Posts by old_user158941

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Grr! I accidentally deleted my data directory (Message 20971) Posted 2 Mar 2006 by old_user158941 Post: I was experimenting with moving it around in different locations so BOINC Menubar and BOINCManager would recognize it. In the process of trying to delete a symbolic link, I actually deleted all of the data to all of my projects. I just finished setting up all of the projects and merging the computers together. My question is: is there a way to detach from my old project so the WU can be reused by someone else? As far as my computer is concerned, it\'s never seen BOINC/CPDN/etc. before, so it won\'t let me detach the old model. Just trying to do my part to help society. Sorry for losing 1.7% worth of a model\'s data! (At least it wasn\'t 20% or even more...)
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Old G4 won\'t finish in time (Message 20304) Posted 15 Feb 2006 by old_user158941 Post: Five phases, so 20%. 80 or so days? I guess I\'ll stick with it...of course, this is assuming the percentage climb is linear. Thanks for your help. Chris
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Old G4 won\'t finish in time (Message 20274) Posted 15 Feb 2006 by old_user158941 Post: However, phase 1 of sulphur models contains data that the researchers need, so at least keep going to this point. How far in is Phase 1? I\'m willing to let it go there if it can make it there sooner than a year. If Phase 1 is more than about 25% of the WU, I\'ll go ahead and detach and let someone with a faster CPU work my model.
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Old G4 won\'t finish in time (Message 20262) Posted 15 Feb 2006 by old_user158941 Post: I have an old G4 (350MHz) that is currently crunching its way through a sulphur WU. I\'m attached to seven projects, so when I went to check on the status of my G4 and saw only two projects listed (one of which, an Einstein, was done and ready to report)--especially because my Powerbook was happily gorging on close to 20 work units (I set the work buffer too high)--I was curious and started investigating. Then I saw the entry in the log: it\'s using earliest-deadline-first scheduling. Then I looked at the estimated time to finish: 9327 hours. According to Google\'s useful calculator, this is 388 days, or almost two months past the deadline data. And this is assuming CPDN uses 100% of my processor time and doesn\'t begin working on any other project. I believe that (based on reading stuff on this forum and elsewhere) that CPDN doesn\'t enforce the project deadline as long as the computer is trickling results back to the servers. Regardless, though, an entire year is a long time to commit to the project: what if the computer dies, the drive crashes, the WU gets corrupted, etc.--that\'s potentially a year\'s worth of calculations lost. So, my question is thus: what should I do? Should I go ahead and leave it be and have it work on the climate model for the next year? Or should I suspend the project and donate my time to curing AIDS and cancer? (Er, not AIDS yet--Africa@home isn\'t Mac yet, I believe). Or, would my old machine work fine with shorter CPDN WUs like slab models? If that\'s the case, is there a way to assign a preference to only get the slab models on one particular machine? I knew CPDN was computationally intensive...