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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit anomalies (Message 40588)
Posted 4 Sep 2010 by Profile MacDitch
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Sorry to say that my active model is still MIA...
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit anomalies (Message 40559)
Posted 2 Sep 2010 by Profile MacDitch
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But if MacDitch is right about the task and WU numbers for his currently crunching model, it must mean that in at least this case the task page for an uncompleted model has disappeared.


I actually have two 'active' tasks that have gone missing. The real one is (re-post to confirm numbers!)

Task ID: 7934758
Work Unit ID: 6212331
Computer: 865981
I think it was ~60% complete at the time of the last upload, a week ago.

And the second model is:
Task ID: 7934793
Work Unit ID: 6212336
Computer: 865981

The second model is actually complete (Error@97%)and has uploaded from my computer months ago but showed up in the pending section (until the last few days) despite this.

I don't know if this helps or hinders really...
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit anomalies (Message 40550)
Posted 2 Sep 2010 by Profile MacDitch
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Silly question, but what will happen when I try to trickle-up models that have dissappeared? I'm assuming that I shouldn't try this until the restore has happened...

My current model is:
Task ID: 7934758
Work Unit ID: 6212331
Computer: 865981
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit anomalies (Message 40501)
Posted 1 Sep 2010 by Profile MacDitch
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If your credit doesn't look right, please post here and let me know the details. I will also need to know where you've been keeping track of it, e.g. by looking at your work page here or on a BOINC stats site.


If this is still a requirement...

CPDN Website: 180,883
BOINC Manager: 379,673.19
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Trickles and Credits (Message 34948)
Posted 9 Sep 2008 by Profile MacDitch
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Milo might need to dig out bigger boots - there\'s been no update for a couple of days again! I think the last BOINCstats recognised one was on the sixth...

[edit] Never mind, just saw Mo\'s message on the other board...[/edit]
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 66.666% (Message 30707)
Posted 26 Sep 2007 by Profile MacDitch
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I\'ve now rammed the 66.666% mark (end of 2nd phase) three or four times with no success. I guess the model is officially kaput. :(

So, in light of this fact, can anyone advise a \'graceful\' way of crashing the model or should I just abort it?

Cheers,
MacDitch
7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 66.666% (Message 30630)
Posted 22 Sep 2007 by Profile MacDitch
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Ok. I\'ll play with the back-up and see what I can do. Will let you know if it works!
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 66.666% (Message 30604)
Posted 21 Sep 2007 by Profile MacDitch
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Update:

Have also now done a full system reboot - with no visible benefit.

The \'something\' that I said the model does on restart is \"post processing\"; which it does for nearly five minutes. After this time it does nothing at all, and no graphic is available.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Stuck at 66.666% (Message 30601)
Posted 21 Sep 2007 by Profile MacDitch
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Hi. I\'ve got a model running offline (one of two on the machine) that was fine until it got to the end of the second phase. When it got there it did something (don\'t know what exactly) and then stopped. It did not produce a zip file or request internet access, just stopped running whilst still counting up the running time.

I\'ve tried restarting Bonic (several times now) but each time it shows activity in the task manager for a few minutes and then stops again.

Can anyone suggest a way to jump start this model? My most recent back up is several days old and would (obviously) cause me to re-work a chunk of the \'good\' model as well; which I would rather avoid.

For what it\'s worth:
Op. Sys. - Windows XP Pro
Boinc Ver. - 5.4.9 (I know it\'s out of date!)
Application - hadsm3 5.06
10) Questions and Answers : Windows : Losing my internet connection... (Message 26307)
Posted 23 Jan 2007 by Profile MacDitch
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If I simply use a different internet computer for the final upload will this work...

Yes, that should work. Simply transfer the entire BOINC folder to the other computer (same location as on current computer), then re-install the BOINC manager, and let it complete.

If you transfer via CD-ROM, make sure the files don\'t get set to read-only. Put them into a ZIP file, or use the Windows Backup utility to put them into a BKF file for the transfer.



Thank you all for your help. Moving the files to a new computer isn\'t a problem, it\'s what I currently do periodically to report, I just wasn\'t sure if I could report via a different machine from the one that originally downloaded the work.

As everyone says this will work, I\'ll complete the model and upload via whatever machine I can get my hands on. :)

Thanks again.
MacDitch
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : Losing my internet connection... (Message 26264)
Posted 22 Jan 2007 by Profile MacDitch
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I have been running this model for some time now and was eagerly looking forward to my first successful completion of a model. Then I got told my job was finishing. Soon.

Whilst the model doesn\'t run on my work computer (it was _way_ too slow!) I do use it to upload trickles and results as the machine that does run the model has no internet.

It seems a shame to discard a perfectly good model a mere week or so from the end, so my question is: can I report the results without the original computer?

If I simply use a different internet computer for the final upload will this work - or will the system get very confused and lose everything?
Otherwise, can I e-mail the folder from the boinc directory to the admins, or get the data back in some other way?

If anyone has a solution, or even just an idea, please let me know here.

Cheers, MacDitch
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Stuck in 1940... (Message 24145)
Posted 30 Aug 2006 by Profile MacDitch
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The model may have hit a snag, and the program is doing a rewind to try and correct it.
First a day, and retry.
Then a month and retry.
And finally a year, and retry.

If the problem is still there, then the model is supposed to abort, but there was a problem with some of then, and they didn\'t. They just keep going around the same months/year, endlessly.
These are called \"looping\" models.

Keep an eye on the date at close intervals, and if you see the same dates being repeated, then click the Abort button.
And better luck with your next model.




Well, I watched. I watched it reset three times to Dec 1st, 1939 and consistantly freeze on September 15th, 1940. The only way to get it to shift from 00:30 15:09:1940 was to exit and restart. :(

The plug has now been pulled and the wu laid to rest. R.I.P. hadcm3lbm_bfio_25302595
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Stuck in 1940... (Message 24133)
Posted 29 Aug 2006 by Profile MacDitch
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Keep going. It looks like it\'s one of those that reports, but the credits get only posted every so often. If you look at the trickles of the model, several were posted on one day, then several more posted on another day. They will post, eventually.



Sorry, I probably should have said that this machine only gets connected every so often, normal fortnightly. All the trickles that are showing, appeared within five minutes of being uploaded.

My actual worry is that the last (successful) trickle is for 1939, and I\'m still calculating 1940 now, a week later. Previously it was calculating just below one year per day...
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Stuck in 1940... (Message 24131)
Posted 29 Aug 2006 by Profile MacDitch
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One of my computers appears to be continually working out the results for 1940. I wasn\'t watching it too closely so I\'m not 100% but I expected it (on past performance) to be ~1946-7 by now.

It is producing trickle files (trickle_up_hadcm3lbm_bfio_25302595_0_11567….), which upload to the server, but they never appear on the trickle list. The last entry is 22-08-2006, but the computer transferred ~8 files on the 25th and a further 6 today!

Can anyone advise? Should I just kill this model?
15) Questions and Answers : Getting started : No Updates happening (Message 22680)
Posted 9 May 2006 by Profile MacDitch
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I\'ve just had another look at your model page, and there is 1 trickle, and the start of a graph.
The credits program only runs once a day, so it will be a while until you see it.
I\'m leaving the first section of notes, as they may give a clue as to why you\'re model is running so slowly.




Thanks for the info. The project was running as a minor/back-up (which is why it was so slow) but I have now bumped up the resource share to about 12hr/day and hopefully it\'ll be a lot happier.

I\'ve still got nothing interesting showing on my manager but I assume it\'ll filter through eventually.

Thanks again for your time.
16) Questions and Answers : Getting started : No Updates happening (Message 22676)
Posted 9 May 2006 by Profile MacDitch
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None of your four models have returned any data.
And the first 3 appear to have crashed.



I appreciate that the only model to download (the other three never made it to my machine) hasn\'t returned any data, but information on this website suggest that it should at approx. 12 hour intervals. As it has now had 47 hours of CPU time I would have expected it to return something....
17) Questions and Answers : Getting started : No Updates happening (Message 22671)
Posted 8 May 2006 by Profile MacDitch
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I\'ve started running climateprediction as well as some other projects that i already ran but I\'ve noticed that I never seem to get any credit. having just done a trawl through this website I\'m starting to think something is wrong....

My computer has spent 36hours on cp.net alone and has yet to register any credit, or be verified on any of the stats pages. Can anyone advise why this is?




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