Posts by w1hue

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows Work Units (Message 65446) Posted 15 May 2022 by w1hue Post: Good to know -- I shall detatch it again. A shame . . .
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Windows Work Units (Message 65443) Posted 15 May 2022 by w1hue Post: Is this project generating any work for windows machines? I've had a Windows 10 machine attached for several months and nada . . . I used to get work up until a year or so -- stopped getting work so removed the project from my four machines and put them to work on other things. Then reconnected one machine awhile back and still nada . . .
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Dumb Question (maybe . . .) (Message 61277) Posted 19 Oct 2019 by w1hue Post: I seem to recall that there is a way to specify what type of WUs are allowed to run on a user's machines, but I can find that. I thought that it was in the project preferences, but I don't see it now. I have not gotten any WUs for some time even though the server status page shows that some are available. Am I missing something?
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57209) Posted 27 Oct 2017 by w1hue Post: My credits just dropped from 1 mil+ to 0 -- zip! And the project no longer shows up on BOINC Stats! Good move guys. . .
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57004) Posted 1 Oct 2017 by w1hue Post: You have to understand the nature of this work. This is not a "mission critical" computer endeavor. This not like credit card processing, or bank account processing, or medical record processing. If things are "messed up", it can wait until whatever. In that case, they can wait until "whatever" for me to again donate my computer time to their "unimportant" project.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Visual Fortran Error running 2nd task of hadcm3n (Message 50800) Posted 12 Nov 2014 by w1hue Post: And in regard to the high percentage of failures, have you read the item in the Science section about them? Where, exactly??
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Visual Fortran Error running 2nd task of hadcm3n (Message 50792) Posted 11 Nov 2014 by w1hue Post: The last seven "HadCM3 Short" tasks sent to my primary machine (running WinXP) have all crashed, apparently without doing any useful work. A few such tasks sent to my other two machines (running Win7) have successfully completed, but most have not. I believe that this project is doing (or at least is attempting to do) useful climate science, but WUs that do nothing but crash are not contributing anything useful. If these tasks "do not like Windows", then why send them to Windows machines?? I have seen some blame placed on the fact that they are written in FORTRAN -- I suspect that the problem lies more in the coding rather than the coding platform. I learned over 40 years ago that if one wants to produce robust code, one has to take precautions within the code to insure that stuff like divisions by zero (or extremely small numbers) and do-nothing loops do not occur and not depend on the coding platform do it for them. In any event, I will no longer waste computer time attempting to run "HadCM3s" tasks.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3 short - errors galore (Message 50314) Posted 26 Sep 2014 by w1hue Post: Error messages for each model, are on the server page for each of the models. . . . Thanks for the info. All of the crashed WUs show similar error info: <core_client_version>7.2.42</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> The device does not recognize the command. (0x16) - exit code 22 (0x16) </message> <stderr_txt> Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED. tmp/pipe_dummy 2048 Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED. tmp/pipe_dummy 2048 Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED. tmp/pipe_dummy 2048 Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED. tmp/pipe_dummy 2048 Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED. tmp/pipe_dummy 2048 Model crashed: ATM_DYN : INVALID THETA DETECTED. tmp/pipe_dummy 2048 Sorry, too many model crashes! :-( 10:28:25 (3708): called boinc_finish </stderr_txt> ]]> I hope this is useful information. In the meantime, I am not accepting any more "climateprediction.net" work.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : HadCM3 short - errors galore (Message 50302) Posted 24 Sep 2014 by w1hue Post: My last five WUs were "UK Met Office HadCM3 short v7.24" and they all suffered a "computation error" after running about 45 minutes with CPU time shown as only a few seconds. (On my machine "LEPC") I can't find any error messages -- but maybe I don't know where to look. The only thing that looks like an error are several messages of the form "23-Sep-2014 23:13:40 [climateprediction.net] Output file hadcm3s_2bi1_2001_2_009022880_4_2.zip for task hadcm3s_2bi1_2001_2_009022880_4 absent" in the file "stdoutae.txt" located in ". . . /Application Date/BOINC". And for the record, I have NO PROBLEMS running Astroids, LHC, World Community or Cosmology CPU tasks or Seti, Einstein or Milkyway GPU tasks.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 49975) Posted 3 Sep 2014 by w1hue Post: You said: 1. You can stop the BOINC Manager and all of the applications. 2. Edit the file statistics_climateprediction.net.xml in the BOINC folder. 3. Delete the group of lines with the obviously wrong info. 4. Save. 5. Re-start BOINC. That made the "total host" credit number show correctly, but the "total user" credit is still displayed by the BOINC manager as 12901857519.579731 (!!) (Total host credit is shown correctly as 551,149 on my "account" page.) When I press "update", then the following gets appended to statistics_climateprediction.net.xml: <daily_statistics> <day>1409702400.000000</day> <user_total_credit>12901857519.579731</user_total_credit> <user_expavg_credit>406.314666</user_expavg_credit> <host_total_credit>294661.637691</host_total_credit> <host_expavg_credit>173.418555</host_expavg_credit> </daily_statistics> So something is still supplying a bogus number for total user credit to my BOINC manager. (??) Oh well, I suppose everything will eventually get straightened out. . .
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 49489) Posted 3 Jul 2014 by w1hue Post: Issues associated with June maintenance are well described on these boards . . . Not everyone has the time to read every bloody post . . .
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 49485) Posted 2 Jul 2014 by w1hue Post: For what it's worth, no credits have been sent to any of my three machines since June 3. And one machine finished a task a couple of days ago, apparently successfully, and this site shows 0 credits granted. Hopefully it will all come out in the wash sooner than later . . .
13) Message boards : Number crunching : HADAM3P - Maximum elapsed time exceeded (Message 42825) Posted 27 Aug 2011 by w1hue Post: If that's a problem then it is always possible to deselect the HADCM3N models from your project preferences and select another model type. Good point -- I'll deselect HADCM3N. But not much else seems to be available lately...
14) Message boards : Number crunching : HADAM3P - Maximum elapsed time exceeded (Message 42822) Posted 27 Aug 2011 by w1hue Post: And with the tight deadline for completion of the RAPIT project, (it may even be past it, due to problems getting out the bugs at the start of the year), there's just no time to "be nice" to single core/multi project crunchers. If that is the project's attitude, then I'll just donate my puny little computers' time elsewhere... :-(
15) Message boards : Number crunching : HADAM3P - Maximum elapsed time exceeded (Message 42820) Posted 27 Aug 2011 by w1hue Post: Oh and yes, the CPDN models do take weeks (or months!) to run. That's normal. And while it's running at high priority on a single core machine, nothing else gets done until one of the other WU's gets near its 'due date'. The problem would be resolved if the due date (of the HADAM3P WU's) was made much longer. Previous ClimatePrediction WU's typically had a due date about one year in the future -- in which case the run time estimate was always << less than the time until the due date. EDIT: I just noticed that the offending WU's are HADCM3N's rather than HADAM3P's -- guess this is the wrong thread... :-[
16) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Credit Not Getting Out? (Message 42237) Posted 23 May 2011 by w1hue Post: OK, I give up! Where do I go to change my signature??!? Your account -> community preferences Thanks! And thanks to the Forum Moderator for the update!
17) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Credit Not Getting Out? (Message 42229) Posted 21 May 2011 by w1hue Post: Oh Foo! I see that an outdated BONC stats user id is associated with my signature! Now I'll have to go figure out how to enter the correct one... OK, I give up! Where do I go to change my signature??!?
18) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Credit Not Getting Out? (Message 42226) Posted 21 May 2011 by w1hue Post: Oh Foo! I see that an outdated BONC stats user id is associated with my signature! Now I'll have to go figure out how to enter the correct one...
19) Message boards : Number crunching : CPDN Credit Not Getting Out? (Message 42225) Posted 21 May 2011 by w1hue Post: The project is still having problems with the new enhancement, as per the News and Announcements thread. I couldn't find anything in the 'News and Announcements' about cross-project statistics not being updated... Apparently they haven't been for over a week now. So... will there be a huge bump in credits shown by BOINCstats, etc. when the problem gets solved? Just wondering...
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't upload for 12 days (Message 41726) Posted 7 Mar 2011 by w1hue Post: By the way, the new temporary sysadmin has finished the database upgrade and is waiting for users to report that their credits are OK before he turns all the daemons back on. For what it's worth, according to my local BOINC manager my credit is 116237, and according to BOINCstats it is 115685.