Posts by Roger Bates

1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Calculation corrupted when more than 1 User account active (Message 37922) Posted 2 Sep 2009 by Roger Bates Post: With the way BOINC is installed on the Mac I don\'t believe it is possible to control the installation to run as you have described for Windows. As a Macintosh developer, I believe I have to tools and knowledge to move the BOINC entry in the systems \"Login Items\" list (causes BOINC to be started for all users), and move it to the specific user \"Login Items\" list for the user account I use on a regular bases. I am offering these comments so your developers for the Mac version of this program might be aware of this issued that I believe is very seldom encountered by users, but they might non-the-less like to address in the future.
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Calculation corrupted when more than 1 User account active (Message 37917) Posted 30 Aug 2009 by Roger Bates Post: I have more than one user account on my Mac. If I switch users then two users accounts will be active at the same time. The Mac OS will launch a new set of processes for each user account active, but they ALL work on the BOINC Data file stored in Library/Application Support. This does not always corrupt the simulation data, but it has done this twice now, which is why I tracked down the issue. The work around is simple. I can logout of one account before opening the next, or I can Quit or Pause the BOINC Manager before switch user accounts. I have also started to do daily backups of the BOINC Data files so I can restore files from an earlier date is something still goes wrong.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Good news for Mac users. HadAM3P Latest News??? (Message 37549) Posted 26 Jul 2009 by Roger Bates Post: I have just completed my first two HADAM3P v6.0.8 simulations. One seemed to complete properly. Result ID 8784020 Workunit ID 6351126 Host ID 991942 The other is stuck on "Ready to Report" Result ID 8784038 Workunit ID 6351130 Host ID 991942 This is after about 8 hours wait. Is this normal?? If not is there something I can do to get the process to report properly. P.S Running iMac dual Intel running Tiger 10.4.11 Roger Bates