Posts by old_user1771

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Performance/MIPS (Message 3198) Posted 7 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > You describe the long and the short of it willy1. It doesn't matter if it's > linux or windoze anymore, the benchmarks are equally bad. "Good enough" as > John mentioned was supposed to be a very short-term bugfix, which has now > turned into what seems a long term feature. Even true smp benches worse than a > single proc mb of equal power. If you "roll your own" boinc_client, you'll > gain some on the FP bench, and little or nothing on the INT bench. And yes it > DOES have a direct effect on how much credit you claim and have granted, > because credit is calculated on time-to-complete vs your benchmark. > > FWIW > > JSC aka Xcamel > > > <img src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php/userID:55/trans:off/.png"> > But the benchmark has little or no direct effect on the actual crunching speed? The credit issue is one thing, but the P4 Xeons are actually crunching slowly - about a third of the expected speed. The trickles happen much further apart - one per day instead of almost 3 per day.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Performance/MIPS (Message 3188) Posted 6 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > I have a dual P4 3.06GHz xeon running > Linux.latest.smp with HT enabled. The benchmark(s) look like a pIII on a bad > day. Solution: Disable HT, reboot, benchmark, reboot, enable HT, and start > your model run. As long as you don't change boinc client rev in the process, > your machine won't re-bench on restart, so you're good-to-go, so to speak. Does all of this benchmarking affect the speed at which the WU is processed, or strictly for informational purpose? I have a box with 2 physical P4 2.8GHz Xeons with HT enabled, so 4 virtual CPUs. Whether I have one WU loaded and crunching or 4 (one for each CPU), the benchmarks are dismal, and the performance matches. Each WU is only trickling about once a day, and the speed is something like 7.1 sec/TS. My standard P4 2.0GHz by comparison is running at about 2.5 sec/TS. All boxes on versions of W2K.
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Daily Quota Exceeded (Message 2905) Posted 3 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: I'm getting the same thing. After the Fortran error WUs crash, BOINC tries to DL a replacement WU, but is blocked by the 'Daily Quota'. I haven't been able to find any mention of this 'feature' on the forum.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Can\'t get enough WU for dual HT Box (Message 2764) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > have you updated after you changed your preferences? > > YES! I upped the MaxCPU to 8, as well, and updated again. Still only have 2 WU
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Can\'t get enough WU for dual HT Box (Message 2748) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > I'd check what the maximum disk space you have allocated to BOINC is (in > General preferences)... maybe you haven't given yourself enough space to hold > more than 2 models? > > 12GB available to BOINC/CPDN on that box - should be enough
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Can\'t get enough WU for dual HT Box (Message 2738) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: I have dual HT Xeon boxes - profile of Comupter ID shows 4 CPUs. Max CPU is set to 4. CPDN getting 100% of resources. No other BOINCing is installed. Still only get 2 WU - how can I get two more WU assigned to this box????
7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Win2K Pro - only downloading one WU on dual CPU machine (Message 2724) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: I have a dual HT-enabled Xeon box (CPU ID 13384) that shows as having 4 CPUs in the profile. My preferences are set to 100% CPDN - no SETI, or other BOINC'd projects, and MaxCPU is set to 4. I still only get 2 WU downloaded. I'm also concerned that the measured integer benchmark on this 2.8GHz Xeon box is dreadfully low - about 750MIPS, as compared to a 2.0GHz P4 at 2583 MIPS. Are the Xeons really that bad, or is the benchmark hosed somehow?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Unexpected problem downloading files (Message 2712) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > Same Problem here. After detaching and reattaching several times I was able to > download without checksum error. > But when the client starts to work I get a strange error pop-up-box. The title > bar reads: "Visual Fortran run-time error" > > and it goes on: "forrtl: severe(17): syntaxerror in NAMELIST input, unit 57, > file > %boincpath%/projects/climateprediction.net/61h_000032843/jobs/spec3a_sw_3_asol2b_hadcm3" > > > Does anyone know what this means? > > The client stops crunching after this message and hangs at 1 sec. CPU time. > :( > > I had the same issue - tried many times to get a good download, then stopped dead with the same runtime error. It's not our firewall - it allows everything on port 80, and other machines on the same site installed previously without problems. It's also not a bandwidth issue! - multiple T3s for the pipe and gigabit ethernet inside.
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran run-time error (Message 2646) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > > I saw this on My XP machine as well. > > > > here's a screenshot > > <img> src="http://members.shaw.ca/joevoxxer/DeathByClimatePrediction.jpg"> > > Same problem here with a no-name PC with Windows XP. Currently neither of my > projects is calculating anything because of this bug. > > -- VMM > Ditto for me too. Win 2000 server
10) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran Runtime error (Message 2643) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > Windows 2000 Advanced Server isn't really a use for all OS. As far as I know, > it's even a pre-64bit OS. Unless it can really run any Windows 2000 > executable, I don't think you can run BOINC on it. > > -------------------- > Jordâ„¢ > <img src="http://boinc.mundayweb.com/cpdn/stats.php?userID=2&trans=off"> > > Maybe you should let the developers answer that question - you obviously don't know much about W2K Adv Serv. It also appears that other MS OS are getting the identical error. - Maybe XP can't run BOINC either? I doubt it.
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran run-time error (Message 2641) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > There seems to be a number of folk encountering Visual Fortran runtime erorrs. > The guy with the HP machine who removed a bunch of the bundled software from > his machine has probably stumbled on the problem - DLL conflicts between the > CPDN app and a previously installed Visual Fortran application on the users > machine. > > I can guarantee there were no previously installed Visual Fortran applications on the W2K Adv Server that I installed BOINC/CP on, no third party (Dell, HP) bloat-ware.
12) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran Runtime error (Message 2621) Posted 2 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: > May be same problem in this <a> href="//climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=399">thread</a>. > > Not at all - This ia a Dell server that was loaded clean from W2K Adv Server CD without any of the Dell (or HP) crap.
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Errors when attempting to start workunit, see picture (Message 2607) Posted 1 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: Same issue as this thread http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=480
14) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran Runtime error (Message 2586) Posted 1 Sep 2004 by old_user1771 Post: W2000 Adv Srv, 2 HT enabled Xeon CPUs, Boinc 4.05, gets runtime error starting work units. (How can I paste a screenshot here?) forrtl: sever (17): syntax error in NAMELIST input, unit 57,file C:\READY\BOINC\projects\www.climateprediction.net5zg_000032769\jobs\spec3a_sw_3_asol2b_hadcm3 Image PC Routine Line Source hadsm3um_4.03_win 008ADE6F Unknown Unknown Unknown (then 5 or 6 more lines of similar stuff)