed
http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/apps.php

I did check my preferences, and it's set to receive all the AM3 regional models.

I guess we're back to the empty WU queue. I subscribed to the project RSS feed, so I'll check back for work once I hear something.
ID: 44501 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
wateroakley

Send message
Joined: 6 Aug 04
Posts: 185
Credit: 27,083,655
RAC: 6,161
Message 44502 - Posted: 9 Jul 2012, 17:10:36 UTC

The i5 laptop had three tasks, of four running, that decided to go into 'high priority' mode. When this happened no more tasks were requested by BM 6.2.12, despite the '10 days work' setting. After the fourth task completed, three tasks were left running, BM subsequently requested work and downloaded one task. Now that it has four tasks, three high priority and one normal priority, BM is still not requesting any more work despite the setting for '10 days' work.

During nearly 8 BOINC years solely on cpdn, although sight of 'high priority' is rare, I have never seen BM with this behaviour before. I presume this is BM doing as it wishes? Just curious if anyone has seen this behaviour, if is a BM version issue in 6.2.12, or a common BM behaviour?
ID: 44502 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Lockleys

Send message
Joined: 13 Jan 07
Posts: 195
Credit: 10,581,566
RAC: 0
Message 44503 - Posted: 9 Jul 2012, 18:41:48 UTC - in response to Message 44502.  

I too have noted over the last weeks that BOINC Manager is more reluctant to request new tasks than it used to be. Of course, I know that there are very few CPDN tasks available just now. But, like hagar, it is the absence of requests in the event log which seems surprises me. At present, I have 4 tasks running, one of these due to finish in 16 hours, none waiting to start, no other BM apps running and my preferences set for a maximum work buffer of 9.9 days. But no requests for new work. Curious.
ID: 44503 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile Thyme Lawn
Volunteer moderator

Send message
Joined: 5 Aug 04
Posts: 1283
Credit: 15,824,334
RAC: 0
Message 44504 - Posted: 9 Jul 2012, 20:25:49 UTC - in response to Message 44503.  

I see you're running BOINC 7.0.25 Lockleys. That has a change in the way the network connection parameters in your global preferences work:

  • The "Computer is connected to the Internet about every" setting is now the refresh level. If you have it set to 0 BOINC won't fetch work for a project until it is starved of work.
  • The sum of that and the "Maintain enough work for an additional" setting is now the maximum work buffer size for the project.


I've no idea what's preventing hagar's 6.2.12 from requesting work, but enabling work fetch debug might give some clues.


"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
ID: 44504 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile JIM

Send message
Joined: 31 Dec 07
Posts: 1152
Credit: 22,053,321
RAC: 4,417
Message 44507 - Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 0:05:28 UTC

Dear Thyme:

You mention that in the BM 7.0.25 if the �Computer is connected to the Internet about every� is set to 0 then the BM will wait until the machine is starved for work before requesting more. Is this the same in the 7.0.28? If so,what setting should it be set at to have it begin requesting work at the 240 hour (10 day) mark?

ID: 44507 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Les Bayliss
Volunteer moderator

Send message
Joined: 5 Sep 04
Posts: 7629
Credit: 24,240,330
RAC: 0
Message 44508 - Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 5:16:38 UTC - in response to Message 44507.  

This applies to ALL BOINC 7.* versions, because 7.* is a completely new build from the ground up.

I don't know the wording of these new versions, but would have thought that they'd be different to reflect the new usage.

If it's still the old text, then try:
"Maintain enough work for an additional" to 9
and
"Computer is connected to the Internet about every" to 1

That should give you 10 days of work, then no more until your work level/load drops down to 1 day to go.


Backups: Here
ID: 44508 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Profile JIM

Send message
Joined: 31 Dec 07
Posts: 1152
Credit: 22,053,321
RAC: 4,417
Message 44509 - Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 8:10:28 UTC - in response to Message 44508.  

THANKS!!!
ID: 44509 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Lockleys

Send message
Joined: 13 Jan 07
Posts: 195
Credit: 10,581,566
RAC: 0
Message 44511 - Posted: 10 Jul 2012, 12:41:58 UTC - in response to Message 44504.  

Thanks Thyme and Les. That advice worked a treat. Rgds
ID: 44511 · Report as offensive     Reply Quote
Previous · 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 . . . 7 · Next

Message boards : Number crunching : Project has no tasks available

©2024 climateprediction.net