Posts by old_user87683

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : How to assign a priority to one task/project (Message 42754) Posted 4 Aug 2011 by old_user87683 Post: You can give a project a higher share of CPU time by adjusting the \'resource shares\' of the project. They start at 100 each, so if you change one of them to \'300\', then the adjusted project will be getting 3 times the CPU time of the other project. This is done via the website: * Your account / participant * (Project) preferences * Edit * Adjust resource share to whatever you want * Save Now go to the Boinc manager * \'Projects\' tab * Click once on the project you changed the settings for * \'Update\' button I am stuck, as well. The ability to EDIT project preferences seems to no longer exist. Running two projects, ClimatePrediction and Malaria (new to both). Malaria shows a 100 resource share will CP is only 1. To get CP to run at all, I've stopped receiving Malaria tasks completely. Effective but not desirable long-term. I really want to change this but can find no way of doing so in the manager or in my account settings (even after reading these posts). I've been through both repeatedly and found no solution. What am I missing? Or am I looking in the wrong place? Found the answer: The EDIT is on the BOINC pages, not on the CP.net site.
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Win98 now crashing on HADSM3 4.13 WU\'s (Message 16707) Posted 22 Oct 2005 by old_user87683 Post: Not even Microsoft supports Win98 anymore. Well, mostly true. They still support as far as bug fixes, etc. are concerned. Win98/ME hasn\'t worked with cpdn since March. I could be wrong, but unless there is a windfall of free time for the IT people, I doubt that CPDN will ever work again with those OS\'s. So you\'re saying I AM an ugly, smelly, stupid, unwanted, red-headed stepchild? :) Kinda figured that but had to ask. I WAS planning on upgrading soon to Win98 SE. Guess I\'ll need to go a bit further to continue with the project, huh? :>
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Win98 now crashing on HADSM3 4.13 WU\'s (Message 16696) Posted 21 Oct 2005 by old_user87683 Post: I finally stopped receiving Sulphur Cycle WU\'s and got back to the HADSM ones, and they crash too! What a poor fellow to do? I just wanna use my CPU cycles for something that will actually help the planet and I can\'t. I\'m running 4.45. Do I need to reinstall, install the 5.2.2 or is Win98 just the ugly, unwanted, red-headed stepchild of CPDN? SETI has no problems at all but the aliens are still hiding really, REALLY well.
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : What version of BOINC client for Win98? (Message 15632) Posted 3 Sep 2005 by old_user87683 Post: > Win 98 lost support earlier this year. I think it may have been a new compiler > not supporting something needed by Win98 to work. > > As for Sulphur, it requires BOINC 4.45 because of enhancements. > > Classic, (non BOINC), cpdn still works with Win98. > And, when Carl starts work on Monday, he is going to look into why the server > is giving Sulphur to old / under powered systems instead of slab models. > Any updates on this issue? I tried another WU and got a SC one. It crashed after 2 hours. At least SETI is back up so my CPU cycles aren't going to waste anymore.
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : What version of BOINC client for Win98? (Message 15491) Posted 28 Aug 2005 by old_user87683 Post: > Win 98 lost support earlier this year. I think it may have been a new compiler > not supporting something needed by Win98 to work. > > As for Sulphur, it requires BOINC 4.45 because of enhancements. > Also, see <a> href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Sulphur_Cycle"> this</a> > entry in the Wiki. > > Classic, (non BOINC), cpdn still works with Win98. > And, when Carl starts work on Monday, he is going to look into why the server > is giving Sulphur to old / under powered systems instead of slab models. Well, my machine isn't underpowered as all the internals have been upgraded. A 2600+ Athlon chip & 1/2 GB of RAM, but the original HDD still had the original Win98 OS so I left it alone. Hadn't been any problems (until now, apparently). Can Classic still be downloaded or am I S.O.L.? If it can, will it run OK with BOINC? I am running BOINC v.4.45 for SETI, don't see why it won't work for CPDN. Thanks for the quick answer and thank Carl for me too.
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : What version of BOINC client for Win98? (Message 15478) Posted 28 Aug 2005 by old_user87683 Post: Been running BOINC for at least a year with SETI and added CPDN in July. Got some results before the version 4.13 errors started crashing all the data. Saw there was a new version, 4.19, out so I re-enabled CPDN and spent 2 1/2 hours (dialup) downloading it and a new WU. Well, it crashed too. Now I see that there is a version 4.45 (which I got previously from SETI) for Win2K & XP and a 4.43 for Linux/x86. I know this sounds stoopid, but my machine is an x86 (ok, Athlon 2600+ XP) but running lowly Windows 98, not 2K or XP. Should I even bother downloading the \"new\" version (which I already have), and if so, which one? As for the crash with the new data, here\'s my log entries. 08/27/2005 11:55:06 AM\|climateprediction.net\|Finished download of sulphur_data_4.19_windows_intelx86.zip 08/27/2005 11:55:06 AM\|climateprediction.net\|Throughput 2932 bytes/sec 08/27/2005 11:55:06 AM\|\|request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded 08/27/2005 11:55:06 AM\|climateprediction.net\|Starting result 47c5_300296405_0 using sulphur_cycle version 4.19 08/27/2005 11:55:19 AM\|\|Suspending work fetch because computer is overcommitted. 08/27/2005 11:55:19 AM\|\|Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because computer is overcommitted. 08/27/2005 11:56:22 AM\|\|Suspending network activity - user request 08/27/2005 12:55:06 PM\|\|Allowing work fetch again. 08/27/2005 12:55:06 PM\|\|Resuming round-robin CPU scheduling. 08/27/2005 7:38:44 PM\|\|request_reschedule_cpus: process exited 08/27/2005 7:38:44 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Computation for result 47c5_300296405_0 finished 08/27/2005 7:38:44 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Unrecoverable error for result 47c5_300296405_0 ( 47c5_300296405_0_1.zip -161 47c5_300296405_0_2.zip -161 47c5_300296405_0_3.zip -161 47c5_300296405_0_4.zip -161 47c5_300296405_0_5.zip -161 ) 08/27/2005 9:17:27 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 08/27/2005 9:17:27 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Requesting 864000 seconds of work, returning 1 results 08/27/2005 9:17:38 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 08/27/2005 9:17:39 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Started download of 48uw_200298376.zip 08/27/2005 9:17:46 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Finished download of 48uw_200298376.zip 08/27/2005 9:17:46 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Throughput 2703 bytes/sec 08/27/2005 9:17:46 PM\|\|request_reschedule_cpus: files downloaded 08/27/2005 9:17:46 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Starting result 48uw_200298376_0 using sulphur_cycle version 4.19 08/27/2005 9:17:56 PM\|\|Suspending work fetch because computer is overcommitted. 08/27/2005 9:17:56 PM\|\|Using earliest-deadline-first scheduling because computer is overcommitted. Any assist would be appreciated.
7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unrecoverable errors (Message 14990) Posted 8 Aug 2005 by old_user87683 Post: > "Once a day" is to put the brakes on unattended computers which crash a model > and then download another parameter set. And again, and again, etc. > > Basically, hadsm 4.13 was to fix the problems that some people had with the > graphics on ATI cards. > Unfortunately, it has caused several different problems for almost everyone. > > Never fear, Carl is here. > Standby for a fix. > Well, that makes sense, figuring the program should take many weeks/months to complete (guessing, as none have ever "completed". Still not sure how I've gotten any credit). I've suspended the project until a fixed is out there. At least I've got SETI to fall back to (assuming they're done fixing their power issues). Gotta laugh, insanity demands it. :>
8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unrecoverable errors (Message 14973) Posted 7 Aug 2005 by old_user87683 Post: I've been having the same problem for a couple of weeks! In fact, only my first few WU's completed. Am running SETI as well (have been for years) and it has been working fine. I've reset the project at least 5 times so far with no change. I've adjusted preferences repeatedly, no help there either. These are my two most recent failures. 08/06/2005 7:04:28 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Unrecoverable error for result 21eu_000116110_0 ( - exit code -5 (0xfffffffb)) 08/07/2005 2:53:31 AM\|climateprediction.net\|Unrecoverable error for result 2276_000117140_0 ( - exit code -5 (0xfffffffb)) Now I'm receiving these messages that basically say I can only request contact with the server ONCE a day !?! 08/07/2005 12:08:42 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Resetting project 08/07/2005 12:08:42 PM\|\|request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks 08/07/2005 12:08:42 PM\|\|request_reschedule_cpus: project op 08/07/2005 12:18:31 PM\|\|request_reschedule_cpus: project op 08/07/2005 12:18:34 PM\|\|request_reschedule_cpus: project op 08/07/2005 12:19:18 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi 08/07/2005 12:19:18 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Requesting 864000 seconds of work, returning 0 results 08/07/2005 12:19:20 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded 08/07/2005 12:19:20 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Message from server: No work sent 08/07/2005 12:19:20 PM\|climateprediction.net\|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 results) 08/07/2005 12:19:20 PM\|climateprediction.net\|No work from project