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Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
Still fighting to produce a good set of Linux executables. Lots of work for Windows systems! Created some notes on Numerical reproducibility [url=http://cern.ch/mcintosh]CV and Notes on Floating-Point[url]. |
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Send message Joined: 28 Jul 05 Posts: 37 Credit: 507,325 RAC: 2,283  
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As I write there is currently no work for windows (apart from resends) is there any more work on the horizon?  Have A Crunching Good day |
 Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 128 Credit: 20,013,377 RAC: 0 |
Have only 15-20 active tasks instead of usual 100+ |
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Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 128 Credit: 20,013,377 RAC: 0 |
Global decline for everyone as I see |
 Viking69 Send message Joined: 24 Jul 05 Posts: 56 Credit: 5,602,899 RAC: 8
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Really? I have not seen any work for most of September. And the server status shows 6 WU's, but these must not be "windows" WU's. It would be nice if your status differentiated the difference between Linux and Windows WU's, for those of us that only run one type of OS. Let's crunch for our future. |
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Send message Joined: 15 Sep 13 Posts: 73 Credit: 5,763 RAC: 0 |
Differentiate between not differentiate the difference between. Anyway what you want is impossible because the tasks are all the same. They'll crunch on Windows or Linux. The reason you did not get a task is because there were 0 tasks available when your host requested one. So why did it say 6 tasks were available? Counting the number of available tasks requires a fair bit of CPU time on the server. If the server counted the available tasks every time someone requested the server status page it could potentially waste a lot of CPU time. Instead it counts the tasks every 10 minutes (maybe 15 or 20, depends on how the admins configure the server options) and remembers the total. Everybody who looks at the server status page between counts is given the previous total. An example... If the server counts 17 tasks ready to send at 1:00 PM and you request the server status at 1:05 PM you will see the total as of 1:00 PM not 1:05 PM. Between 1:00 and 1:05 pm the 17 tasks might have been sent out. Likewise if your host requests tasks at 1:05 it won't receive any if the tasks counted at 1:00 PM have all been sent out. That happens a lot when the only tasks available are resends which is the current situation. Keep in mind that at 1:06 a host might report 5 errored tasks which means that within a few seconds the server will resend those 5 tasks. If your host happens to make another request for tasks in time then it might get one or more of those resends but if it waits too long then those 5 might be gone. |
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Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 128 Credit: 20,013,377 RAC: 0 |
Finally looks promising Tasks ready to send 6,121 Tasks in progress 32,311 |
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Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 128 Credit: 20,013,377 RAC: 0 |
12k tasks ready to send. nice to hear. will it last forever now? |
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Send message Joined: 15 Sep 13 Posts: 73 Credit: 5,763 RAC: 0 |
No. In 2 to 4 weeks they will run out of tasks again. During the 6 years I have crunched this project they have never had steady work for more than a few weeks at a time. Sometimes several months go by with no tasks. Some projects have a steady supply of tasks, some projects are intermittent. This is an intermittent project and it will probably never change. edit: Now I see 27K tasks ready to send so I will revise my previous estimate and say those will run out between Christmas and New Years. I have a hunch there will be no work between New Years and end of January 2014. |
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Send message Joined: 15 Sep 13 Posts: 73 Credit: 5,763 RAC: 0 |
If you blink you'll miss it. ~27,000 tasks ready to send ~24 hours ago and now 0. Not quite what I predicted. My tasks records suggest there was a relatively high percentage of very short (less than 60 secs) tasks in the batch. Maybe that's why the 27,000 disappeared so quickly. Costa, care to take a guess at how long we will wait for the next batch? 1 week? 2 weeks? 2 days? |
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Send message Joined: 9 Oct 10 Posts: 77 Credit: 3,671,357 RAC: 0 |
There is some more work today :) |
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Send message Joined: 12 Sep 08 Posts: 16 Credit: 992,535 RAC: 0
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Still fighting to produce a good set of Linux executables. that was more than a month ago. what's going on? will there ever be new versions for OSX and linux? |
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Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 128 Credit: 20,013,377 RAC: 0 |
If you blink you'll miss it. ~27,000 tasks ready to send ~24 hours ago and now 0. Not quite what I predicted. haha, I did install Test4Theory but it has own issues like underloaded CPU and therefore very long time to execute. other projects I've installed like climatemodelling has issues with reporting data after ~25 days of calculations for SINGLE task. OMG life is fun. as for LHC I just see how pause in collider upgrade generated general relax for us too)) |
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Send message Joined: 15 Sep 13 Posts: 73 Credit: 5,763 RAC: 0 |
There is some more work today :) hehe, my crystal ball seems to be broken! |
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Send message Joined: 15 Sep 13 Posts: 73 Credit: 5,763 RAC: 0 |
If you blink you'll miss it. ~27,000 tasks ready to send ~24 hours ago and now 0. Not quite what I predicted. Some projects run smooth like silk, NumberFields for example. Other projects have problems as for LHC I just see how pause in collider upgrade generated general relax for us too)) I have a hunch we are seeing a big push now because Eric wants to finish his paper soon. My theory is he wants to finish it before Christmas and that after Christmas we will see a shortage of work here again, probably a long shortage of work. |
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Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 128 Credit: 20,013,377 RAC: 0 |
this is that I was talking about. In progress (211) ยท Validation pending (111) But fun point of this is because now we all have hundreds of tasks jammed cause of uploader05 log issue. Fun fun fun! |
Roger Parsons Send message Joined: 18 Dec 11 Posts: 17 Credit: 931,036 RAC: 1 |
Unusual issue on my 2 pcs yesterday and today [22nd Oct] - 51 WUs failing to upload. Downloads coming in OK. No hint on Server Status page of any such problems. Got any thoughts. My pcs run on Xp and Win 7. Thanks. "Any fool can appreciate mountain scenery. It takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens." [Harry Godwin - pollen analyst - circa 1932] |
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Send message Joined: 28 Jul 05 Posts: 37 Credit: 507,325 RAC: 2,283
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Unusual issue on my 2 pcs yesterday and today [22nd Oct] - 51 WUs failing to upload. Downloads coming in OK. No hint on Server Status page of any such problems. Got any thoughts. My pcs run on Xp and Win 7. Thanks. I can also confirm that I can't upload tasks from my Windows 7 PC. I can't download any new tasks because they have too many in progress Have A Crunching Good day |
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Roger Parsons Send message Joined: 18 Dec 11 Posts: 17 Credit: 931,036 RAC: 1 |
Thanks Speedy - problem continues here. No idea what is going on. Will update tomorrow. "Any fool can appreciate mountain scenery. It takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens." [Harry Godwin - pollen analyst - circa 1932] |
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donmath Send message Joined: 29 Jul 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 301,686 RAC: 0 |
getting this message this morning Wed 23 Oct 2013 07:00:16 AM CST | LHC@home 1.0 | [error] Error reported by file upload server: can't open log file '../log_boinc05/file_upload_handler.log' (errno: 9) just a pain Regards |
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