Posts by old_user31747

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Blue planet (Message 18426) Posted 19 Dec 2005 by old_user31747 Post: I lost the previous two sulphur units through a restart. Now I have a new one. After a few hundred timesteps, it looked like a normal globe with temperatures, pressure and so on. But now after 3000 or so timesteps, it is the same as the others, totally blue, with nothing in any field except for the snow toggling effect.
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Blue planet (Message 18246) Posted 15 Dec 2005 by old_user31747 Post: [quote]That\'s odd. Is it the same for every field. ( clouds, pressure, precip ) It seems to be the same for every field except that toggling snow causes white patches to appear and disappear. [quote] Have you tired running the standalone version. i.e sulphur_gfx* Now I have. The results are the same as with the graphics in Boinc Manager, except that the standalone version doesn\'t know who the user is.
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Blue planet (Message 18182) Posted 14 Dec 2005 by old_user31747 Post: Thanks, Knightrider, for the reference. It seems that the sulphur experiment needs version 3 of the visualisation software, which is not currently available for Macintosh. I\'ll be patient, and let them run.
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Blue planet (Message 18181) Posted 14 Dec 2005 by old_user31747 Post: And the next sulphur unit as well; totally blue, which I think means cold, and perhaps means no data.
5) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Blue planet (Message 18157) Posted 13 Dec 2005 by old_user31747 Post: A dual 2.5 Mac (10.4.3), the application library installed installed and the latest BOINC (5.2.13) downloaded. A sulphur unit downloaded, and apparently running well, though faster and faster (going from 3 to 2 seconds for a TS). But the planet is blue, as it has been on every previous version on this machine when the graphics have worked. Should I abort this, and try another? Scrub all my existing folders and start again? Give up? In a year I still have not completed an entire workunit.
6) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : System crashed, on restart BOINC downloads new model, won't work on old one (Message 9613) Posted 20 Feb 2005 by old_user31747 Post: > Sadly, there is no way to return to the old model unless you kept a backup of > the BOINC folder. The program is designed to rewind itself if there is a > possible computing error, but in some situations it will simply crash and > there is nothing the user can do about it. It can be very frustrating, so let > us hope that you were unlucky this time and the experience does not repeat. > It seems to me there are two situations (1) where the computer crashes, and (2) , much more frequently, where ther is a need to shut down the program because of needing to power off or restart to complete installation of a new (other) program. I have been able to shut off Boinc 2.13 by using control-C repeatedly over a couple of months, and the run has always restarted successfully. But I have just downloaded 2.19 to work on a new dual-processor computer, and each of the two times I have shut it off in the same way, the models have crashed leaving a message much like described by Frenchy (9101) (I have not been able to find a log-file on my computer; is there one?). I am obviously worried that the same will happen again, but at least I could plan by backing up the BOINC folder; could you describe the process of restoring from it? Presumably one would have to do the back-up before shutting down boinc. Thank you
7) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Terminal OK, but there is no visual? (Message 7103) Posted 30 Dec 2004 by old_user31747 Post: > To see the graphics of what is going on, open another terminal. Then go to > your boinc folder, then /projects/climateprediction.net/. Then enter ./viz. > This will open up a globe with the model that you are working on represented. > If you hit h, then it will show you some commands. > > This works fine on a 1Ghz Powerbook, but on my 450Mhz Cube, which also has other programs running, the visual comes up with the scale but without the globe on Temperature, and just with an outline globe on Precipitation and Pressure. is that just lack of processing power? Both running 10.3.7.