Posts by SuperSluether

1) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3 short - errors galore (Message 50546) Posted 17 Oct 2014 by SuperSluether Post: I just got another round of "short" tasks. Very odd behavior I'm seeing here. They all went to about 6.369%, then every few minutes switch between that and 100%, finally giving the Computation Error after 15 minutes. I looked in the Event Log, and it says that the output file was absent for these tasks. Not sure if that helps figure out what's wrong.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3 short - errors galore (Message 50388) Posted 7 Oct 2014 by SuperSluether Post: Just got 4 more errors on the 'short' application.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Can I abort threads not on my machine? (Message 50387) Posted 7 Oct 2014 by SuperSluether Post: Ok, so you don't need to worry about them? I had an issue with my secondary hard drive and lost my BOINC data with 3 'long' tasks on it.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : No Work?! (Message 50350) Posted 1 Oct 2014 by SuperSluether Post: I don't want BOINC using too much disk space. It's already using almost 20 GB when certain projects run. It is worth checking whether you have any model folders left in your BOINC/Projects/CPDN folder. This often occurs when tasks crash but at least on Linux boxes it was also happening for the Short models even when they completed successfully. When I noticed this, I was able to save 4GB of space by deleting the folders for reported tasks. By the time the ones I have in the queue are finished there will be another 3GB to clear. When not started CPDN tasks take up very little space - between 140 - 180MB currently on this computer. No, the ATLAS and vLHC use a lot of memory, and I had about 6GB for ATLAS at one point. It went back down now that BOINC switched to other projects, but I know that this project can take up space when it's running.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : No Work?! (Message 50344) Posted 30 Sep 2014 by SuperSluether Post: I also just noticed that on the Server Status page, there is no work generator server. Does this mean that work packets are created by actual scientists instead of generated by computers?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : No Work?! (Message 50343) Posted 30 Sep 2014 by SuperSluether Post: To reduce the chances of running out of work or to be realistic how often it happens, make sure that under <tools> <network usage> you have both minimum and maximum work buffer to 10 days which is the maximum allowed. I just re-attached the project when I found they had no work. I set my network buffer to 0.1 max additional 0.5 because I run many projects, and I don't want BOINC using too much disk space. It's already using almost 20 GB when certain projects run.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : No Work?! (Message 50335) Posted 29 Sep 2014 by SuperSluether Post: I know CPDN had an issue a while ago where everything was down for a while, but after they recovered they had work to send out. Just a few weeks (days?) ago, they had about 50,000 tasks from one application, and everything else was empty. Now there are 0 tasks ready to send out! What's going on?!
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran Runtime error (Message 49845) Posted 23 Aug 2014 by SuperSluether Post: There's no known reason, or cure. Why do computers have to be so random... (headshake) It's "Visual Fortran Runtime error", because this is the program language that's used for most of the programs here. It looks like Intel Visual Fortran Runtime is a version of C++.
9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Visual Fortran Runtime error (Message 49843) Posted 23 Aug 2014 by SuperSluether Post: Oh thank goodness, I'm not crazy. I have been having the same exact error all day! I have no idea what's causing it. When I abort the task, it shows the error a few more times, then says Computation Error on the BOINC Manager.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 49820) Posted 21 Aug 2014 by SuperSluether Post: Thank you. My credit looks a LOT more reasonable now for how many tasks I've completed. :)
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Extremely high work units done. (Message 49812) Posted 21 Aug 2014 by SuperSluether Post: This must be a bug or something. My credit just rocketed from 20,000 to 280,000 while my average credit went from somewhere in the thousands to 400. If this is just from my tasks, it sure took long enough to validate, and they are giving WAY too much credit for each task.