Posts by James McDonald

1) Message boards : Number crunching : tasks restarted at 0% after sitting at 100% (Message 51125) Posted 5 Jan 2015 by James McDonald Post: Ok. Thanks.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : tasks restarted at 0% after sitting at 100% (Message 51123) Posted 5 Jan 2015 by James McDonald Post: Belay that. I think maybe I did get credit for those runs. How would I know? My account page shows 13.35 completed runs, but I don't know if those 5 are among them.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : tasks restarted at 0% after sitting at 100% (Message 51122) Posted 5 Jan 2015 by James McDonald Post: The tasks were for Africa 7.22, so that seems relevant. But the symptoms were different from what you describe. Although the tasks reached a reported level of 100%, results were never sent back, I think I got no credit, and each of the tasks resumed computing, but back at 0%. As far as I can tell, the final results just vanished, but the CPU and clock timers kept going from their old values as the computation started over from scratch.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : tasks restarted at 0% after sitting at 100% (Message 51115) Posted 4 Jan 2015 by James McDonald Post: I had eight tasks running in parallel. After about 202 hours of elapsed time, for about 192 hours of compute time, five had reached 100% with estimated remaining shown as "..." After half an hour or so this situation had not changed, except that elapsed time and compute time both kept increasing. For other reasons, I then rebooted my machine, and all the tasks went back to 0% completed, but still with 202 hours of elapsed time. The estimated remaining was now 86000 hours (apparently a maximum value). When they had again run to the point where about 0.25% was completed, the estimated time to completion began to drop below 86000, as expected. Does that mean 1000 cpu-hours were just wasted on those five tasks? Should I expect the same on the other three when they reach 100% ? Is there any point in letting the original five run again? This is my first foray into climate prediction, so I'm not inclined to waste more cycles until I understand what happened. I'm running a MacBook Pro with one Intel Core i7 processor, 4 cores hyper-threaded, with 16 GB of memory and 1 TB of SSD.