Posts by old_user6609

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Answer to Boinc (Message 4574) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: > I tried this trick, but it still keeps locking up. I also noticed that I now > have about 5 hosts with the same name but different IDs because of this issue. > And this seems to be a new "feature" with 4.09. I was running 4.05 in similar > situations and it wasn't going pscycho. I wonder if its something to do with > the HyperThreading processor in my PC. My "normal" P4 at the office is busily > chewing away at the CP job it has, and taking to Seti every once in a while to > see if there is any work. > I wonder how many WU of CP I've wasted, not to mention the one that was some > 2/3 of the way to completion. :( > > I feel for you, I lost about 45% of one. And I started several while trying to figure this out. A P4 Hyperthreaded will look like multiple processors to BOINC. There is a feature to combine computers on the site. But make sure that in your preferences you have 1 filled in for max number of processors used. if it is blank, I believe BOINC see it as a no preference and will try and use the "second" P4 in yout P4HT....
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Answer to Boinc (Message 4567) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: Ahhh found out. Have verified this, so I may have srewed up several results. CP works fine in conjuction with other projects such as seti when running on more than one processor. However if CP alone runs on a multi processor it hangs. What I did (so it can be repeated) I disconected myself from CP. Then re connected. It locked after downloading. If disconnected again, went to preferences on the cp site, and made sure that Boinc only used one processor. It was working running CP only again. So just to verify, I set the processors back to 2 and updated. Sure enough BOINC went non responsive after a download. So the moral of the story is, If you are not getting work from another project, and have more than one processor, you need to set your preferences to use only 1 processor. Once the other projects come back up I'n sure it will be fine to enable multi processors again.
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : CP Locking up Boinc (Message 4563) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: Detached from pirates first. No help. Detached from CP Boinc is running ok now... Something happened with either those work units, or the cp app as it wanted to download the cp app again. See above. Will try and re-attach later
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : CP Locking up Boinc (Message 4549) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: Forgot to add this is on a dual Pentium system running win 2K. Both processors are maxed in CPU usage.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : CP Locking up Boinc (Message 4547) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: Ok, I have some more info on whats happening... Boinc Locks (Non Responsive). I killed it and started again so I could get a good message log. It looks like is is downloading the hadsm app multiple times. Then is starts downloading a work unit, (Even though I have one that was running) and then hangs after the download of the work unit. Is the task manager Boinc_gui is running, hadsm3_4.03_win and hadsm3um_4.03_w are also running. Boinc remains unresponsive. Boinc View does show the task running. but nothing else. Here is the log 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.09 for windows_intelx86 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [Pirates@Home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [SETI@home] Project prefs: using separate prefs for home 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [climateprediction.net] Host ID is 9958 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [Pirates@home] Host ID is 1628 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [SETI@home] Host ID is 40900 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [---] General prefs: from Pirates@home (last modified 2004-09-22 16:11:45) 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [climateprediction.net] Resuming computation for result 2wzs_000157445_0 using hadsm3 version 4.03 2004-09-23 09:47:26 [climateprediction.net] Computation for result 2wzs_000157445 finished 2004-09-23 09:47:49 [climateprediction.net] Resetting project 2004-09-23 09:48:27 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more 2004-09-23 09:48:27 [climateprediction.net] Requesting 10219 seconds of work 2004-09-23 09:48:27 [climateprediction.net] Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:48:43 [climateprediction.net] Finished download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe 2004-09-23 09:48:43 [climateprediction.net] Throughput 90890 bytes/sec 2004-09-23 09:48:43 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:09 [Pirates@home] Resetting project 2004-09-23 09:49:09 [Pirates@home] Detaching from project 2004-09-23 09:49:11 [climateprediction.net] Finished download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:11 [climateprediction.net] Throughput 91380 bytes/sec 2004-09-23 09:49:11 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:16 [climateprediction.net] Finished download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:17 [climateprediction.net] Throughput 99789 bytes/sec 2004-09-23 09:49:17 [climateprediction.net] Started download of 2x1f_000157504.zip
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC hanging (Message 4546) Posted 23 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: Same problem Here. Here is the log file 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.09 for windows_intelx86 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [Pirates@Home] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [SETI@home] Project prefs: using separate prefs for home 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [climateprediction.net] Host ID is 9958 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [Pirates@home] Host ID is 1628 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [SETI@home] Host ID is 40900 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [---] General prefs: from Pirates@home (last modified 2004-09-22 16:11:45) 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:35:31 [climateprediction.net] Resuming computation for result 2wzs_000157445_0 using hadsm3 version 4.03 2004-09-23 09:47:26 [climateprediction.net] Computation for result 2wzs_000157445 finished 2004-09-23 09:47:49 [climateprediction.net] Resetting project 2004-09-23 09:48:27 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more 2004-09-23 09:48:27 [climateprediction.net] Requesting 10219 seconds of work 2004-09-23 09:48:27 [climateprediction.net] Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Project prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe 2004-09-23 09:48:30 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:48:43 [climateprediction.net] Finished download of hadsm3_4.03_windows_intelx86.exe 2004-09-23 09:48:43 [climateprediction.net] Throughput 90890 bytes/sec 2004-09-23 09:48:43 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:09 [Pirates@home] Resetting project 2004-09-23 09:49:09 [Pirates@home] Detaching from project 2004-09-23 09:49:11 [climateprediction.net] Finished download of hadsm3um_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:11 [climateprediction.net] Throughput 91380 bytes/sec 2004-09-23 09:49:11 [climateprediction.net] Started download of hadsm3se_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:16 [climateprediction.net] Finished download of hadsm3data_4.03_windows_intelx86.zip 2004-09-23 09:49:17 [climateprediction.net] Throughput 99789 bytes/sec 2004-09-23 09:49:17 [climateprediction.net] Started download of 2x1f_000157504.zip
7) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4491) Posted 22 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: Another thing I noticed is that SETI binary seems to be using gcc+, and the sun is a sponsor for them. Maybe the will run the make for you on the source. I don't havethe full gcc it installed on the systems here, but I do have the libraries needed to run seti. If needed I have one I can load up gcc on and run a compile. Feel free to contact me by e-mail. Since seti seems to be having a major problem with credits right now, I would dearly love to switch my sparcs to cp.
8) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4412) Posted 21 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: > > An older Ultra 1 should be found pretty cheap on the net. I've heard as > > little as $50 (us) > > I'm not sure that would be able to compile and run CPDN though? > > > I don't see why not. CP seems to need disk space more than anything. It would probably take longer that on a blade... But I don't see any reason that it couldn't. We use ours for heavy graphical analysis of semi-conductor imaging. Even though they are slower that the current P4's in some reguards. The sparc compile of the older ultra's should have no problem running on the blades. I now have seti running on 2 ultra 1's one ultra 10, 1 ultra 60, and a blade 1000. They see use here about once a month, so I can have BOINC crunching on them most of the time. Its not a pretty graphical, just a command line, but hey, It does crunch the data for you. Since the are workstations for my place of employment, I cannot loan them out for the compiling, or I would...
9) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Solaris Boinc (Message 4119) Posted 14 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: > Seti claims to have a Solaris copy of BOINIC: > > http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.php > > However, I've not had any luck downloading it. It attempts to download the .gz > file, then fails. > > Rich > > I am running the Seti Boinc on three sparcs at work. These are machines that get used a couple times a month. Other than they they just sit and take up electricity. I would love to see CP on Sparc also. An older Ultra 1 should be found pretty cheap on the net. I've heard as little as $50 (us)
10) Message boards : climateprediction.net Science : Any chance Climate Prediction will work on Solaris / SPARC (Message 4063) Posted 13 Sep 2004 by old_user6609 Post: Title says it all