Posts by KeeperC

41) Message boards : Number crunching : backup and restore WU (models) (Message 7424) Posted 21 Jan 2005 by KeeperC Post: There is a utility called dobkCPDN that will do this automatically on Win XP. It is officially a beta version but I think development has stopped. I have been using it without real problems for a while now. It does sometimes crash, but the crash is always harmless and has never caused damage to CPDN or anything else. The link to it is on the "classic" CPDN boards, I think, so I can't find a link at the moment (boards down). However, google suggests: http://www.climateprediction.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2474&sid=cedd4958a7b6fb1e0434fd6359d9a3ee Hope that helps.
42) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Main CPDN boards down? (Message 7397) Posted 20 Jan 2005 by KeeperC Post: The other "classic" discussion forum seems to be down at the moment (or is it just me?)
43) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Can't get work units (Message 7050) Posted 21 Dec 2004 by KeeperC Post: I had a series of master file fetch failed errors this evening up to about 6:30pm. Then it began working again. Seems OK now. Perhaps just a server glitch? Try again.
44) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Shutdown and restart (Message 6739) Posted 8 Dec 2004 by KeeperC Post: > > This is because the model saves every three model days (144 timesteps) > no > > matter what you have set in your BOINC preferences. That means it will > save > > at 0030 on the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, etc. of each model month (each month > has > > 30 days in the model). > Does it mean that if i'm turning off my computer before it will end the third > day it is still counting the same data? What is the sense of it? I was sure > that i can use my computer as allways when running CP... it it not true? > > Perhaps you are confusing model days with real days? The model saves every 144 timesteps, or 3 model days. This will probably be at intervals of between 5 mins and 20 mins actual elapsed time, depending on the speed of your computer. As long as your computer processes CP for this minimum time it will make progress. There is no need to leave it on for a minimum of 3 real days, although, of course, the longer you leave it on for, the more progress it will make. General advice for this project is that you do leave your computer on for long periods, especially overnight, to allow it to make a significant contribution to the project. Of course, while it is on, you can continue to use it normally and CP will have little or no noticable impact.
45) Message boards : Number crunching : Schedulers down too now..? (Message 6682) Posted 7 Dec 2004 by KeeperC Post: > Add me to the list of those having the same exact symptoms as Honza. My > symptoms started not long after a reboot, also. Now I'm wary of doing any > power cycling on my other machines! :-o > I must be one of the lucky ones. My two machines continue to trickle without any problems.
46) Questions and Answers : Windows : There is no joy in Hurricaneville, Mighty BOINC has struck out! (Message 4530) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: > oh well, unfortunately not every computer can run CPDN, perhaps there's > something about Pentium M's that the Fortran code hates? > > > I don't think this is a Pentium M issue. My Dell Latitude D800 has a 1.6GHz Pentium M and it seems to be running under BOINC quite contentedly (now half way through Phase 2 on first model). <img src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php?userID=250&trans=off">
47) Questions and Answers : Getting started : OpenGL error on viz crashes model (Message 4019) Posted 13 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: Thanks all for your responses. My video drivers were the latest available but they must have got corrupted somehow. I downloaded them again from Dell and reinstalled them over the top of existing ones and everything seems to have gone back to normal. A second problem which I thought indicated incipient failure of my screen has gone away too!
48) Message boards : Number crunching : Sig Test (Message 3459) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: test <img src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php?userID=250&trans=off">
49) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Home/School machine association won't stick (Message 3457) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: I have a machine I'm trying to assign to school location so I can give it different prefs than my home machine. There is a combo box at the bottom of the machine specific page allowing this selection and an update button next to it. I can choose school and update, and I assume this is what I ought to do to change the association. Unfortunately, after I do this the machine continues to use home prefs, and next time I visit the site the box has reverted to home. How can I get it to stick? <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=174"><img border="0" height="68" src="http://174.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?142"></a>
50) Message boards : Number crunching : Sig Test (Message 3440) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: > I would like to make a signature and was looking at how but couldn't for the > life of me figure out everything, surely its reasonably simple so if someone > could point me in the right direction I would be most grateful > > I got mine from here: http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=signatures <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=174"><img border="0" height="68" src="http://174.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?142"></a>
51) Message boards : Number crunching : Sig Test (Message 3419) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: Still not sure I understand. As far as I can see, I have the following: CPDN classic rank = 651 out of 63281 CPDN Boinc World rank = 1,124 of 7,624 CPDN Boinc rank in UK = 136 of 950 CPDN Boinc rank in Team United Kingdom = 20 of 78 Rank in my sig is 168? <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=174"><img border="0" height="68" src="http://174.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?142"></a>
52) Message boards : Number crunching : credit send to zero (Message 3417) Posted 8 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: My machines trickled 4 times yesterday according to info on my account page. But my stats at http://www.setisynergy.com/stats/boinc-stats_cpdn.php?id=174 say that no credits were recorded yesterday? <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=174"><img border="0" height="68" src="http://174.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?142"></a>
53) Message boards : Number crunching : Sig Test (Message 3295) Posted 7 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: What is this rank in my sig? My CPDN world rank is just over 1000. <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=174"><img border="0" height="68" src="http://174.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?142"></a>
54) Message boards : Number crunching : Sig Test (Message 3094) Posted 5 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: Test <a href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=174"><img border="0" height="68" src="http://174.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?142"></a>
55) Questions and Answers : Getting started : OpenGL error on viz crashes model (Message 3083) Posted 5 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: Thanks for the responses. My system is a Dell D800 laptop with a 1.6GHz Pentium M and 1GB RAM running Win XP SP2. The graphics card is an nVidia GeForce4 4200 Go with 64MB RAM. The video BIOS and driver are the most recent available from the Dell download site. I checked the nVidia site and they have nothing available for this card - they say updates should be obtained from the OEM, in this case Dell.
56) Questions and Answers : Getting started : OpenGL error on viz crashes model (Message 2986) Posted 4 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: When I right click on a workunit and choose \"show graphics\" I get a popup window titled \"nVidia OpenGL Driver\" which says: Driver components mis-match. Exit is the only option I have to choose OK, and when I do, the model uploads with error status and a new one down loads and starts. I\'ve just tried this twice, so its repeatable. What should I do to fix it? Thanks
57) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Can someone explain the Boinc Results page? (Message 2959) Posted 4 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: Things now seem to be back to normal and crunching away. Thanks for the help.
58) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : SuSE/Athlon 2200+/sTS (Message 2840) Posted 3 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: My Athlon XP 3000+ 512MB running SuSe 9.1 is currently getting 2.91 s/TS. I'm a linux novice running this on my first self build - I've really no idea whether I've optimised performance, but this number seems in line with yours. Haven't discovered system guard yet. I'll check it out.
59) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : server ? (Message 2838) Posted 3 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: The log says "daily quota exceeded" - have you downloaded multiple models for this host already today? Check your results page and see if they have been returned with error.
60) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Can someone explain the Boinc Results page? (Message 2813) Posted 3 Sep 2004 by KeeperC Post: > I can not see the link you provided it's in a private area. > > I would guess that you are attached to multiple copies of the project or that > 2 BOINC processes are running. An extra BOINC process seems the most likely > since that is known to cause workunits to corrupt. > <br>John Keck -- BOINCing since 2002/12/08 -- <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&project=cpdn&userid=191"><img> border="0" height="80" src="http://191.cpdn.sig.boinc.dk?188"></a> > > John, Thanks for the suggestion. When I installed 4.05, I installed to a different location than the earlier, beta version, which was consequently still lurking on the system. So I manually deleted the old version. Then, a little later, I got the fortran error reported several times elsewhere. I uninstalled 4.05 using add/remove program, but without detatching from the project, and re-installed again. However, the model was still producing multiple workunit errors (although no more fortran errors). At midnight it would download a model and a few minutes later send it back with an error and download another. It would do this repeatedly until the daily limit was reached. So now I have detatched and uninstalled. Tonight I will look for remnants and delete them, reboot and then reinstall. I'll see if that fixes things.

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