Posts by Natronomonas

1) Message boards : Number crunching : 55000 in pending credit...? (Message 31003) Posted 18 Oct 2007 by Natronomonas Post: There is no such thing in this Project as unawarded credit. You receive credit for each and every Trickle your machine(s) send up. \'Pending\' has to do with the many other boinc Projects which fail to award credit until multiple runs of the same work are reported. CPDN doesn\'t play that game; here, you do the work, you get the credit. Period. CPDN merely uses the general-purpose boinc template for the page you see. HTH. It does, thanks. I\'ll just ignore that link from now on : )
2) Message boards : Number crunching : 55000 in pending credit...? (Message 31000) Posted 18 Oct 2007 by Natronomonas Post: I just looked at my pending credit for the first time in some time - I\'m just about to bring online some new PCs for CPDN, having neglected it a bit recently. My pending credit says I\'ve 55,000 or so credit due. The weird thing is that some of it is from hosts I\'ve long since retired - like months or years ago. When I investigate the \'pending\' results, I think they all say that they have validated OK, e.g. http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=828422 was from a computer whose motherboard failed, and so the host no longer exists, but there\'s apparently 6.5k of credit sitting there in the pending credit, although the result ID says the credit has been granted? Can anyone suggest what might be going on? Thanks.
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : BOINC 4.43, OSX 10.4.2 attach project failure (Message 16764) Posted 25 Oct 2005 by Natronomonas Post: I\'m running OSX 10.4.2 with BOINC 4.43, and whenever I try to attach to CPDN I get \"bus error\". I suspect this is an OSX upgrade (10.4)/BOINC problem, not CPDN, but if anyone has any fixes I\'d love to know. I\'ll post at the BOINC site too in case they can help. Thanks!
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Totally Foxed First Timer (Message 16763) Posted 25 Oct 2005 by Natronomonas Post: edit: didn\'t see all the other posts for some reason... maybe my browser timed out or something. Anyway, I\'ll leave the post in although I\'m just re-answering the OP! Open a terminal window (/Applications/utilities/), then type ./boinc -attach_project (in the Boinc directory). This will run the benchmarks (a sub-program) to determine how good your CPU is. Once this has finished (it can take a while, especially on slower machines) you should be prompted for a project URL and your email/account key. Actually I think it does this before the benchmarks. Once its attached to a project is should just run (you can background it, there are various ways - google). I think you can also use a GUI interface with BOINC now - if you haven\'t, download this version, and it\'s all menu-based - should be easier if you\'re not used to command-line stuff. I use the Windows GUI - it\'s the best I think, but the OSX version is OK - certainly it makes installing BOINC a lot easier.
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Running BOINC as daemon/auto-startup process on Ubuntu (Message 8662) Posted 5 Feb 2005 by Natronomonas Post: why don't you run it as a cron job? this way, it will just start up every half hour (depending on how you configure the job) if it's not already running. For me, this was easier than figuring out startup scripts, and works fine since my machine is hardly ever rebooted. (If you were rebooting a lot, you would lose the 20 mins or whatever of crunching time before the cron job started, compared to startup, but for occasional reboots, the loss is minimal, and also means that if the process were to terminate for whatever reason while the PC was on, it is restarted automatically, instead of waiting for a reboot.)
6) Questions and Answers : Wish list : CPDN vs SETI credit (Message 6016) Posted 11 Nov 2004 by Natronomonas Post: Just did a quick calculation and for this machine (G4 800mhz) I\'m getting about 25% less credit per sec CPU time (0.00061 vs 0.00086) for CPDN work than SETI units. I\'m in this for the science mainly (scientist myself), but still would prefer a more balanced credit system between projects if possible : ) Anyone else have similar findings?