Posts by john

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Long Project and other working projects disappeared, now few tasks performing. Questions. (Message 60678) Posted 19 Jul 2019 by john Post: Circa 1 July 2019 I had 8 tasks working, with several others pending, and one of the working tasks had gone on for over 100 days and had 10s of days to go. Two weeks later, all of my working AND pending projects were gone, I had two now-working new projects, and I see today (18 July 2019) that one of those two dropped off the twig. Question 1: How can I find out the status of the projects that disappeared? Question 2: Was it my breath?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : We're back! (Message 58372) Posted 12 Jul 2018 by john Post: My completed (for months) tasks finally disappeared, so I assume they uploaded. Credits dropped from 5.8 million to 5 million, but I understand that the credit problem is being fixed. I added the new URL and deleted the old project. Question 1: Do I need to do anything else to start crunching numbers again? Question 2: How can I check to see that my completed tasks did in fact upload? Question 3: More of a curiosity -- With getting rid of the old project URL and adding the new one, will I be starting from zero in terms of credits, or will the old ones eventually migrate over?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54346) Posted 19 Jun 2016 by john Post: meantime, everything is running OK with BOINC and the new memory so far...next week I'll allow 100% CPU processing to enable all 8 CPUs again and see what happens. Jack it up to 100 percent now. You're good to go.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54343) Posted 19 Jun 2016 by john Post: I avoid Win10 on my dedicated PCs where I do the crunching for a variety of reasons, but the main one is that you lose control over driver upgrades." Actually, you need to read the end user agreement for Win10. You lose control over everything. Windows has the right to go through your computer and delete what it considers to be counterfeit programs and content. It goes through your data and e-mails to "improve services." Windows 10 is a massive invasion of privacy, period. Everyone who has actually read the EULA has rejected it in my circle.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54340) Posted 18 Jun 2016 by john Post: "OK....Now running with the new RAM. 32GB installed....unfortunately I didn't read the fine print and with Windows 7 Premium only 16GB is usable" Whaddi say? huh? HUh? Tol' ya to take out the six gig of mismatched RAM and put in 8 gig of matched RAM! "Art!" I sez, "take out the 2-gig stick and the 4-gig stick it is paired with." But did Art listen to me? Noooooo. Can't listen to john, HE isn't worth listening to. Oh sure, they pay LIP service to me, "Tip o' the hat" he sez, but actually LISTENING to me? Can't be bothered, canne now? But nooooooooooooo, mister "I splurged" (that's wha ya do in a loo innit?) he sez. Throwing his money around and rubbing it in our faces, I say. Well, serves him right. Carrying on like that Bet he threw out the mismatched RAM too! "Na good enuf" I can hear his say! "Out with it"! Oh Lord. I. thy humble servant.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54331) Posted 16 Jun 2016 by john Post: Try removing the six gig of mis-matched RAM and see what happens.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54327) Posted 15 Jun 2016 by john Post: The computer should make the faster sticks throttle back to the speed of the slower sticks automatically. No settings adjustments needed. Just make sure that any time you open your machine you have absolutely no static.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54326) Posted 15 Jun 2016 by john Post: Just for shits and grins: Before you replace all four RAM sticks, take out the 2-gig stick and the 4-gig stick it is paired with. Then try to run the I7 at full load. You may have some delay when you try to come in with some other task, but this is a test. See if you have errors running on 8 gig of RAM where the RAM is matched. FYI -- recommendation is that one has at least 1.5 - 2 gig of RAM per core. But as the old saying goes, you're never too thin, too rich, or have too much RAM. Unless it's unbalanced, mis-matched RAM that is. You may be better with 8 gig of matched RAM than 12 of mis-matched RAM.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54317) Posted 15 Jun 2016 by john Post: I would swap out the two gig RAM stick and the 4 gig RAM stick that it is paired with. No need to take out all four sticks of RAM (except to clean out the dust, which is a good idea). I would then replace those 2 sticks of RAM with 2 four-gig sticks of the same brand and specifications as the two that remain in the machine. I am utterly baffled as to why HP would put in 3 4-gig RAM sticks and 1 2-gig stick. I am sure there was some subtle software change somewhere that is failing due to your RAM configuration and is carrying over into your CDPN stuff.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Intel I7 Woes....No successful completion since April 2015 (Message 54311) Posted 15 Jun 2016 by john Post: I have an I7 at (I think) 2.6 GHz. Running Climateprediction as my sole project with few errors that I didn't cause. Using all 8 (4 real, 4 hyperthread) CPUs at 100 percent of capacity (if I remember correctly). I'm running Win7 sp1. I saw that you have 14 gig of RAM reported by Windows and it passed a memtest. On a lark I checked mine, and it reported 16 gig of RAM. Do you have 4 MATCHED 4 gig sticks of RAM? I'm wondering if you're getting an imbalance somewhere that's causing your projects to crash. Computers with non-symmetrical RAM capacities, or even just mis-matched RAM sticks, can get real finicky real fast. Did you change your RAM? I didn't read the whole thread through.
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : Where to look for data to delete? (Message 50532) Posted 14 Oct 2014 by john Post: I am running win7 64-bit (all updates) on an i7 CPU with 2 hard disks. BOINC 7.2.42 (x64). I thought I had set up BOINC so that it was on a partition of my second drive and was saving everything to there. Now I find, however, that it isn't saving data to the second disk, but using the C: drive on my first disk. Now that I'm temporarily out of work to process, I want to find out where BOINC is storing my work so I can delete the data (already uploaded to the climateprediction.net server) and change the preferences. So: 1. Where does BOINC typically store data on the C: drive if it's disregarding the installation directory? and; 2. Where in my installation files is the data storage instruction stored? I'd like to change things before my C: drive gets too full.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : ANOTHER UPLOAD PROBLEM (Message 50204) Posted 16 Sep 2014 by john Post: uploader.oerc is down. Is that why I have 16 files ready for transfer/uploading and yet are backed off?
13) Message boards : Number crunching : .zip files absent? (Message 50138) Posted 12 Sep 2014 by john Post: 9/11/2014 10:03:28 PM \| climateprediction.net \| Output file hadcm3s_1cqs_2001_2_008991910_1_1.zip for task hadcm3s_1cqs_2001_2_008991910_1 absent 9/11/2014 10:03:28 PM \| climateprediction.net \| Output file hadcm3s_1cqs_2001_2_008991910_1_2.zip for task hadcm3s_1cqs_2001_2_008991910_1 absent --------------------- Can anyone tell me why .zip files should be absent? I can understand failing to upload, aborting from errors, etc., but absent?