1)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
WaH batches 996 & 1001 have been closed
(Message 70608)
Posted 5 Mar 2024 by wateroakley Post: I've received a Batch 995 WAH 8.24 retread from July 2023. wah2_nz25_20aa_209105_25_995_012220768. https://www.cpdn.org/workunit.php?wuid=12220768 Should this WU be crunched or abandoned, please? Thank you. |
2)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
couldn't start app: CreateProcess() failed. Check your antivirus.
(Message 70383)
Posted 14 Feb 2024 by wateroakley Post: It would be most helpful if we could identify which anti-virus products are reporting a detection. CPDN with a corporate McAfee anti-virus, 2005 to 2017. No issues to report. CPDN with M$ anti-virus (Defender) 2017 to 2024. No issues to report. Recent model/task crashes 2024, Nothing that I could attribute to the M$ anti-virus (Defender). |
3)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
EAS batches 1001-4
(Message 70274)
Posted 2 Feb 2024 by wateroakley Post: As requested, five EAS tasks from batches 1002 1003 and 1004 have been aborted. One NZ task from batch 1005 is still ticking along. The CPU fan has gone quiet! |
4)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
Weather@Home (WaH2) app issues & upgrade
(Message 70214)
Posted 27 Jan 2024 by wateroakley Post: Thank you for the update Glenn. |
5)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
EAS batches 1001-4
(Message 70198)
Posted 24 Jan 2024 by wateroakley Post: Two tasks finished succesfully. I've let just one task start and set 'no new tasks' while the contractor cracks on tomorrow with the solar and battery installation and commissioning.Most of the solar work is complete. Unfortunately, waking after 'hibernate' lost three of the five running tasks. The other two tasks should complete before the commissioning.I see the faster machines have started to return results. Still over 2 days till the first of mine finish but it does mean the number of tasks waiting to be sent from these batches is going down a little faster now.Two more days for the first tasks to complete here. They survived Storm Isha brown-outs yesterday evening. We have planned power outages tomorrow, for connecting the solar panels, battery and a new charger. So fingers crossed that the WAH models behave after 'hibernate'. |
6)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
EAS batches 1001-4
(Message 70190)
Posted 23 Jan 2024 by wateroakley Post: Most of the solar work is complete. Unfortunately, waking after 'hibernate' lost three of the five running tasks. The other two tasks should complete before the commissioning.I see the faster machines have started to return results. Still over 2 days till the first of mine finish but it does mean the number of tasks waiting to be sent from these batches is going down a little faster now.Two more days for the first tasks to complete here. They survived Storm Isha brown-outs yesterday evening. We have planned power outages tomorrow, for connecting the solar panels, battery and a new charger. So fingers crossed that the WAH models behave after 'hibernate'. |
7)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
EAS batches 1001-4
(Message 70179)
Posted 22 Jan 2024 by wateroakley Post: I see the faster machines have started to return results. Still over 2 days till the first of mine finish but it does mean the number of tasks waiting to be sent from these batches is going down a little faster now.Two more days for the first tasks to complete here. They survived Storm Isha brown-outs yesterday evening. We have planned power outages tomorrow, for connecting the solar panels, battery and a new charger. So fingers crossed that the WAH models behave after 'hibernate'. |
8)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
Completing a WU? Impossible. What am i doing wrong?
(Message 70009)
Posted 29 Oct 2023 by wateroakley Post: ... I can't leave it on and working 24/7.'Sleep' rather than 'power off' will keep the Windoze system in memory and works OK for me with WAH2 tasks. Additionally, manually control 'Windoze Update' with 'Pause' for as long as it will let you and restart the updates after the tasks have finished. 'Hibernate' should behave similarly, saving to disc, although I have not tested the feature with WAH2 tasks |
9)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
Batch 996 Weather@Home2 East Asia25
(Message 69942)
Posted 19 Oct 2023 by wateroakley Post: The five recalcitrant zips uploaded earrlier today. |
10)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
Batch 996 Weather@Home2 East Asia25
(Message 69909)
Posted 17 Oct 2023 by wateroakley Post: Hi all. Trying to upload one stubborn zip file, but no success. Is their server down or just overloaded?From 11 WAH tasks, we had ten upolads waiting yesterday afternoon and five waiting today. Looking in the event log: there are a lot of upload starts and temporary upload failures, interspersed with a few groups of uploads finishing. We have found that it is best to be patient with BOINC and CPDN. Unless told otherwise by those that know better, I'd let BOINC do it's own thing with a stubborn upload. |
11)
Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Computation error when BOINC halts
(Message 69368)
Posted 19 Jul 2023 by wateroakley Post: As for Windows automatic updates - they are an absolute pain, and should be blocked - others have suggested ways of doing this.I fully agree for experienced CPDN users. However, more than 50 years of computing experience tells me that there are many many users where forcing OS and application updates, especially security updates, is an imperative. |
12)
Questions and Answers :
Windows :
Computation error when BOINC halts
(Message 69354)
Posted 18 Jul 2023 by wateroakley Post: Is there a setting I need to check or something to keep this from happening?Pause 'Windows Update' for the maximum amount of time, that stops Windows annoyingly doing an update while CPDN tasks are runniing. 'Resume updates' after the tasks have fnished to keep the OS up to date, and then pause again. |
13)
Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
Off-Grid Solar/Renewable Energy Discussion
(Message 69102)
Posted 3 Jul 2023 by wateroakley Post: May I ask what yoiu would advise for a UK solar choice? Annually we use 7,000kWh, with 4,500kWh for home and 2,500kWh for EVs. That's down from 9,500kWh total use in 2017 We went down the local government group purchase route for solar. 20x 400W panels and 10kWh battery. £20K-ish with 8-12 years ROI. I'm a qualified electrical and electronic engineer, so can close out a lot of the BS. The solar implementation from the LA selected provider did not start well. Luckily, we got our deposit back. Say no more :( Any advice welcome. KR. W |
14)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
East Asia testing.
(Message 68932)
Posted 23 Jun 2023 by wateroakley Post: Five tasks downloaded on this WIN 11 PC. Four crashed almost immedlately with the event log complaining about missing output files. The four took took a little while to report and std.err complains about Segment violations. Number 5 task is ticking along nicely. After four hours the task is 2.1 per cent though, giving a run-time estimate of 189 hours or about 8 days. |
15)
Message boards :
climateprediction.net Science :
Climate change in the News
(Message 68774)
Posted 19 May 2023 by wateroakley Post: This is an interesting article I saw today. A very interesting read, Jean-David. I'll have to brush up on my atmospheric layer science (and the relevant maths). |
16)
Message boards :
Cafe CPDN :
Tropical cyclones modelling via DreamLab app
(Message 68582)
Posted 10 Mar 2023 by wateroakley Post: Unless there is a setting I haven't found, the Dreamlabs app only runs when the phone is charging. It can't be using a lot of power as phone doesn't warm up at all unlike if running BOINC with just two cores crunching. (when I run BOINC I stick to just one core because of that. Be interesting to see what speed the dreamlabs app runs on my Linux box though. (Currently downloading ISO.According to the FAQ, the App only works when plugged-in and powered. We downloaded a Monterey iso yesterday. If I get time over the weekend, will see if I can get the newer mac VM working with VirtualBox. |
17)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
OpenIFS Discussion
(Message 68346)
Posted 15 Feb 2023 by wateroakley Post: If anyone's interested, this is another task fail which is different to the turbulence failure mentioned earlier:It's earlier run of the workunit reported the same results for wind speed at the same step: https://www.cpdn.org/result.php?resultid=22307272 That's very reassuring that the science/physics/programmimg/perturbations give consistent results. |
18)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
no credit awarded?
(Message 68195)
Posted 3 Feb 2023 by wateroakley Post: Problems with files not downloading from download.cpdn.org have now been fixed so I'm told.The HadSM4 retread, that was pending in the transfers tab for several days, has downloaded and is 'ready to start'. |
19)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
The uploads are stuck
(Message 68138)
Posted 30 Jan 2023 by wateroakley Post: I'll mention it and see what response I get, credit is actually quite a pain for a project to have to manage from what I've learnt.Returning valid results for the researchers to analyze is the important matter, credit is a 'nice to have'. Others may think otherwise, but I won't mind if the credit update is rare or doesn't happen. |
20)
Message boards :
Number crunching :
OpenIFS Discussion
(Message 68050)
Posted 25 Jan 2023 by wateroakley Post: Thank you for the update Glenn. EDIT: PS. I've doubled the ubuntu VM disc to 200GB. That should give the VM enough disc headroom for all zips from the task backlog to be kept locally and upload at some point. Update: |
©2024 climateprediction.net