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21) Message boards : Number crunching : Announcement: Database residual problem - misallocated WUs (Message 14285)
Posted 11 Jul 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
>
> Greetings from Andorra.
>
Josgre62,
Howdy from Austin, Texas. I want to see if I can persuade you to turning a small 5% or 10% of your CPU time to doing SETI for a week or two. We have a little cross team situation that you could make a big difference on ;-)

See <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11539#11539/href">this</a> thread on the BOINC Synergy forums for more info or you can get a hold of me at my <a href="http://home.austin.rr.com/skipsjunk/html/contact.html">website</a>. Thanx, Skip

<img src="http://www.boincsynergy.com/images/stats/comb-134.jpg">
<br>Click <a href="http://home.austin.rr.com/skipsjunk/html/boincdv.html">HERE</a> for the most current version of BoincDV.
22) Questions and Answers : Windows : Duplicate Computer Names/Merge hosts problem (Message 12369)
Posted 7 May 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; With the projects one and only programmer so busy with the science part, it is
&gt; unlikely that problems such as this will be even thought about anytime soon.
&gt;
&gt; The 'glitch' was a change in the way that BOINC checks the processors internal
&gt; type info and 'publishes' it. I think it was an attempt to fix an earlier
&gt; problem with extracting the data, and it has created another problem.

CPDN has an additional problem that didn't show up on the other projects. I changed CPUs in one of my machines and was able to merge it back with the old host on LHC (and I think on all the projects except CPDN, will confirm). It doesn't seem to want to merge "AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+" and "AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm)" even though everything else is the same.
23) Questions and Answers : Windows : Best way to remove old machine from project.... (Message 12368)
Posted 7 May 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
Latest DEV version of BOINC (4.37) has option, by project, to set "No New Work". Otherwise you can also create a different profile (venue) and set it to 0 days between connects. Assign old machine to that profile and it'll get no further work.
24) Questions and Answers : Windows : Climate prediction trying to update by connecting to SETI server?! (Message 10710)
Posted 11 Mar 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
Exit BOINC and go to your BOINC folder/directory.
Open Windows Exporer and on the file Account_ClimatePrediction.net.xml right click.
Select Open with...
Select NotePad

Check and correct as needed these 3 lines:

http://climateprediction.net/
5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx0
climateprediction.net

I think what you have is cross-linked the projects... I've done it before but I don't know how I got there. You might also want to check the account....xml files for the other projects you are attached to.

Hope this solves it for you, Skip
25) Questions and Answers : Windows : alpha versions 4.2x require signed files (Message 10451)
Posted 6 Mar 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; There is a workaround for this... Check <a> href="http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=11887"&gt;this</a> out
&gt; for a full explaination.

Yea, but the link is to the "all my servers are down" site ;-)
26) Questions and Answers : Windows : alpha versions 4.2x require signed files (Message 10029)
Posted 26 Feb 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; &gt; Any chance CPDN will be correcting this soon?
&gt;
&gt; Yes. Where "soon" is an unknown period of time. They are a bit short staffed
&gt; at the moment, and are
&gt; concentrating on getting the Sulphur Cycle model finished. Which is in a few
&gt; weeks.
&gt;
&gt; BOINC v4.19 is it until you get a "message from the server". And 4.19 has
&gt; known problems with certain proxies.
&gt;

OK, I'll just suspend CPDN for awhile and check back later. Thanx.
27) Questions and Answers : Windows : alpha versions 4.2x require signed files (Message 10012)
Posted 25 Feb 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
I can not get a new work unit on two of my machines because the input files are not signed as required by all versions of BOINC &gt; 4.19.

Any chance CPDN will be correcting this soon?

Thanx, Skip

PS: See LHC messages for lots of details
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/forum_thread.php?id=1141
28) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC icon not showing in systray (sometimes) (Message 10011)
Posted 25 Feb 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
Instead of rebooting you can usually just logoff and logon and your systray icons will all show up... usually ;-)

29) Message boards : Number crunching : Bad for CPU to run 100%, 24/7 @ 62 degrees? (Message 10009)
Posted 25 Feb 2005 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; &gt; Could I please add my name to Graham's question - how do all of you
&gt; measure
&gt; &gt; the temperature? Should everyone running cpdn 24/7 be doing this,
&gt; whatever it
&gt; &gt; is?
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; I just occasionally feel the temp of the air coming out of the back with
&gt; my
&gt; &gt; hand. I clean inside and out from time to time with a mini paint brush
&gt; and
&gt; &gt; vacuum cleaner.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;
&gt; Try SpeedFan, it's what I use.
&gt; http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Or MotherBoardMonitor, MBM, last version I got was MBM5370.exe
It will monitor fans speeds, temps, etc. etc. with various options for display and alarms and the ability to adjust how often it polls for the data. On my "warmer" machines I run it from startup as a systray icon and let it keep logs.

Skip
30) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Deleting a host (Message 4802)
Posted 29 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
I have retired host #19182 as it was a 199Mhz P1 w/ 64Mb running Win98. It shows TC = 0, RAC = 0 and "No trickles!" but when I try to delete it it says "error: existing results". Can ya'll delete it for me or do something so I can delete it?

Thanx, Skip Da Shu
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31) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Signature test thread to test siggy with cpdn.. (Message 4161)
Posted 15 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
hopefully...
<img src="http://www.setisynergy.com/images/stats/5383cpdn.png">
32) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Signature test thread to test siggy with cpdn.. (Message 4157)
Posted 15 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
Hmmmm

<img src="http://www.setisynergy.com/images/stats/5383cpdn.png">
33) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Signature test thread to test siggy with cpdn.. (Message 4156)
Posted 15 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
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34) Questions and Answers : Wish list : BOINC / Project - user defined base priority variable for win (Message 4154)
Posted 15 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
I would like the ability to set the process priority running windows gui version. For example \"low\" is ok for some machines but on dedicated basket crunchers I\'d like to define that to something higher... like \"below normal\" or \"normal\". It would have to be host level so maybe as an option under the \"settings\" menu or at the host/project level by adding to the right click on a project menu.

Thanks, Skip

Win XP and 2K

35) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Ability to delete a not used workunit (Message 4153)
Posted 15 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; And on a not totally unrelated subject, it would be nice to be able to
&gt; 'retire' PCs. I retired a celeron 1100 in favour of a 3GHz P4 last week, but
&gt; it won't let me merge it as I have no other PC with the same name, and it
&gt; won't let me delete it (Error: existing results) because it did return some
&gt; trickles, during alpha and beta testing. Also I reformatted a linux box the
&gt; other day and put XP on it but it won't allow me to delete (Error: existing
&gt; [linux] results) the old version of that either. Topics that need to be
&gt; addressed some time.

Ditto. The box I want to delete is 19182 and it only has error'd w/u associated with it while trying to run BOINC 4.07 on win 98SE. Can ya'll deleted it and it's associated errored work units?



36) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Boinc memory footprint (Message 3973)
Posted 12 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
37) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Boinc memory footprint (Message 2854)
Posted 3 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; Maybe they took this out of the email they send out when you join, but my
&gt; email (invitation to join beta) explicitly said that CPDN would take up 50 MB
&gt; of RAM as well as up to 500 MB of hard drive space. And of course there is
&gt; the whole 1 month to process a work unit... I hope they didn't take it out
&gt; because I think people should be warned. CPDN is not for the faint of heart
&gt; :) 50 MB isn't much for me to spare (have 1 GB) but I can see it being a
&gt; problem for older systems.
&gt;

I remember some time ago seeing this now that you mention it. Probably on the board before the project opened up. It definitly eliminates my oldest machine a 200mhz thinkpad with 64Mb and a 3Gb drive. Thanks for the reminder. I've been blanketly adding this project on the other boxes as I went to 4.05 and probably would've done the same on the antique.

Skip
38) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran run-time error (Message 2786)
Posted 3 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; &gt; Ditto on my XP Pro, SP2, AMD XP3200+ @2.23Ghz w/ 1G ram. I have screen
&gt; prints
&gt; &gt; and the stdtxt, stderr files if someone wants to provide an email address
&gt; to
&gt; &gt; send them to.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Interesting thing is I'm running the same account/combo of BOINC 4.05 w/
&gt; CPDN,
&gt; &gt; SETI &amp; PREDICTOR on 5 other machines and the combo of BOINC 4.05 w/
&gt; SETI
&gt; &gt; only on 4 more machines and am only haveing problems with this one.
&gt; These
&gt; &gt; vary from a Dell P2 @ 400Mhz to P4s @ 2.8Ghz machines. Most running XP
&gt; Pro SP1
&gt; &gt; but some with NT Server and 1 Win 2K SP4 and 2 with XP Pro SP2. The
&gt; other two
&gt; &gt; with XP Pro SP2 are AMD XP24s.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; The prior day it crapped out a couple HADSM runs early and ask if I
&gt; wanted to
&gt; &gt; send a report to MS (I declined the generous offer) but I didn't capture
&gt; any
&gt; &gt; info then due to time constraints.
&gt;
&gt; After reading the cross post (Carl in Germany) I checked and found out one
&gt; thing different on this machine... it's the only one using the SP2 firewall
&gt; the other two are using Norton Internet Security. I'll change that and see
&gt; what happens over the next 24hrs.

No good first time it started up with a new HADSM3 task it gets the fortran error right away and sits. If I ok, or suspend/unsuspend it starts back up and gets the error in under 3 seconds.... Looking for other ideas.

39) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Boinc doesn´t start the modell (Message 2776)
Posted 2 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; &gt; might be possible. I noticed some checksum errors earlier. But I tried
&gt; to
&gt; &gt; reset the project...no it says:
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; climateprediction.net - 2004-08-28 15:35:44 - Message from server: No
&gt; work
&gt; &gt; available (daily quota exceeded)
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Will try again tomorrow - so far its SETI instead of CP ;)
&gt;
&gt; Ah, yes. Carl set a <a> href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=252&amp;post=1730#1370"&gt;daily
&gt; download limit</a> of 4 work units per machine after somebody managed to eat
&gt; up 5,000 during the beta test ;)

I fixed my firewall problem yesterday and am still getting the 'daily quota exceeded'. What's it take to reset this? What are the timing rules... 24 hours from when?

Skip
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Unexpected problem downloading files (Message 2775)
Posted 2 Sep 2004 by Profile Skip Da Shu
Post:
&gt; Same Problem here. After detaching and reattaching several times I was able to
&gt; download without checksum error.
&gt; But when the client starts to work I get a strange error pop-up-box. The title
&gt; bar reads: "Visual Fortran run-time error"
&gt;
&gt; and it goes on: "forrtl: severe(17): syntaxerror in NAMELIST input, unit 57,
&gt; file
&gt; %boincpath%/projects/climateprediction.net/61h_000032843/jobs/spec3a_sw_3_asol2b_hadcm3"
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; Does anyone know what this means?
&gt;
&gt; The client stops crunching after this message and hangs at 1 sec. CPU time.

Had same problem and it APPEARS to have been the Win XP Pro SP2 Firewall. The other boxes using NIS firewall don't have the problem. Trying to get CPDN W/Us to confirm but SETI and LHC are working fine now.


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