Posts by HireMe.geek.nz

1) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A less daft SERVER STATUS page ... Uploads Blocked @ 3 days but not indicated AT ALL ... (Message 59378) Posted 10 Jan 2019 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: A less daft SERVER STATUS page ... Uploads have been blocked for ~3 days as of the UTC Timestamp(s) of this being posted. This is not indicated AT ALL on the SERVER STATUS PAGE ... as upload blocking is a very important error condition to mark or indicate as a fault. PROJECT STATUS 'so called' more SERVER STATUS however -- https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/server_status.php This blocking due to running out of disk space happens quite often, as at least on Metosim before it reaches 30pc uploads about 3 x ~89mb Work Units.
2) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Source Code of All Models : supplied via .torrent file @ screen saver directory level ... (Message 53616) Posted 9 Mar 2016 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Source Code of All Models (including the screen saver) : Made avalable via a .torrent file @ screen saver directory level (next to the executing climate model) ... so that one can use the torrent file to eventually view the source code of all of the climate models and screen saver. One should be able to choose to download this file via the options page where you choose what climate models you want to run. Putting the source code on GITHUB or SOURCEFORGE would be OK too ... no harm in that. The current mostly closed source model is somewhere between not a good idea and utterly reprobate. In the 2000s "BIG DATA" is helped by having an open source model.
3) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A Raspberry Pi 3 BOINC + Climate Model ! ARM is UK Tech! (Message 53614) Posted 9 Mar 2016 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: A Raspberry Pi 3 BOINC + Climate Model ! BTW : ARM CPUs are UK Tech! Raspberry Pi 3 Model B vs. Raspberry Pi 2 Model B \| RS Components --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Mls8BCgtE Currently the BOINC Client is not inculded in the defult build of Raspberry Pi LINUX. A branch version of BOINC will have to be ported, and some CPUID technology added so that it can tell the RPi 2 and RPi 3 apart. RPi 2 may be great for doing BOINC number theory maths and bitcoin hashing etc ... but only the RPi 3 has enough on board memory to do a climate simulation.
4) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Proposed Met Office Privatisation (Message 53613) Posted 9 Mar 2016 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Meteo Department privitizations the world over are a bit nebulous for the simple reason that the climate and weather prediction data sets are often forced into a PAY PER VIEW model like PAY TV ... AND IT DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE you can get similar weather and climate models from other govenment run Met Offices for free ... AND IT DOES NOT WORK BEACUE the PPV model means with near 99.9% certanty no subscribers and nearly instant bankrupcy and closure ... SO privitizaiton can only mean the UK leaving the weather forcasting business forever, a sort of permanant termination of weather and climate predicition self determination ... Oddly Enough : The British Empire was built when people had to have instinctive know how with respect to weather, climate and its variation yet it is doubtful that the UK would even be able to retain what remnants of empire it does have without climate predction WHERE IN THE EU DO YOU PAY FOR WEATHER FORCASTS? DCF77 TIME STATION --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77 Civil protection and weather forecast signal[edit] Since 22 November 2006 the DCF77 transmitter uses bits 1�14 to transmit warning messages and weather information. Under responsibility of the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (the German Bundesamt f�r Bev�lkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, BBK), warnings to the population can be transmitted using these 14 bits. As a further extension of the information content transmitted by DCF77, appropriately equipped radio clocks can provide a four-day weather forecast for 60 different regions in Europe. The forecast data is provided by and under responsibility of the Swiss company Meteo Time GmbH and is transferred in a proprietary transfer protocol. The same 14 bits are employed in a way that ensures compatibility with the transmission protocols of the warning messages. For decoding the weather forecast data a license is required. Since the bits previously reserved for the PTB are used, older radio clocks should not be affected by the weather data signal. BTW : DCF77 IS A SIMI-PRIVATE TIME STATION! Future and call sign The signal distribution contract between the PTB and the DCF77 transmitter operator Media Broadcast GmbH is periodically renewed. After negotiations in 2013 the PTB and Media Broadcast GmbH agreed to continue the dissemination of the German national legal time for the next 8 years. The PTB expressed it will initialize new negotiations if modernization activities at the transmitting station to improve the signal reception reliability throughout Europe by increasing the transmission power before 2021 are deemed necessary.[11] The call sign DCF77 stands for D = Deutschland (Germany), C = long wave signal, F = the longwave transmitters on the premises of the transmitting station Mainflingen (due to its vicinity to Frankfurt am Main), 77 = frequency: 77.5 kHz.
5) Questions and Answers : Wish list : BBC UK Meteo Department should do its own BOINC Weather Forcasting ... (Message 53612) Posted 9 Mar 2016 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: BBC UK Meteo Department should do its own BOINC Weather Forcasting ... with only limited involvement from climateprediction.net or the Met Office. This means a different BOINC project, run somewhere else in the UK. If one is just doing 10 day weather forcasts [and forward looking seasonal predictions] (model run days less than 90) there is less a need for Met Office dependancy. With near real time weather forcasting, one can use datasets from higher resolution weather monitoring networks -- just like the Met Office currently does. Using BitTorrent Files embedded into an RSS feed, the multimegabyte models can be distributed globally for nearly free. -- The update cycle for 10 day weather forcasts is 8 hours, and has been for 20 or so years. With a 5.5 to 6.2 hour work unit deadline this is not an issue, noting that the seasonal look ahead models should have 40 day deadlines. -- Most models would have computed in 3 modes : 1 degree + 1 gradiant +r 1/2 gradient in order to average out resolutional variations. -- Even with 15 minute time resolution, a 7 day global model will not be huge. Even at 1/4 Gradiant resolution and 10 minute steps the file will not become explosivly huge (100 mb+). -- Note that there is an assumption that Ensembles of 100 to 1000 models would be integrated into the released data sets. +++ SO LONG AS THE ADS ARE NOT OBTRUSIVE (NOR CULTURALLY DISTASTFUL) AND FOR UK MANUFACTURED GOODS ONLY -- Having some room for adverts in the screen saver would be OK. +++ ALL OF THE CLIMATE MODELS (and data sets where applicable) SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE -- THAT IS TO SAY THE GENENRAL PUBLIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO INSPECT THEM. THE BBC (as well as most other UK broadcasters and media outlets) need to embrace the open source movement as the UK has become impovrished to such an extent that closed source systems and services are no longer affordable for most of the population.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Operational Usage Bug : One version of WAH2 needs to be renamed! (Message 53611) Posted 9 Mar 2016 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Usage Bug : One version of WAH2 needs to be renamed! The two current WAH2 programs are very different binaries. One will probably work fine on the x86-64 CPU you have -- but probably not both. One application seems to work for my computer configuration, where the other crashes before reaching even 5%! ? ? ? ! ! ! Where is the renaming needed? 1. The website area where you choose what apps you want to run -- http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/prefs.php?subset=project This 1st option will be updated when the BOINC server is asked for a site upate, and only requires under 40 bytes (or less) of table text to be altered. 2. EQUALLY IMPORTANT : in the "Tasks" bar text column "Application". Only about 40 bytes of back end website text would need to be changed, so not a huge alteration. NB NB NB NB NB BOTH LOCATION NEED TO HAVE AND USE STANDARDIZED "CALL LETTER LIKE" NAMES FOR EACH OF THE APPS BEING RUN. WHY THE CURRENT PROBLEM EXISTS - Both apps have 7.08 Version Numbers! (as far as I can tell) APP NAME STANDADIZATION IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE EXTRA USER CONFUSION IS COMING WITH -- http://www.climateprediction.net/weatherathome/mexico/ NB NB NB Probably haveing 2 letters (after the WAH2) in the user interface is enough to tell the apps apart ... but 2 or 5 letters would really help to tell these apps apart best. Examples (WAH2-MX) (WAH2-ACE)
7) Questions and Answers : Windows : cpn probably not ready for the MS Win7 --> Win10 transition ... (Message 52066) Posted 21 Jun 2015 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: cpn probably not ready for the MS Win7 --> Win10 transition ... Mainly Microsoft is transitioning for free a huge number of Win7 computers to Win10. None of the codebases for any of the weather or climate sims are ready, as far as I know for this. Probably will not work -- Screensaver May work -- Climate sims that have no screensaver, but have very generalized x86 Win code. -- Climate sims that are 32 bit, not 64 bit. ...
8) Message boards : Number crunching : New 64bit SIM Apps mostly don't work on my 64bit system... (Message 51818) Posted 12 Apr 2015 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: CPU-Z TXT Report ---------------- Binaries -------- CPU-Z version 1.72.0.x64 Processors ---------- Number of processors 1 Number of threads 4 APICs ----- Processor 0 -- Core 0 -- Thread 0 0 -- Thread 1 1 -- Core 1 -- Thread 0 2 -- Thread 1 3 Timers ------ ACPI timer 3.580 MHz HPET timer 14.318 MHz Perf timer 3.215 MHz Sys timer 1.000 KHz Processors Information ---------------------- Processor 1 ID = 0 Number of cores 2 (max 8) Number of threads 4 (max 16) Name Intel Core i3 2120 Codename Sandy Bridge Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz Package (platform ID) Socket 1155 LGA (0x1) CPUID 6.A.7 Extended CPUID 6.2A Core Stepping D2 Technology 32 nm TDP Limit 65.0 Watts Tjmax 102.0 �C Core Speed 3292.1 MHz Multiplier x Bus Speed 33.0 x 99.8 MHz Stock frequency 3300 MHz Instructions sets : MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AVX L1 Data cache : 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size L1 Instruction cache : 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size L2 cache : 2 x 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size L3 cache : 3 MBytes, 12-way set associative, 64-byte line size FID/VID Control yes Turbo Mode not supported Max non-turbo ratio 33x Max turbo ratio 33x Max efficiency ratio 16x Max Power 84 Watts Min Power 60 Watts O/C bins none Ratio 1 core 33x Ratio 2 cores 33x Ratio 3 cores 33x Ratio 4 cores 33x TSC 3292.7 MHz APERF 3292.9 MHz MPERF 3292.9 MHz Thread dumps ------------ CPU Thread 0 APIC ID 0 Topology Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 0 Type 01020104h Max CPUID level 0000000Dh Max CPUID ext. level 80000008h Cache descriptor Level 1, D, 32 KB, 2 thread(s) Cache descriptor Level 1, I, 32 KB, 2 thread(s) Cache descriptor Level 2, U, 256 KB, 2 thread(s) Cache descriptor Level 3, U, 3 MB, 16 thread(s)
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending Credit Catchup Problem, for me ~150k owed or outstanding (Message 51673) Posted 23 Mar 2015 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Hi, as mentioned in other threads, pending credits is not used by CPDN Credits are granted based on trickle up messages sent by tasks as they progress meaning that even if a task crashes you still get credit based on work done. The pending credit figure is to do with the BOINC server program which insists on producing that figure. Because the pending credit system where used usually depends on a second computer sending in a result that corroborates the first one for a task sent in and CPDN doesn't send the same task to other computers except when the task fails to complete on the first one this will never happen so your "pending credit" will keep going up. That is not to say there aren't problems from time to time with credit on CPDN but in my experience credit is always given eventually. I am aware of the different nature of Climate Simulation work units vs most other work units. The BOINC system was somewhat redesigned to handle the "Unique Work Unit" parameter [that is the default setting with Climate Prediction] (as no other project, save the Earthquake Sensor etc does this). However, for work units that did not complete -- in order to keep user loyalty ... is it not good practice to grant credit for the Trickles Sent? In granting trickle credit, it also opens up a window for database cleaning and normalizing.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending Credit Catchup Problem, for me ~150k owed or outstanding (Message 51668) Posted 22 Mar 2015 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Pending Credit Catchup Problem, for me ~150k owed or outstanding. Is it a systemwide problem or some ongoing 3 month glitch? IF it is, consider giving people the credit with some extra Interest to make up for the delays and glitches. : ) Pending credit Result ID Workunit ID Host ID Claimed credit 14878645 8188236 1226576 3,005.88 15086314 7109514 1226576 2,386.39 15161269 8314438 1226576 2,386.39 15230057 7010456 1226576 2,386.39 15327523 8366330 1226576 2,386.39 15474443 7217749 1226576 3,005.88 15510108 7832166 1226576 3,005.88 15551776 7190910 1226576 2,244.09 15694889 8412530 1226576 12,441.60 15865126 8547160 1226576 12,441.60 16023262 8606347 1226576 12,441.60 16098477 8550803 1226576 12,441.60 16221257 8579315 1226576 12,441.60 16362956 8574544 1226576 12,441.60 16451583 8766944 1226576 5,974.74 16577474 8767829 1226576 5,974.74 16695489 8889772 1226576 5,974.74 16840839 8867349 1226576 12,441.60 17175048 8879948 1226576 5,974.74 17332641 9277215 1226576 5,974.74 17555167 9353824 1226576 5,974.74 17583294 9381294 1226576 5,974.74 17904507 9381133 1226576 5,974.74 18050363 9655962 1226576 402.61 Pending credit: 156,099.05
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Climate models are most happy with 3 CPUs ... (Message 48404) Posted 14 Mar 2014 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Climate models are most happy with 3 CPUs ... CPU# use suggested #1. For the Climate Simulation #2. For the Climate Simulation #3. For the Screensaver +++ WARNING THIS POLICY IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR 32 bit only SYSTEMS SEPARATE BINARIES WILL NEED TO BE COMPLIED FOR THE CLIMATE SIMULATION MODELS, SO THAT THEY RUN EXCLUSIVELY ON 2 CPUs It is doubtful that climatepredction.net will be able to get around to doing this until the Summer of 2014. +++ The more CPUs you use, the more credit the BOINC system gives you. So more CPUs is generally better, and the speed of the iterations may improve to a point of maybe 0.65s / Time Step
12) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Screen saver alternates between temp, precipitation and pressure... (Message 36019) Posted 26 Jan 2009 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: I have always wondered why the screen saver does not have an option to allow it to alternate between temp, precipitation and pressure... Being stuck with just temperature or pressure or precipitation makes the screen saver too boring. Random or Fixed switching, I don\'t care. Unit interval: Every 12 hours is fine, as the context switching costs CPU time.
13) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Authoritative guide to Global Climate Prediction simulation codebases, where is one? (Message 36018) Posted 26 Jan 2009 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Authoritative guide to Global Climate Prediction simulation codebases, where is one?
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Climate Prediction CPU (coprocessor) -- am I the only person doing this research? (Message 36016) Posted 26 Jan 2009 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Climate Prediction CPU (coprocessor) -- am I the only person doing this research? http://hireme.geek.nz/ \"Climate Prediction Coprocessor\" Running these climate simulations takes forever -- and it is about time for this to change. One should be able to pump out climate simulations like Astropulse work units. Max Power, CEO Power Broadcasting HireMe.geek.nz
15) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Website update: misleading icon text (Message 36015) Posted 26 Jan 2009 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: This image file ... http://www.climateprediction.net/images/Download_button_9.jpg needs to be updated to read [ Join / Login ] [ClimatePrediction.net]
16) Questions and Answers : Windows : Was I granted credit for this? (Message 33294) Posted 12 Apr 2008 by HireMe.geek.nz Post: Was I granted credit for this? http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=522752 And I need to delete an expired computer: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/show_host_detail.php?hostid=775006 But for whatever reason can\'t...