Posts by old_user148998

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 21472) Posted 21 Mar 2006 by old_user148998 Post: Yesterday, at 40% Work Completed, the phase 2 ended, results archived, phase 3 started, and trickle-up sent; disk usage flipped back from 1.6GB to 818MB. Single phase appears taking one month plus several days. It seems phase-take-over will take place at every 20% work completed. I will report hereafter only when something unexpected take place.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 20397) Posted 17 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: > My report might lead a misunderstanding. I\'d rephrase: > My experience: HW: G4 1.5GHz Disk Usage: expect to grow upto 6GB. Will run for 160 days with the current workunit. Today, roughly one month since started, at about 20% Work Completed, I got the message: \"Phase over, going into post_processing()\" and Phase 2 started. The disk usage flipped back from 1GB to 500MB. This seems suggesting that the disk usage wouldn\'t grow ceilinglessly.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 20380) Posted 17 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: > no visualization program is provided right now for Mac; What I mean by \"visualization program\" is such one told under the section \"Watching your Modelled World\" on the page: CPDN Home > Taking part in CPDN > Getting Started. On the contrary to other boinc sites, cpdn seems trying to have us understand the science and modelling - maybe British way. Naturally one would like to visualize the result after spending several months for one whole model.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 20006) Posted 6 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: Though I can\'t confirm yet, libcpdn would produce three files: /opt/ibmcmp/lib/libxlf90.A.dylib,...
5) Message boards : Number crunching : FYI: sulphur_4.22 on Mac_mini/BOINC_Menubar (Message 19990) Posted 6 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: The disk usage reached 888MB, at WorkCompleted: 12.5%. Because the capacity of my flash drive is 960MB, I moved to the hard drive. There is another problem with my computer, Mac_mini, which is not much different from a notebook PC; it uses 2.5\" HD. I\'m very anxious if it can stand to keep running for half a year. Even if \'dataout\' is moved to an external, easy to repair, 3.5\" HD, the internal HD can\'t stop, as long as the logging messages of the form: sulphur_j5k1_000893665 - PH 1 TS 0090787 A - 02/03/1816 09:30 - H:M:S=0229:50:44 AVG= 9.11 DLT= 4.92 are written onto the system console. I propose these messages would be written on a separete file and the filename is informed to us, so that we can watch the progress; Although I\'d say the present construction of the Mac version of sulphur422 is by no means appropriate for a tiny home computer.
6) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : libcpdn (Message 19962) Posted 4 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: This is to leave my footprint here; this board is a part of cpdn\'s - so organized there: > Message Boards > Questions and problems > Macintosh I\'m now cutting an ox mouth with a chicken knife; my computer handles 3 to 4 workunits of setiathome per day. I\'m now realizing that the same computer may have to work for sleepless 160 days to deal with a single workunit of cpdn.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 19934) Posted 3 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: I should have said at the beginning the intent of this \"Lighthouse for novice.\" If a novice read this before starting, one will know that it may take half a year for a Mac_mini to deal with a single workunit, may be frightened and hesitate to start. But, most novice will start without reading this, like myself. If a novice had started without knowing the situation, one may wonder if things are going right... Now, reading this, one can either reset and leave, or can stay here relaxed.
8) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : libcpdn (Message 19930) Posted 3 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: For a Mac computer, CPDN requests to PRE-install library as \"download and install the prerequisite application library\". Though I did it, I can\'t feel any smell of libcpdn in my computer. How can I confirm if the lib has been installed ? Where is it placed in what name, or, integrated into some other library file ?
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 19927) Posted 3 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: As a matter of course, I installed the cpdnlib, but after the installation finished, I couldn\'t locate it. So, I retried the installation processs. The result was the same. I\'ve been wondering where it is installed; where it is now... Do you mean that sulphur422 can run without cpdnlib, and that\'s why my work is so slow going ?
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 19926) Posted 3 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: My report might lead a misunderstanding. I\'d rephrase: My experience: HW: G4 1.5GHz Disk Usage: expect to grow upto 6GB. Will run for 160 days with the current workunit.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 19883) Posted 2 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: Regarding applications, CPDN sends one appropriate for your computer environment; you have no chance to choose a particular one. After registered, your computer may be loaded immediately, or simply kept waiting, for years. It is not clear if CPDN server computer is busy or out of service, or there\'s no applications/data at all. So, waiting for a week and your computer is not loaded, then think about joining other BOINC sites in parallel. Note that LHC@home now doesn\'t have applications for Mac.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Lighthouse for novice Mac volunteers (interim) (Message 19871) Posted 1 Feb 2006 by old_user148998 Post: Lighthouse for novice Mac participation volunteers (interim) ===================================== I write this for those who are intending to participate CPDN with Mac computer. First of all, you should check if your system meet the requirements against the CPDNâ€™s page titled â€œRecommended System Requirementsâ€ as found: [Home] > [Taking part in CPDN] > [Getting Started] > [technical requirements] As you see there, presently, Mac is not listed. When I started, Mac was listed and, acording to my memory, telling that: CPDNâ€™s settings: HW: G3, Disk: 600MB; Will keep run for a week. Based on this, I started and now Iâ€™m knowing the truth. My experience: HW: G4 1.5GHz, Disk: 6GB; Will run for 160 days. Also, no visualization program is provided right now for Mac; in order to enjoy your completed result, you may have to port it for yourself to Linux(x86 only) or Windows environment.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : FYI: sulphur_4.22 on Mac_mini/BOINC_Menubar (Message 19731) Posted 28 Jan 2006 by old_user148998 Post: Do not leave Log Displayed of BOINC_Menubar; the application writes onto the Log, and it seems letting BOINC_Menubar consume non trivial amount of CPU time. I\'d propose the enormous amount of the messages of the form: sulphur_j5k1_000893665 - PH 1 TS 0090787 A - 02/03/1816 09:30 - H:M:S=0229:50:44 AVG= 9.11 DLT= 4.92 be written not on the system console but somewhere else. Also, I like to have prefixed timestamps.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : FYI: sulphur_4.22 on Mac_mini/BOINC_Menubar (Message 19726) Posted 28 Jan 2006 by old_user148998 Post: Present disk usage is 582MB, and seems growing. I will carefully watch the disk usage. The CPDN\'s claim I read was such that disk requirement: 600MB; application will run for a week; so, I started this application. Actually, far far far away. My report is the warning to Mac people.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : FYI: sulphur_4.22 on Mac_mini/BOINC_Menubar (Message 19723) Posted 28 Jan 2006 by old_user148998 Post: This is just a trivial report for your interest how CPDN will run on Mac_mini(1.5GHz). It\'s less than two weeks since I joined CPDN and started to run sulphur_4.22 on my Mac_mini/BOINC_Menubar/MacOSX10.4Tiger, 24 hours everyday. \'BOINC Data\' is kept on USB Flash disk(1GB), connected to ~/Library/ApplicationSupport via symbolic link. Now, very roughly, the progress is 0.6% per day. At this rate, the processing of the present WU will end no earlier than June. One notice: Do not leave Log Displayed of BOINC_Menubar; the application writes onto the Log, and it seems letting BOINC_Menubar consume non trivial amount of CPU time.