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Posts by Simon Marshall

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Screensaver preferences (Message 15373)
Posted 25 Aug 2005 by Simon Marshall
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I like the new screensaver with the rotating world, but I\'d like to be able to control how the screensaver behaves. For example, I\'d like to control the lat/long position shown centrally when the screensaver starts, so I could specify my location and for the world to be centred on it (a \"Napoleon\" setting perhaps). Otherwise, you can only clearly see your country if it is away from the poles. I\'d like to control how fast (if at all) the world rotates, and so on.

Given that the display engine can do these things, would it be easy to control them by preferences?

Thanks, Simon.
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : configuring screensaver - world view gets dark (Message 13510)
Posted 17 Jun 2005 by Simon Marshall
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Hi, I really like the options to change the info in the display window you get with Show Graphics from the BOINC Manager, e.g., W to make a world view. But a *big* pity you can\'t configure the screensaver from my preferences (like you can with SETI@Home).

Anyway, I figured, what if I change the display in a Show Graphics window to the world view, and then quit the window, does the change persist for the screensaver? The answer is: yes but the screensaver world view is very dark.

It\'s as if it\'s rendering the whole world as if in shadow, like it renders the edge of the disk when showing the world as a globe in the default view. I tried hitting \"B\" in the Show Graphics window but I can\'t work out what difference that actually makes.

Interestingly, the first time I do \"W\" in the Show Graphics window, it renders the whole world in uniform brightness. If I allow the screensaver to kick in, it renders the whole world in uniform darkness. If I then invoke the Show Graphics window again, this time it\'s in uniform darkness.

Any ideas?
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC 4.40 fails to suspend a project when switching (Message 12820)
Posted 24 May 2005 by Simon Marshall
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This still happens with 4.43, which is officially now the production version.
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC 4.40 fails to suspend a project when switching (Message 12674)
Posted 19 May 2005 by Simon Marshall
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I first reported this on the BOINC site for BOINC 4.32. I'm reporting it here because it only seems to happen with ClimatePrediction - I'm also participanting in Einstein@Home, ProteinPredictor@Home and SETI@Home - BOINC tries but fails to suspend hadsm3um_4.12 when its alloted time is up. I'm going to have to suspend my participation in the ClimatePrediction project if I can't get progress on this - my machine is getting hammered!

After a short while, I find 2 projects running when BOINC manager claims that only 1 project is running. For example, right now at 4pm local, Windows XP Task Manager tells me mfoldB125_4.28 (ProteinPredictor) and hadsm3um_4.12 (ClimatePrediction) are running, with elapsed run times of ~2mins and ~5hrs40mins, respectively. BOINC Manager tells me only mfoldB125 is running. My configuration is to allow only 1 at a time and to switch every 60 mins.

According to the messages window, at 10:14:06 it had suspended climateprediction.net. Presumably it failed to do so. Other projects then had some CPU time. At 14:22:25 BOINC again reported that it had suspended climateprediction.net. Interestingly, there is no intervening message saying that it had restarted climateprediction.net.

There appears to be some sort of scheduling bug. I hope the log snippet below is readable.

12/05/2005 09:14:06|climateprediction.net|Restarting result 3cga_200177677_0 using hadsm3 version 4.12
12/05/2005 09:14:08|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Started upload of h0007A_1_40675_2_0
12/05/2005 09:14:08|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Started upload of h0007A_1_40675_2_1
12/05/2005 09:14:09|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Finished upload of h0007A_1_40675_2_0
12/05/2005 09:14:09|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Throughput 6905 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 09:14:09|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Finished upload of h0007A_1_40675_2_1
12/05/2005 09:14:09|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Throughput 188439 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 09:14:09|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Started upload of h0007A_1_40675_2_2
12/05/2005 09:14:11|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Finished upload of h0007A_1_40675_2_2
12/05/2005 09:14:11|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Throughput 31384 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 10:14:06|climateprediction.net|Pausing result 3cga_200177677_0 (removed from memory)
12/05/2005 10:14:06|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Starting result h0007A_1_44283_0 using mfoldB125 version 4.28
12/05/2005 10:14:07||May run out of work in 1.00 days; requesting more
12/05/2005 10:14:07|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Requesting 11672.14 seconds of work
12/05/2005 10:14:07|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Sending request to scheduler: http://predictor.scripps.edu/predictor_cgi/cgi
12/05/2005 10:14:11|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Scheduler RPC to http://predictor.scripps.edu/predictor_cgi/cgi succeeded
12/05/2005 10:14:12|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Started download of h0007A_1_52104.ini
12/05/2005 10:14:12|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Started download of h0007A_1_52104.inp
12/05/2005 10:14:13|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Finished download of h0007A_1_52104.ini
12/05/2005 10:14:13|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Throughput 3177 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 10:14:13|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Finished download of h0007A_1_52104.inp
12/05/2005 10:14:13|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Throughput 460 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 10:14:13|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Started download of h0007A_1_52104.seq
12/05/2005 10:14:13|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Started download of h0007A_1_52104.res
12/05/2005 10:14:14|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Finished download of h0007A_1_52104.seq
12/05/2005 10:14:14|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Throughput 4149 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 10:14:14|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Finished download of h0007A_1_52104.res
12/05/2005 10:14:14|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Throughput 10 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 11:14:14|SETI@home|Restarting result 28ja05ab.22588.258.903410.243_1 using setiathome version 4.09
12/05/2005 11:14:14|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Pausing result h0007A_1_44283_0 (removed from memory)
12/05/2005 11:22:08|SETI@home|Computation for result 28ja05ab.22588.258.903410.243_1 finished
12/05/2005 11:22:08|Einstein@Home|Restarting result H1_0844.5__0844.6_0.1_T02_Fin1_2 using einstein version 4.79
12/05/2005 11:22:09|SETI@home|Started upload of 28ja05ab.22588.258.903410.243_1_0
12/05/2005 11:22:11|SETI@home|Finished upload of 28ja05ab.22588.258.903410.243_1_0
12/05/2005 11:22:11|SETI@home|Throughput 70738 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 12:22:08|Einstein@Home|Pausing result H1_0844.5__0844.6_0.1_T02_Fin1_2 (removed from memory)
12/05/2005 12:22:08|SETI@home|Starting result 19dc04aa.1338.19072.840898.66_3 using setiathome version 4.09
12/05/2005 12:22:13||May run out of work in 1.00 days; requesting more
12/05/2005 12:22:13|SETI@home|Requesting 65613.52 seconds of work
12/05/2005 12:22:13|SETI@home|Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
12/05/2005 12:22:14|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded
12/05/2005 12:22:15|SETI@home|Started download of 28ja05aa.29476.9458.586070.93
12/05/2005 12:22:24|SETI@home|Finished download of 28ja05aa.29476.9458.586070.93
12/05/2005 12:22:24|SETI@home|Throughput 39599 bytes/sec
12/05/2005 13:22:24|SETI@home|Pausing result 19dc04aa.1338.19072.840898.66_3 (removed from memory)
12/05/2005 14:22:25|climateprediction.net|Pausing result 3cga_200177677_0 (removed from memory)
12/05/2005 14:22:25|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Restarting result h0007A_1_44283_0 using mfoldB125 version 4.28
12/05/2005 14:45:40|ProteinPredictorAtHome|Computation for result h0007A_1_44283_0 finished
12/05/2005 14:45:40|Einstein@Home|Restarting result H1_0844.5__0844.6_0.1_T02_Fin1_2 using einstein version 4.79




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